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Right - I see the other topic has been locked / author hasn't returned to follow community rules.

Here's the original topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

and a measured (IMHO) response to it. (BTW, do your self a favour and change tabs with that site open :)

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/

It's a tough spot, Codeberg has found themselves in and I wish them luck. But beyond that, this is (yet) another reminder that in 2026, if you don't self host it, the cloud is just someone else computer

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[โ€“] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://malus.sh/

AIs already pillaged all the code in the world. This is fighting a lost fight. We won't manage to force big AI firms that literally props a country to stay afloat to make their AI "forget" or "untrained".

Regulators let the pillaging happen so now AI does know how to code. They dont imitate they truly code.

But IMO the real fight is about things like malus that are the real dangerous and malevolent actor here. They will take your open source code and resell it to big businesses.

[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You are linking to a parody project ๐Ÿคฆ

And you are also misunderstanding my point. Yes the cat is out of the bag and companies will absolutely copyright wash their codebases like that, but they have big legal teams to defend against copyright trolls and generally do not publish most of their code base for anyone to see.

Small hobbyist open-source projects that make up near 100% of the projects hosted on Codeberg on the other hand are easy marks for malicious litigation, just like home users torrenting movies were in the 1990ties and early 2000.

[โ€“] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lol Malus is not a parody.

You can verify it yourself but they do make money doing exactly what they say.

They play on that "parody/malevolent" idea but they do have customers and confirmed they make money on that.

[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

It is still a parody project ๐Ÿคท