Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it.

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@rysiek grossssssssssssssss

[afterdark@shellsharks.social]

@britter @rysiek ️

"Frogjoe"

[rbphotographic@mastodon.world]

@rysiek looks like need to start looking for an alternative.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@rbphotographic I am probably going to replace my GitLab instance with Forgejo.

[danni_storm@hachyderm.io]

@rysiek ugh. I have been debating where I wanted to move to when I ditch GitHub for close to a year now. I got real hinky 'vibes' when I looked at GitLab's website last week and the entire homepage was a love letter to AI. Fuck that shit. Self hosed Forgego or Codeberg it is then.

[rbphotographic@mastodon.world]

@rysiek ill look into it.

[zimzat@mastodon.social]

@rysiek Which is in stark contrast to some developers commentary, elsewhere and on here, about *waves hands all over* the situation: "we'll just have to wait and see what happens"

Wait for what? I don't know how many times I've worked with folks and their default behavior is "We'll just have to let the bad thing keep happening and maybe management will realize the problem". It only gets worse.

If they have an audience/platform, clout, or money _they should be pushing people to unionize_.

[esi@merveilles.town]

@rysiek

/me packs his bags.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@zimzat yup.

[bird@birdbox.party]

@rysiek I didn't know that GitLab wanted people to use Forgejo so badly.

Now GitHub are probably going to do something similar, like try to find a way to sell Copilot more than they are already are

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@rysiek "Be sure to put 'customers' before 'investors' in the blurb, that will be mad funny"

[cauzation@mastodon.social]

@rysiek #TechBros gotta bunker down while peak stock markets and other assets, take the inevitable slide from greed #Capitalism.

Backup plans far enough away from these effects, is paramount - especially if you or yours can make a rudimentary difference, in a more #sustainable ecosystem.

[maaikees@hachyderm.io]

@rysiek I am so glad I came to this article thanks to you! It manages to clearly state the worries I have as a test consultant in a world where no one seems to care about quality anymore, in a way I could never find the words for. I also learned about the term credence goods for the first time.

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@rysiek the first time i heard MicroShit bought it, i was done there. I just setup an open to all VCS on MPAQ. We REFUSE to let AI in our network INCLUDING  "spell check". All of that shit is band on our systems. We write 100% of our own code. One of our team is in the middle of https://voip.mpaq.org

With that said, SELF HOST or look for something like https://vcs.mpaq.org

[luna@goof.boo]

@rysiek@mstdn.social oof....

[bluememon@mastodon.social]

@toxy @rysiek Interesting enough as with cloudflare, their stock is down 10% and still falling

[britter@chaos.social]

@afterdark @rysiek

[boricua_yakuza@infosec.exchange]

@rysiek

Gitlab had a great thing going and they'll be pushing a lot of loyal users away by this. Fuck AI

[clew@ecoevo.social]

Even nastier assumption: they’re okay with having some programmer employees who will always take the fall in lawsuits.

@svavar @rysiek

[arclight@oldbytes.space]

@rysiek I've been freeloading off GitLab too long. Tried self-hosting their open version of their software so I could pull my repos in-house but I didn't have the patience to sort out undocumented broken containers. This is the motivation I need to migrate everything to Codeberg and send them an ongoing donation to cover costs.

GitLab worked well for me but my usage level never justified a paid account. Sad to see them spiral down the AI drain but it's been coming for a while.