More distros need to follow. No FOSS should have any relationship to Microsoft or their products.
Everyone should follow
why? github offers basically free hosting for code. as long as git clone works, everything should be fine?
Because Microsoft owns github.
Even without them plugging LLMs into it, using it all as training data, sharing everything connected to it directly with the NSA, they could easily do a more standard enshittification of it.
Oh you have a free github account, you can do X amount of pulls and commits per month, otherwise, subscribe to GitHubPro for $5 a month.
Oh you host some software that’s used to antagonize our corporate partners?
Even though its not actually illegal?
Poof, gone, just like when the credit card companies decided nsfw games are verbotten.
Excellent news ! I have been preaching the good word of Codeberg for months, delighted to see it’s working.
If I can get NixOS to move, I will be the happiest gal in the world…
Did this few months ago. Everyone should do the same.
Hold on …
Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?
Your confusion is understandable since MS has called like 4 different products “Copilot”. This refers to the coding assistant built into GitHub for everything from CI/CD to coding itself.
All code uploaded to GitHub is subject to being scraped by Copilot to both train and provide inference context to its model(s).
Basically having your code in GitHub is implicit consent to have your code fed to MSs LLMs.
I guess it’s about copilot scanning the code, submitting PRs, reporting security issues, doing code reviews and such.
reporting security issues
Is this not an advantage? If AI can find new security vulnerabilities reliably?
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