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Wow, this is so well written. A convincing condemnation of what #microsoft is doing with #github copilot
I hope the lawsuits succeed.
GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
GitHub Copilot investigationgithubcopilotinvestigation.com
God damnit #Microsoft.
Why do you always suck?
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisation
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
Automatisierte Scans: Microsoft sperrt Kunden unangekündigt für immer aus
Dass Anbieter wie Google oder Microsoft automatisiert nach strafbaren Inhalten suchen, weiß nicht jeder. Gerät man ins Visier, sind Konto und Inhalte verloren.Greta Friedrich (heise online)
- Slow boot time
- Huge delay before internet connectivity
Unfortunately, there's nothing much we can do about it. Once again, this shows how #Microsoft wants to lock their users in an environment without letting them the possibility to escape.
Supporting big hosts file is not that much of a challenge, it works like a charm on most POSIX compliant systems. But M$ wants to track you and they'll always try to do so.
"popularity-contest"? On a #Ubuntu #server? Freshly installed? Without notice?
Guys, seriously. Installing some kind of software "just because we can" during OS deployment is Microsoft-style.
Honestly I do not care if it runs without further configuration or whatever, but a by-default enabled cron job is enough for me to take further action.
This is exactly what causes computer security issues. Dropping software on users without need nor confirmation.
Please. Don't be #Microsoft.
And this is my polite version.
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.
#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisationGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
Why can't we have nice things?
Microsoft. Microsoft is why we can't have nice things.
An open source developer pushed an update removing all functionality and deleted their project from GitHub (going so far as to use git push --force to purge the Git commit tree).
GitHub and Microsoft used this library internally so they reversed the changes and banned them from GitHub for deleting their project.
The issue here is GitHub said you are not allowed to delete your project.
https://twitter.com/marak/status/1479200803948830724
Nothing I can find about it online except from #Microsoft itself: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Trojan:Win32/Peekeul.B&ThreatID=2147772321
Windows removed it automatically so I looked at the details of what exactly it removed.
Turns out the malware in question is Endpoint Analytics.
That's Microsoft's own software allowing employers to monitor employee computers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/analytics/overview
And according to Microsoft's own antivirus, it's #malware.
Start fresh with a clean and up-to-date installation of Windows. This will keep your personal files and some Windows settings, and remove some of your apps.I enjoy the #Microsoft engineer's resignation that they can't fix the inevitable bloat, but at least they can provide a one-button reinstall feature.
In some cases, this may improve your device's startup and shutdown experience, memory usage, Store apps performance, browsing experience and battery life.