Codeberg AnnouncementsAug 2, 2024

If Codeberg is trying to "compete" against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors' rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/

Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate.

Generative AI is a climate disaster

Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Show threadCassandrich
@Codeberg The biggest "competitive advantage" is *not having* unwanted AI garbage all over the place, not mining your users' code to offer to others as plagiarism material.
Aug 3, 2024 at 2:27amWeb
Show threadCassandrichAug 3, 2024
@Codeberg More broadly, I see "not trying to be an IDE"/not trying to be "VS code web edition" as a huge competitive advantage. GitHub completely broke their UI for actual use (reading code, studying history, researching bugs) by making it into an awful klunky editor that's completely unusable on mobile.
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²Aug 3, 2024
@dalias @Codeberg the back button on PRs broke within a week of the microsoft buyout
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²Aug 3, 2024
@dalias @Codeberg still mad about this
Show threadCassandrichAug 3, 2024
@hipsterelectron @Codeberg The back button on GitHub is broken all over. Sometimes it does stuff like taking you back 2 pages but URL bar only back one, or vice versa.