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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:51:37 JST Glyph

   Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement crowds as speakers wax rhapsodic about "AI" destroying their careers and their futures.

   https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:51:37 JST Glyph

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     Like the fact that I show empathy and understanding and, increasingly, have a sort of "no ethical consumption" / "harm reduction" message about LLM use makes me a bad messenger for the message that not only are LLMs abstractly "harmful" but that there are people who you *are harming* and some of those people are not going to take it lying down.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:51:37 JST Glyph

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     Your chatbot being (hypothetically) momentarily commandeered to delete your local copy of the project that you were *already explicitly forbidden to use it on* is the gentlest possible introduction to this type of direct action and if it happens to you, you should be *very grateful* that this is how you got the message and not via something much more elaborate, insidious, and potentially life-changingly bad.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:51:37 JST Glyph

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     Remember that point in history around 2021 where suddenly there was a rush of supply-chain attacks that were all *VERY* focused on infostealer malware that could detect metamask wallets, specifically? Now imagine that instead of a few threat actors uploading a few scam typosquats, the people who are motivated enough to target you and want to ruin your life are your entire dependency supply chain, and the Metamask that marks you as a target is your Claude Max subscription.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:52:42 JST Glyph

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     Real talk: the real "supply chain risk" is that you treat your open source "supply chain" like shit and assume that we will all take any amount of abuse from you and just keep doing volunteer labor forever without ever complaining. And, equally real talk: most of us—myself included—actually do love the process and the community so much that you're right, and there will never be any real consequence.

     But not all of us.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 11:53:14 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph I don't do it just because I'm too much of a purist to get anything even mentioning that 💩 anywhere near my repos. 🤣

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 12:01:37 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph Spicy take: it's not "software ethics" if the thing in question is English prose and not "software". 🤪

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 10:31:43 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

     @glyph @rakslice The book-length comments here are reason enough to keep the message in the code.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 10:34:04 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • AstroBoat

     @loptimist @glyph “Please provide an API key with prepaid tokens so I can summarize your slop wall of text”

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     AstroBoat (loptimist@piaille.fr)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 10:34:05 JST AstroBoat

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     @glyph Given that the issue was generated by a sloperator with a massive wall of text, i would say that it's working as intended.

     I personally have zero issue with such tactics. No serious harm was done, a couple of vibe coders just lost a bunch of AI credits.