[conspire] CABAL (in-person + Jitsi Meet), Sat., July 12, 2025

[Ron]

Ron wrote on 2025-07-27 14:55:

>> I'm usually way behind in news.
>>
>> I just heard that ms bought github?
> 
> It was announced June 4th, 2018 - over 7 years ago.
> 
> 
>> How can we trust any data from now on?  (not that we
>> really did anyway).
> 
> I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but no one really expects them 
> to fiddle with the repositories and do what? Add tracking software to 

Well, being that far behind in the news might just make you ahead of the 
curve:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/


This will be... interesting.

There's a certain amount of inertia and network effect involved with 
GitHub, but it wouldn't take much meddling (AI Clippy everywhere) for 
some monumental shift to occur.


We shall see.