I just use it in a browser honestly

As the smaller of two wives, you are correct

For me it’s like there’s a council in my head, but they’re all me. One takes the center and the rest are all around, in the “room” in my head. Each one is a specialist at a different thing, which includes one of them who is always putting on a performance of a song.

So far I’ve identified:

• A singer
• A problem-solving orchestrator (gets all the others to collaborate)
• A lover (occasionally pines for affection, loves being cutesy)
• A joker (shouts jokes over the rest of the voices)
• 3-5 non specialists that just deliberate about things
• A writer (functions as my inner monologue when I’m writing something)

My wife will poke fun at me because sometimes I’ll end up narrating my own thought processes with “we” and she’s like “Got a mouse in your purse?”

I may have been hyperbolic, but my point is that the dichotomy is between:

• Any obligations
• No obligations

FOSS maintainers have no obligations at all. Moral or otherwise.

What arbitrary line of popularity suddenly requires me to support every use-case, by never breaking something in a project nobody is paying me to build?

10 people? 100? 100,000?

The answer is: none because the premise is false.

FOSS maintainers owe you NOTHING. Nada. Zip. That includes a working copy of the software, and you agreed to that stipulation in the license. That’s what “no warranty of fitness any purpose” means.

That includes not owing you any specific method of project “governance” or versioning scheme, it includes not owing you releases, ever.

Also, what counts as “dicking over” a user? That sounds arbitrary too.

• Refusing to answer their questions?
• Removing a feature they liked because it was a nightmare to maintain?
• Leaving a bug in place because trying to fix it sounds unfun?
• Introducing a bug because you didn’t realize there was an interaction between two features?
• Deciding that tests are no fun, and deleting all of them, increasing the likelihood of bugs?
• Deciding that documentation is out of date, too much of a pain to keep updating, and removing it wholesale to avoid confusion because it’s inaccurate anyway?

FOSS maintainers have no obligations to you. None. No arbitrary line of popularity changes that.

I build my open source projects for fun and for free. Your decision to use what my fun produces doesn’t suddenly require me to have my fun in a specific way. It doesn’t obligate me to ensure the output of my fun never breaks your production environment.

And you’re still wrong. They don’t owe anything to anyone, legally or morally.

Reddit has no power here!

From the license:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

An open source dev is owed nothing and owes nothing.

By stating otherwise, you are trying to say that the person who releases something, on their own time and expense for free and probably fun, has an obligation to conduct themselves in a manner you think is best.

But… They don’t. This isn’t even really a debate worth having, because there’s nothing to debate. You’re just wrong.

Yeah, but if you want privacy, it’s a fine idea to prevent public networks and such from examining your traffic patterns. My personal main use case for a self-hosted VPN is for using public networks for private traffic, and I wouldn’t suggest doing hardcore high volume piracy through such a thing.

The idea of using one for piracy is more focused on finding a VPS provider that can accept cryptocurrency and doesn’t require your personal details.

Edit: whoops, realized I got the premises backwards in my earlier comment. Sorry about that.

Host one yourself on a cloud host that accepts cryptocurrency and asks no questions, if you want to do piracy. Otherwise if you’re just trying to get your traffic cloaked for privacy reasons, a digital ocean droplet or a hetzner instance running OpenVPN is plenty.

Black socks

they never get dirty

The longer you wear them

The blacker they get

Someday, I’ll probably launder them

Something keeps telling me don’t do it yet

Not yet

Not yet

Not yet

Not yet

I did that kind of thing once, had Qwen-3.5-122B as a fancy find-and-replace because I couldn’t be arsed to write a find and pipe it to sed

This is why I built my own router running opnsense

Ah ha! Yep, I didn’t see any of the big long form comments like that one, good catch. I scrolled through some of the commits and apparently got unlucky.

If the project itself is vibe coded, the author is doing a good job of hiding it. There’s some slight lean towards claude-like speak, (“real behavior” and the way some of the readme sounds) but the commit style and comments and such don’t immediately trigger the obvious LLM alarms in my head.

That website is definitely vibe coded though. I’ve seen enough one-shot websites from LLMs while playing around with them to immediately notice the AI website style lol

Hint: Transition, become female, take progesterone, profit produce

Don’t ask chatgpt, I can tell you bullshit too and I’m beautiful

GNOME peaked back in version 2 imho

The good old ADHD tax