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Slop Considered Harmful and Undesirable to Web Browsers and Web Clients Like Dillo and cURL
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Dillo Browser ☛ Human proof for FOSS contributions
When receiving patches from first-time contributors it is sometimes hard to determine if the person has used an LLM to write the patch, looking at the code alone. We usually rely on the person's good behavior to tell the truth, as the patch mimics the same style as a person would have written, including comments and variable names.
In Dillo we only want to accept fully human created contributions, but relying on unknown people to tell the truth doesn't seem to be very comforting. So I would like to find a better mechanism to distinguish LLM patches from human-made.
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LWN ☛ Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions
Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a blog post with a proposal on one way to ensure that a contribution is written by a human and not AI; he suggests asking new contributors to record their programming session using asciinema.
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ The pressure
I wish more companies that use and depend upon curl or libcurl in commercial software and services would chime in their part to fund us. We could then pay more developers to distribute the work load across. That would be great. Feel free to contact me to discuss how you can contribute to this. Get your employer to pay for a support contract!
Fortunately we have customers who already do this, so some of us can work on curl full time.
I am a pragmatic (and a bit of a cynic) and I have danced this dance for a long time already. I have no illusions that anything significant is going to change in this area even if we are in an unparalleled situation and in a tighter spot than ever before. I totally expect us to ride out this storm by ourselves. Like we are used to. We will survive. We will endure. It might just be a bit of a shaky period in the project and in the world at large as we try to maneuver our way through this. There’s a tsunami coming over us and all we can do is swim, there are no life boats for us.
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LWN ☛ Stenberg: The pressure
Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes about
the stress of keeping up with the current flood of security reports.