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of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve

of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths

idiotsecant 5mo ago
Yes, the terrible sin of ... Hosting code where people can find it
- deleted 5mo ago
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- icase 5mo ago
  hosting code where people can find it is the reason LLMs can write code, so we kind of screwed ourselves there…
- exe34 5mo ago
  How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?
  - doubled112 5mo ago
    Sourceforge
  - kuboble 5mo ago
    Private people would keep their code locally and share the snapshot of the code using any file sharing or hosting option available. Companies had been hosting their own CVS or later svn servers.
  - lelanthran 5mo ago
    > How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke? I've been sharing GPL projects since 1999. We didn't need peek and poke (Both of which I have also used further in history...), but we managed nevertheless. Prior to github I shared software on sourceforge (and others). Prior to that I published stuff on Freshmeat. Prior to that I downloaded games others shared (not open source) on Happy Puppy. Prior to that I used usenet to find and download games, shareware, etc. Prior to that I used ftp to (IIRC) ftp.sunsite.edu, ftp.nic.fi, and others. Prior to that I got news of new releases using Gopher. Finally, prior to that, I actuallyy did use peek and poke to write software :-/ If github went away, and centralised repos went away, we'd still have something...
  - icase 5mo ago
    is this a serious question
    - exe34 5mo ago
      No, it was rhetorical. I remember downloading software from sourceforge, distro servers and getting drivers from random people's websites that needed to be compiled.
- xigoi 5mo ago
  I can’t remember the last time I looked for a project specifically on GitHub. I always come there via a link from another site.

of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths

idiotsecant 5mo ago

Yes, the terrible sin of ... Hosting code where people can find it

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icase 5mo ago
hosting code where people can find it is the reason LLMs can write code, so we kind of screwed ourselves there…
exe34 5mo ago
How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?
- doubled112 5mo ago
  Sourceforge
- kuboble 5mo ago
  Private people would keep their code locally and share the snapshot of the code using any file sharing or hosting option available. Companies had been hosting their own CVS or later svn servers.
- lelanthran 5mo ago
  > How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke? I've been sharing GPL projects since 1999. We didn't need peek and poke (Both of which I have also used further in history...), but we managed nevertheless. Prior to github I shared software on sourceforge (and others). Prior to that I published stuff on Freshmeat. Prior to that I downloaded games others shared (not open source) on Happy Puppy. Prior to that I used usenet to find and download games, shareware, etc. Prior to that I used ftp to (IIRC) ftp.sunsite.edu, ftp.nic.fi, and others. Prior to that I got news of new releases using Gopher. Finally, prior to that, I actuallyy did use peek and poke to write software :-/ If github went away, and centralised repos went away, we'd still have something...
- icase 5mo ago
  is this a serious question
  - exe34 5mo ago
    No, it was rhetorical. I remember downloading software from sourceforge, distro servers and getting drivers from random people's websites that needed to be compiled.
xigoi 5mo ago
I can’t remember the last time I looked for a project specifically on GitHub. I always come there via a link from another site.