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   Tommaso Gagliardoni (tomgag@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 04:48:26 JST Tommaso Gagliardoni

   In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

   So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

   I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

   Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

   https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123

   #github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

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   emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 05:03:41 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

   Confused the fuck out of some consulting company today because they cold-emailed me at work asking if I'd talk to their clients about stuff. They clearly meant one of the other two Emilies at the same company, but I am emily@company.tld and so people email me a lot when they don't feel like looking up the right email address for the Emily in question and just take a wild guess.

   So I stubbornly fill out their form to join their Network(tm), then fill out the other form for the specific client they want me to talk to, mostly with "I am not exposed enough to this side of the business to give useful information" pasted into every text box. Then at the *end* of this form they ask if I want to decline it, so I finally do.

   Less than a minute later they called me, wondering why none of what I entered matches my LinkedIn account.

   At this point I finally informed them that I don't have a LinkedIn account.

   I hoped they learned a valuable lesson today. If not, I would be happy to charge them the $400/hour they offered me to read to them the entirety of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.

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   Pete Prodoehl 🍕 (rasterweb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 03:56:03 JST Pete Prodoehl 🍕

   @dansup Sorry, to be more clear I should have said "hashtags that *start* with a number" specifically I guess.

   So I cannot use #1972 as a hashtag... how might I use an alternative? Something like #year1927 though that seems very unobvious from a user perspective.