420stalin69 [he/him]

A study just came out that was posted in Hexbear showing at least 15% of Reddit content is corporate botting so we should just have some fun with LLMs and AstroTurf it instead like everyone else is doing

If the public are paying for it, then it becomes a subsidy.

And good luck getting the US government to require the code to be GPLed. That’s even less likely to happen than a public subsidy for OSS at all.

They typically do the opposite and require “commercialization” to ensure the benefit of the publicly-funded technology is captured by their donors.

This is how it basically works in biotech, for example. Government grants to study the medicine and then when the scientists actually find something important it becomes a “public-private partnership” often without even a royalty for the public let alone making it a public good.

That’s not how government funding works in a modern democracy, unfortunately. It would amount to a cash transfer to big tech to make the public pay their R&D costs.

So a public subsidy for big tech to get free code?

Isn’t assessing the issue on the issue tracker “listening to input” though?

Your options are

• do it yourself and create a pull request
• make a suggestion to the devs on the issue tracker, who have every right to reject it
• start a discussion here if you believe a feature is important enough to have public debate

That seems like a lot of options for listening to input to me.

What exactly is missing that you want to see? How could you add what you see is missing?

Training bots to talk on text generated by bots

VPNs are much cheaper than Netflix, torrents don’t have ads, it’s always perfect quality, and the content catalog is excellent.

There was that hot Somali who was Tik Tokking himself while boarding a cargo ship.

But he was enforcing a blockade enacted by his government within Yemeni territorial waters so unfortunately it wasn’t piracy.

Implying Spotify pays artists a fair fee.

Fuck, and I cannot emphasize this enough, them