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   Tofticles (tofticles@helvede.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:15:32 JST Tofticles

   If you ever had doubts whether technology is political:

   https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603

   (Short recap: Github CoPilot stops working if you have gender-related words in your code, anything related to sex and so on).

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     Andreas Albrecht (datterich@darmstadt.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:46:19 JST Andreas Albrecht

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     @tofticles This post may trigger pull request adding

     # LGBTQIA+

     to a whole bunch of the greatest FLOSS projects (still) on github.

     It's like a flag for "AI-free code".

     :-D

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:49:08 JST Janneke

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     • Andreas Albrecht

     @Datterich @tofticles it would be amazing if adding this fragile masculinity marker

     # LGBTQIA+

     to code and texts would also prevent the LLMs from scraping/using it for their training data!

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:49:06 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @tofticles Time to put "Gender" in all my docs and repos.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:34:47 JST tyil

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     @tofticles@helvede.net CoPilot is a proprietary tool, offered on a proprietary platform. If you cared for the freedom to use the tool for your purposes, you shouldn't have relied on proprietary code.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 23:11:18 JST Janneke

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     • Andreas Albrecht

     @Datterich @tofticles "marker" is prolly too sloppy here, meaning of course something that shoos away any proponents of fragile masculinity, or a fragile masculinity scarecrow.