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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Come to Codeberg! We don't have AI slop built into the platform!

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Websites like this are the reason I'm forced to use noscript on mobile

2 pages of this:

scripts loading ads

[–] krispyavuz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

My switch to codeberg pays off! GitHub has turned into junk real quick since the last months.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm not going to defend this garbage but is this really slop? Just seems like your average ad injection.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

One more reason not to use Raycast

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 26 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I really can't believe this got the green light. GitHub has, or perhaps had, the trust of most of the open source world. It was used by everybody. This is so fucking short-sighted, it's signing away your stock portfolio for a popsicle. Whatever couple bucks they get from this ad is worth absolutely nothing compared to the trust and good will they have flushed.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that's kept them woefully employed.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago

They believe they are irreplacesble and as a single central point for development they are. They'll ride this until users move to other options effectively decentralizing source hosting again. Good. Burn it down MS. Burn it down as fast as you can.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 hours ago

Like everything a techbro behemoth acquires?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think once you turn your product into "Enterprise" or whatever that means, then you can do whatever you want with the company. it doesn't matter you're going to make like 3 trillion dollars

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Jesus fuck that is bad. That PR should/would get rejected regardless of the code content. Would also consider further action against the contributor for spamming my repo.

I'm actually amazed at Microsoft's audacity on this one. And that bar is already hard to clear for a company I have such a low opinion on.

[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 27 points 11 hours ago

GitHub has been in a downward spiral lately. Codeberg seems to be a better home for “small” open source. Large open-source organizations already use their forge.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

So glad I never started using github

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I don’t think it’d be hard to leave if you had. You can export your issues to CSV. Everything else is just git.

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

That’s really incredible as it was the defacto spot for git version controlled software since what feels like forever.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I hoped for Refactor your body with ozempic style ads.

Yeah, or dick pills.

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 148 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We're in that stage where Microsoft knows that we're about to break up and instead of fixing itself it is leaning into that abusive boyfriend injecting themselves everywhere they can.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 83 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Soon Microsoft will threaten to kill itself if we leave.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

"Do a backflip!"

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 hours ago

No, they're more like the "If I can't have you, no one can," vibecode.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Please threaten me with a good time

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think we have to go through a long drawn out stage of Microslop pretending they can change before we get to that part.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 15 hours ago
[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

atp they should just have their LLMs put in code that relies on proprietary services and apps. Go the extra mile man

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 58 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

watch they will put adds directly your project/code if you don't pay..

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They’ll start making you censor READMEs to make advertisers happy.

“Make sure you run

k*ll-all Firefox

Before trying again

This read me brought to you by ManGrates. There’s nothing manlier in grilling than ManGrates!”

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

every Linux distribution build script will now add alias unaliveall="killall" to the /etc/profile

[–] ZombieChicken@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Should lean into things and just add "--and-children" to "killall" instead.

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 45 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

People using GitHub when Codeberg exists deserve nothing less.

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 15 points 12 hours ago

You use GitHub because you don’t know better

I use GitHub because I wanna poison AI with shitty code

We are not the same

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Recruiters care too much about green boxes sadly.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 hours ago

Investors care too much about greenbacks, so there.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Codeberg has green boxes!

[–] blindpuskas@piefed.world 41 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft microsofting things...

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 51 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Microslop microslopping things...

ftfy

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nah this problem goes way farther back than 2022.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So what you are saying is microsoft has been microslop for longer than a few years? I'd agree with that

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The Windows 8 start menu was candy crush and a ton of ads, and that was over a decade ago.

It reminded me back then of a 50$ chinese phone I got off Alibaba.

[–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Still in the process of defenestrating myself.

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The word for that is "autodefenestration."

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Copilot helps me flyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This sentence can mean switching to linux or suicide. Context leans into one but doesn't exactly shut down the other option either.

[–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Depends on the drama. Stepping out the now cramped place onto the balcony looking out to freedom.

[–] HuePony@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

We need local AI adblocker for those AI adverts