Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]"Free Copilot in your GitHub account" is the 2020s version of "Free U2 album on your iPod".
MontyOnTheRun@mike And at least the album was actually good :)
Oblomov@montyontherun @mike and the iPod wasn't there bad either
burne
Patrick Morris Miller
toebeans ch. 🇨🇳 
@coolbean @mike That is a fundamental discussion that Microsoft has made unavoidable. Suddenly all open source (unless you want to pay) is being fed into Copilot and nobody but Micrsoft will benefit from that.
Personally, I think Microsoft has made GitHub incompatible with OSS with this move. I’m not prepared to feed my own IP to them. They can hire me or fuck off.
Yes, I will stop reporting those bugs until the project moves to something without mandatory CoPilot.
Colin Watson@mike I am old enough to remember when free gifts were desirable https://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7049
@mike I am not sure AI has got past the "better than ordinary breakfast cereal" threshold yet
eri 
@mike not true. U2's music is actual art made by talented people, even if you don't like them.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@mike "If that U2 album also scanned and collected your brainwaves when you listened to it."
Wait, worse, because you didn't listen to that album. (I assume?)
"If that U2 album also scanned and collected your brainwaves whether you listened to it or not."
There we go lol
mort@mike To this day Songs of Innocence still starts playing automatically every now and then :(
Vertigo #$FF@mike The difference is that I like U2. Copilot can go to hell.
Akkana Peck@mike I was actually thinking it was more like a free AOL CD.
Mark Rotteveel
Heliograph@mike c'mon bono wasn't *that* bad >.<
Ministerofimpediments@mike …no it isn’t. I actually liked U2 and I didn’t need an iPod for work…
Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦@mike I got that message today too. More like "free peeping tom with your new bedroom window".
Charles T
Viss@mike nailed it
Doug Grinbergs@mike
For those who don't know about, or maybe forgot, Apple U2 Songs of Innocence debacle…
Free U2 album: How the most generous giveaway in music history turned PR disaster
22 September 2014
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/free-u2-album-how-the-most-generous-giveaway-in-music-history-turned-into-a-pr-disaster-9745028.html
#Apple #iPod #iPhone #iTunes #TimCook #Bono #U2 #UniversalMusic
DHeadshot's Alt@mike
Except at least U2 make somewhat listenable music (at least compared to the utility of copilot)...?
Except at least U2 make somewhat listenable music (at least compared to the utility of copilot)...?
Cyborus@mike I don't get it, I never had an ipod. what's this mean?
Andrew Zonenberg@mike If I upgrade to a paid account will they remove copilot?
autumn 🐾 hyper-fixated on dogs@mike hey now, i already made the U2 album joke today!
proof: https://triangletoot.party/@autumn/113674158726337430
autumn ☀️ solstice time! (@[email protected])
remember when a bunch of people automatically got a U2 album and then got really mad about it? those were the days.
Cassandrich@mike Updated UBO rules plz. 🙃
The Doctor
JWM (Joe No Se)@mike …but slightly more obnoxious :)
AN/CRM-114@mike Free Microsoft Coldplay album in your GitHub account
eris 🌱@mike so we all got that email
Kristaps Liepins@mike Who needs that shit, eh?
Adam Bell 
@mike U2 was actually good tho
Ben Ford 
@mike except that the U2 album was actually free
6502 ALU@mike or it would be if millions of listeners had actually contributed to that U2 album.
Claus Cramon Houmann@mike Congratulations on winning the Internet today.
Sean Randall@mike hahaha so much this.
mav 
@mike
at least listening to the u2 album didn't, you know, actually ruin the earth
at least listening to the u2 album didn't, you know, actually ruin the earth
ManniCalavera@mike Or, in lieu with the expected success in down the line, a free AOL-CD ca. 2004
Steven Woolgar@mike except U2 wasn’t stealing all of the music off your iPod.
poetaster@mike i looked at that email, scratching my head. Whatever do I need a copilot for!?)!! I don't fly planes. I imagine solutions to problems in my sleep.