Post

Solly
@directxman12.dev

apparently hot take: it is far more important for the internet archive, government services, and other critical pieces of public infrastructure & the commons to continue to function than people to feel 100% morally pure in their consumption. there's certainly a space for moral stances, but...

Solly
@directxman12.dev

... "backporting a critical patch to an unmaintained-but-core-piece-of-infrastructure before serious damage is done" is not one of them.

Solly
@directxman12.dev

furthermore: bsky.app/profile/beat... i don't really think u get to complain about the tools folks use to fix this kinda thing until u've had ur day/night/morning/afternoon/night-again ruined by being on a sirt for a zero day

Beatricks 🎃@beatrix.bsky.social

the Internet Archive thing is an example of the fascinating trend recently where people consuming products they’re not paying for seem to believe they also have the right to dictate how much human labor is spent producing them.

Solly
@directxman12.dev

there's reasonable places to fight llms! but those are where they're causing measurable harm (screwing over artists, flooding the web with trash, burdening oss maintainers with nonsense prs, using polluting power sources, etc). fight there!

Solly
@directxman12.dev

starting from a pt of "this thing is ontologically evil" won't give u a useful framework for picking ur battles & just makes u look like an asshole demanding that volunteers burn more time so u don't feel icky. i don't even like using llms, but i do think uve gotta engage w/ the world realistically.

3 reposts40 likes

Solly
@directxman12.dev

I just really don't think most ppl understand what being on call for something like this is like. it sucks. it really really sucks. it eats ur day, it eats ur plans, it runs ur body at high stress, and worst case it destroys years of work or ruins hundreds of thousands of ppl's days (or more!)