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ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot

Mar 27, 2026

GitHub has announced that going forward, your data on GitHub will be used to train Microsoft's Copilot LLM. Here's how to opt-out.

ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot

The Awesome Curated Universe

raindog308

Dec 17, 2024

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Need software? Big data sets? Sysadmin tools? You need awesome.

Will GitHub Ever Remove This Nulled WHMCS Repo?

raindog308

Feb 05, 2024

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I reported a repo for offering nulled WHMCS on January 20. GitHub doesn't seem that interested.

Will GitHub Ever Remove This Nulled WHMCS Repo?

Open Source. But Not Open Contributions.

raindog308

May 23, 2023

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Many open source projects are not open contribution. You can get the source code, but they're not interested in your pull request. Why?

Open Source. But Not Open Contributions.

Dealing with Large Files on GitHub

raindog308

May 02, 2023

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Ever try to push a 30MB PNG to GitHub? Good luck. However, using a third-party git add-on, it's a piece of cake.

Looking Back on the GitHub Acquisition: Are You Still on GitHub?

raindog308

Apr 27, 2023

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Five years ago, in June 2018, Microsoft announced it was buying GitHub. At the time, there was a tremendous amount of screeching in the developer communities. Although the site was moving from propri...

Looking Back on the GitHub Acquisition: Are You Still on GitHub?

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

raindog308

Sep 06, 2022

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I have not, but maybe you have. If so, please comment and let us know what you think. I just stumbled across them while browsing tonight and when I saw free tier I knew I had to write it up for the...

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

raindog308

Sep 06, 2022

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In a textbook example of good customer service and proper crisis management (even though this is no crisis), MXroute founder and former LowEndTalk administrator @jar disclosed the following: Github's...

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

Github Entertains During Its Outage

raindog308

Feb 22, 2022

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By the time you read this, the issue my be fixed, but today when I went to install Joplin, I was greeted by this amusing picture. Apparently, Joplin is hosted on GitHub and they're having an issue tod...

Setting up Git for Free on a VPS

Jon Biloh

Oct 05, 2016

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Have you thought about setting up your own private Git server on a spare VPS? Thanks to the popularity of services like GitHub, Git has become very widespread among the developer community. You don't...