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2026-09-24 08:19 UTC

Just heard about tic-80 falling to slop. After reading the obligatory forum thread where climate justice and concentration of wealth continue to not even factor into consideration, this how the world of open source feels to me these days: Phew, my favourite embroidery crafts shop has a clear policy against concentration camp labour! it’s a niche project but what a relief! Well everyone is resorting to concentration camp labour these days, what can you do We don’t want to lose all our contributors by banning those who hire concentration camp inmates to do chores It is discriminatory against embroidery beginners if you don’t let people use kits assembled with concentration camp labour I know concentration camp labour often comes with mistakes but as long as there’s a mensch in the loop to inspect it for errors and take responsibility, it’s just another tool The community of hobbysts has come to a vote and concluded that it’s ok to use concentration camp labour to assist your crafting, as long as you do it responsibly.

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  • It honestly bewilders me how badly tech has failed to resist the slop machines. Basically everyone else has recognised LLMs for the attack on labour they are and fought back against them, whilst a shocking number of coders and FOSS projects have thrown themselves headfirst into the deskilling machines, all-but forcing the foxes into the henhouse and shouting down anyone who tries to keep them out. When this bubble finally blows, we need to work out just how we got to this point, and how to ensure it never happens again.

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