@rell (re Alex Echo) Normally I would love to be the recipient of _freebies_, however over the years I have grown rather tired of all this "big brother" from Tech Giants like #Amazon #Google #Facebook and #Microsoft (_Note that #Apple is excluded from this list because their business model __does not__ include selling your data for advertising_) that ultimately profit off of the "Digital Footprint" you leave _happily_ just hand over to them (_well I guess it's in their T&C when you signed up!_). So thank you but no thank you 🙇‍♂️ Not fo me! But _maybe_ others _might_!

@felixp7 (#dcielwq) Yeah you’re right! That’s why it’s such a shame to see yet another large tech giant corporation ruin yet another good piece of software and game (_ not that I ever played it myself_) #Minecraft #Microsoft

Wow. By error, mistake, attack, or any other reason, global communication regarding the climate crisis is being hindered by the behavior of #Microsoft services. There is so much to unpack here, but for now, just... #wow . @niklashoehne

🤔 👋 **Reconsidering moving Yarn.social's development back to Github**: Speaking of which (_I do not forget_); @fastidious and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst _some_ folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software's codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of **many** (_if not all?_) open source projects. That being said however, @fastidious makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social's codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me "torn" over my own sense of morality and ethics. But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (_yet to be off the ground_) company "Self Hosted Pty Ltd" and where it operates it's own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc. Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗 #yarnsocial #github #opsnsource #copilot #microsoft

wtf is going on with Microsoft and OpenAI of late?! LIke Microsoft bought into OpenAI for some shocking $10bn USD, then Sam Altman gor fired, now he's been hired by Microsoft to run up a new "AI" division. wtf/! seriously?! 🤔 #Microsoft #OpenAI #Scandal

(#qjreyuq) @slashdot Remember my decision to stop using Github? 🤔 Remember my Why I no longer trust Github 😅 -- Well who's laughing now?! 🤣 #Github #Copilot #Microsoft (Don't trust Github or Microsoft with your hard open source work!)

**RT by @mind_booster: A complacência com que tratamos empresas monopolistas deixa-me sem palavras para qualificar estas práticas. Isto viola quase todas as regras de concorrência e boas práticas de mercado. #microsoft** A complacência com que tratamos empresas monopolistas deixa-me sem palavras para qualificar estas práticas. Isto viola quase todas as regras de concorrência e boas práticas de mercado. #microsoft ![](https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFZzK-pbXoAEoeJp. ... ⌘ Read more

Wow. By error, mistake, attack, or any other reason, global communication regarding the climate crisis is being hindered by the behavior of #Microsoft services. There is so much to unpack here, but for now, just... #wow . @niklashoehne@mastodon.social

(#112507964696096567) A #CoPilot almeja por em prática uma #distopia, a #Google tornou os resultados das pesquisas bem piores, e a #Microsoft vende #spyware como sendo uma nova funcionalidade. A análise dos anúncios deste mês sobre #IA são, como não poderia deixar de ser, na #Shifter: