The real question is…. WHY DOES AZURE DEVOPS STILL EXIST?!?!?
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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shit, whats this going to mean for repos like massgrave? will microsoft enforce shitty policies against DIY software that's published there if it violates somebody's terms of use?
Just move to codeberg or a similar site.
I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.
We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.
W.T.F.
what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?
Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming
I honestly don't understand why Github hasn't been abandoned by users at this point. If I were a company, I'd either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I'm just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
woah. I really didn't know. I guess in that case it's also strange it didn't happen sooner
i’m having these same feelings about my youtube channel. they tell me i’m paranoid…
‘what, you think youtube is gonna go down?’
it’s not that i think it’s gonna go down, but it’s that nothing gold can stay. i gotta get some eggs in a different basket.
It blows my mind that so many devs did not see this coming the moment Microsoft bought it. I was waiting for this to happen the moment I found out about the acquisition.
I’m only surprised it took this long.
Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.
Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!
Use Codeberg, or self-host Forgejo
I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.
won't ever look back.
Everything M$ touches dies. What a fucking shocker.
Now if only they could work that magic on ICE and IDF. (They are in bed with both.)
Dies or gets hacked. They're such a shit company.
So they're just going to use GitHub as a code training dataset? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
This is the most infuriating, heartbreaking and lame thing ever. AI bros are just a bunch of losers ruining stuff for everyone.
crypto bros == AI bros
always have been ruining shit for everyone else.
They're all avatars of nvidia which themselves
are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
manufacturing industry. There are underlying
technological current are driving cultural movement ...
Oh no "Culture is downstream from technology"
that is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard
CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY
I couldn't find it, but there's a moment where
spoiler
Cory Doctorow discusses how underlying technology
manufacturer end up controlling their downstream
consumer application of the technology in a
kind of "balance of power" of technology
I can't find this passage at the moment,
I thought it was in the "war on general computing" speech,
but I can't find it, I thought it was especially insightful
In anycase there are the following links
DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die!
How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
and
28c3: The coming war on general computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
And the unfortunate part is that crypto and LLMs are cool tech, but the bros completely ruin them.
... Was it ever since they got bought?
and so begins the enshitification
That had already started.
How has GitHub been enshittified? It's a genuine question, because I've thought Microsoft has been a pretty good steward of it until now.
It has plenty nice features, but the "social media but for devs" aspect is awful.
and so the enshitification continues
I'm just waiting for Forgejo federation to be a thing, and some sort of definitive website for discovering projects. Right now, even though I do have my slefhosted forgejo instance, I still need to keep my code on GitHub, or no-one else will ever know about it.
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Don't just move to Codeberg; donate to them too.
Codeberg has a lot of restrictions regarding private repositories and... complicated verbiage regarding what licenses they want for public repositories.
For public repositories... do you think that MS et al can't already scrape all of that?
I am all for telling MS to go fuck themselves. But it is important people actually understand what they are and aren't getting in terms of privacy and the like. It is like how people still sometimes pretend that the completely open site where just about anyone can run an instance has LESS ai scraping than a reddit.
The key point about codeberg as I understand it is it’s meant for foss projects. It’s not really much more complex than that. Want to host non-free software, or want to use it for your company’s private code repository? They don’t want that on their servers, so either find an alternative or self-host forgejo, which is the same code (derived from gitea) that powers codeberg itself.
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