AI slop infiltrating #FOSS is so devastating.
Legendary FOSS projects are being ruined by their maintainers merging Claude PRs with HUGE LOC changes.
The number of projects untainted by this shit is getting vanishingly tiny.
I don't want slop in my software, thanks. PS: I'm a FOSS maintainer. Yes I know what it's like to maintain projects. Imo there's no excuse for huge structural LLM driven changes to your projects.
Seen on arsebook:
After a month+, I've released my first new game in ~5 years: "DrAwsum's DoomDome ...Starring Eddy the Cleaner"! Eddy has only ten minutes to beat the deadliest obstacle course ever. Will he win $1 million, or will he be... unalived!? Warning: devious tricks await!
https://thegreenherring.itch.io/eddy-the-cleaner
#IndieGame #ANSIArt #FurryArt #NoAI #FediArt #MastoArt #Art #TextmodeArt
I had almost forgotten about the aurora visiting us here in SW Colorado one year ago tonight.
Part of why I'm always mad about slop in OSS is that we should know better. Slop goes against OSS even at a very basic libertarian myopic focus on "the four freedoms." I expect this shit from proprietary development, and I expect OSS communities to suck at ethics outside that myopia, but slop betrays the one fucking thing OSS purports to be about.
We should be better than this *by construction*.
Arka Jon (2026) by Juan Eguía for ZX Spectrum.
Break every brick across 8 hand-designed stages, catching capsules for shot, triple ball, extra life and more.
Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures
CRAP
here’s another fun thing I tried recently, comparing dying autumn leaves in visible and infrared light. Love how both are vibrant in their own rights, especially the lakes edge in IR, the second photo #photography #infrared
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I'm more annoyed that one creative branch is willing to kneecap the other creative branches without even realizing it.
The idea that "slop" can only be genAI art, but never code or the idea that because you aren't good at art, you can just slop it up and it'll be fine because you can focus on programming.
Like... no. What the fuck are you doing?
New photos 'essential evidence' of possible SAS war crimes, inquiry hears
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20w093y3gqo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Even when the Patent Office agrees to hear a patent challenge, the current director can reverse that decision months later. That’s not a fair way to run a patent review system. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents
RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/117592622978754900
Bill Gates is a monster.
it’s about fucking time a lot of y’all in #tech say it loudly and with the chest. he has proven right those of us who’ve been saying it since the 1990s.
all that bullshit about vaccines? he uses his foundation to push the stock up of his pharma companies. one of the points of the program was so he could develop a new generation of wage slaves; to work as curators of the vile & violent content techbros use for their aislop grift.
Bill Gates is a monster.
#art to start 🎨
...winter's coming
'The Tree of Crows'
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
#painting #oil #OilPainting #landscape
The plot thickens.
Pharma firms’ focus on weight-loss drugs could put insulin supply at risk, experts warn - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/10/pharma-firms-weight-loss-drugs-insulin-glp-1-ozempic-mounjaro national governments should be producing #insulin themselves
#art to start 🎨
...lifting haze
'Canopy'
Artist: Kathryn St. Clair
#painting #oil #OilPainting