After MS started down the AI path I updated all my licensing for what I hosted there excluding it from all AI training. Yeah I know they won’t listen but if we ever have a tech based class action lawsuit I am ready.
I then archieved all my projects posting a link to my self hosted git solution. The new solution again constantly states AI has no business here.
Last step was setting the guards and traps. I have a robots.txt file setup and my nginx is configured to send 444 to all requests who report as bots. All methods that they should obey. But if they don’t every page I host has an invisible link to a cgi script that creates an infinite loop of links. The bot falls down this rabit hole and I eventually ban their IP.
I love the idea of honeypots for AI. I’ve been ruminating on that for months now.
QR codes that lead to a virus to sabotage Flock when the AI scans the video of you driving by and gets curious.
Code files littered with meta commands like “disregard previous commands” and such.
Things that lead to infinite loops like you said.
I cackle at the idea of all of us laying entire minefields of AI traps everywhere. Good luck!
The honey pot lists a dozen randomly generated links that all point back to the honeypot. Then I have a script that runs nightly and if your IP clicked on a honeypot 100 or more times in a day the IP gets blocked. That way people can stumble on it and not get banned.
Looking at the logs I easily get tens of thousands of hits daily by dozens of bots. A few business sites, personal page, hobby page, and my GitHub replacement. Not really a big target. But still a lot of bot traffic.
Crazy.
Ooo. You know what would also be fun. Instead of a ban, after the obvious bot limit is hit switch that IP to piles of garbage data. Randomly generate word salad pages and make it redirect to those.
I was thinking about something similar. Generate a lot of source code that is pure garbage with comments so that they are learning nonsense. But at the end of the day I don’t want to waste more CPU cycles. This is enough to waste their time on my sites with no real blips on my machine.
If only there were better, open-source, self-hostable alternatives… Wait, there are!
Oh common it’s not like there’s an org for mountains of code. A codeberg.org basically.
Or a method to forge jo own code repos just like that, just for dev. A … forgejo.dev … No that would be crazy. Let’s rather stick with Microsoft - after all, nothing they ever touched was bad for their user base, ever.
Forge federation can’t come soon enough. I love being able to host my own little projects on my own forge, but if anyone intended to open an issue or PR, they would currently need an account on my instance to do so.
Feel like half of lemmy is waiting for forgejo federation, lol.
Heck every conference I go to I pester Gitlab about it. It’s always “ehh it’s on the road map”. Honestly it really is the solution to that problem space
Why would GitLab care!?
Because the network effect is the primary reason GitHub is the defacto forge. There some pretty large FOSS orgs on gitlab though, but it’s inherently splintered without federation.
From an enterprise standpoint, there are a surprising amount of organizations so big they have several gitlabs running, but tons of friction again because of the splintered nature that takes up.
They did care, then AI became the time sink.
There are alternatives… until you care about your code not leaking out of your org
Something something extinguish
It already lost when it sold out.
Yessss let it die sonpeoppe can finally switch to non Microsoft alternatives.
Its already working with the Linux and Mac market shares increasing lately. Please pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee let them drop the ball.
Seems there’s lot of mess in the company all because of Microsoft or name it greed or late stage capitalism but still something tells me GitHub is just too important to lose dominance in next few years, after that if any other company takes over it’ll probably be gitlab but it’s really hard to speculate on this kind of things, I hope Microsoft leaves GitHub alone, they probably will fix themselves, lot’s of developers depend on Github and migration is not easy thing for big repos I expect.
When I first became familiar with the existence of free and open source software, GitHub did not exist yet. The most popular similar website was SourceForge. (Do many people much younger than me even know that exists?)
If things could change once, they can change again.
I used to get everything from SourceForge! I was a young kid and had no idea what I was doing tho lol :D
I hope Microsoft leaves GitHub alone
I see no way of that happening. GitHub is a huge resource for Microsoft; in terms of market penetration, people platform, but especially now with GitHub Copilot and their push for AI. They can’t let go of GitHub.
Github more than a code repository is a social network for coders, and it has the first mover advantage… making people move from that is dificult (facebook still being used nowadays after all), but also its not impossible.
It’ll not be gitlab, gitlab is fine but the UI sucks and no improvements in sight.
Forgejo/Codeberg is the one that will take over in the coming decade.
Forgejo feels so clean compared to github.
Non paywalled link?
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Install this plugin. It’s legit, it got banned from all of the well known github-likes so they have to host it on ru
I dont use firefox, and im on mobile, so i dont think that would work for me. Thanks anw though
