• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    We’re in that stage where Microsoft knows that we’re about to break up and instead of fixing itself it is leaning into that abusive boyfriend injecting themselves everywhere they can.

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      29 days ago

      People using GitHub when Codeberg exists deserve nothing less.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      They’ll start making you censor READMEs to make advertisers happy.

      “Make sure you run

      k*ll-all Firefox
      

      Before trying again

      This read me brought to you by ManGrates. There’s nothing manlier in grilling than ManGrates!”

  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    I really can’t believe this got the green light. GitHub has, or perhaps had, the trust of most of the open source world. It was used by everybody. This is so fucking short-sighted, it’s signing away your stock portfolio for a popsicle. Whatever couple bucks they get from this ad is worth absolutely nothing compared to the trust and good will they have flushed.

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      Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that’s kept them woefully employed.

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        I think this is true with a lot of companies. Microsoft is a good example. Whoever is responsible for the current state of Windows 11 should be turfed as rapidly and efficiently as possible both for the good of Microsoft and to send a message that this sort of thing is not wanted anymore.

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      They believe they are irreplacesble and as a single central point for development they are. They’ll ride this until users move to other options effectively decentralizing source hosting again. Good. Burn it down MS. Burn it down as fast as you can.

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      I think once you turn your product into “Enterprise” or whatever that means, then you’re allowed to do anything you want. you can make complete garbage and it doesn’t matter

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      Jesus fuck that is bad. If I reviewed that PR, it would get rejected regardless of the code content. I would also consider further action against the contributor for spamming my repo.

      I’m actually amazed at Microsoft’s audacity.

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    GitHub has been in a downward spiral lately. Codeberg seems to be a better home for “small” open source. Large open-source organizations already use their forge.

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    Websites like this are the reason I’m forced to use noscript on mobile

    2 pages of this:

    scripts loading ads

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    Wow thats actually more crazy than i though even Microslop would accomplish.

    Their stock price is being hammered and for good reason…

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    atp they should just have their LLMs put in code that relies on proprietary services and apps. Go the extra mile man

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    I’m not going to defend this garbage but is this really slop? Just seems like your average ad injection.