in protest to microslop enshittifying EVERYTHING they touch I'm ditching github for most of my projects.
only the stuff that I cannot possibly move away from github, for one reason or another, will stay here.
you thought they let u have private repos on github out of pure heart?
ofc not! I highly suspect every private repo was used in copilot's training.
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release. Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. In 2013, Swartz was inducted posthumously into the Internet Hall of Fame.
that's right! when AI companies scrape the internet and by their own admission, download a substantial portion from piracy websites like Anna's archive, libgen etc, that is called fair use! but when poor Swartz downloaded some articles, they felt the need to prosecute him!