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6 hours agoAI is the compiler of natural language.
That’s a very worrisome position. If “AI is the compiler” that means the source code is your prompts/chats and the stuff in the repo is just build artifacts.
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Unfortunately Obsidian is proprietary
Fortunately it also has a fairly sensible non-free software policy
The only non-free software permitted in AlpineBSD is the netbsd-firmware package, which contains binary blobs for NetBSD drivers.
(Although part of me feels like reverse-engineering binary blobs might in fact be a valid use case for LLM’s)
1·8 days agoI’ve never been active in r/opensource and don’t want to make assumptions of bad faith on this moderator. It’s my opinion that these rules, while perhaps well-intentioned, are a bit too stringent, and they will most likely walk some of them back in time. Personally I would give the benefit of the doubt to established projects but I think newer projects should merit more scrutiny, not an outright ban. That said I have spoken in favor of a ban on vibe coded and mostly-generated projects (although tend to give the benefit of the doubt to established projects experimenting with generative tools).
IMO I’d keep the one-year maintained rule (maybe walk it back to six months) and the “capstone project” rule (more scrutiny if it’s something we have a dozen of already). “Must have 3+ contributors” is just too far. The account age rule is also probably a good idea if it keeps spammers away.
That said it is my experience that many “anti-AI holy warriors” are not “pro-FOSS” or very knowledgeable about the free software movement in general. Not saying that’s true about this moderator in specific but many would have no issue at all sacrificing the FOSS community if it helped fight back against slop. I’m not saying being pro-FOSS means being “pro-AI” but I think most “anti-AI” are motivated by silly mickey mouse reasons like “stolen intellectual property” when there are imo actual reasons to be skeptical of “AI” especially the proprietary SaaSS models.
IMO insisting that free software options be “no-AI” while accepting proprietary stuff is backwards. In the proprietary world it’s the norm that as the end-user you aren’t entitled to know how the software is built, because that’s considered a secret. Your favorite proprietary developers could be using “AI” and you’re not supposed to know about it.
If you’re insisting on being free of “AI” then as a consequence you have to insist on at least source-availability. As far as I know Obsidian isn’t even that.