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  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source

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  • Where does Codeberg rule out commercial projects? I've never heard of that being banned over there. (Do you perhaps mean closed-source?)

  • Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source

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  • Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source

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  • I feel like it's been going downhill since 2019, given the point in time Microsoft acquired them was in 2018 I'd say people have just not wanted to acknowledge the trajectory. (That included me.)

    Every big feature since 2019 has been enterprise slop, in my opinion:

    • In 2019 they announced dependabot. What's wrong with it?

      It's not configurable, rather than allowing a universal mechanism so people can feed dependencies into it via some custom tool that e.g. generates a standardized listing, it only supports the popular package managers. This is exactly what big enterprise wants since they only care about their super old codebases and what those use, not any upcoming stack.
    • In 2019, they also announced security advisories. What's wrong with it?

      That Github to this day in 2026, hasn't bothered to add the most basic feature that regular FOSS projects would need to handle security reports, which is confidential issues. Instead, the assumption seems to be you're either a big enterprise that already has some dedicated security team with their own email infrastructure, or Microsoft doesn't care about you.
    • In 2020, they announced Github's Codespaces. What's wrong with it?

      It makes the UI more complicated and as far as I know leaves buttons for it everywhere that can't be turned off even if you don't want it. And it's a vendor lock-in feature that's expensive, the average small FOSS project will neither have the budget to use it nor likely care to do so.
    • Then of course the entire AI slop spin since 2025 ish.

    There's probably more, but those are the big ones that I've noticed that made me suspicious of where this was going.

  • A video arguing C++ is the worst programming language to ever exist

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  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • My condolences.

  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • Github seems to be down a lot, too, although perhaps not their pages part. Perhaps you could try to have just the pages in some other place?

  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • I like that I can read this as you stating you use Atlassian yet hate Gitlab, and the statement still works either way 😅

  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • That makes sense, since Gitlab seems to be trying to challenge Atlassian. In who manages to make worse software...

  • What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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  • What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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  • Even if you say "no doubt about it", plenty of people seem to have doubts.

    Anyway, I suggest we agree to disagree.

  • What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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  • The article links a study. What's your study that collapse isn't a concern?

    For what it's worth, my worry was never focused on cancer, these doctors were just an example measured for the likely universal unlearning effect.

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  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Lemmy is great and that's the only place I'm posting.

    But yeah, if I'm looking for a past conversation on a niche topic, I'll probably find something to read on reddit.

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  • That's the thing, I don't think LLMs bring many benefits. Too many lies, and so on.

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  • AIs are (apparently) stupid and fail at non-trivial tasks. They also enjoy deleting production databases. They seem atrocious with any sort of quality.

    What would AI possibly be useful for, if you care about quality work?

    (I suppose they can sometimes help with vulnerability scanning and writing mindless e-mails if you're some sort of overworked customr agent, but those are pretty narrow uses. And I'm not going to upload my stuff to big tech data sloppers myself just for some slightly better vulnerability scanning.)

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