Thanks for the response.

My impression is that the biggest issue was the negative connotations of “vibecoding”, not it being too wide. If the tag was neutral and someone disagreed, it would be easy to resolve in most cases. Obviously, I could be wrong.

Now lobsters won’t accept submission of repos, despite them having a README that can be enough to start an interesting conversation, and LLM generated content will be tagged as spam, again with negative connotations.

I also liked to read some posts that now are off-topic under the “careers” umbrella. People sharing experiences about burnout, and the responses in comments, helped me personally. I’m sad lobsters is not the place for that now.

And most importantly: it is complicated, IMHO. People looking to use lobsters instead of contributing won’t pay attention, and for those that didn’t want to read LLM stuff and yet enjoy lobsters, things are going to be harder.

Anyway, thanks for trying. The work mods do is very appreciated.

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I agree, sadly.

I don’t see how repurposing the spam flag to also include LLM output is going to make things better. People will complain the same for being “unfairly” tagged as spam (of course they will!).

In my opinion it will make things worse. Despite complaints, vibecoding-for-all was clear and it didn’t prevent anyone what wanted to read that content from reading it, while “ai-tooling” plus “spam” are going to be misused and the conclusion will be content harder to filter by people that don’t want to read anything related to LLMs.

I feel like there is a missed opportunity here to make everybody happy. If the reason to not use “vibecoding” was “a tag of shame” that it would push people away, what do the moderators think this new situation is going to accomplish?

It took 5 meta posts to get to this change. I don’t see why we can’t have one meta post every week if things aren’t working for everybody.

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I like the tag and kind of how it is used currently. What I think that causes a bit of a problem is its name “vibecoding”, because of the negative connotations for many, so it doesn’t really work great for LLM, LLM adjacent or LLM related.

I would love a better tag, used how it is used currently, and perhaps filtering the tag considering other tags on the post. For example, I wouldn’t want to filter that tag if it is together with “meta”. Not sure how feasible that is though.

At the end, it seems that this keeps coming back as a meta post. Is this one adding anything new from last time? Not really.

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Both KDE OS and GNOME OS are immutable distributions. KDE OS base comes from Arch, not sure about GNOME OS.

What I find interesting is that neither support traditional package management, although you can install flatpaks (and snaps and appimage, at least in KDE OS).

Used to more traditional distros, I don’t completely understand this. For now GNOME OS is clear “Forward compatibility is not guaranteed. You may have to re-install in the future.” But KDE OS supports updates already.

In the future, will you be able rely on these for day to day computing or are these more like a demo?

I Install a new OS when I buy a new machine, then I upgrade several times until the hardware dies, but another machine, and start over. These feel more like a Chrome OS type of deal.

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I’m using it via Debian.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/opendkim

I generally don’t audit every piece of software I use. I rely on my Linux distribution for that.

Thanks for the heads up! It doesn’t look good. The CVEs were reported 7 days ago.

EDIT: migrated to dkimpy-milter!

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I’ve self-hosted my email for over 25 years.

Currently Debian stable with postfix + sqlgrey + postfix-policyd-spf-python + OpenDKIM and a couple of DNSRBLs, with dovecot imap.

I receive very little spam, and sometimes the big providers may filter my email as spam, and there is not much I can do about it unfortunately. I generate little traffic so it doesn’t matter I that have been in the same IP for the last 12 years or so, I can’t gain the reputation they want.

I started with OpenBSD and sendmail, but the Internet was a very different place back then.

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I guess it depends on the one-line fix and the project.

Publish it and make the project aware. Let them decide. If they reject it, you have the fix. Move on.

No offence but the way you’re dealing with this doesn’t feel completely honest.

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