morally corrupted open source that Linus and Eric Raymond fell into for quick success.

Yeah you should check your sources on that, because Linux is licensed under GPL so it is actually free software, while ESR is against free software and pro open source (meanwhile he complained on his blog that he barely has enough money while his software runs on thousands of devices (e.g .gpsd)).

Why is the dryer so dirty?

Petitions for the German government should be filed via the official site, not some third party site: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/

I mean HN has been a dumpsterfire for at least 5 years, with 90% trash and 10% useful content. But I agree, there are now lots of AI proponents (who are all apparently building a killer app that will launch “soon” to make them millions; but they can’t go into detail because the idea is genius. Don’t worry, it won’t be possible to copy the app via AI when it launches, because they spent 50k$ in tokens on it).