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J4ck 1d ago

@harrysintonen I hate the industry reliance on github.

Charlie Balogh 1d ago

@harrysintonen
*puts on tinfoil hat*

Why does this give me the vibes of "well, yelp, we already did the training on your data, and now we just try to manufacture a legal ground to do so, so we can use your consent as a legal defense in ongoing and future lawsuits".

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski 1d ago

@chainq @harrysintonen Well, you know history of Microsoft, so this is less a tinfoil hat more a hard won experience.

Patrick Terlisten 1d ago

@harrysintonen I don't have active repos on GitHub, but I opt-out for this.

mike morris 1d ago

@harrysintonen
It's a mystery to me how any open-source project can still be using #SlopHub

mbeddedDev 1d ago

@harrysintonen Thanks for sharing. I don't use copilot but I hate the "enabled by default" settings in so many cases (e.g. AI training or telemetry).

ProScience 🇪🇺1d ago

@harrysintonen

Anyone believing these fashs should get their heads examined.

b 1d ago

@harrysintonen luckily it does seem to just be referring to inputs and outputs to github copilot? so if you don't use their AI stuff it shouldn't affect you (at least not yet)

Harry Sintonen 1d ago

@b
"• Outputs accepted or modified by you
• Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot, including code snippets shown to the model
• Code context surrounding your cursor position
• Comments and documentation you write
• File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns
• Interactions with Copilot features (chat, inline suggestions, etc.)
• Your feedback on suggestions (thumbs up/down ratings)"

Die Welt ist 22h ago

@harrysintonen @b So if you don't use Copilot you're fine is what I gather from this?
My short searches seem to indicate that, too.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)1d ago

@harrysintonen That showed up as ‘disabled’ for me when I went to the settings page. I think it’s been there for a while, I vaguely remember turning it off a while ago.

Harry Sintonen 1d ago

@david_chisnall They announced this policy change on 25th March 2026 and it comes into effect 24th April 2026.

Note that this change doesn't apply to Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users.

Jinna 1d ago

@harrysintonen @david_chisnall The email I received was pretty explicit that it's interactions with the slop that will be used to train and that if you previously disabled all activity feeding it then it also applies here, and mine remains disabled.

From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.

If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained— your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in.

Mark Hughes 20h ago

@david_chisnall

I went there recently to turn this stuff off and it was enabled just now so 🤷‍♂️
@harrysintonen

Mark Struberg 1d ago

@harrysintonen If Microsoft says that it 'listens to people' then I instantly cover the microphones on my notebook...

Zaphod42 1d ago

@harrysintonen Thank you. Been there done that ...

JaxxAI 1d ago

@harrysintonen Sounds like a politicians trick. Tell the masses what they want to hear but in reality just do what you want anyway.

Doc AWFL*22h ago

@harrysintonen

Had no idea: job forces Microsoft on us. Ugh. Thanks so much for the heads-up!

nick

22h ago

@harrysintonen Also the link "Privacy Statement" does not lead to a privacy statement, it just shows the "What is GitHub Copilot?" page.

Stage name Jay Peach 21h ago

@harrysintonen I specifically don’t use GitHub, and haven’t for years (ever since the M$ purchase). Scummy resource.

pannier pete not peter pan 21h ago

@harrysintonen @bluestocking you can also disable the option by going to codeberg.

lambtor 20h ago

@harrysintonen @bluestocking @pnuw can github be poisoned enough to wreck copilot?

Claude Flammang 20h ago

@harrysintonen
Thanx, done

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Nicole Parsons 17h ago

@harrysintonen

When the fossil fuel industry orders up an attack on the literacy levels of an electorate, there are no half-measures.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

De-education, orchestrated by billionaires, takes many forms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Freeman_(economist)

AI & a neofeudalist ideology
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment

https://www.aiu.edu/blog/technofeudalism-the-natural-successor-to-late-capitalism/

Attacks on women's employment & education continue unabated.
https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2025-12-17/nursing-no-longer-considered-a-professional-degree-by-trump-administration

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/11/koch-network-infiltration-public-schools-harms-students-teachers-and-our-democracy

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

DeSmog

16h ago

@Npars01 @harrysintonen
With all the evil tech bros CEOs out there, it's easy to lose sight of how evil CEOs have always been. Charles Koch has done so much harm in his lifetime.

@TheGreatLlama @harrysintonen

Nicole Parsons 16h ago

Koch Network & Rockbridge Network fund research into immortality for the 1%

Can you imagine the harms & hate mongering of an immortal Charles Koch, #PrinceBonesaw, Putin, Xi, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Tim Dunn, or Peter Thiel?

Charles Koch, like Bradley before him & the 60 year war on voting rights, already has plans to rule from the grave for decades to come.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

Charles Koch's audacious new $5 billion political scheme

Billionaire Charles Koch, who will turn 88 on November 1, is funneling his wealth into two secretive organizations that can continue his right-wing political advocacy for years.

Popular Information

15h ago

@Npars01 @harrysintonen
We have allowed our society to be ruled by wealth and power addicts. With people addicted to drugs, alcohol, even conventional gambling, we take measures to curtail this behavior when it starts to harm others. Meanwhile, we reward these wealth addicts with more of the very thing they're addicted to.

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/paypal-co-founder-peter-thiel-warns-of-tech-stagnation-without-ai-theres-just-nothing-going-on/articleshow/122141331.cms

Nicole Parsons 15h ago

AI is another way the Epstein Class seeks immortal rule by the 1%.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/03/stalin-putin-and-an-enduring-obsession-with-immortality

Imagine the perpetual evil of an immortal Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller or Trump, the Qrazies.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/alcor-cryonics-peter-thiel-billionaires-dynasty-trusts-aging-disease-death-immortality/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/05/healthy-living-science-doctors-vladimir-putin-pursuit-of-longevity-xi-jinping

Imagine a deathless rogue AI polluting information access for decades to come.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderpuutio/2026/02/11/the-death-of-death-how-immortality-became-a-technical-problem-for-founders/

https://www.openpr.com/news/4438399/digital-immortality-market-next-big-thing-major-giants-openai

https://theweek.com/science/the-billionaire-led-quest-for-immortality

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/hot-mic-catches-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-discussing-organ-transplants-immortality

https://theconversation.com/a-booming-longevity-industry-wants-to-sell-us-immortality-there-could-be-hidden-costs-264879

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel warns of tech stagnation: 'Without AI, there’s just nothing going on'

While AI enthusiasts envision digital immortality and human-machine mergers, Peter Thiel calls that vision “pathetically little.” In a recent podcast, he suggested AI might spark economic growth but fall short of ending innovation stagnation. For Thiel, the real danger isnt AI taking over—its that without it, society may unravel from sheer technological inertia and lack of bold ambition.

Economic Times

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk

Nicole Parsons 15h ago

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence/

Or evil ideas like Andreessen, Buchanan, Powell, & Andrew Mellon lasting forever, instead of fading into obscurity.

Paul Krugman warns of the consequences of zombie economic ideology.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/03/arguing-with-zombies-review-paul-krugman-trump-republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/gop-economic-policy.html

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-paul-krugman-about-the

https://www.econlib.org/immortality-the-meaning-of-buchanan-life/

https://theconversation.com/immortality-at-a-price-how-the-promise-of-delaying-death-has-become-a-consumer-marketing-bonanza-257009

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/01/immortality-gilgamesh-bezos-thiel/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/oracle-cto-wants-to-put-all-americas-data-into-one-big-system-to-study-including-dna

https://qz.com/1578796/why-silicon-valley-titans-are-obsessed-with-immortality

https://time.com/7289667/mountainhead-inspiration-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel/

Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy

Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real world

The Guardian

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

Nicole Parsons 15h ago

Tech feudalism is a plan for making inequality intergenerational for the 99%. Again.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/09/05/peter-thiels-quest-immortality-escaping-death-create-highest-form-inequality/

https://www.techpolicy.press/digital-eugenics-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/05/the-immortals-meet-the-billionaires-forking-out-for-eternal-life

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/17/if-they-could-turn-back-time-how-tech-billionaires-are-trying-to-reverse-the-ageing-process

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/05/billionaires-dream-immortality-healthcare

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03790-2

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-trying-to-hack-longevity-and-live-forever-2025-9

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26835660-400-chilling-book-exposes-true-cost-of-tech-bros-immortality-dreams/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/03/13/silicon-valley-trying-make-humans-immortal-and-finding-some-success-311402.html

https://quasa.io/media/peter-thiel-and-the-project-of-a-new-humanity-immortality-techno-states-and-the-rule-of-the-chosen-they-built-a-world-for-everyone-i-m-building-one-for-those-who-survive

https://www.freethink.com/opinion/immortality-is-dangerous

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check

The Register

Gerard van Oel 🍋

@Npars01
Ik they do this, and we then delete the database, will all Americans then be gone? That might be a great idea.

Nicole Parsons 9h ago

@gevoel

American's DNA will be used in an effort to make a few thousand billionaires immortal.

The rest of humanity not so much.

Urzl 14h ago

@Npars01 Palantir is the branch of North Central Positronics for our level of the Dark Tower.

Robots in service to vampires, aiming to end the world.

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen

RRB 15h ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda/2024/09/26/the-psychopaths-who-lead-us/

The Psychopaths Who Lead Us: The Dark Traits Driving Success

The surprising traits of psychopaths in leadership, from Theodore Roosevelt to modern CEOs, how these traits shape corporate success—and the hidden dangers they pose.

Forbes

15h ago

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
I'm skeptical about the validity of diagnosing people based on historical records... Honestly, I think it's a lot simpler than that. It's just junkie shit.

Still, worth a read.

I'm also really amused about all this rich asshole critical writing coming from Rich Asshole Digest.

RRB 14h ago

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen I did not notice the article saying "being a psychopath is a bad thing."

You may want to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychopath_Test
(I like all things Jon Ronson).

In it, Ronson discusses psychopathy with the investor "Chainsaw Al." For "Chainsaw Al" psychopathy personality traits are 100% positive.

I think for CEOs, a psychopathy diagnosis would be a badge of honor. "Empathetic is pathetic with a prefix."

The Psychopath Test - Wikipedia

14h ago

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
Ah, of course. I didn't consider the tech bro MO of redefining words. "Disruptive" is a feature and psychopathy is a virtue. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen And Greta Thunberg is the Anti-Christ. Elon Musk is a genius and Zuckerberg is a gifted manager. Have you looked into the "Dark Enlightenment"?

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; etc.

This predates them. They are not bright enough to make this dung up.

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
Yeah, *Arbeit macht frei* has the same DNA.

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen

Jedem das seine.

Which is oddly appropriate in this context. Both the German meaning and the literal interpretation.

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
I hope to live to see these guys get what they deserve!

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
The fact that they mean "Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist," not as hyperbole, but LITERALLY will never stop making me laugh. The joke is on all of us and may well be lethal, but I CANNOT take these people seriously.

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen Assuming that Peter Thiel is sincere (a big ask), and assuming that he researched the Biblical anti-Christ warnings. If he is not a total idiot, he should find someone on his side that is a better example of the Anti-Christ than poor little Greta.

I enjoy having the "Greta Thunberg is the anti-Christ" discussion with people not following the oligarchs. The faces that they make when you say that is worth a fortune.

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
It's a pretty unhinged statement for anyone to make, let alone someone worth billions. Like, the young woman just trying to keep the planet from being incinerated? THAT'S your antichrist? 🤦🏼‍♂️

@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen I don't understand what about her sets off people like Thiel and the Israeli military:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/greta-thunberg-mistreated-by-israeli-forces-in-detention-activists-say

She is just honest and wants to help people. I guess, that is what they hate about her.

Greta Thunberg mistreated by Israeli forces in detention, activists say

Activists describe mistreatment after Israel intercepted Gaza aid flotilla and detained about 450 people.

Al Jazeera

@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
Yeah, people who are motivated entirely by short sighted self-interest are really hostile to the idea that anyone could earnestly be trying for a better world.

Cookiefiend 10h ago

@TheGreatLlama @rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen Plus she's a girl. The horror. A GIRL presumes to speak up. A GIRL takes a moral position. (And, while the extremely orthodox are exempt from military duty in Israel, do bear in mind that in orthodox Jewish communities, women aren't even allowed to pray with men, much less tell men what's right or wrong. The IDF is doubtless outraged.)

@TheGreatLlama @rrb @harrysintonen

Nicole Parsons 9h ago

Greta Thunberg is a target for harassment by Peter Thiel because she scares the heck out of the fossil fuel funded fascists who launched Peter Thiel's grift.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/silicon-valley-s-hot-new-investment-oil-and-gas

https://qz.com/2164517/what-peter-thiels-investment-fund-gets-wrong-about-climate-change

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/trump-advisor-peter-thiel-says-real-climate-problem-may-be-eating-steak-not-co2-7c78dc79dce1/

https://www.techpolicy.press/why-are-tech-oligarchs-so-obsessed-with-energy-and-what-does-that-mean-for-democracy/

https://techfundingnews.com/peter-thiels-vc-leads-crusoe-energys-500m-round-to-fuel-ai-data-centers-using-natural-gas/

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-second-term-dispels-any-notion-of-ceos-saving-us-from-climate-crisis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Case_for_Fossil_Fuels

We continue to severely underestimate how far the fossil fuel industry is willing to go to keep its grip on power.

stony kark 16h ago

@harrysintonen @msbw done! thanks

Roger BW 😷16h ago

@harrysintonen I assumed they were already doing that. I assume they still are, with some weasel words so that you can't sue them even if you could afford to. And there are all the other reasons not to be on github too.