updated. Any clearer now?

I don't think I can use R

People are woefully uneducated about data harvesting. This is the newer version of people sharing their darkest secrets with google search.

Spellcheck/grammar is a different thing. The website is talking about generating the content with AI. I was responding to that.

Agree with the concern, totally disagree with their answer.

Don't use the AI at all. Talk like a normal human. Dare to say you don't know. Or, you know, give a little of your time to care about someone else's questions enough to answer them yourself. Seriously, what's wrong with people that they think this is a remotely sane thing to do?

p.s. if you did this to me, and didn't stop when asked, I would stop talking to you. A friend doesn't do this.

DDOS by marketing

Stack Overflow was always about sharing your learning and knowledge with other humans. Just like open source. We didn't anticipate, and didn't give permission, for it being used to train AI.

oooh boy this could get good. I don't like anyone's suffering ... which is why it'd be good

I did suspect as much, but if you're going to put something in the title, perhaps don't use limited definitions?

This is not a good article

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless

From wikipedia

Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics

Are they genuinely claiming all most of this work is pointless?

The article continues

What’s different about this moment is that the questions are not just economic but existential, the kind of questions that cause high-earning technical professionals to contemplate throwing it all away to start a goat farm in Washington or become a surf instructor in Costa Rica.

I'm sure I'd seen memes about software engineers wanting become woodworkers before the AI deluge.

The writing continues with needlessly crass language. I stopped reading.

If you want to go utterly mad, you can use rngit https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Rngit and broadcast your git server using your own hardware over an entirely different "internet". Then if the actual internet goes down, people can still send git patches

codeberg's fine, but it's not decentralized. It's a single org running a forgejo instance somewhere in europe. It also banned AI generated code and crypto projects. If you're not doing either of those, codeberg is possibly the easiest way to get off github.

If you really want decentralized, you can look at radicle. Or you can self-host but that would be unwise if you're new to it all.

I'm not aware of any underhand contributions. What might you be referring to?

I strongly believe it's perfectly reasonable to compliment a generally evil person/people when they do a good thing, but hey, my opinions are boring.