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fccview Mar 9

[beta] degoog - search engine aggregator

https://lemmy.world/post/44038358

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DeckPacker

That looks amazing!

I don’t want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that’s actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.

Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self histable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It’s also managed by a nonprofit. It’s also pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.

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DanVctr Mar 10

I 2nd this, Codeberg is basically an open source community funded GitHub clone

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fccview Mar 10

Hey thank you!

The issue with GitHub alternatives is the lack of runners/pipelines and restricting functionalities.

Gitlab is a good alternative but I use it for work and having two accounts juggling between work/personal projects is a recipe for disaster.

I spent a bit of time on codeberg and I am checking it out, happy to push the repo there too, but they don’t seem to provide pipeline options, so I wouldn’t be able to build the docker image there like I do on GitHub :)

Btw whilst I do believe into the whole Microsoft scraping projects to train AI regardless of licenses, I wouldn’t say they are hostile towards open source. They actually are extremely for it, vscode is free and one of the best IDEs out there for example, GitHub free plan is VERY generous and they have a whole FREE coding academy with extremely in-depth courses on how to learn programming and various niche topics. And they integrated wsl to seamlessly run Linux commands within windows, which I never thought I’d see happen (been there for years, but I’m just giving you examples).

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DeckPacker Mar 10

I think they have their own action system (codeberg.org/actions/meta), but I’ve never tried it. Maybe you can look into that?

My point about Microsoft was mainly because AI is harmful and often used in a hostile way against open source. Also the fact that Microsoft tries to own the whole free software ecosystem.