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Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code

Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code

Posted Jul 25, 2026 21:01 UTC (Sat) by rbranco (subscriber, #129813)
In reply to: Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code by emk
Parent article: Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

> I'm genuinely happy to see end users using LLMs to throw together personal software. Now they have software that does exactly what they need, that doesn't spy on them, and that they can customize.

None of that matters to the upper-middle-class, college-educated Xennials from rich countries in Western Europe & North America. They're privileged enough to externalize their morals onto others. The ban on cryptocurrency projects shows they're way out of touch with the reality in other countries where this is the only way to earn money and to avoid hyperinflation. They're a tiny but noisy minority.

> When I got involved in free software several decades ago, that was originally the dream: Users in control of their own systems, with the freedom to change things! But now there's apparently a political movement in the "open source" community which is aggressively criticizing these users for figuring out a way to put together custom tools.

The good fight will be about having open models and bringing down hardware prices! Everything else is noise and burying one's head in the sand. But this fight can only be won by pragmatic people who are not afraid of getting their hands dirty, not a hipster commune of unpolluted monks.


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Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code

Posted Jul 25, 2026 21:06 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

> The ban on cryptocurrency projects shows they're way out of touch with the reality in other countries where this is the only way to earn money and to avoid hyperinflation.

Fuck cryptobros. You're nothing but a scourge on humanity. Nothing good came out of you that is even in the same order of magnitude as the harms caused by cryptocrap. That include even large-scale human trafficking for the "pig butchering" scam farms.

And don't you dare pretend to be sanctimonious moralists. You do not provide a unique protection against hyperinflation anywhere.

Stop it

Posted Jul 25, 2026 21:10 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

OK, all of you, stop this. Nobody gains anything by you all throwing mudballs at each other. There are plenty of sites where that kind of stuff is welcome, but not here.

Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code

Posted Jul 25, 2026 22:02 UTC (Sat) by rbranco (subscriber, #129813) [Link]

> Fuck cryptobros. You're nothing but a scourge on humanity. Nothing good came out of you that is even in the same order of magnitude as the harms caused by cryptocrap.

I'm not a "cryptobro" (whatever that means). The correct term is Cypherpunk and I'm not one.

> That include even large-scale human trafficking for the "pig butchering" scam farms.

Every technology can be used for good and evil.

> You do not provide a unique protection against hyperinflation anywhere.

Tell that to people that use Binance to send money to their families overseas.


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