all of these UI elements have to do with the current issue that the user is looking at, except one.

they *really* want to shove this shit down people's throats.

@andrewrk I already took all my repos off Github. Maybe Zig should move to Codeberg, or host their own Forgejo instance.
@ckafi at some point it will be inevitable, but I'm going to milk github sponsors for a little while longer
@andrewrk @ckafi are they still doing the thing where they're matching donations?
@andrewrk granted, they did add a setting to hide copilot stuff from the GitHub UI a while back (under https://github.com/settings/copilot).

...except the person or LLM tasked with implementing this sidebar change forgot to check it so it doesn't work 🙄
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@linus @andrewrk FWIW the same happened with Copilot review requests. I opened a support ticket complaining about that and they removed it for me (but I don't think the setting was fixed). I would guess that if enough people open such support tickets they will probably fix the setting
@andrewrk, I looked at the arrow and thought Microsoft's Git host's shown its true color as a surveillance ad social media platform and mistakenly model you as being single.

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> they *really* want to shove this shit down people's throats.

My main problem is that I see so many _really_ bright people use this shit, up to the point that I tell myself: maybe you are just wrong or tilting windmills :-/

@andrewrk I find it increasingly hard to use anything that doesn’t have some AI box popping on my screen or reminding me that I could be using AI. It’s kind of like spam, but within the app, and it’s not necessarily advertisement, because some are “free” to use ( “free” as if electricity comes from a magic wand and has no impact on climate change and the real world).