Client or server?

It sounds like you’re in a gatekeeper role

Not sure I like the sound of that.

But I was thinking of scrutinizing a few more packages in this way, time permitting. Maybe it will inspire other people to do the same.

It also means the security is “trust me bro”. That’s far more disturbing to me than all the legal and transparency concerns put together.

Well that’s why I’m asking for transparency. This oldest 3rd party appstore ran on “trust me bro” for almost 20 years… way back when it was big but the whole mobile ecosystem stuff wasn’t that developed yet. Then it was small for a long time, now it’s growing again because a) a new device came out that is selling surprisingly well and b) vibecoding is here.

And it was never big on opensource despite being Linux-based.

Now, when I raise these issues, many of these people feel insulted. Or admit that it’s just one bad apple. Not realizing that that’s exactly why we need transparency. It’s the opposite of “I don’t mind Google knowing everything, I have nothing to hide”: “you demanding transparency means you suspect us all of being criminals”.

It’s idiotic at best, and worthy of a Hamlet quote at worst: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

Not my use case, but it’s amazing that this exists. No registration necessary.

Nice. Just registered an account and tried to register a subdomain.eu.org to my VPS’ IPv4 address, but I keep getting

SOA from SUBDOMAIN.EU.ORG at nnn.nn.nn.nn: Error: Timeout

Maybe I just have to wait but I’m not sure I’m doing this right at all…

Thanks. Fascinating how people come up with fancy terms and almost scientific-sounding explanations for what essentially comes down to being an asshole.

Beautiful. Why haven’t I heard this one before? Standard repertoire from now on!

I always read this as shardware.

Thanks.

I have analysed the package to my best abilities - it contains lots of stuff that cannot possibly be 100% the authors creation, but they lie about using LLMs and anyhow AI stealing IP is not illegal (yet).

The community is pretty much 50/50 about LLM usage, but I think more people care about transparency, Opensource and respecting licenses. I’m getting plenty of likes for raising this issue. Well, relatively. More than the people opposing me.

I have also found that the software in question wants to install ~40 more packages from its creators personal website. This isn’t disclosed anywhere. And that is objectively shady af imo - but again, probably not actually illegal.

I do mind not being accessible to the average person.

That’s an interesting mix of acute observation and megalomania. Who wrote it and when?

Not sure how to explain how imagination works.

Unless you meant something else?

Are you saying website owners are always located in the country their .tld belongs to?

I’m looking for solutions here, so I did go to the actual site and checked before I wrote the above.

Interesting free tier option:

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And they’re from Iceland. And GDPR-compliant. And FOSS.

❤️❤️❤️

I think we have a winner. Let’s see how they respond to my explanations.

tl;dr: agentic AI.

If you don’t know what that is, read the article. IMO it is right, clickbait title phrasing excused.

Well done! I hope you wrote a tutorial on the process?

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

Washington … ‘denial of reality’

That is very kindly phrased, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Thanks. Based in NL is certainly a plus.

Thanks, this looks good.

will ask for cc details.

So far I never had any problems making stuff up there.