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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] user28282912@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago

Codeberg does actively try to prevent bot scraping.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It's funny that all the pro-AI chuds suddenly coming out of the woodwork to try and say this is a terrible idea.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

More distros need to follow. No FOSS should have any relationship to Microsoft or their products.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 70 points 1 day ago

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...

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Everyone should follow

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hold on ....

Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 173 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (33 children)

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.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

All code uploaded to GitHub is subject to being scraped

No kidding: That was literally my very first thought back in the days when I learned that M$ has taken over GitHub.

(Copilot did not exist then)

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Mine too. More precisely: code uploaded to GH won't be yours anymore. IIRC there were changes to the TOS that supported this. But even if not, predicting the obvious doesn't make us prophets.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 23 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I guess it's about copilot scanning the code, submitting PRs, reporting security issues, doing code reviews and such.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 days ago

Copilot steals from all the code on github.

[–] ArkHost@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Did this few months ago. Everyone should do the same.

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