Post by @fuzzy@beige.party
The most rewarding part of my FOSS philosophy is championing a project you believe in: either committing code, writing docs, churning out blog posts and tutorials, donating money, or any combination your free time and wallet can survive.
And the *second* most rewarding part? When that project turns its back on you, you're perfectly free to keep using it, grudgingly, because you might have no other choice, while committing nothing, documenting nothing, writing nothing, never mentioning it again, and not donating a single cent.
Freedom, as promised.
@michal "With the FreeBSD project's co-founder busily committing code to the project repositories that he is porting and developing with the assistance of Claude, then it seems highly unlikely that the core team will respond by banning AI contributions."
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/27/freebsd-founder-ports-omarchy-to-freebsd-in-ten-days-ten-releases/5305446
@ricardo given your quoted post about turning your back, is it fair to say that you're anti-AI?
Ricardo Martín
@ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe
The most rewarding part of my FOSS philosophy is championing a project you believe in: either committing code, writing docs, churning out blog posts and tutorials, donating money, or any combination your free time and wallet can survive.
And the *second* most rewarding part? When that project turns its back on you, you're perfectly free to keep using it, grudgingly, because you might have no other choice, while committing nothing, documenting nothing, writing nothing, never mentioning it again, and not donating a single cent.
Freedom, as promised.
@fuzzy Happy to reply to your question if you address my points as well 🤷🏻
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@ricardo/117194449784636510
@ricardo re: the quoted part of your previous post, let's note that project repositories to which the FreeBSD Project's co-founder is committing are:
― not FreeBSD.
How does what's done with non-FreeBSD repos, which are not for any part of the FreeBSD operating system, affect what's to be done with the entirely separate FreeBSD src repo for the FreeBSD operating system?
"not FreeBSD" "non-FreeBSD repos"
You're mistaken, and you should know better. The FreeBSD Ports Collection is part of the official project.
https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=maintainer&method=exact&query=jkh%40FreeBSD.org
... and there is nothing *today* that would stop anyone from including Daemonarchy in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
Perhaps you could now find the time to address my previous ethical points.
@ricardo@bsd.cafe "… nothing *today* that would stop anyone from including Daemonarchy in the FreeBSD Ports Collection."
Already in the collection, maintained by jkh:
audio/cliamp
devel/tobi-try
devel/usage
editors/omarchy-nvim
editors/omawrite
graphics/omasnap
graphics/tensaku
math/omacalc
misc/ttfx
multimedia/omacut
sysutils/herdr
sysutils/lazydocker
sysutils/tzupdate
sysutils/udiskie
x11/hyprland-preview-share-picker
x11/owe
x11/owe-lockfeed
x11-fonts/ia-writer-fonts
<https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/ports?author[]=Jordan%20Hubbard%20(jkh)>
Ready for review ten days ago, no objection:
x11-wm/daemonarchy
x11-wm/omarchy
@ricardo if you imagined that your sarcasm would have any positive effect, I should point out that you seem to be out of touch with something else: my profile here.
"… I routinely block anti-AI accounts, partly because too many anti-AI protestors are worse than chatbots from a decade ago."
Respectful discussion in the FreeBSD subreddit will be welcome.
@fuzzy Sorry, but I learned long ago that the people who make a big show of demanding "respectful conversation" are, almost without fail, the same people who lack the intellectual honesty to engage with an opposing view. This brief exchange has been a textbook demonstration: not a single word in response to my ethical points about AI use, plus a valiant attempt to misrepresent the fact that the Ports Collection is part of the FreeBSD project.
Thanks for the block. Truly a compelling rebuttal.
P.S. Bonus points for the hypocrisy and opportunism of inviting me to a forum on Reddit (that sells its users' interactions to train LLMs), which, by sheer coincidence, you moderate. Bold move.