GitHub: We going to train on your data after all
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: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out
  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2 hours

    Yeah and Github does not let you use an alias for the login email. For real I got shadowbanned (or something similar): I did not see any warning and could not do any search in a repo and noticed my issues went unanswered… because nobody could fucking see them. So I wrote to support and they told me to use a name.surname email address. I told them to fuck off and never logged in again.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    GitHub is such a shit hole these days. Half the time, they won’t even let me view a repo unless I’m logged in.

    • mutant_zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35 minutes

      There’s really not much locking us in to GitHub. Even moving an existing repo is not that hard. I started using Codeberg a few months ago and have yet to see the downside

  • Anas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    I’m already in the process of leaving, not to Codeberg, but to a self-hosted instance of Forgejo.

    • VeryVito@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5 hours

      You won’t regret it. I’ve been using it for about a year now, and it rocks.

        • originaltnavn@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          Yes, the only differences are the urls you use when cloning, and the website UI for merge requests and similar. Git is an open source program, github, forgejoe, gitlab, gogs and similar are only managementsoftware for hosting git repositories online.

  • uenticx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Genuine question as git has just been a staple service on our networks since cvs/svn died.

    Why are you all not hosting your own git servers, or at the very least something like gitea if your stupid company is vendor locked by ‘cloud’ providers?

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6 hours

    For no apparent reason:

    Are there any good alternatives for gh-pages dor a super lazy/simple website? I’ve been meaning to actually use one of my domains for a personal website and pointing at which project is on which code repo site would be a good idea. But… I need that page to be hosted by one of them.

        • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
          5 hours

          Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.

          And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.

          Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    The code locker’s revised policy applies to Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ customers, as of April 24. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are exempt thanks to the terms of their contracts. Students and teachers who access Copilot will also be spared.

    All of the people in this thread are mad because they use slop code generation and now their slop is being used to train the slop generators.

    If they can take an entire repo because a contribution was tainted, that’s wrong. But otherwise I don’t care because it’s normal to use usage metrics to improve software and most importantly I don’t use AI so I don’t have anything for them to take.

    • Rooster326@programming.devEnglish
      24 minutes

      Thanks to the terms of their contacts which are subject to change at any time for any reason

      Ftfy

    • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      While I don’t / won’t use the slop machines, I’m not entirely convinced that they haven’t / won’t just add a Copilot Free account to my VS or GitHub accounts: They did just this to my (now canceled) Office account.

      I do think that a lot of people are missing that it’s just Copilot data that they’re using to train, not all of the repository data hosted on GitHub (or don’t trust that it will be only Copilot data long term).

      For me it just means one more thing to move to our own servers (we always self hosted SVN)

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      As someone who uses the slop machine, completely agree, it might help improve them further and if you don’t want to use it, move to forgejo or similar (I did that too) and if you still want AI help, try learning how to host your own locally if your GPU can swing it.

  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    'We don’t know how to write code, so we will steal yours via our sloppy AI"

    • f3nyx@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 hours

      my repos are NOT going to make their code less sloppy let me tell you

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10 hours

    There’s a reason present day “AI-in-everything” Microsoft bought a code hosting company.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11 hours

    I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.

  • LievitoPadre@feddit.itEnglish
    9 hours

    I’ve been planning to move to codeberg for a while. Guess this sets the deadline.