as usual, leave it to the FSF to have the most nonsense contrarian take, like "using a JS based tool to block LLMs is malware".
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as usual, leave it to the FSF to have the most nonsense contrarian take, like "using a JS based tool to block LLMs is malware".
their slide into incoherence and irrelevance knows no bounds.
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as usual, leave it to the FSF to have the most nonsense contrarian take, like "using a JS based tool to block LLMs is malware".
their slide into incoherence and irrelevance knows no bounds.
@gsuberland sorry what
are you saying the FSF has come out against anubis
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@gsuberland sorry what
are you saying the FSF has come out against anubis
@demize@unstable.systems @gsuberland@chaos.social I had to track down a citation for this. See: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
The Anubis JavaScript program's calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware. Proprietary software is often malware, and people often run it not because they want to, but because they have been pressured into it. If we made our website use Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware. Even though it is free software, it is part of a scheme that is far too similar to proprietary software to be acceptable. We want users to control their own computing and to have autonomy, independence, and freedom. With your support, we can continue to put these principles into practice.
This is some high-class mental gymnastics. When you visit a site with JS enabled, you consent to it running software. You don't HAVE to, because you can just ... not go to the site. There are other issues about privacy, consent, energy use, etc (edit: not to anubis, but running JS). But software freedom is not what is at stake here.
