OMG, I had already installed an email deletion rule on my own mail server for emails that contain the phrase "GitHub Copilot" in the subject line, BUT NOW GITHUB HAS STARTED SENDING THOSE TO MY SECONDARY EMAIL AS WELL!!!!!

Bullshit-ass motherfucking spam company!!!

Yeah no, this is the last straw, I'm gonna have to start planning for moving away from GitHub in the long term... there is no way I can tolerate this.

@siguza the one i got went straight to my spam folder

@Rairii it's not even that, it's the fact that they KNOW that we're blocking their spam, and are now actively trying to evade this.

@siguza self-host gitlab like git.w212.org

@spv been there done that 10 years ago, never again will I host GitLab. I'd rather use SVN before touching GitLab again.

@siguza lmao i feel like there's a story here, maybe gitea instead?

we could get @qwertyoruiop on this

@spv @qwertyoruiop yes, I'm already running a gitea instance. Lowkey annoyed about the ownerchip of that though, but I'll have to see how well Forgejo does... but either way, that instance is private, and idk if I wanna change that. I could spin up a second instance no problem, but then what? Federation is nowhere near ready. Expect everyone to sign up to my instance for pull requests and issues? Ugh.

@siguza they sent this to every email I have listed in every org meaning multiple emails to each account

@siguza @qwertyoruiop they're doing federation? never heard about that

what issues did you have with gitlab?

@spv @qwertyoruiop oh, just the fact that it's a bloated pile of garbage that needs multiple GB of RAM and idk how much CPU power even when idle. Its user interface also feels like a bloated mess though.

This is probably meant as a shitpost, but it raises an important point:

https://hachyderm.io/@cpu/113675527850607878

GitHub itself is closed-source, and if they let Copilot write their code without (sufficient) supervision now, then the site itself can't be trusted anymore...

@siguza GitHub offers a self-hosted option, so if you really want to audit the code, https://enterprise.github.com/releases/ and https://bounty.github.com/targets/github-enterprise-server.html

@zhuowei @siguza Note that you definitely shouldn't generate yourself a license key based on this blog post: https://blog.rabit.pw/2022/github-enterprise-reverse-engineering/

@buherator @zhuowei okay that's actually pretty sick, but... too much work to keep monitoring, and no real advantage in self-hosting this over Gitea...