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Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

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Are you talking about this https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-con... That was 12 years ago. I think probably those feminists are not the cause of GitHub's recent troubles.

You don't think that sudden, radical, and politically motivated change in the core leadership of a company doesn't have long-lasting and compounding effects?

Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

#65
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The problem is nothing competes with GitHub. I know, GitLab. Gitea. Bitbucket. They have some features, but it’s like suggesting I drive a Nissan Sentra because my BMW breaks down once in a while.

My dude, that Nissan will get you from point A to point B just as effectively as a BMW will. Your analogy is working against you, not for you.

Heck, if I just want effective, I guess I can also email or text patches.

Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

#66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you talking about this https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-con... That was 12 years ago. I think probably those feminists are not the cause of GitHub's recent troubles.

You don't think that sudden, radical, and politically motivated change in the core leadership of a company doesn't have long-lasting and compounding effects?

I think you should be able to find a better proximal cause. Like being bought by Microsoft, which happened in the intervening period. That would be a better explanation than feminists from a decade+ ago.

Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

#67
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What frontier model did Microsoft train?

https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la...

All benchmarks I could find are Microsoft-reported. I don’t see it listed on any leaderboards. Still, looks interesting enough.

Also, I wonder what this means in practice, especially in terms of GitHub:

> MAI-Thinking-1 was trained on clean and appropriately licensed data, with AI-generated content excluded from pre-training.

Aaaand the question answers itself, because the above sentence is now gone from the page, replaced with:

> We trained it from the ground up on clean, traceable and enterprise-grade data, without distillation from third-party models.

Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

#69

With SourceHut banning projects that use LLMs[1], I’m looking to migrate this weekend. While I can host Forgejo just fine[2], doing so means no one will be able to contribute to the projects, since federation isn’t a thing yet. Heck, getting contributions on SourceHut was hard enough, and it doesn’t even require people to register an account. I might need to bite the bullet and go with GitHub. Regardless of what I th…

Oh my. I hadn't noticed this, but I've been kind of expecting it. I've been a big SourceHut user for years now. So I'll be having to decide what to do myself. I absolutely get their stance, but I don't see a world in which I will go back to writing meaningful amounts of code by hand again. I may try out tangled.sh. It's really nice to have my code stored and backed up somewhere other than infra I control and manage.

I'm personally pretty excited about Tangled (and ATProto in general), but I do have to caution that I've had some performance issues and some technical ones with hosting my own 'knot' and 'spindle' services

Re: Bye, Bye GitHub

#70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't think that sudden, radical, and politically motivated change in the core leadership of a company doesn't have long-lasting and compounding effects?

I think you should be able to find a better proximal cause. Like being bought by Microsoft, which happened in the intervening period. That would be a better explanation than feminists from a decade+ ago.

Company: "We're no longer going to focus on merit as a virtue."

Company slowly becomes worse and worse.

Me: "That starting gun surely signaled the start of the decline."

You: "That was a long time ago. Couldn't have been that."

What are second-order consequences?

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