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Ok, bye bye

Posted Jul 23, 2026 17:24 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Ok, bye bye by mb
Parent article: Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

> Do they really think they are going to stop AI by banning people from Codeberg?

Where the hell did you read that? AFAICT, they just 1. don't want to be part of the problem 2. mitigate some overload and cost issues with both people and their machines.

Why do some people try to limit their own carbon emissions while their neighbors don't care? Take a guess.

I generally find the "anti-AI" people to be more emotional and irrational than the "pro-AI" ones. Thank you for providing a counter-example.

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Posted Jul 23, 2026 17:28 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link] (1 responses)

>Where the hell did you read that?

Nowhere. It was a question. Questions can also be answered with "no". But best would be "no, because...". Which you thankfully eventually did, between the personal attacks.
Thanks!

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Posted Jul 23, 2026 17:33 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

The "really" made it look like it was based on a fact.

Even without the "really", that rhetorical question was at best a distraction. Codeberg has provided an excellent explanation of why they are doing this. Instead of disagreeing with it and replying to it, you have preferred replying to your own, rhetorical questions instead.

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Posted Jul 23, 2026 21:02 UTC (Thu) by einar (guest, #98134) [Link]

> Why do some people try to limit their own carbon emissions while their neighbors don't care? Take a guess.

I'm perfectly fine with Codeberg taking that stance (I don't agree with it, FTR). After all, they support Forgejo and I can self-host it without worrying about a thing about their policies (in fact, I am doing that since many years, as I didn't want my private code on GitHub).

I would argue that they're preaching to the choir, though. They can be (will?) more attractive to those who don't like AI, but ultimately that's all they can do (and possibly protect themselves from bots, that's a legitimate concern). But from an ethical perspective, it won't matter much. It will certainly not bring any change.

(I have bigger disagreements on the ethics, but these are off-topic matters... perhaps something for another day, in another place).