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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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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

The initiative is splendid and someone should "fork" it using the archived version

Especially for Rust having a curated list of slop-tainted libraries would be useful to have a cargo-deny-style check forbidding them from the dependency chain.