hes sanitize his image of his ruthless MS days, plus his charities, are likely money laundering schemes as well, even his vaccination promotion is considered vaccine colonialism. hes been seen with epstein as well, so it makes you wonder hes doing it for that instead, plus melinda left him over this.

Wtf is this... so awesome yet nerdy and weird. Also love this bit:

You can also skip all permission prompts entirely by running Crush with the --yolo flag. Be very, very careful with this feature.

It blows my mind that so many devs did not see this coming the moment Microsoft bought it. I was waiting for this to happen the moment I found out about the acquisition.

Dies or gets hacked. They're such a shit company.

I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.

won't ever look back.

crypto bros == AI bros

always have been ruining shit for everyone else.

oh yes, "use the service everyone else uses".

CF buyout in 3...2...1

And the unfortunate part is that crypto and LLMs are cool tech, but the bros completely ruin them.

All the reasons that others mentioned, plus it sound cool.

How has GitHub been enshittified? It's a genuine question, because I've thought Microsoft has been a pretty good steward of it until now.

Well there is only 2 options. Host yourself, host for free and risk a buyout.

If you always live your life in fear then you will never be living your life.

They're all avatars of nvidia which themselves
are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
manufacturing industry. There are underlying
technological current are driving cultural movement ...
Oh no "Culture is downstream from technology"
that is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY

I couldn't find it, but there's a moment where

::: spoiler spoiler
Cory Doctorow discusses how underlying technology
manufacturer end up controlling their downstream
consumer application of the technology in a
kind of "balance of power" of technology

I can't find this passage at the moment,
I thought it was in the "war on general computing" speech,
but I can't find it, I thought it was especially insightful

In anycase there are the following links

DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die!
How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

and

28c3: The coming war on general computation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
:::

third and fourth options

• infiltrate an open system on a poorly secured host
• don't host anything

Yes, but you don't have to worry about the password

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!

shit, whats this going to mean for repos like massgrave? will microsoft enforce shitty policies against DIY software that's published there if it violates somebody's terms of use?

Hell, I would go so far as to say Amazon is worse

I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.

We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.

W.T.F.

what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?

Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming

i’m having these same feelings about my youtube channel. they tell me i’m paranoid…

‘what, you think youtube is gonna go down?’

it’s not that i think it’s gonna go down, but it’s that nothing gold can stay. i gotta get some eggs in a different basket.

Unfortunately none has quite as good of a search engine. Do any actually have social features like friends and feeds?