I've thought about this a bit and I can't really see why someone would want to write AI content here other than to spam ads but they are handled quickly. Does anyone see AI content with a clear motivation or agenda here? There are very few rep based privileges right so that seems like an unlikely motivation as well.

Most of the HN bot accounts I see have a link-to-vibecoded-product in bio, and/or are trying to build up "organic" activity before a Show HN post for the same.

A less publicly-visible motive would be if they were building up accounts to use for paid-upvote schemes.

You can automate shilling to drive or at least influence opinion.

This is a venture capitalist driven community that attracts the sleaziest kind of spammers you could think of under the badge of growth hacking and networking. Besides this very obvious motivation to spam you have all kinds of nerds here eager to do it just because they can (on one of the most famous tech places where registration is made as easy as possible)

If even one person in a repo does not disable this will copilot have full access to the repo? How can I determine if other members of my team have turned this off or not?

The same way you can't determine whether a team member pulling the repo dumped the code into a prompt.

It's convenient for MS to make this opt in by default for sure.

It’s not convenient, it is a deliberate decision.

What leads you to that conclusion?

I agree with OP, but I don't have a solid reason or precedent. In my case, I get the "high school bully" vibe from the current regime and its militant supporters. Bullies don't like it when a group doesn't fear and adulate them, so I just assume censorship of subcultures is coming soon.

In a merchantilist culture entrepreneurs are not exactly prized. I'll bet the presidential family acquihires a whole lot of small companies.

The university I work with offers claude free to students. If you had a class you wanted to take perhaps there might be a similar opportunity

Can you provide the direct quote? I don't subscribe to the WSJ so can't see what you might be alluding to.

"U.S. intelligence agencies may now face legal hurdles in directly targeting and collecting personal data on Valencia González because of his place of birth. That risks hindering a significant tactical partnership that has developed between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Washington that is making increasing use of information provided by U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies."

I think the answers (at least as they apply to those R2 units) is much simpler.

R2-D2 happened to be colored blue because that looked right in darkly lit scenes and in contrast to the white and metallics. Not because film makers said. "Hey let's make sure R2-D2 is male".

R2-KT on the other had "feminine programming" including pink accents. Out of universe the creation of R2-KT has a backstory that is heartwarming, tragic, and might help explain why the droid was envisioned the way it was.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R2-KT

I'm guilty of upvoting that and in fact I did not even read it. Here is the thing though. I'm older, not 60 but older for a coder and the sentiment in the title alone resonates with me. If I upvoted it then I can see many others doing so. Is it worth 600 points? I dont know but it was worth 1 from me.

Fair. I’m not trying to tell people they’re wrong to upvote it, I’m just feeling like I’m just reading ads for OpenAI and Anthropic at this point

Am I reading the correct article? The one I just read does not include the work "immigrant" nor the word "asylum" at all?

At the risk of being a moron, why does an app that seems to carroonify a photo actually need to be able to delete/manage photos or files?

Good question, that's because it's a gallery app at it's core which lets you do all CRUD stuff on images/folders.

Ebay? MySpace, Usenet? Though the distinction was about features and adoption not about ethics. Back then it was assumed that tech owners (to the extent that something like Usenet had owners) acted ethically.

Google's motto of "dont be evil" was mostly tongue in cheek until of course it wasn't and then they stopped using it.

This is tech though and the idea that one company might have an ethical marketing advantage is much older. For example when I worked for GM we often talked about being like GE only with a heart.

> This is tech though and the idea that one company might have an ethical marketing advantage is much older. For example when I worked for GM we often talked about being like GE only with a heart.

That’s an interesting point.