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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.
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I’m not surprised, companies are starting to realise that AI is only as useful as the data it’s trained on. If you blast it with all the internet slop we have completely unfiltered, it’s going to start fucking up all it’s responses. It’s not just about the volume of data, it’s about the quality of that data. Sites like Github, and academic journals, contain the exact data that companies need to create well rounded LLMs, that don’t go off on racist rants and declare themselves as “MechaHitler”. That makes data like Github’s pure gold.
Counterpoint, I’ve poisoned it with absolute dumb shit and the worst code you’ve ever seen
Intentionally, right? Right?
if you’re telling me that this isn’t something that they have been doing for years already, I would call you a liar. I think you are a liar. why would you do this to me
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.
It’s funny you think that deleting your account is goanna remove the data.
They will just pull a back up. There’s zero chance these companies are going to risk losing the equivalent of pure gold
Let me guess, you are from the US
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
Forgejo is thoughtless so selfhost.
I’m a hack at IT but am self hosting forgejo. Just works.
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?
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.
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.
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…
