And on users that don’t even use github, other than the required account to use CoPilot in Visual Studio.

Exactly.

This affects anyone using VS Code or Copilot with proprietary data, including all the users automating workflows through the Copilot SDK and the like. A perfect storm.

Did anyone from GitHub's legal team actually authorise this, or did they use Copilot to sign off on it?

I thought that’s more what the CoPilot change is really about - not your repo, but all the code CoPilot read while it is offering helpful completions, etc - so literally the code on your laptop. I cancelled my account.

Now THIS is what the Internet was supposed to be about! :)

Well put. And that last 10% was always the hardest part, and now it’s almost impossible because emotionally you’re even less prepared for the slog ahead.

I would love to hear more about that.

I wish I'd kept a listing of that and other projects I worked on. But that never occurred to me.

A friend of mine wrote the Mattel Intellivision poker game. I was playtesting it (a very boring job), and got suspicious. I walked over to his desk and said the program was cheating. It was looking at my hole cards. He sighed and asked how I knew, and I replied it was obvious. He said he didn't have room to add code to improve its play otherwise. I don't know if he fixed it or not.

I have similar experiences. It has worked about half the time, but the code has to be pretty simple. I’ve many experiences, where we work on something complicated for an hour, and it is good compiling code, but then an edge case comes to mind that I ask about and Claude tells me the whole approach is doomed and will never work for that case. It has even apologized a few times for misleading me :) I feel like it’s this weird mix of brilliant moron. But yeah, ask for a simple HTML page with a few fields and it rocks.

I’m too cynical because at this point I can only believe this is to help billionaires and ICE hide their identities/money, or it’s to strip away all privacy (as bills are often named the opposite of their purpose).

Forcing everyone’s retirement funds to buy (at the artificially high and unsustainable price) is the scandal. Clever ploy to move more money from the plebes to the billionaires.

Good thing we can also preemptively divest on our retail accounts and just wait this out so we don’t get stuck bag-holding this turd sandwich. Ooh wait, selling triggers cap gains taxes.

What a great scam. So either dump all your index funds and pay the huge tax bill now or stay in and hope against all signs and odds that someone does something to stop this.

You can hedge the position via options without having a taxable event on passive investment.

How do you make sure each human gets only one vote?

It's not a vote. You select your own set filters/ mod lists