I mean, Anubis would do a pretty bad job in their case anyways, and their attitude kind of makes practical sense there. Almost all code fetching tools (from git to ftp to curl) don’t run any external code (and I think we can agree it would be a horrible idea to do so); as such, proof-of-work solutions like Anubis won’t work for code hosting (which is what the article is about).

I don’t really care about whether Anubis would make a good use case for them, the problem is that even if it did they wouldn’t have used it as stated in the post. I get angry and irrational easy when I see bullshit about things that I care about, and that tends to me overlooking actually important parts.

You in particular don’t need to deal with them in any way at all. The code they host is free software and has plenty of other mirrors all over the web. If you want to contribute to any of the projects for which they are hosting upstreams you can almost always just send an email with your patch to authors directly. Save your anger for capitalists.

I’ll keep interacting in a way that points out “hey maybe this isn’t the best course of action” because I will keep caring, even if I hate them. My hate must be pointed out, shown why it exists. Because even if I hate capitalism and capitalists, I hate ineffectual action even more.

It won’t work through patches, if the rot is fundamental. I’ll probably contribute to other projects, Libreboot is now more enticing after Leah cut away from their type of bullshit.