More distros need to follow. No FOSS should have any relationship to Microsoft or their products.
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.
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.
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.
No, it isn’t.
“Basically” your vibes aren’t an actual answer. Businesses are not forking over millions to give away their code.
You can have conspiracy theories about it using the code anyway (I’m particularly confused about your use of the word “scrape” which tells me you don’t know how AI training works, how hosting a website works, or how scraping works - maybe all three?) but surreptitiously using its competitors’ code to train CoPilot would be a rare existential threat to Microsoft itself.
Does GitHub use Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train GitHub’s model?
No. GitHub does not use either Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train its models.
If you’re gullible enough to believe an FAQ coming from Github themselves, then I have bad news for you.
“Gullible” is not a thing you can be when somehow has signed a contract with you… that’s why contracts exist.
You gullible person, they write the contracts to protect themselves at your expense. For example:
Check your Disney+ contract before going on a Disney cruise. If you use both services, you waive your right to go to court in case of injury or death on the cruise. Potentially for Life.
It’s incredible that you all are still acting like he’s talking about individuals and not giant mega corporations that have an army of lawyers working on these contracts.
There’s no way these companies would allow ms to train copilot on their proprietary code. Not a single one of you had provided ANY proof that this is actually happening yet.
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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The because of training claim is wrong.
Quoting the Gentoo post:
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories,
It seems to be about GitHub pushing copilot usage, not them training on data. Moving away doesn’t prevent training anyway. And I’m sure someone will host a mirror on hitting if they don’t.
Codeberg does actively try to prevent bot scraping.
