Time for a new forge
I need to find a new forge now that Sourcehut is prohibiting the use of LLMs. There’s an interesting discussion about this on Lobsters.
I’m still trying to assess whether I am in breach of this with the two paid accounts I have at Sourcehut. The change to the terms is minimal, but I am not entirely convinced that I am breaking the terms and conditions of their service. With these two accounts, I have used LLM tools to generate code that, for the most part, I have amended before committing it.
I also have a repo for a web application I used to publish the content for this blog, which calls on an external LLM to generate alt text for images.
But better to be safe than sorry, so I think I will end up moving these accounts elsewhere. GitHub is out, so I am looking at GitLab again and perhaps Codefloe, which has the benefit of being hosted in Europe, but is only supported by donations. Self-hosting isn’t an option for me. I don’t have the time to maintain my own forge.
A shame that I am making this move, because I like the Sourcehut product. It’s minimalist and does everything I need it to.