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Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 week ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Currently in its very early stages, but it'll be a useful resource to identify slopified garbage and get it out of your life.

Credit to Kat Marchin for starting this.

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[–] rook@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh, it works okay for me. What’s “the language server” in this case? The third party c# language server isn’t great, but I’ve had no particular issues with python, julia, lean4, rust, dafny and tla+. I can’t recommended (vs)codium because it is a monstrous memory hog, and even in its de-microsofted form it’ll be full of vide-coding, but where there aren’t good alternatives is gets a solid “it’ll do” from me.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had issues with python. The language server would just exit randomly leaving Codium with the functionalit of a glorified text editor.

[–] rook@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Python at least has the advantage that there are a bunch of ides and fancy text editors out there (with varying degrees of llm integration), so if one doesn’t work for you there are alternatives. Fwiw, there are several different language servers as well, though I’m not sure how easy they are to swap in codium.

I’ve been using zed of late. It has an ai killswitch, which is good enough for my needs which are a bit less hardline than the authors of the slopware list, and also helix which is nice but a very different sort of tool.