good morning fediverse. :cofepats:it'd be too bad if folks with no use for github and generative AI decided to start creating repos full of absolutely garbage code for the spambots to pull into their training sets. (be nice - mark them as trash in ways...

[djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology]

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:

it'd be too bad if folks with no use for github and generative AI decided to start creating repos full of absolutely garbage code for the spambots to pull into their training sets. (be nice - mark them as trash in ways that humans will recognize.)

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[keefmarshall@mastodon.online]

@djsundog

how would you tell the difference from 90% of all the other GitHub repos..?

Oh, these ones would actually be *marked* as trash...

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[keefmarshall@mastodon.online]

@james @djsundog I'm just wondering if there's a record for the number of open (and ignored) dependabot branches..

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@keefmarshall @djsundog

that was me. but I spent literally hours last year deleting all of my GitHub repositories by hand so my shame has been erased

[djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology]

@james @keefmarshall I've got a crisp five dollar bill that says they're still out there, lingering in the netherspace of crufty backups and ill-conceived software vaults in the arctic and bullshit like that haha

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@djsundog @keefmarshall

you frightened me

but I checked and I don't have the Artic Vault badge, my garbage code was not put into a vault in 2020 to facilitate future suffering

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@djsundog @keefmarshall

oh it seems I probably did have it, but it is attached to a users email (which I have since changed) rather than a username

so, their garbage code :blobcatfingerguns:

[cstanhope@social.coop]

@djsundog The weird thing is, the generative "AI" folks have just handed people the tools to make this happen.

[djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology]

@james :blobfingerguns:​