I think there’s been a misunderstanding about the issue. They’re rewording other people’s emails and presenting it as their own work. If they just directly quoted the email it wouldn’t be an issue.
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Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.
the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months
I know of no such increase.
it is obviously sensible to assume
I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make given that the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.
That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.
the massively increased hosting costs.
Eh? What increased hosting costs?
It’s really, really, really bad reportage. 90% of what they post is just rewording emails from mailing lists with nothing added at all. They’re just regurgitating words they don’t understand.
They focus a lot on drama and it’s like a twelve year old decided to write about all the most superficial drama without any technical understanding of what they’re writing about.
Their “benchmarks” have been heavily criticised too and it’s clear they basically have no idea what they’re doing and the numbers aren’t to be trusted.
Their English prose is terrible. “For this …” wut?
All in all, just a sorry excuse for a website. If it were a newspaper, the appropriate term for it would be a “rag”.
The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect
(Forgive the Phoronix link.)
1·14 days agoDoes the same type of incidents (police brutality) happen to minorities in Britain?
No. They face a whole other bag of different types of incidents with the UK’s institutionally racist police forces.
They’re generally not shot at or murdered by the police. Generally.
1·18 days agoThat’s not how nation states work friend.
The wanting it makes it normal and dull.
Maybe the Brit’s can step in
Aaaannd… that’s the mistake people keep making.
Peter Mandelson still a human being
Debatable.
Activity took place across the country between 2 and 8 March as part of a co-ordinated effort to disrupt organised crime groups and county lines drug dealing.
Which will make no dent whatsoever in the availability of drugs while costing the tax payer plenty. Why not legalise and regulate all drugs and remove the funding stream for the gangs.
31·26 days agoIt’s great that you encountered a bat but FYI it looks like you might have broken the law by taking that photo:
They cannot derive any happiness or life satisfaction if it is not framed in contrast to the suffering of people they deem lesser than themselves.
You sound very much like Spinoza :-)
This comment thread is about your opinion on the developers wanting to gain renumeration for their efforts.
No it’s about the Home Assistant developers valuing profit over well engineered software.
I’d say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.
I think you must have a different idea of what “well engineered software” means because to me, nothing you’ve said implies a focus on making well engineered software.
Writing software without remuneration doesn’t imply a focus on well engineered software. A person can write software without remuneration with a focus on anything, not necessarily good engineering. For example, one can write software without remuneration with a focus on financial reward in future. Which is exactly what appears to have happened. Working without pay to build a business with the expectation that the business will be profitable in future doesn’t imply that the business will be built on good engineering.
Helping secure remote access for those who don’t know how to do it themselves doesn’t imply a focus on well engineered software. Educating people isn’t the same thing as engineering software, let alone engineering software well. Ease of use isn’t the same thing as good engineering; one can engineer easy to use software well and one can engineer easy to use software poorly. Nabu Casa Inc. have done the latter.
Nobody from GNOME has linked the Gitlab -> GitHub redirect to the rise in AI scrapers.
I surely would were you only to provide references to sources backing up your claims.