GitHub: We going to train on your data after all
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: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

Microsoft’s GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – “specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context” – to train its AI models.

  • uenticx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • nlgranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Maintenance cost, security hardening, visibility, that’s a few reasons coming from the top of my head.

    • limer@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      It may be difficult to self host for many years without significant downtime. I have some repos over 20 years old, and have gone through several boom and bust cycles myself.