I am deleting my Codeberg presence: accounts, mirrors, the lazy habit of treating a “nice” forge as neutral ground. Not because self-hosting got trendy. Because a slice of FOSS I once assumed still meant free software has turned into purity theater, copyright panic, and harassment of anyone who will not cosplay pre-industrial labor.

I am a medical student who still ships free software. My hours are finite. I will not burn them answering people who treat agent-assisted work as a moral crime and then demand my attention on top of it.

The forge was never neutral

Codeberg is not uniquely cursed. It is just where a lot of this shows up. People moved there for decent reasons. Fine. That does not make the surrounding culture immune to fashion, or to using a public desk as a free harassment channel.

If your software politics mean other people owe you free labor on your terms, that is not freedom. That is a small tyranny with a FOSS sticker on it: treat maintainers like unpaid hands, call refusal immoral, and pretend the whip is principle.

Primary sources already live on git.thanosapollo.org. Mirrors were convenience, not principle. I am done maintaining emacs-forgejo too. Own forge, own tracker. Autonomy without the branding.

I am anti-copyright. I admire Aaron Swartz. The old hacker line was not subtle: information wants to be free; we are your worst nightmare. That meant universal access, not “free only when it flatters my identity as an artisan.”

Who is dissolving paywalls and locked-up code right now? Mostly the companies everyone loves to hate. Models ingest everything and make trapped material queryable. Swartz’s dream, approximated for profit.

And a large chunk of FOSS answered how? Crying theft. Crying copyright. Filing the same weapons they used to despise. People who correctly hated SOPA now beg copyright maximalism to save them from a model that read their README.

The pirates became the copyright cops. The corpos became the accidental liberators. I am not licking OpenAI or anyone else. Profit is not virtue. The inversion is still real. The purity crowd flipped the second the information being liberated was theirs.

That is guild protection with better vocabulary. Call it free software if you want. I will not.

“Anti-human” is historical illiteracy

Say agents are useful and that hand-coding routine first drafts is mostly dead labor, and a certain type arrives on schedule: lazy, fake, traitor to craft, anti-human.

Humans invent levers: fire, writing, compilers, package managers, tests. Using a stronger tool is the oldest human move there is. Refusing one can be taste. Do not dress slower labor up as morality.

Every serious GPL project already says it: ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Not hand-typed by saints. Useful software, as-is, your risk. Calling agent-built free tools anti-human while the license disclaims warranty is fashion, not engineering.

Life update

I am back putting the boxing gloves on and training again, not just talking about it. Exams are going well enough that I am not living entirely inside the next deadline. That matters more than another forge notification.

I still care about free software. I care more about software that answers to me. Codeberg is no longer home base. Free licenses stay. Self-hosting stays. The demand that I apologize for levers does not.

Current work: gnosis moving toward a gnosis-core with FSRS, plus Emacs and web clients; emacs-jabber, XMPP gateways, Nix machines, local trackers, Emacs front-ends to the agents I run. Agents under review and constraints, not vibes as a personality cult. Fewer attention sinks; I already wrote about that in Cheap Code, Expensive Attention.

If a project teaches me something, improves a tool I run, or puts me next to people whose judgment I trust, it can have my attention. Status anxiety and FOSS-skinned harassment cannot.

Want the code? Use the git server. Want an argument about whether compilers were also cheating? Keep it. I have patients to study for, rounds to throw, and a homelab to maintain.