You still deserve privacy, even if you:
- don't use Linux
- use big social media sites
- aren't "techie"
- are just an average computer user
More than this, they also want it to be impossible to create software without renting all the tools from a capitalist.
They're trying to end the era of anyone being able to ship software using cheap commodity hardware and free tools.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Gitlab started giving me bad vibes a few years back, and I abandoned my attempt to relocate my Github stuff over to it at that time.
This press release makes me _extraordinarily_ glad that I dodged the metaphorical bullet. The news itself is depressing, but the things it reveals about the company's leadership are inexcusable.
The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides.
Today I have spent way too much time handling the https://copy.fail situation #copyfail
The persons who discovered it didn't notify the distribution security list, so no patched kernels was available for people to install when they released it.
But they did have time to write an exploit, and thought it was a good idea to distribute that on day one, before vendors had time to provide patches.
I'm not very impressed with xint.io, I guess it's the marketing department that runs the show.
I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/
The *entire* selling point to investors of LLMs is "we won't need to employ people."
That's it. That's all. That's why "AI" is worth trillions of dollars. No pesky humans to bother with.
It's not "the workers will be more creative" or "we'll help the disabled." There's no investment money for that. A company is what the worst investors are.
My mom used to do environmental activism. All by herself, she got earth day and a recycling center going in town, and was a whistleblower about Dow chemical using agent orange. She was mentioned in Time Magazine for it.
Then she went to a barbecue for environmentalists. They put her down for wearing red lipstick and long nails.
And then her activism days petered out because she didn't want to hang out with these people.
Make sure you can see the forest for the trees.
