Wow, I was not aware of this. That's a pretty big reason why I make my stuff open-source, so others can look through it and learn from it. I know, everyone who stayed on GitHub is officially Microsoft's bitch now, but I still can't fathom why this didn't make bigger waves...
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Yeah, I'm not sure what this article is even trying to say; this has been happening for a while now.
Like, it's shitty, but it's not even the shittiest thing Github has done. I'm more annoyed about the whole AI stuff, the fact that they have de-facto veto powers on most open source projects and that they don't let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life.
Modern times are really "people should get off of X platform but don't because people don't want to move".
they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life
Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn't seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that's not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements
Here, I'm afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.
Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don't want people to know professionally.
Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.
They...have an "add account" feature right in their UI though. They are obviously okay with multiple accounts. Perhaps it is an abuse thing like if they notice you sock puppeting or something.
Companies are putting moats around their data (or the data they host) because AI needs data to train its models on. It is the same reason Reddit changed their API access.
I'll even wager 20 imaginary internet coins that Wikipedia will require logins to do any searching within the next year.
I don't buy that as the reddit reason for their API change.
For a group that wants to feed AI models, web scraping reddit is barely a speed bump compared to having a nice API to use.
Reddit did what it did to force users onto their mobile app so they could better harvest user data and keep them from avoiding ads.
This made me go check on OpenRed, a reddit app for iOS that didn’t use the API (a more than likely no-no - scraping the site, essentially).
Not only is it missing from the App Store, but the dev and his subreddit were both banned.
It’s crazy how long Reddit was such a huge part of my life and then just like that, doesn’t exist.
The only thing I miss are the videos.
Videos don’t get traction here it seems.
I’ll even wager 20 imaginary internet coins that Wikipedia will require logins to do any searching within the next year.
I'll take that bet. Being a community-driven non-profit, Wikipedia is different.