Humans love to be lazy when they can be, and AI is a tempting fruit on the tree. People get sold on this vague promise of a shortcut that will allow you to prioritize other things, while whichever plagarism machine arbitrarily inserts whatever code does the job.

His response is a good example of where a developer of a large project who probably doesn’t get enough help, or just decided that lazy is better than actually doing hard work, has shut off his brain and is relying on a computer that’s incapable of coding standards that benefit the project.

As a senior FOSS dev of nearly 25 years, AI is going to poison our industry with these types of devs enabling it’s possible demise.

Gollum before getting hooked to free-based cat litter.

They’d be awfully upset if they could read what you just suggested.

Ah bummer. The good news is that I just checked how the dev team for funkwhale is moving along with the refactor at a decent pace. Right now it’s in a Release Candidate phase. A nice summary of where things are at so you don’t have to dig through the weeds: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/milestones

gesundheit

Hey, don’t besmirch Don Bottoms! He’s a good man just trying to keep his Labubu farm afloat during these difficult times…

Yes please

May the force be with you my comrade!

Just tested it out. Can’t even see any media that I added to my funkwhale account, or listened to. This applies to music and a podcast. I hope the refactor of Funkwhale ships with a strong emphasis on federation with more ActivityPub services.

This was one of the most enjoyable reads I’ve had over morning coffee in a long time. Thank you for sharing this. Also, for anyone who wants a cleaned up pdf version that 404 Media encouraged people to check out, it can be found here:

• 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism/
• Direct link: https://storage.ghost.io/c/0f/76/0f76b548-bc58-4f25-abc3-3f5ebca07da4/content/files/2025/02/simplesabotage.pdf

“it’s not a toomah!”

I’m on both and intend to find out. I suspect that is not possible though. You can follow your Funkwhale account from Mastodon, yet you can’t lookup and follow any mastodon accounts.

Create your own community (aka - matrix space/room), set up end-to-end encryption, start the invites. https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/private-group-chat/

Otherwise, to find existing rooms, I’ve relied on this in the past: https://matrixrooms.info/