It's almost as if institutional independence and public trust was important or something.... Oh well. Probably best to burn it down and start from scratch anyways.
Yeah, for individuals it works best if you host your own locally or use a cloud as you said, then use push mirroring to backup to github or one of the other big forges. Gets you 98% of the utility with minimal cost.
Self hosted forgejo on-prem HA with cloud mirroring, backups, and failover
Codeberg itself is fine for hobby-grade tho; enterprise needs to start taking ownership of their own shit. Deploying local CI is a buy-once-cry-one pitch and gives you better performance anyways.
Or, use git decentralized; how it was built to be used.
Tools are just tools; there are good ways and bad ways to use them. "Grok, go find bugs in the Linux kernel" isn't a good one. This isn't hard to understand...
There were many, partially well-intentioned, mostly fame-seeking, one-off 'projects' 'scanning' public repos and flooding them with low-quality low-effort PRs and issues; things that no human ever read until the a maintainer did.
"They made a poison and sold us a cure" is absolutely a valid criticism; that's two sides of the same coin. But pretending that he's being hypocritical or that LLMs aren't useful is just being wrong for the sake of hating AI
You're making the bold assumption that the law works, which is a pillar that isn't as reliable as it used to be. You're likely right, but I don't think that's an immediate foregone conclusion
My local LLM narrowly fetching and caching a page or two isn't what's been hitting infra across the global and making indie sites blow up or die out. Doesn't matter if the small players can't buy the same access as the big players; they don't need it and it's not really for them.
(liability to asset) For whom?
The balance sheet. I didn't mean it in the abstract.
Its all public anyways. Its more like they sold infrastructure access afaik. Which is a smart move. Money aside, unauthorized scraping is a much bigger PITA and can drain resources quickly, including financial resources. Selling access means you can regulate it and also make it go thru appropriate infra; plus it becomes an asset rather than a liability. Not a fan of the wikimedia org lately, but I don't fault them for that one.
Back in my day, the line was cosmetics
And expansions would add novel content rather than gate content they chopped off of the main game