Matthew Butterick

(I’d also be willing to consider a GitHub alternative like GitLab, though they also seem to be heading down the [AI rabbit hole](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/ai-assist/).)

> Drew Devault, who agrees with you about Github and GitLab I see that he wrote this week about Copilot as a form of “[open source laundering](https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html)”. I generally agree...

Bradley Kuhn of Software Freedom Conservancy on the [ramifications of AI for open-source software](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/). Bradley reaches several of the same points, though with more factual & legal detail.

Thank you for the suggestions. I have cloned Pollen to Sourcehut and changed the canonical repo on the Racket package server: https://git.sr.ht/~mbutterick/pollen Apparently this would become the new mailing list:...

[My further thoughts](https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/this-copilot-is-stupid-and-wants-to-kill-me.html) on the legality of Copilot and the (perhaps) futility of avoiding its maw, though ethics count too.

Sourcehut uses Git over HTTP. Racket [added support](https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/2606ae3d8ea95e1b644f9400e156ec2ed781a582) for these URLs in version 8.1 with a private `git+https` prefix. Regardless of the wisdom of this workaround, because Pollen (and my...

In the meantime I have reverted the package server to use the GitHub repo (see #132)

I have cloned pollen to Codeberg and changed the canonical repo on the Racket package server: https://codeberg.org/mbutterick/pollen

Swift and Racket (among others) use [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/). I’m thinking of putting up a self-hosted instance as a replacement for `pollen-users`. Pros/cons from those who have fiddled with it? (So far...

> Does Codeberg provide feature similar to this we use here on GitHub for pollen-users? Yes, Codeberg also has an “issues” feature. So in principle we could make a `pollen-users`...