That came out 25 years ago?

…

Fuck.

Are you asking a technical question or a moral question?

Pragmatically - IDGAF. If I have it on the ssd, I’ll watch it there. If I need to download from torrent or usenet and then watch it, cool. If it’s easier to use CloudStream (for some transient series), no problem.

I tend to keep a corpus of movies / shows on my ssd because it’s always there, always reliable, always fast. I have stuff that’s just not easy to find online any more and multi-tenancy / bandwidth are no issue. I can throw it in my bag and watch it wherever, even without net.

It’s also agnostic. Not every pirate streaming app works on every device. OTOH, samba share / sftp pretty much does. Tonight I streamed stuff onto a OLPC X-O4…good luck getting fmhy to work with that - it can’t even load YouTube directly but stream stuff off the router just fine.

I don’t use JF much any more (prefer ssd plugged directly into router, accessed via NovaPlayer on android devices; files uploaded to via ftp transfer - yes, very 2010) but I think its pretty amazing. Cloudstream and fmhy are amazing too. Use what works.

Cmon now…leaving Agents.md in the repo is bush-league :)

You can bet your bottom dollar if the claude.md or agents.md hasn’t been added to the gitignore, then it’s -

1. intentional

2. actual slop (which you can more easily tell in 2 seconds of looking at the readme.md)

didn’t say it has to be a tag, what I had in mind was a simple disclosure in the post description explaining how you used AI

Same issue before though, be the actual disclosure a tag or a statement.

I do take issue with inexperienced developers that create privacy related software without proper knowledge of what their code actually does (AKA vibe-coding) and going around promoting it as “privacy-friendly” and “secure” while that may not be the case.

Slop is galling for sure but if we’re talking about trust…well…why trust anyone based on what they say (or don’t say)?

“Trust but verify” means I still verify. If the thing is mission critical or important to you, then you SHOULD verify, always. Hell, if the threat profile is high, sandbox it and sniff the packets it sends.

Personally, I think you having to look at the porn I look at is sufficient punishment for snooping on me :)

Some of this is social engineering. “I have nothing I want to show” works even better when I literally can’t (because X isn’t on my phone or Y doesn’t run on my PC)

Maybe there are better ways to go about this though, which is partly why I created this post.

I think so.

Beyond the obvious slop (which is exceedingly obvious), you’re going to waste a lot of cognitive bandwidth trying to sniff out AI.

May as well assume AI is used by default and then do the due diligence on the privacy aspects that are of concern to you.

That holds true whether the project is hand coded or AI assisted. If it’s important, poke it.

Assume all software is “guilty until proven innocent”

But please don’t fall into the FuckAI mindset because llm=bad.

Most devs aren’t going to perform contrition for AI use to appease vocal minority. They’re just not. There’s no up side for them and it reads desperate.

I’m happy to tell you if asked because IDGAF if you use my shit or not. If I’m sharing it, it’s free, open source and shared out of love. I have no brand or portfolio I’m trying to boost. If you can’t see the USP, it’s probably not for you - and that’s fine.

It also usually means I made it for me first, so I’m probably not out to steal bitcoin or nudes. Still, do your own due diligence and poke it. I would.

OK, seeing you asked for pushback.

TL;DR: Tool disclosure is a poor proxy for doing your own due diligence.

“Forced disclosure about AI use in projects” sits sorta funny for a privacy based group, doesn’t it? Kinda “Papers, please”. Smells bad.

How would you even verify “did this project use an LLM” anyway? If I don’t disclose, what’s the back up, pistols at dawn? Read the code (if available), or get a third party checker…like an LLM? Do you have capacity to audit? Or is it just “trust me, bro” (which if you’re actually concerned about due diligence, isn’t enough).

More to the point: disclosure tag doesn’t change whether the code is accurate, safe or good. Shitty code is shitty either way, so the tag doesn’t touch the actual harm you’re concerned about.

What it does do is create two classes: labeled projects get extra scrutiny, unlabeled ones get a free pass, “no disclosure, must be hand-written, must be fine.” Backwards. Honest disclosure gets tarnished as slop, staying quiet gets rewarded. (Go check !self hosted right now for such an occurrence).

Better footing: assume ALL software in 2026 has had AI assistance, and review it on its merits.

There are better quality signals than hand on bible “are you now or have you ever been” oaths or performative humiliation for the FuckAI crowd.

For what it’s worth, I use an LLM to write code because I’ve got osteoarthritis and typing all day isn’t free. But if you think that means logging into Claude and telling it “make this for me, no mistakes”, you couldn’t be more wrong.

I define the project, I pseudo code it with pen and paper (hurts my hands less) I scope every ticket (yes, I make the llm go thru 3 stage ticket review), I review outputs, I smoke test and I even call in outside reviewers to spot check sometimes. I’m an absolute bastard to it in QA. I do that because when I’m done, I can stand in front of it and honestly tell you I made this, even if my fingers didn’t type most of it. And if it’s fucked, that’s on me, not “hallucinations”.

So, what box do I tick - “AI-assisted”? “Vibe slop”?

That tells you nothing about who’s accountable or how it was made. It carries no nuance and silently resolves to “ignore this one, a robot wrote it,” … which is backwards for projects where the human did more QA than most “fully human” teams ever do.

As always, ICBW and YMMV.

Worth pointing out the OAI is US based too. And Mechahitler. And Google. All at the whims of US govt

Use em if you must (the OAI honeymoon deal - with generous Codex use being included on basic subscription - is hard to beat) but remember…the cloud is someone elses computer…and you especially don’t want mission critical shit on someone elses AMERICAN computer.

OpenCode is probably the best serious cloud competition to the big 4. $10 month.

Latest versions of GLM, MiMO, Deepseek, Kimi ain’t nothing to sneeze at

https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/opencode-go-review/

https://opencode.ai/go

If someone knows better cloud deal, speak up. Else, local Qwen uber alles.

So…is this Trump getting back at Darius for refusing to build autonomous weapons? I didn’t think he had the attention span.

They are. But the reputational cost? Who knows.

Edit: just got an email

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Pain. Suffering. Death.

(I’m kidding…or am I?).

I always think of home assistant like that scene in V for Vendetta, where he set up an elaborate circle of dominoes, and everything is working perfectly right up until he gets to the last domino.

Ah, I thought you meant there was some technical issue that I wasn’t aware of / it had been superseded by a superior method.

Ethical issues aside, the arr stack is a good gateway drug for self hosting. It’s fiddly but probably in a useful way. JF/Radarr/Sonarr/Sabnzdb set up genuinely introduces a variety of branching skills.

Arr leads to self hosting, self hosting leads to home assistant, home assistant leads to … suffering :)

Oh, that’s weird. My Qwen seems to work just fine 😇

Kidding aside, I actually had a job I started with Fable the other day - specifically renewed so that I could use it.

Guess Opus will have to finish it and then I revert to free.

Truth be told, Fable was nerfed anyway with security theatre.

Good opportunity for ZAI or someone else to gain some ground.

No loyalty to cloud shit. They’re all cooked. Use what works.

Your en dash is showing, Wesley.

Seems…pretty thin tbh. I’m not ready to throw baby out with bathwater just yet.

“A lot” is doing some Olympic level, Gold medal performance lifting there lol.

Lemmy is loud in its AI hate, nuance be damned. I’ve seen drivebys on !LocalLLama (notably on a project about AI infinite radio).

Apparantly, everyone is now an expert on ML and AI (I sure hope they didn’t use Gboard or Apple to glide type their message or any sort of STT), just like everyone was an expert on epidemiology, politics, trans rights, ethics, pop culture etc 5 mins ago. You don’t need to be an expert to have a position but at the same time, empty cans make the most rattle.

What’s up with arr stack tho? I’ve been pulling direct from 1337 of late (and even more recently, just using CloudStream). Are we “no one is gay for molemen” on the arr stack?

That site appears to look for superficial signals (commit messages, claude.MD file). I wouldn’t put too much faith in it for detecting “slop”.

Ironically, the best way to see if something is slop (if a person was so inclined) is to point Claude or ChatGPT at a repo or code example and ask “did a human code this? Why or why not?”.

Unsteered Ai tends to produce immaculate code with logic gaps. Humans tend to produce weird shit that somehow works and actually makes sense when you step back and look at it.

Probably the best tell is when code clearly bears the marks of “oh, this guy got fucked by this problem; I can see the patch job. It’s not elegant but it makes sense if X occurred, which is what Y appears to be for.”

I believe “opinionated” and “belt and suspenders” is the Americanism for that. Kludge and bodge are also true.

IMHO and YMMV.

Genuinely disappointed that didn’t lead to a rick roll. Also, did you mean ZnVjayBvZmYgbWF0ZQ==

Irrespective, good work on the app. It’s not something I have personal use for but I salute the effort. You didn’t need to make your own personal project public, and you sure as shit didn’t need to post it to a hostile site (lemmy has a hate boner for AI something fierce).

The fact that you did anyway isn’t nothing.

Next time, write more of the intro post yourself :) “What I built” and “I’d love to know…” are too Claude shaped not to rustle jimmies here.

I haven’t heard anything about it either, so am wondering if this is just good old fashioned muckraking.

Is that the whole thing? Genuinely asking.

Last I checked, yeah. Try it an see.

EDIT: Oh you mean Voyager?. Let me check by going into airplane mode. Ok what I see is - it downloads the topmost article / OP post but no comments beyond that. That might be a settings issue tho. So…try it and see still holds as advice.

Voyager feels very similar imho

The technical problem (reddit UX is shit/app is shit) has various solutions. Eg:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

The bigger problem of reddit being reddit is … why Lemmy exists.

Let’s each do our best not to turn Lemmy into Reddit.