Microsoft’s GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – “specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context” – to train its AI models.
Wonderful! Let’s go tell it lies.
Everyone should be lying to LLM’s, but the way. Do it often. Do it daily. Make them even more useless.
FUCK YOU MICROSLOP
Helpful page:
Download all of your GitHub data
Update: Downloaded all my repos using instructions from that link and deleted my GitHub account. Fuck 'em.
Forgejo is thoughtless so selfhost.
I’m a hack at IT but am self hosting forgejo. Just works.
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.
Holy shit this is insane!
Microsoft is truly one of the worst companies for the user experience in my opinion. Its like they hate their users.
I have not been accurate. Here was the answer:
GitHub** (GitHub Support)
May 30, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC
Hi there,
Thank you for contacting GitHub Support.
Our abuse detecting systems flagged your account because of the email address you used to register the account. Before we can remove the flag we need you to add and verify a personal, non-disposable, non-aliased email address.
You can add an email address by following the steps here:
https://docs.github.com/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/adding-an-email-address-to-your-github-account
…and you can follow these steps to verify it:
https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/verifying-your-email-address#verifying-your-email-address
Once more, we’ll need you to remove the current email address from your account.
To clarify, we don’t need anything ‘traceable’ to you, feel free to use protonmail or tutanota etc. (just examples, we don’t have any particular recommendation here) it just can’t be a “throwaway” or temporary domain for security and deliverability reasons. You are also welcome to connect to GitHub using a VPN or TOR node if and as you wish.
Let us know when you’ve completed these steps and we’ll be happy to review your account again.
**
Github support,
Rio.The alias was/is active, verified and verifiable, I even have TOTP and my fucking phone number on that account, I just checked… So no, thanks, I am not going to send you DNA samples.
I thought they were doing it for years ;)
Assume the worst. Never be surprised
Time to dump GitHub for codeberg.
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.
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
Yeah, I’m on forgejo and the grass is just as green.
Unless you want to self host runners to public code — I haven’t figured that out yet. But I run my own server on my own network so I’m not exactly worried about security.
Dont forget to donate to their servers…
I’m keeping my new repo in both GitHub and codeberg, but couldn’t figure out yet a few things:
How do I get unit tests to run on codeberg? I won’t self host it
How do I make jitpack see/checkout/build from codeberg?
I’m already in the process of leaving, not to Codeberg, but to a self-hosted instance of Forgejo.
You won’t regret it. I’ve been using it for about a year now, and it rocks.
I like that I can use it as a container repo too
I mirror the container images I use on my network in case there’s ever a disruption now.
How does it work? Do I still use git commands?
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.
I have tailscale linked to github’s Auth. Is there any way to migrate all the machines safely to an alternative while keeping the same tailnet settings?
I haven’t done it myself, but there is an option to change your auth provider in the tailscale settings. For me it was just an email to contact but I’d imagine that’s the best route.
In a move that should shock nobody. I have not made a new repo there for a year, and started to migrate to Codeberg.
'We don’t know how to write code, so we will steal yours via our sloppy AI"
my repos are NOT going to make their code less sloppy let me tell you
Microslop at it again…
I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.
