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I try to contribute to things getting better, with sourced information, OC and polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with a point ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.

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  • It already has a social impact on the people’s whose intellectual property was pirated, the employees traumatized by nsfw filtering tasks and the reduction of white collar junior recruitment (probably non junior too?). I know some people think it’s just a bubble, companies are waiting to see what happens and the job market will recover. I am doubtful of it.
    My tech company is pushing us to use it so they provide the top tools. From what I have observed, I have little doubt it will replace a lot of the designing, engineering, coding and communication time. Yes, you will still need some knowledgeable person to guide and review, but less than before. Similarly to how you need less people to build a car today than you did in the 50’, and even less for an electric car, because so much more is automated.
    So far automation and the internet did create more better paid jobs than it destroyed, maybe it will happen with “AI” too, but I am skeptical.
    Finally, in my opinion, UBI and work time reduction with equivalent quality of life is a desirable future.
















  • Hi, I’m the brave soul reading it for you.

    Currently, the Dutch government’s code is spread across GitHub and GitLab, neither of which is under government oversight.

    GitHub got ruled out first because it’s proprietary software, which directly conflicts with the government’s own policy of preferring open source when options are equally suitable.

    GitLab made it further in the evaluation but didn’t survive it either. The issue was its open-core model, where the Community Edition is genuinely free software but the Enterprise Edition is not.

    Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems.