We need to start Forking Software more!

January 09, 2026

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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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As pointed out in my last article, the developers of UPBGE ( a game engine I use for my game ) decided to include slop-code into the software. And starting with version 0.5 it is "tainted by Ai". After that post I found a small repository on codeberg, which lists various other programs that are also sloppy. At first I sunk in with the feeling of dread and a desire to give up. Even the Linux Kernel was mentioned.

But then I realized something. The Linux Kernel itself was "tainted" already long time ago, when Linus Torvalds failed to stand his ground against invasive proprietary blobs code. It was a different issue. But that issue was somewhat mitigated by a fork of the kernel called Linux Libre, which maintains a blob-free version of the kernel.

In the repository I mentioned above Firefox is also mentioned, but as an alternative they list Libre-Wolf, a fork of Firefox that removes the problematic parts.

So forks work. And what we need to do is to campaign for:

Normalizing forking.- Encouraging more forks.

The more choice we have, the better.

Happy Hacking!!!

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AI is good, we need to support AI. If not for it, the code quality would be higher and the technological debt would accumulate slower. We need AI to make the internet a living nightmare. We need AI to present AI as solution to the problem.