Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options

But how can all the techbros say that AI is the future and everyone is using it if they don't forcefully cram it down everyone's throats at every opportunity?

And somehow this Futurama line feels painfully close to the truth:

Leela: Didn't you have ads AI in the 20th century?

Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams.

I only use GitHub as a dumb git repo for my GPL- and MIT-licensed projects - and as a place for others to report issues on my projects - and I never see any AI.

If you don't use GitHub's proprietary features for projects that you give away anyway, you end up mooching off of Microsoft's resources and they don't get any of the benefits of locking you in, stealing your code (since it's public to begin with), putting you under heavy corporate surveillance and ramming their AI shit down your throat in return.

That's kind of why I host my projects on GitHub, despite my everlasting hatred of everything Microsoft: I get to waste their resources and they don't have a leg up on me.

Consider this if you're in the same situation.

I've been moving over to forgejo and it's been pretty good for my needs