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 ?

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Federated forges can't come soon enough. Git is already federated. There is absolutely not fucking reason for this.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Git is already federated.

New to me. Do you mean decentralized instead of federated?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Distributed version control system

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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🤷‍♂️

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 7 months ago

Agreed. That said, with a few remotes and a cron job git could facilitate "duct tape and zip ties" federation.

[–] foster_hangdaan@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for the day when I can collaborate with all my Forgejo homies.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Forejo-mies?

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope github "enshitifies" to bankruptcy

Let's use codeberg :))

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

and or sourcehut @ sr.ht supporting foss is always based.

[–] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm fine with it so alternatives will be used more in the future.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Useful write-up about how to do it: https://git-send-email.io

[–] s1nistr4@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget you're contributing your code to Bill's AI

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Which is under litigation https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] pop@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just scraped your profile and used it for training my commercial AI product. sue me b.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

so original  
     wow  
  much impress  
new response
  intelligence overload

Anti Commercial-AI license