I can't pull vim plugins and other stuff I needed. I miss old days when you can pull files from individual http/ftp server.
I just hope Microsoft is not moving them to IIS. Lol.
Dear opensource project creators and maintainers,
Repeat after me:
Go for self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab/ Gitea to avoid this problems. No need to use Microsoft. They work very closely with evil branches of government that treats kids & minorities poorly
Github is going downhill since Microsoft took over.
For my side projects, I use self-host Gitea. I know someone who is very active in FOSS and uses Raspberry Pi with Gitea too. You don't need high-end server.
GNOME, Xfce, Wireguard, KDE and many FOSS projects are using self hosted version.
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Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
Microsoft Connected Experiences means they collect your Word and Excel files for AI training. Why not call it AI training? Why use such words? This is an unethical practice followed by a trillion-dollar corporation. How is this even legal? I am so glad that I don’t have Windows OS or MS office.
If I worked for Microsoft, OpenAI, or any other predatory AI company, I would be ashamed to admit it to all of you and my friends/family. These third-rate companies trick people into giving away their *personal data*, and despite having trillions in assets, they can't afford to pay out for AI training. I'm really glad I don't work for them. I would rather choose a horrible death from illness and die than work for these companies.
I am still experiencing rate limit errors. I plan on upgrading to Blue, but this sucks. As a content creator, it is vital for me to reach a broader audience. This approach is not working. What's next? Will YouTube restrict video views to two per day?
Will GitHub limit git clone to only three repositories per day? What about those p0rn sites? Reddit canceled API & 3rd party Apps. Twitter limits. You can't view IG or FB posts without logging into it.
There are several social media platforms available such as TikTok, Twitter, FB/IG, Tumblr, & Reddit. However, these platforms have recently become more strict in their policies. They are now strictly enforcing app-based views and claim that their data is being taken by AI/bots.
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Noteworthy and remarkable Linux, *BSD and Unix man pages you never used before (see how to use man command bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Man_comm… for more). You don't need Google or Stack overflow. Everything comes with your operating system.
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Description of the Unix filesystem hierarchy (find out what /usr and /etc and /dev/ dirs used for. Very handy, IMHO):
man 7 hier
ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal:
Gmail started as a limited beta release on April 1, 2004. Many thought unlimited storage and Gmail was an April fools day joke from Google. It is now believed that Gmail had 1.5 billion active users worldwide. Gmail was one of the early Web 2.0. The rest is history.
Despite all privacy concerns, Gmail offers one of the best email anti protection and 2FA for everyone free of cost. It helped many developing worlds have a reliable and secure system for biz or personal purposes. They changed the way email worked.
Before that, we had horrible Yahoo and Hotmail accounts with 2 MB or 5 MB email quota. My ISP had an email system like username@bom3.vnsn.net.in ;)
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