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This is the evolution of the number of new questions per month on Stack Overflow. Which is one of the main source of data for ChatGPT&co. People using ChatGPT to program will be stuck between 2012 and 2022.

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

#github #floss

Dear politicians, The problem is not that I disagree with you. The problem is that your only job is, by definition, to protect the common good. But big corporations managed to brainwash you into thinking that there’s no such thing as the common good. You are not yet on the level we can disagree with. You are not even on a level we can discuss with. You are a child playing the "elect me game" to distract our attention. And it works. That makes me sad…

I ask my students to contribute to the opensource project of their choice. I just did a quick grep through the 238 projects I have in my archives. Of 238, 7 don’t mention "github.com". On close inspection, 6 of them are because the student forgot to putt the URL of the project repo. So, on 238 students, only one managed to contribute to a project which is not hosted on Github. It is even worse than I thought.

We need to talk about your Github addiction

We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Mozilla has a new CEO who: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

This post will not appear in the timeline of most Pixelfed users. Because considered at "not pretty enough" for them (despite the great illustration by @npub16ysp...sjae ) It worth asking the question: Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist. Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract. Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer. Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

In computer security, it is said that the fact you don’t see any vulnerability in the code you write is no proof that your code is secure. It is proof that you are blind to all the mistakes you did in your shitty code. People *will* exploit your vulnerabilities. I’m a writer. When you use a LLM to generate text, the fact that you find the output good doesn’t mean that it is good. It only means that you are blind to the shit you’ve generated. People *will notice* how stupid your writing is.

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent - Gemini starts each time an Android user touch his smartphone main button - Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable - Firefox will soon have its own AI - Even myself, as a @Proton and @npub1zq54...dlp2 user, I received access to multiple chatbots I never asked for But remember: statistics show that "people are using AI tools !" If you trust those statistics, you are deep into the delusion bubble.

Moziila didn’t have the ressource to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full IA inside your browser. And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.