[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[Jeremy Hansen]

If it's publicly accessible, it's likely getting scraped by LLMs. SBo's
official repo on SlackBuilds.org is publicly accessible, so unless their
robots.txt is changed to disallow scraping (it currently doesn't block it),
it's likely already been scraped.

If you're only worried about your pull requests on GitHub being used for
LLM training, you can use GitLab or submit your changes directly on SBo
through their submissions page, however, I believe the upload through SBo
will be moved to GitHub to use the CI to verify it builds correctly before
being accepted.

In fact, your email to this mailing list is likely scraped for LLM training
(the lists.slackbuilds.org robots.txt has a lot more blocked entries,
however, I don't see one for crawlers used by OpenAI). What a fun world we
live in where most of our online data is processed by probably hundreds of
crawlers ��

Jeremy


On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:33 AM Jay <j+sbo-users at maschinengott.de> wrote:

> Hi.
> I am getting to a point in my life where I'm ready to maintain a handful
> of small SlackBuilds. And today as I was thinking about it, it occured
> to me that SBo has a mirror on GitHub. I don't want anything I write
> used for LLM training, so as long as that's the case I won't be doing
> that on SBo.
>
> I don't really expect to sway the community, I know the arguments for
> keeping the mirror. I won't be swayed either. I'm just stating this as a
> fact for y'all's consideration.
>
> I'll probably not completely stop contributing to SBo, but that will be
> a heavy consideration each time.
>
>
> To finish this off on a funny note::
>
> Two weeks ago
>  > GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
> –
> https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
>
> One week ago
>  > GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO
> –
> https://www.geekwire.com/2025/github-will-join-microsofts-coreai-group-with-departure-of-ceo-thomas-dohmke/
>
> Did he take his own advice?
>
> Cheers, Jay
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