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Martin from GitHub here - the offending repos have been taken down, but the article from Roman is still very much worth reading to understand the attack vector attempted.

The technology behind pulling together this is fantastic so def worth reading the links. Joshua's work around doing the OCR of the paper printouts and using the CRC's in the margin…

We are not training on the contents of private repos, but we do plan on training on usage data with Copilot unless you opt out before April 24. Details here: https://github.blog/ne…

It wasn’t previously opt-in. Previously we didn’t do any training on usage. However as other products have come into the market they do train on usage. We’ve been training on our i…

No we won’t. Details here https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi... For users of Free, Pro and Pro+ Copilot, if you don’t opt out then we will start collectin…

We are not. The reason we wanted to announce early was so that folks had plenty of time to opt-out now. We've also added the opt-out setting even if you don't use Copilot so that y…

Hey David - if you want to send me (martinwoodward at github.com) details of your GitHub account I can take a look. At a guess I suspect you are one of the many folks who qualified…

We do not train on the contents from any paid organization’s repos, regardless of whether a user is working in that repo with a Copilot Free, Pro, or Pro+ subscription. If a user’s…

If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect data for product improvements, your preference has been retained here. We figured if you didn't want that then…

Just confirming, we do not use Copilot interaction data for model training of Copilot Business or Enterprise customers.

Since 2017 they are yes.

I kinda wish I had that much power. There would certainly be less people in the world listening to their phones without headphones.. Usually starts with contacting them over email …

Martin from GitHub here. This type of behaviour is explicitly against the GitHub terms of service, when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those a…

Honestly, it's not an area where there has been consensus on when we talk with maintainers. Some folks worry about that reducing the very nature of open source collaboration. We've…

This should be fixed now. See the thread for more details. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758#discuss...

If anyone wants to see the most used languages on GitHub then we post that data regularly in our Octoverse report ( https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages ). T…

Martin from GitHub here. I think we’d consider this very much ‘by design’ in removing the streak counter so I’m glad it had the desired affect. Coding 100 days straight with no bre…

Sounds good - LMK if you find it's not working that way for you.

FWIW we have a quite a bit of history of allowing people to protect their privacy. https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/…

Yes, and I think yes but I would need to test it to be sure. I do know the contributions disappear if you only have public contributions enabled and then turn a repo private but if…

Martin from GitHub here. The "leaderboards" are actually what you see as "Most Helpful" tables in GitHub Discussions (see https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions for an exam…

Talking about it - https://talk.commonmark.org/t/math-rendering-re-visited/4086

The idea of the bang syntax came up. https://talk.commonmark.org/t/mermaid-generation-of-diagrams... But in the end went with simple. There will be a very limited subset that will …

For more information, the interview with one of the creators of Copilot has been posted here https://www.githubuniverse.com/2021/session/707714/inside-gi...