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  • If the code is obvious crap, it doesn’t matter if AI was involved. If the code is perfectly obviously fine, it doesn’t (directly) matter if AI was involved.

    Determining quantity of code is very difficult and expensive. It is often that issues with code don’t surface until certain patterns of usage.

    This is why judging code quality by judging the author’s track record, or the track record of their tools, is very valuable.

    If you’re vibe coding anything non trivial, your code is gonna be terrible. There’s no sugar coating it. There’s a wealth of examples on the internet that prove it. It’s a waste of time spending any effort evaluating it when we have this evidence, and especially when they didn’t spend reasonable effort shipping the code.





  • I’m surprised that you had trouble port forwarding on airvpn. My understanding is mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and Proton allows it but it’s extremely finicky and you have to constantly poll for it with some script (or maybe if you use their official client then you don’t need that, but I didn’t). Port forwarding was, why I went with airvpn.



  • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlMtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I changed my license
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    You’re using “open source” as defined by OSI. Just wanted to note that open source historically arose in protest to the corporate walled gardens that dominated the software ecosystem, rather than a movement to give companies a large eco-system of free-to-use software for profit. It was about individuals having access.

    But I am not going to argue that what I am proposing is open source. I will accept that open source as a term has already been coopted to serve corporations.

    forces you to share the code, even when it is not deployed

    It would only apply to for-profit entities. It would be extremely difficult to enforce on an individual level anyways, and it would disagree with the spirit here.

    forces you to pay a tithe to the developer.

    I called that profit sharing earlier, but you can call it that too, sure.


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    isn’t that similar to gpl?

    That is correct. GPL has the same problem.

    why should the company’s profit go to a developer they don’t employ?

    I dont agree with the idea that paying non-employees is a foreign concept. Many companies pay, for example, Adobe for Adobe suite software, or Google for Google suite software, despite not hiring them as employees. They pay rent to property owners despite not hiring them as employees. The idea that only employees must be paid is unfounded.

    Now, to answer “why should they pay them”, well, in exchange for their labor.



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    Not good enough. Companies are still allowed to use this software freely, make massive profits without anything going to the developer. It is truly free labor.

    They are even allowed to modify it, even make derivative work, without open sourcing it, as long as they don’t distribute said derivative work.