Gitlab goes down the AI rabbit-hole

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“Trust us folks, it’s really not about AI, we’re not like all those other tech layoffs, really…”

Uhmmm…

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Freaking AI loving bastards, they know what they’re trying to do: Make their AI train from data they shouldn’t have, and make a frighteningly powerful AI that can destroy humanity.

I am naturally neutral towards AI, but if companies keep pushing AI onto us, it could cause more issues, Deepfakes, shockingly realistic images/videos, false AI religions, and so on. It would completely upend our current way of life, and devastate FOSS!

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Yes, but the reason I posted that here in particular is that:

  1. This is the service provider that F-droid uses to host all their software code

  2. There is a perception that Gitlab is preferable to Github (owned by Microsoft these days) because they are “more aligned to FOSS ideology” and not the same kind of avaricious capitalists that one often has to deal with for various sorts of “cloud services”.

But in fact I think that what this news demonstrates - despite Gitlab’s attempt to spin it otherwise - is that they are in fact not that different than their peers in that respect. For starters, using “AI” as an excuse to layoff workers.

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My goodness…That means Obtainium might need to reach other services that distribute coding for applications…

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Pretty sure Obtainium already supports multiple code-hosting sites.

Main problem with Obtainium is that there is literally nothing between users and malware hosted on random internet repos. Many malware projects have been hosted on places like Github and so on.

I will not use it for anything that I do not have very very high confidence they are not pushing either malware or severely bugged software. (For example: Battery Guru, because the only free version of that app that is not feature-restricted is the one they host on their Github.)

I also have some issues with the Obtainium UI and how they handle updates, but it has not been a big enough problem for me to pursue bringing up those details with them, there’s only so much time in the day.

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For Obtainium, for as long as the number of applications is low (Under 36), you should be fine.

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I don’t know what this pertains to, but if you are assuming that I “auto update” apps, don’t.

I do not “auto update” anything.

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I prefer auto updating, unless UI updates turn out to be bad.