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[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Most of my stuff is badly hacked together "runs on my machine" code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I'd then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don't have what it takes for all that.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

GPL has no maintenance requirements

[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The GPL doesn't control how guilty I'll feel if I don't.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Make your bad code public, it might help train an LLM

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

I don't really think you will have enough people see your code, just because you put it on the internet.
I have uploaded quite a few things (some of them are even useful) and nobody really cares. Though they most probably just get bored and move onto other people's profiIes, after starting with the useless ones.