Like at London 2012 where there was a ban on chips (fries for our US friends) from anywhere that wasn’t McDs until backlash got strong enough. Imagine granting a single company the sole right to chopping potatoes into long sticks and putting them in hot oil for a few minutes. Even in the glorious 2010s and the days of the “millennial lifestyle subsidy” our ugly late stage capitalism was showing.

Or the “BO Media” if you will… Something stinks about it!

ChatGPT was built on top of GPT-3.5 which was GPT3 with the new deep reinforcement learning to make it more “conversational”, launched 2022. GPT 4 launched in 2023 and before the official launch there was “I have been a good Bing. 😊” Which was… checks notes… microsoft messing something up again

I also got my degree from costco!

FWIW Forgejo with Woodpecker CI is 👌 - a lot more like gitlab ci without the bullshit. It’s still basic by comparison though. I don’t think it supports templates

To appropriate another well known saying about owing money… If one person believes easily disproven misinformation, that’s on them. If a large percentage of the population believes it… That’s on all of us… We need to bring back critical thinking to education but we also need to remove these corrupt assholes from power asap