: Repo mirrors now open for business
Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to"continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories.
"it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted. Gentoo posted:"Eventually also other git repositories will become available under the Codeberg Gentoo organization." It is increasingly difficult to avoid Copilot on GitHub, and the impact of AI on open source is seen more as a negative than a positive, as repositories risk being filled with AI slop., GitHub added a setting to turn off pull requests entirely, meaning nobody can see existing pull requests or open new ones.in a recent blog post, where he wrote,"AI slop generation is getting easier, but it's not getting smarter. From what I've seen, models have hit a plateau where code generation isI'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel versiona policy stating,"It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools." The ban was made on the grounds of copyright, quality, and ethical concerns. So, no Copilot assistance or reviews, please. And then there's the whole issue of training coding assistants using the content of repositories.In its announcement of its intention to migrate, Gentoo wrote,"Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure and has no plans to change that," but the migration from GitHub for its mirror repositories due to those"continuous attempts to force Copilot usage" is now underway.Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperativeFlush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
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