Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.
It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?
Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure
Personally I’m impressed it took them so long to start driving it to the ground
I moved to Codeberg
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home
Personally I’m impressed it took them so long to start driving it to the ground
You mean their copyright washing of FOSS projects using copilot wasn’t enough of a warning?
No, that is actually useful. Blocking access for anonymous users is not
If anything, the boom of LLMs like copilot and chatgpt actually shows the power of open source and open access to information. Underlying algorithms would mean nothing without open source, open access to stackoverflow, forums, etc
Federated forges can’t come soon enough. Git is already federated. There is absolutely not fucking reason for this.
Git is already federated.
New to me. Do you mean decentralized instead of federated?
Distributed version control system
I would not say that distributed is federated. But i could not find a widely accepted definition of it.
For example i would call FTP also not federated🤷♂️
Agreed. That said, with a few remotes and a cron job git could facilitate “duct tape and zip ties” federation.
Can’t wait for the day when I can collaborate with all my Forgejo homies.
Forejo-mies?
Don’t forget you’re contributing your code to Bill’s AI
Which is under litigation https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
This is exactly why I add a non-commercial license to my comments. If courts decide that Github was in the wrong, then there’s a chance commercial AI makers just scraping the web might be on the hook too.
I just scraped your profile and used it for training my commercial AI product. sue me b.
I’m fine with it so alternatives will be used more in the future.
This is why enshittification might be a good thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing. How can you steal something that the customer cannot own?
By stealing it? You dont have to own something to steal it. Or maybe I’m reading that wrong. Lol it’s a very interesting take but I like the spirit of it… And it made me laugh. Cool 😎
Using the first entry for
stealon the English wiktionary:To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
So, if you can’t actually own stuff, you can’t (by definition) steal it.
I get your point, and this more of an AcKsHuALly type of argument, but it’s an fun way of begging the question of what “I own this” means in today’s society.
I love a friendly debate 😀:
The statement says How can you steal something that the customer cannot own?. You can definitely steal it if “you” aren’t the customer. And you can steal it from a “customer” even if the customer doesn’t own it and someone else does. And you can steal if even if you are the customer, because you aren’t the owner. The only time you can’t steal it is if you are the owner, because you own it.
The definition of “steal” you mention seems to be proving the point I’m making. Something can be stolen if the person stealing it isn’t the owner, which is the case in the first three examples I mentioned above.
The statement is an odd play on words and loaded with assumptions that are left up to the reader, which is why it’s super weird to use it to try to prove the point the author was trying to make.
I know people don’t like sending patches to mailing lists and prefer the zoomer PR UI but god damn if you look only at the protocol openness perspective nothing comes close. sr.ht is great in that regard
Useful write-up about how to do it: https://git-send-email.io
I hope github “enshitifies” to bankruptcy
Let’s use codeberg :))
and or sourcehut @ sr.ht supporting foss is always based.
Honestly I don’t think there’s a truly good git hosting website right now.
GitLab works if you wanna get away from Micro$oft but the UI is all over the place. Every other alternative either has an infinitely worse UI or charges money to use
