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Regarding #Github, #Microsoft, and "AI"...

There was a lot of unease when Microsoft, famous for hating open-source / free software for so long, bought Github. The worry was Microsoft would return to their anti-competitive ways and use Github as a cudgel against its perceived ~~enemies~~ competitors. But no, they declared, Github would forever remain independent of Microsoft, running for the benefit of the world. There was no reason to #distrust them.

Then, of course, recently they memory-holed those promises, and said Github would no longer be #independent. Instead, it would operate as part of Microsoft - specifically as part of their #AI unit.

Why AI? Well, to use Github's mountain of code and user data to train their #LLM, of course. The LLMs that are #copyright violations at mass scale, and that despite any PR claims really are intended to allow customers to replace expensive, #knowledgeable #software #engineers with their #plagiarism machine.

In response, many have closed or stated their intention to close their Github accounts.

To that, I say: don't. Closing it sends a brief message, and nothing else.

Instead, keep your #account and #repositories. Create new ones. Not for your real use - check in your buggy, non-working #code. Check in #broken code generated by their (or other) LLM. Pollute the #training #data. Merge idiotic unrelated PRs. Check in stuff that doesn't build, doesn't run.

Throw those #sabots in the machine. Make it serve a purpose.

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-10), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #knowledge #knowledgeable #listening #sharing #speaking #wisdom #wise

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Life Lessons Lessons #8: Choose wisely who you ask for advice. Not everyone is an expert on every topic. https://rons-home.net/en/living-life-lab/personal-growth/life-lessons/lesson-of-the-week/2024/03/18 #input #advice #decision #knowledgeable [Next Lesson Mar 25 2024]
Lesson #8 :: Lesson Of The Week :: Life Lessons :: Personal Growth :: Living Life Lab :: Ron's Home

Do you make time to reflect on how you live your life and what drives your decision making? How about challenging yourself with life principal based lesson of the week.