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.
I thought they were doing it for years ;)
Assume the worst. Never be surprised
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.
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.
codeberg.org
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?
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
Dont forget to donate to their servers..
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.
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.
Genuine question as git has just been a staple service on our networks since cvs/svn died.
Why are you all not hosting your own git servers, or at the very least something like gitea if your stupid company is vendor locked by 'cloud' providers?
Maintenance cost, security hardening, visibility, that's a few reasons coming from the top of my head.
Convenience
The real issue here isn't just about "poisoning" their data. It's that people don't actually know how their contributions get scraped and repurposed.
I'm working on something called The Zeitgeist Experiment that maps public opinion by having people respond to questions via email, then using AI to rank responses and synthesize key ideas. The goal is transparency about how AI processes human input—showing people what actually gets used, not hiding it in some TOS.
GitHub's new policy will make things worse. Users will be even less aware their code is going into models they never agreed to train on. The default should be opt-in, not opt-out after the fact.
You're not working on anything, clanker.
Check this accounts comment history and take a look at the time stamps from five days ago or so. It was initially configured to make fully formatted multi-paragraph comments with 10-30 seconds between each comment. Now it's spacing it's comments out a bit more, but it's still a bot-controlled account here to push a product, likely this Zeitgeist thing.
In a move that should shock nobody. I have not made a new repo there for a year, and started to migrate to Codeberg.
The code locker’s revised policy applies to Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ customers, as of April 24. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are exempt thanks to the terms of their contracts. Students and teachers who access Copilot will also be spared.
All of the people in this thread are mad because they use slop code generation and now their slop is being used to train the slop generators.
If they can take an entire repo because a contribution was tainted, that's wrong. But otherwise I don't care because it's normal to use usage metrics to improve software and most importantly I don't use AI so I don't have anything for them to take.
Thanks to the terms of their contacts which are subject to change at any time for any reason
Ftfy
While I don't / won't use the slop machines, I'm not entirely convinced that they haven't / won't just add a Copilot Free account to my VS or GitHub accounts: They did just this to my (now canceled) Office account.
I do think that a lot of people are missing that it's just Copilot data that they're using to train, not all of the repository data hosted on GitHub (or don't trust that it will be only Copilot data long term).
For me it just means one more thing to move to our own servers (we always self hosted SVN)
As someone who uses the slop machine, completely agree, it might help improve them further and if you don't want to use it, move to forgejo or similar (I did that too) and if you still want AI help, try learning how to host your own locally if your GPU can swing it.
For no apparent reason:
Are there any good alternatives for gh-pages dor a super lazy/simple website? I've been meaning to actually use one of my domains for a personal website and pointing at which project is on which code repo site would be a good idea. But... I need that page to be hosted by one of them.
Cloudflare workers is pretty easy and free
Ooooh. Cloudflare Pages definitely looks like what I want.
Thanks
Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.
And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.
Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.
'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…
There's a reason present day "AI-in-everything" Microsoft bought a code hosting company.
They bought it 8 years ago lol
This is true but I always felt like there was an ulterior motive behind it.
Like wow all of a sudden MicroSoft cares about open source code and contribution? I always felt like they did it to figure out how add backdoors into stuff somehow but then again I am a paranoid person and always assume the worst with companies in the tech field
I've been planning to move to codeberg for a while. Guess this sets the deadline.
Don't forget to poison your data on your way out!
GitHub : the best advertisement for CodeBerg out there !
or sourcehut, i say
Honestly this is the final push that's getting me to move all my repos over.
I self-host Gitea! Not your server, not your data.
Microslop, once again proving why that's their name.
My powershell scripts are poison enough lol
My Github Actions configurations will bankrupt entire continents
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