Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub
Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub
Microsoft, what are you up to with GitHub?
Enshittification begins again
Yeah, I'm not sure what this article is even trying to say; this has been happening for a while now.
Like, it's shitty, but it's not even the shittiest thing Github has done. I'm more annoyed about the whole AI stuff, the fact that they have de-facto veto powers on most open source projects and that they don't let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life.
Modern times are really "people should get off of X platform but don't because people don't want to move".
they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life
Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn't seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that's not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements
Here, I'm afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.
Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don't want people to know professionally.
Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.
I’m not sure where they have their information from, I have 2 very unique, personal accounts on github and i’ve had zero issues.
first is my public “portfolio” page and occasional professional/corporate client connected account, it is very much an account that you would “know” my info, linkedin, keybase, etc identifiers. Then i have a personal one that I use to contribute more anonymously, which I use to further opensource projects that my clients wouldn’t want me contributing to due to conflict of interest. I’m not talking espionage levels, just modified supportive code that i have contributed to an enterprise that doesn’t support opensource initiatives (aka, they’d pay a fine if it ever came public).
Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.
More like "people should get off of X platform but don't because people they regularly interact with don't want to move, and because herd mentality"
It's the same reason why people tolerate YouTube's bullshit. The audience won't switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won't switch to a platform without an audience.
What do you mean they don't let you have multiple accounts? I've had three accounts for years, and I'm not doing anything to hide the fact they're all me.
That's more likely to target farming, like 1 person with 1000 accounts that are used as bots. At least I hope so.
this is why we use [GitLab|SourceHut|Gitea|Codeberg|Forjego|Choose your favorite and insert it here]
(in other news it appears i have inadvertently discovered that the lemmy dialect of markdown supports {ruby|text})
in other news it appears i have inadvertently discovered that the lemmy dialect of markdown supports {ruby|text}
It looks like you had a stroke reading from Kbin
Companies are putting moats around their data (or the data they host) because AI needs data to train its models on. It is the same reason Reddit changed their API access.
I'll even wager 20 imaginary internet coins that Wikipedia will require logins to do any searching within the next year.
I’ll even wager 20 imaginary internet coins that Wikipedia will require logins to do any searching within the next year.
I'll take that bet. Being a community-driven non-profit, Wikipedia is different.
I don't buy that as the reddit reason for their API change.
For a group that wants to feed AI models, web scraping reddit is barely a speed bump compared to having a nice API to use.
Reddit did what it did to force users onto their mobile app so they could better harvest user data and keep them from avoiding ads.
In this case I don't think that's the reason. All code on github is not Microsoft's data, is open source and easily downloadable by whoever needs it to train the models.
This is an inconvenience only for humans to force them to have an account
Wow, I was not aware of this. That's a pretty big reason why I make my stuff open-source, so others can look through it and learn from it. I know, everyone who stayed on GitHub is officially Microsoft's bitch now, but I still can't fathom why this didn't make bigger waves...
This has been happening for a little while now. I've started cloning repos and using local searches instead.
And "little while" is, I think, at least a year. If not more.
I think about half a year, assuming that's what they mean in this blog post: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/
Is Codeberg a good alternative if I'm gonna have my dotfiles (public) and some open-source software?
Heard only good things about Codeberg, I've only used it to access code so can't really speak to anything else.
Was recently made aware of this new part;
"Brought to you by an inclusive community under the umbrella of Codeberg e.V., a democratic non-profit organization, Forgejo can be trusted to be exclusively Free Software."
