Too late. I migrated my repo to codeberg this morning.
GitHub VP of developer relations Martin Woodward explained in a post on X later in the day Monday that Copilot inserting ads into PRs isn’t actually new behavior - it’s been doing so in the ones it creates for a while.
That’s… worse?!
“I understand everyone is upset that we’re grinding up little girls to lubricate our machinery, but we’ve been grinding up little boys for years to do that. Still, we’ve heard you and will stop grinding up little girls. For now.”
If only companies could stop doing stupid things so that they didnt have to “back down” all the time.
They push the stupid ahead two steps, then back down one step so people feel relief. Then they repeat.
They want 30, so they threaten with 100 and after the complaints reduce to 50. Then they repeat. And people still thanks them.
It’s almost like monopolies are anti consumer…
Impossible. Now that they’ve dumped hundreds of billions into the AI hype train, they must find a way to monetize it and make a return on that investment.
Microsoft has done a 180
No. It is just a slow 360.
For now. Don’t worry, they’ll put it in other places.
Enshittification comes for everyone and everything.
Sourceforge is stretching its hand for github.
holy shit, MS really IS trying to kill their platforms. Ads in Windows, ads in GitHub ads in bing (does anyone even use bing?). You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!
add to the fact that in the past year they’ve had the worst series of updates to their OS. It’s always been bad but easily in the past few months it’s been “holy shit” bad.
I think you don’t understand: the plan is that nobody has any right, or means, to escape being an inmate in the parasiting-regime.
the OS-has-to-know-your-age-and-report-it laws coming in, to break Linux from the Microsoft/Apple/Google world … if Microsoft isn’t pushing that to become totalitarian law, then they’re incompetent-at-enforcing-their-dominion, which they definitely are not…
IOW, they must be pushing that kind of law, as a means of eradicating the true competition.
Enforcing learned-helplessness & inability-to-escape is the intent of 1984’s “reality”, right?
We’re seeing it happen, but … semi-privatized.
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They’ll try again next quarter
