Heads up GitHub users.

[gub@framapiaf.org]

@JoeSondow
#QuitHub

[lf_araujo@mastodon.social]

@JoeSondow @elduvelle Is this for public and private repos?

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@lf_araujo @JoeSondow

there is a blog post with some details about it here:
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/
specifically:

"This program does not use:

• Interaction data from Copilot Business, Copilot Enterprise, or enterprise-owned repositories
• Interaction data from users who opt out of model training in their Copilot settings
• Content from your issues, discussions, or private repositories at rest. We use the phrase “at rest” deliberately because Copilot does process code from private repositories when you are actively using Copilot. This interaction data is required to run the service and could be used for model training unless you opt out.

(emphasis mine..)

[lf_araujo@mastodon.social]

@elduvelle @JoeSondow Thank you!

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@lf_araujo @JoeSondow
also to comment on @dalias 's earlier answer (same source):

"From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out."

-> I believe this means if you are not part of these Copilot user groups then, indeed, they do not use your data to train Copilot.. for now at least..

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@byteborg @JoeSondow @cstross
is Codeberg much different from Github in terms of functions, interface etc.? I mostly mean, is it as easy / convenient to use?
anyone knows if there is a version of github desktop for Codeberg?

#GithubDesktop #Codeberg #Github

[joesondow@dice.camp]

@Larvitz Ive been using GitLab for my personal stuff but I did not know about Codeberg. Thanks!

[byteborg@chaos.social]

@elduvelle Codeberg is much simpler. I mpstly use command line git. Check the docs at codeberg.org, perhaps you'll find what you need.
@JoeSondow @cstross

[simran@fosstodon.org]

@elduvelle @byteborg @JoeSondow @cstross Codeberg is very similar to GitHub, whereas GitLab feels disorienting in terms of UI

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@castaway as I only found it on the third look, on that page you want to find the text “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training”, and it looks like this, towards the bottom.

[miss_anna@transfem.social]

@JoeSondow@dice.camp Make several accounts, allow their AI to train from the data, poison pill the data, ruin the AI.

[wpeckham@social.linux.pizza]

@JoeSondow I pulled my github and all development files that I had there of any kind and now host them locally. Git is kind of a brilliant tool, but GitHub is not. Just turning off or opting out of being misused is not enough because they don't always honor your choices..

[t36s@social.ordinal.garden]

@JoeSondow Thank you.

[reignofraining@transfem.social]

@Miss_Anna @JoeSondow@dice.camp This actually works.

[orange_lux@eldritch.cafe]

@elduvelle @lf_araujo @JoeSondow @dalias the sad part being, if I'm recalling it well, that all the code hosted there (in public repos¹⁾ is already being used to train the dataset.

¹ they mentioned "publicly accessible repositories" two years ago, which means they weren't filtering the licenses. Also, I have found at the time, they suggested data that weren't available in any public repositories. I'm guessing they were also using some private repositories as well.