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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by moi2388 »

smcin wrote: post #660
moi2388 wrote: post #271

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The difference is that I can’t sell elasticsearch in my company, but I can sell an LLM. Yeah, don’t ask..

Why doesn't your company get the use case for Elasticsearch? Is it because you're trying to pitch it with CTO arguments on capabilities, not COO/CFO arguments like "will permanently replace N humans"?

No, they do get it. They just don’t want to invest time in it, so only through a third party.

But AI is sexy, so LLMs doing document search? Yes please, let’s have some teams dedicate their time and effort to develop it ourselves.

It’s because AGI is going to come, you know, so if we invest now they can replace everybody with AI

Are you laughing as hard as I was when they told me this?

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by gabrielgio »

ezoe wrote: post #268
pjmlp wrote: post #84

I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over. Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads. .NET is now cros…

You forgot to mention the gaming section. Microsoft is acquiring a lot of game developers, put it on hold for a few years, then close subsidiary and layoff all employees. I guess generating hype by acquisition and increase valuation cause more profit than developing a real product. I'm beginning to think that using Microsoft services(yes, GitHub included) is morally questionable behaviour right now. I can't support t…

> Microsoft is acquiring a lot of game developers, then close subsidiary and layoff all employees.

FTFY, Microsoft is even killing studio with successful games, like Tango.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

meindnoch wrote: post #404
pjmlp wrote: post #84

I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over. Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads. .NET is now cros…

Microsoft being the cool guys? The cool guys ? Mwuhahahhaa. This gave me the good belly laugh I needed. For the last 25 years, Microsoft was known for: - being the no. 1 enemy of free software - shipping the worst web browser in existence, despite 80%+ market share - making corrupt deals with governments around the world to tie them to their office software suite - creating vendor-locked proprietary extensions to kil…

25 years? Try 40.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

sevensor wrote: post #699
rustystump wrote: post #461

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Idk i can think of a long list of awful stuff coming out of ms that is modern. They put fing ads in an os among other atrocities. I put them behind meta on the evilness meter but i think google is less evil which speaks volumes. The only side of ms that i have any love for is xbox but that is also waning with all the studio acquisitions.

Excel single-handedly redeems Microsoft from being a pure drain on human existence, but I can’t see what the point of the company is beyond that. Enterprise something something maybe. And declining literacy makes Powerpoint unfortunately indispensable.

Who invented the spreadsheet?

The victors truly get to write history, don't they?

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by ctz »

kstrauser wrote: post #41
Catbert59 wrote: post #24

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GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.

> You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free.

Interested! Some detail on how you achieve this for free would be great.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by debugnik »

deaddodo wrote: post #695
debugnik wrote: post #637

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> Linux runs perfectly fine on most of the Surfaces [...] There's the usual asterisk here or there, Are we reading the same tables? The last several models are full of question marks and crosses in the support matrix, and many models old and new seemingly require the linux-surface kernel fork for key features like touchscreens and even some touchpads, you can't just install your distro of choice. Even compared to my…

Did you miss all of the columns before the literal latest version of the Surface Pro? Or the other tables of other hardware models where all versions work? If so then yes, it seems like we’re not seeing the same data.

I'll give you that the laptops models fare better, I said as much already I think, but I feel you're overselling the support for the form factor most people associate with the Surface brand:

The 5G version of the Surface Pro 10 (second to last) is completely unusable, the SP8-10 need a kernel fork just for keyboard and touchpad (!), SP4-10 need it for the touchscreen (SP4 is 2015), and the cameras won't work at all since SP7 (2019).

Don't get me wrong, I still run Linux on my devices and would be willing to tinker with custom kernels if certain hardware were worth it. I just can't consider this "runs perfectly fine".

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