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Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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I've been saying this since 2023 > If your data is stored in a database that a company can freely read and access (i.e. not end-to-end encrypted), the company will eventually update their ToS so they can use your data for AI training — the incentives are too strong to resist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124188

I’m still concerned about MS using the code I write on my laptop to train AI. Tinfoil hat wearing Linux users are starting to make a lot of sense to me.

You don't need a tinfoil hat so see the value in having a computer you fully own as opposed to one where some company can push whatever you want and all you get to say is "yes master" or perhaps if you are really lucky, "maybe later".

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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You're right, of course, and I find it frustrating that people are so thick as to not see your claim as obvious. Stallman is always right.

About technology. About communication with other humans he’s pretty much always wrong. Imagine we’d had a better communicator who wasn’t a gross toe nail picking troll fronting free software? It shouldn’t matter. Only the ideas should matter . But the reality is different.

Imagine if we cared more about what people have to say and do rather than how smooth they are at conning you.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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About technology. About communication with other humans he’s pretty much always wrong. Imagine we’d had a better communicator who wasn’t a gross toe nail picking troll fronting free software? It shouldn’t matter. Only the ideas should matter . But the reality is different.

He argued against EU proposals for ISPs to filter CSAM on the basis of protecting free expression. Not always right about technology, either.

What have the proponents of those proposal done about Epstein's clients? I think that tells you all you need to know about how serious they are about protecting children which should then make you think real hard about what the real reason for those proposals is.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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I don't like when people make sarcastic remarks and sign off in a way that indicates it was sarcasm. It kills it for me. Lol. Like using that /s or using that smiling emoji sign you used. A good joke would land even if some other people miss it because of the text format. "Microsoft would never do this" would have landed for me.

You opinion on this matter means a lot to me and I will definitely take it into account for my future posts /s

Glad to have changed you!
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