Post #2003992

2026-05-05 06:05 UTC

Is there a site somewhere tracking software that's remaining "AI"-free? Be it the original projects sticking to human authorship or forks made to preserve/maintain non-crapified versions? I should have bookmarked those vim preservation forks I saw recently.

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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 2026-05-05 06:20

@swetland@chaos.social https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic/

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@utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be 2026-05-05 06:28

@swetland@chaos.social what could be interesting is to have a package manager, e.g. npm or pip, with a AI-free option (that could be toggled on by default) that tracks the presence of traces, e.g. MCP configuration, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, copilot commits and prevent from adding a dependency, ideally proposing an alternative that is AI free based on similar tags.

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@jornfranke@social.anoxinon.de 2026-05-05 06:48

@swetland@chaos.social See also https://www.softwareheritage.org @swheritage@mstdn.social

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@tfiebig@wybt.net 2026-05-05 06:50

@swetland@chaos.social If you'd take care of maintenance of the content, i will happily host a wiki... ;-)

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@Ra@mstdn.social 2026-05-05 08:30

Put canarys in source.

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