The first book burning where 0 knowledge is lost.

I think contributing to existing communities seems like the best option. Also, evangelizing the community in other places so people are more aware of it helps too. Luckily, that’s exactly what this post (kind of) does.

For example, I didn’t know there were dropout Lemmy communities. I just subbed to the blahaj.zone one.

I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.

This, for sure, but if she wants to dance I’ll dance with her. 🤪

For serious, tho: people change.

You sound like one of my exes. -_-

There’s nothing MS can do to make me trust them again. They can “love bomb” all they want, but a toxic ex is a toxic ex.

Publicly traded corporations will always exploit anything and anyone they can get away with to maximize their profits. They will only improve just enough to trap you again, then the exploitation begins again.

Just kwin with KDE Plasma.

Neat! It’s a shame it’s only for hyprland…

I warned most of my family and friends this was going to happen when I de-Googled and set up Immich and they all said I was paranoid.

you’re advocating updating without checking,

Uh… no. That’s not what I said. I said there’s risk in both updating and not updating. You need to do the assessment to decide which one is best for the situation.

Every dependency you don’t update is a zero day waiting to happen. All software carries risk.

Pretty sure their comment was sarcasm.

How do you calculate speed at all with only one frame?

Wouldn’t the air resistance be insane at those speeds? If it didn’t just slow it down significantly, the friction would add even more heat to it.

No way you haven’t heard about Epstein and friends.

The answer is exactly what you think it is: laziness.

So this is malware, right?

Thx for explaining what trash bags do.

My family stayed at my house and “the TV wasn’t working,” because it doesn’t have network access and I use an Nvidia Shield instead, so they connected it to the Wi-Fi and ad overlays showed up in the menus! I’m still mad about it years later.

Luckily I dodged a bullet and it didn’t brick it or anything, and the ads went away when the internet access did. I just disconnected it from the network and manually banned the MAC address in case anyone else tries it again.

As soon as RAM isn’t more expensive than the TV.

Lmao desperately trying to justify sunk cost, I see?

You’re right, it’s not scraping, it’s worse. Most AI bots do scrape sites for data, though since MS has direct access to the GH backend, they don’t even need to scrape the data. You’re giving it to them directly.

The issue here is trust. Microsoft, along with every other company invested in the AI race has proven repeatedly that getting ahead in said race is more important to them than anything else. It’s more important than user privacy, ToS, contracts, intellectual property, and the law itself.

If they stand to make more money screwing you over than they stand to lose from a slap on the wrist in court, the choice is clear. And they will lie to your face about it. Profit machines as big as MS don’t care. They can’t. They are optimized for one thing.