Saying Goodbye to GitHub
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Saying Goodbye to GitHub
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#2While I agree with the general observation of the article, the tone and wording feels needlessly harsh and subjective.
Sentences like „I could go to GitLab, but they have their own fair share of issues and a disgusting UI/UX.“ really diminish the article and by association, also the author.
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#3Perhaps a variant of Eternal September...
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#4Why hasn't someone just changed the GPL license already:
"If you train an AI on this code, you must release the source code and generated neural net of that AI as open source" or something to that effect.
It won't stop it, but it will slow it down, and it seems like the right T&Cs to put on training against GPL code because it gives an advantage to open source AIs, however minor.
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#5Q: What about the social features of GitHub? I enjoy the discovery and star features. There just isn't any community like it. Where can I get that?
It would be great if there was something that had the discovery & social aspects but was agnostic to the actual site hosting the code. Does something like that exist?
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#6My instincts are giving me similar feelings. It’s time to move on.
This has probably been the play for longer than we’d like to admit.
Ingest everyone’s code and sell it back to us at a price.
Fools will be soon voluntarily uploading whole code bases and any novel solutions they have left. These solutions will then be then ALT+Tab’ed into the competitions editors for a small fee…wow and lol.
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#7I tend to disregard articles that default to the "Stochastic Parrot" argument. These tools are useful now, I don't personally care about achieving actual intelligence. I want additional utility for myself and other humans, which these provide now, at scale.
By a lot of measures many humans perform at just about the same level, including confidently making up bullshit.
This post reads like one of the "Goodbye X online video game" posts. I'll cut them some slack because this is their blog they're venting on and was likely posted here by someone else and not themselves doing some attention seeking, but meh.
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#8While I agree with the general observation of the article, the tone and wording feels needlessly harsh and subjective. Sentences like „I could go to GitLab, but they have their own fair share of issues and a disgusting UI/UX.“ really diminish the article and by association, also the author.
I don't understand why GitLab (as in gitlab.com) doesn't focus more on the discovery part in order to make people feel more welcome.
I was using github.com/explore almost daily while it lasted. The trending repositories by language were an amazing tool to discover new tools and ideas.
I really wish GitLab had something equivalent to this!
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#9While I agree with the general observation of the article, the tone and wording feels needlessly harsh and subjective. Sentences like „I could go to GitLab, but they have their own fair share of issues and a disgusting UI/UX.“ really diminish the article and by association, also the author.
It's a personal blog. The author has no obligation to keep it to the standard of a trade magazine. Blogs are supposed to be subjective and it's okay for a blog post to be harsh if the author feels so.
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#10Why hasn't someone just changed the GPL license already: "If you train an AI on this code, you must release the source code and generated neural net of that AI as open source" or something to that effect. It won't stop it, but it will slow it down, and it seems like the right T&Cs to put on training against GPL code because it gives an advantage to open source AIs, however minor.
They are really not going to care about what you put into your license file, they are just going to claim that the use of GitHub binds you to their terms of service and that this supersedes your own license. Good luck fighting that.