Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoGentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilotwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1784arrow-down11cross-posted to: foss@beehaw.org
arrow-up1783arrow-down1external-linkGentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilotwww.phoronix.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square74fedilinkcross-posted to: foss@beehaw.org
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 hours agoBecause Microsoft owns github. Even without them plugging LLMs into it, using it all as training data, they could easily do a more standard enshittification of it. Oh you have a free github account, you can do X amount of pulls and commits per month, otherwise, subscribe to GitHubPro for $5 a month. Oh you host some software that’s used to antagonize our corporate partners? Even though its not actually illegal? Poof, gone, just like when the credit card companies decided nsfw games are verbotten.
Because Microsoft owns github.
Even without them plugging LLMs into it, using it all as training data, they could easily do a more standard enshittification of it.
Oh you have a free github account, you can do X amount of pulls and commits per month, otherwise, subscribe to GitHubPro for $5 a month.
Oh you host some software that’s used to antagonize our corporate partners?
Even though its not actually illegal?
Poof, gone, just like when the credit card companies decided nsfw games are verbotten.