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Copilot edited an ad into my PR
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
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Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#252I’ll never understand why they ruined GitHub. They had everything they needed - the one place in the world where 99% of open source projects were hosted, where all the discussions happened. A product that people were so used to that it was a no brainer when it came to hosting private repos. And they had to ruin it and give space to GitLab and other competitors. What a waste…
This is just the way MS is and always has been. It was inevitable. It's part of their longstanding EEE strategy. Anyone who thought otherwise was fooling themselves.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#253I’ll never understand why they ruined GitHub. They had everything they needed - the one place in the world where 99% of open source projects were hosted, where all the discussions happened. A product that people were so used to that it was a no brainer when it came to hosting private repos. And they had to ruin it and give space to GitLab and other competitors. What a waste…
Product managers do not care about customers. They only care about their bonus and the line moving up.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#254I guess it's time to consider ditching GitHub. Everything that are purchased by Microsoft ware destined to be rotten.
What are some good alternatives for closed source codebases that people have been using and enjoying? I only ask because I already know of good alternatives for FOSS, but it's the private / work projects that keep me tethered to GH for now.
Forgejo is super easy to set up on a 1-2 core vm. Make a compose file and put caddy in front for tls. the whole thing is less than 50 lines and costs about $10-$15 a month.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#255I’ll never understand why they ruined GitHub. They had everything they needed - the one place in the world where 99% of open source projects were hosted, where all the discussions happened. A product that people were so used to that it was a no brainer when it came to hosting private repos. And they had to ruin it and give space to GitLab and other competitors. What a waste…
This is just the way MS is and always has been. It was inevitable. It's part of their longstanding EEE strategy. Anyone who thought otherwise was fooling themselves.
Embrace, Extend, Enshittify?
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#256I’ll never understand why they ruined GitHub. They had everything they needed - the one place in the world where 99% of open source projects were hosted, where all the discussions happened. A product that people were so used to that it was a no brainer when it came to hosting private repos. And they had to ruin it and give space to GitLab and other competitors. What a waste…
Some Product Manager who wanted his promotion of the year went with: Oh how about we squeeze more revenue from our unpaid users
nah blame goes to satya. not some rando who is acting on incentives.
can we please blaming randos.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#257I guess it's time to consider ditching GitHub. Everything that are purchased by Microsoft ware destined to be rotten.
Funny that people said the exact same thing back when GitHub was originally acquired [0], I wonder how many actually went through with their words and ditched it. I bet GitHub has more users today than ever before though. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
They can have the new users pushing out sloppy projects.
The serious users leaving will definitely dent profitability. And GitHub being a social network, could start a death spiral.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
And nobody has ever bought anything just because of an ad. You either already knew about shit through some other way or you were going to buy it anyway. Only people downvoting this will be the ones who perpetuate this Emperor With No Clothes racket. It's just a thin veil for surveillance.
People buy things because of ads all the time. Probably you've done it too. I go out of my way not to buy products advertised to me, but I've definitely fallen to the incessant brain-washing of brand advertising. Probably regular advertising too depending what you include as adverts. I was surprised speaking to someone the other day, just out and about. They'd purposefully gone out to buy doughnuts they'd seen advert…
I'm watching March Madness right now, and the Canadian sports network re-broadcasts with their own ads. They show a terrible one featuring a mid female basketball player every. single. break. The only emotions they've raised with me are anger and frustration, but I am well informed that there's a new Google phone out. If I was thinking about buying a new device it would be impossible to not associate that with the new Google Pixel 10a - available now!
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#259I guess it's time to consider ditching GitHub. Everything that are purchased by Microsoft ware destined to be rotten.
Funny that people said the exact same thing back when GitHub was originally acquired [0], I wonder how many actually went through with their words and ditched it. I bet GitHub has more users today than ever before though. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
Just speaking anecdotally, Codeberg today feels like the Gitlab of yesteryear, except that Codeberg has projects on it. Someone who is contributing to open source will eventually need to create a Codeberg account.
The top comment of the linked thread ("If Microsoft shares SSL certs with NSA they could do MITM attacks") is something that I find much more likely today than back in 2018.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are some good alternatives for closed source codebases that people have been using and enjoying? I only ask because I already know of good alternatives for FOSS, but it's the private / work projects that keep me tethered to GH for now.
Self-hosting. If you really need to push remotely, push to bare repo on your own cloud vm or setup gogs or forgejo. I now start with local repos first and whatever I deem OSS-useful, I mirror-push from local to Github or anywhere else with forgejo. Github was never really needed to use git for private projects.
I've been thinking about this. If you have any kind of home network with attached storage at all, setting your local Git to just use that seems like a logical step.
And then if you're still paranoid do a daily backup to like Dropbox or something.