Post #3161059
2025-12-07 01:50 UTC
@micahilbery@mstdn.social Hot take that shouldn't be: open source software made to do bad things is still bad, not magically good because it's open source. In fact, being open source makes it *worse* because it lowers the barrier to entry doing bad things. See: all the webshit FOSS made for doing dark patterns commerce, adtech/tracking integration with your site, etc.
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@shaedrich@mastodon.online 2025-12-07 13:42
@dalias@hachyderm.io @micahilbery@mstdn.social That doesn't mean that open source is bad, though. It means that just because you have a hammer, not everything is necessarily a nail. And that good ideas can be corrupted in some aspects, especially from angles, they are not focused on.
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@mmby@mastodon.social 2025-12-10 16:08
@dalias@hachyderm.io @micahilbery@mstdn.social or the multitudes of combat drones in development and in the field - opencv, pytorch for low rank adapting models, blender & cycles for generating synthetic images to train something like Yolo on for targets...