Honestly? Fair enough.
This does fly directly in the face of Ladybird’s mission, yes, but this sort of thing isn’t limited to just them, and while this is a rather nuclear response, we must remain mindful and grateful for the thousands of hours of time these people have put into this project; building a web browser and engine from scratch is not an easy task and it’s understandable that they don’t want to allow low-quality code and security vulnerabilities in.
To me this demonstrates that they truly care not just about getting this project out the door, but to do so in good faith and with high quality.
The codebase remains open-source, and the engine is still true to it’s goals to decentralise the web.
One day I do hope FOSS as a community finds an answer to low-quality mass-produced PRs written with poorly prompted AI tools, and I do hope when that happens they may reconsider their position.
Until then, I wish them the best and commend their ongoing work and await a release eagerly!
Had this discussion with my family recently.
I made a point how the UK heatwaves are proof of climate change and that we needed to act (not a very clued-in family).
They suggested we get ceiling fans.
I started being sarcastic:
“Look outside my window, see a barren lifeless desert hostile to any life, don’t worry, we have ceiling fans!”.
“What’s that? Your car tires melted onto the road? Ceiling fans!”.
“Shall I take a ceiling fan out with me like a little propeller hat everytime I need to go outside?”.
They were amused.