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  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • That is an excellent question and I wouldn't put it past them. Only time will tell.

    They are already throwing a fit because Chinese companies are distilling their models, so them trying to copyright their copyright infringement machines is definitely plausible. And with a US system as it exists today, it might very well work. Hopefully the rest of the world will have told the US to fuck off by then...

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • Gitlab's pipelines are way better than Github actions IMO. The only downside is the lack of a market, but otherwise, it's definitely worth the switch.

    But it's difficult to give advice without more details. If you're stuck in some system that only plugs into Github, you have 2 systems to switch instead of one.

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • Microslop has an editor in Github that makes it dead easy to create PRs with Copilot. It's very low friction. On another platform, you have to download the editor first and install some agentic coding plugin (or download an agentic editor) and pay for it to get started. Much more friction.

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • Public FTP servers with folders containing multiple copies of the code FTW!

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • I recognise your name, but not sure from where... It for sure isn't github BTW, because I don't use it, but it does look familiar.

    Anyway, if you happen to be known due to something you wrote, that's great but would your popular project be used less if it weren't on github, even as a mirror?

    And do you believe having a public github profile when you started out (/ whatever project(s) you're known for weren't popular) made the difference in your hiring procedure? Did you ask? And if it did, would it have made a difference had you linked to a repo on codeberg or Gitlab?

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • How has that worked before? I've never encountered the system in practice. Can you give an example and explain how it works?

    My fear is that newcomers will be locked out because of the assumption their code is LLM code but it genuinely is theirs. Or that they used an LLM, are willing to learn, think the code is genuinely good, but don't know why it's bad.

    Very curious how the existing system works.

  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • I think part of the problem is Microslop's Github Copilot in the web, which makes it possible for non developers to quickly and easily create PRs without understanding a single thing about programming, let alone software development.

    It wouldn't surprise me of people genuinely think they are helping.

  • Federation between Funkwhale and Mastodon?

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  • Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful

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  • I've never shared my opensource work and still gotten jobs. IMO having opensource profiles is a liability for those who don't have well known projects. Mine are nearly all explorations into unknown stuff and quickly thrown together. If they looked at my profile, it wouldn't be a reflection of my capabilities.

  • Postman Strikes Again

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  • Ran into this at work too. They just nixed the free group tier. I hope here are opensource alternatives we can pay for.

  • CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

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  • "My privacy doesn't matter"

    Famous last words.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • GrapheneOS really had good marketing, wow. /e/OS had been around for a while, as well as LineageOS. Hopefully this is the beginning of more vendors supporting different ROMs.

    Actually, now I'm curious. @e_mydata@mastodon.social why don't you have partnerships with other manufacturers besides FairPhone?

  • Federation between Funkwhale and Mastodon?

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  • AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

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  • Soon people will have a local AI that writes for you using a persona for different accounts. Good luck deanonymising that.

  • The Enshittificator

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  • I was hoping for it to end with "go opensource". But well, that would be asking for too much.

  • Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

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  • It's very top down here. If the group of designated leaders (meaning CTO and his close friends) don't approve of changes to the Way of Working and base repository template, it shall not be applied.

    I've pointed out problems before and wanted to improve things but was told to "stay in my lane" basically. That killed all motivation to go through the proper channels. If you aren't in the in-group, well, that's it, you have no say.

    Unfortunately, they pay well.

  • Federation between Funkwhale and Mastodon?

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  • Share you funk whale account when you. I'm curious too.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • Get the fuck off of github 🤷

    I've been saying it since Microslop took over github. There's codeberg, radicle, and Gitlab. Move before they start asking for age identification and you're locked out of your repos.

  • Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

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  • Do it, please. My company doesn't care and has pipelines running that pull from npm and pypi for every push, merge, etc. - and devs use AI that has been ordered to commit and push as frequently as possible. With around 100 devs, just imagine the traffic.

    They were forced to pay for dockerhub because of the pipelines failing. But they must be forced to pay for packages repos too. I sneakily changed our pipeline to pull from the in-house docker registry, and for pipelines to require pulling from package repos only when locks changed. Our CI is faster than every other team, but nobody noticed.

    So yeah, charge the companies! Please!