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Jelmer

jelmer@hachyderm.io

<p>London-based Dutch Free Software nomad. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>foss</span></a> hacker working on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/samba" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>samba</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wireshark" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wireshark</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/breezy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>breezy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bitlbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bitlbee</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dulwich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dulwich</span></a></p>

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    It&amp;#39;s getting really exhausting to deal with PRs from people who have basically just told a LLM to fix a random bug from the bug tracker of a FOSS project. Not only do these tend to come with unnecessarily verbose descriptions, the human behind the scenes doesn&amp;#39;t understand what the changes are doing (and is thus adding zero value), usually they&amp;#39;re incorrect.

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    There&amp;#39;s also somebody &amp;quot;helpfully&amp;quot; emailing me that I am leaking secrets in source code. That is, the credentials for the UDD mirror - https://udd-mirror.debian.net/ - from a function called public_udd_mirror().

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    Lots of YouTube channels are sponsored by companies like Incogni, DeleteMe and Aura. I&amp;#39;m quite skeptical about the business model of these companies: their interest is in scaring you about your privacy, so you pay them an expensive subscription. At the same time they rely on businesses that they say are dodgy following the law. In practice, the privacy authorities in most countries are severely understaffed and they can&amp;#39;t go after any of these companies if they don&amp;#39;t fol...

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    Life as a FOSS maintainer in 2026, dealing with the onslaught of people feeding bug descriptions into LLMs: a contributor just replied to a review comment from me with three page copied output from Claude laying out two options, and then asked me whether he should choose option A or B.