“We can’t restore our High Streets unless we take out the cancer of organised crime,” says Liam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Committee.

But you can’t get rid of organised crime while also gifting organised crime an £11+ billion per year industry through drug prohibition.

Off topic!

No, they don’t :-(

Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months

I know of no such increase.

it is obviously sensible to assume

I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make given that the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.

the massively increased hosting costs.

Eh? What increased hosting costs?

The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect

(Forgive the Phoronix link.)