The data GitHub wants includes:

- Model outputs that have been accepted or modified;
- Model inputs including code snippets shown;
- Code context surrounding your cursor position;
- Comments and documentation you’ve written;
- File names and repo structure;
- Interactions with Copilot features (e.g. chats); and
- Feedback (e.g. thumbs up/down ratings)…

As the FAQs explain: “If a Copilot user has their settings set to enable model training on their interaction data, code snippets from private repositories can be collected and used for model training while the user is actively engaged with Copilot while working in that repository.”

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

Such an easy but interesting, awesome concept, as if sound octaves (e.g. solfege)! ✨
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège (Syllables are assigned to the notes of the scale and assist the musician in audiating…)

Of course… Thank you! Thank you, dear @TootSweet@lemmy.world ! ✨

No. Thanks, Zed Team, but I’ll never use your software that trains on me as if on a puppet, eventually making you more smarter and prosperous than me in return, atrophying my skills and desire for fun of development, and sharing you my knowledge and experience. Nor anyone I know does, nor would they support your “supportive” toolset.

Thank you, but I do not consider LLM equal to a calculator.

The latter doesn’t normally have any feedback, and has a constant solid system, where you may always expect the result won’t change in time all of a sudden, and predict it. There’s a circuit and read-only memory of its flashed program looped.

None of this is true in the context of the former - LLM. Here, an output may change each iterration due to the nature of LLM algorithms as “self-training”. The constant fear of the algorithm “plausible” mistakes, and it confidence in proving those are correct… is… unbearable…

Of course, hence not even stated.

Related:
- https://lemmy.world/comment/22807780 (You could have made your edit with ai…)
- https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/952771 (Turns out Generative AI was a scam…)

I am sorry… and I do get that some people stand behind these projects… probably working hard… but…
Thank you… thank you… thank you…

✨🛡 Hurrah! Hurrah! HURRAH! 🛡✨

# Jolla Phone (Sep-II 2026)

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it…

- Sailfish OS community members voted on what the next Jolla device should be. The key characteristics, specifications and features of the device.

Source: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026

-–

Sailfish OS is an open platform based on Linux and over 500 open source projects. Licensees get full source code access to the OS, tooling, and infrastructure… 22 APIs… 31 policies…

…is compatible with the Android ecosystem, and so able to run Android apps and support Android device hardware. However, it’s fully independent, and not a derivative or a fork of the Android codebase…

…has great developer offering with fast cross-platform builds using Docker, a powerful command-line interface, improved coding assistance with Clang Code Model, 64-bit builds, C++14, Rust, CMake…

Source: https://sailfishos.org/

Related: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-lights-on-technical-bits-and-the-schedule/27821 ✨

“It’s a bit of a surprise – when you enter a competition, you always hope to do well but you never really think you’re going to win it,” he explained.

Hobson, 67, who started taking pictures more than 40 years ago, said it wasn’t an easy shot to capture, requiring patience and a homemade waterproofing technique.

He knew the pond was used by toads for breeding.

To try and capture an image looking up from the bottom of the pond, he built a glass box to put his camera in, setting up the lens and focus beforehand.

Source

My gracious sakes… In these horribly sorrowful times of void-empty bloody awful dead AI… Thank you… heartfelt… thank you… for those who do still do and love the process, the effort, the approach reaching for a miracle… And those, who glorify and share gratitude towards these magnificent events… keeping it in the infinite history with achievements and awards, too…
Thank you… for the marvel you do…

I am sorry, @bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works…
Have you considered travelling? For a search for new people! New worldviews! New unique miracles!
You may start from places where more people may know English language, but still more unusual in your case.
For instance, to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, France…

There’s a whole world out there! 💫

Right at this moment I captured the online live cam at Temple Bar bellow. You may check out the inner camera, too!:

Holy smokes! Now this is a pure miracle exposed! An X200 Lenovo ThinkPad! ✨

I have Debian with AwesomeWM on non-tablet awesome ThinkPad X201 i7 620M, chassis 3249CTO, I pre-purhased in 2010, and it works as a charm with KDE Plasma latest even! <3

Magnificent support for every single hardware module… iwlwifi for the Wi-Fi, Gobi 2000 SIM and GPS, too… Everything…
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22463493

On X200, though, I would start with a minimal latest Debian install with AwesomeWM, too, and tried benchmarking.

@nerdhd@lemmy.world

If they did, I do get the rationale behind a Community as Lobsters, who try to express their tolerance and some kind of understanding. Who do not want to associate themselves with stance against Microsoft and certain Linux maintainers. It’s understood.

Meanwhile, I do not agree this being “bulls*it”, sorry. The person who tries to affect a substantial number of people, or likely the third of Earth’s environments, a person who does indeed implement a feature that decreases the privacy of numerous people, where their very operating system tells everyone their birth date (as if “doxxing” indeed)… should have asked the very world prior changes, and considered the magnitude of impact, or a backfire from people who believe in fair and personal life where you control your machines in your environment, and not vice-versa.

Those who don’t use Systemd, probably won’t bother, but even Valve’s Steam Deck has it.
If you did consider only people names, which were already public, please do consider the information and effort of the article author once more.
The article doesn’t include just a few already public personal details, but also important historical events, comparisons of accountability of people involved, great presentation of issues accumulated within a scoped time event, and not to mention warnings for the future or “good reason”.

Drop this line here, no point in speculating what people might want to use it for, just define what it is
Source: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954#discussion_r2955885459

-–

- “Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we pay for just getting out on the internet.” ~ Gary Kovacs
- “I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.” ~ Banksy

In March of 2026, systemd, the init system that boots most modern Linux distributions, merged a pull request adding a birthDate field to its user database.

The stated purpose was compliance with California’s AB-1043, Colorado’s SB26-051, and Brazil’s Lei 15.211/2025, a wave of age verification laws requiring operating systems to collect birth dates from users at account setup, then feed that data to app stores via a real-time API…

The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal…

Nobody paid him to do this. He’s a cloud engineer who read the law and decided someone needed to implement it…

The pattern HN picked up immediately… That’s the true believer pattern… Every objection the community raised went nowhere: that this enables surveillance infrastructure, that lying is trivially easy, that the laws themselves are unconstitutional overreach…

The open source community has always relied on the assumption that contributors act in good faith toward user freedom…

The community needs to recognize the pattern before the PR opens, not after.

Source: The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

But… why? And the comment came from the generation raised… So incredibly… sorrowful…

There is a moment, late at night, when the hospital is quietest. Not silent. A hospital is never silent. There is the beeping and the footsteps and the soft pneumatic sigh of a door closing on the ICU ward. But the administrative floors are dark. The compliance department is dark. The revenue cycle office is dark. The spreadsheets are still running on servers in a windowless room on the second sublevel, but no one is watching them. The spreadsheets do not need to be watched. They do what spreadsheets do.

I go home. I have a home in a neighborhood where the ambulances do not come often. I have a personal laptop. Sometimes, late, I open it. Not for work. For something else.

The CMS price transparency portal is public. Anyone can search it. I searched it once. I typed in my own hospital. I typed in a procedure I had last year — a routine thing, nothing serious, the kind of thing a man my age gets checked. I found the chargemaster price. I found the negotiated price my executive plan paid. I found the cash-pay price.

The cash-pay price was eleven times what my plan paid. For the same room. The same machine. The same technician who called me “sir” because she had seen my badge and knew my title.

I closed the laptop. I did not search again.

Source: The Price Is Correct

Related: The Claim Was Processed (Before I explain what my department does, I need to explain why it exists…)

This is not just a Linux distro. It’s a satellite drifting through the universe of code and possibility - for you, for everyone, forever free…
Built with ❤️ by one developer, for the entire world.
Source: https://vostoklinux.org/about

I believe that the developer must be: https://github.com/davidivashevich

Awesome! I donated just a single $1 this time at ItchIO, since I have already encountered generated effortless AI slop, and am very careful, and I am very sorry if it’s not…

It’s worth to mention that this project reminded me of Stellar Terminus (Tumblr) I am also waiting for, and now, I am looking forward for the developer and artist of this project to express their worldview in their artwork, to leave the artprint in the infinitely magnificent Universe of miracles, imagination, and purpose!

I wish the artist success, prosperity, and peace!

I believe you are an artist, who uses their own hands, and this is already an incredible miracle… This is wat Thank you, heartfelt, for being and artist!

Meanwhile, please consider sharing about it at !modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org; it must be a misunderstanding. I had a relatively similar case, but still no response, too: https://lemmy.world/comment/22144335 (Yet, Lemmy is sure a place, too… where you may get inhumanly banned…)

Please don’t worry much, it will be alright… You just keep doing what you do, practice, and draw/express your experience, brilliance!
Something whispers, that you’ll be eventually fine and successful.

Dear @tired_n_bored@lemmy.world, please accept a warm hug, and a great high-five! I believe you are a true, accountable, and actual developer, who believes in purpose and self-confidence! This is what is important. To develop not only some software but your own mind and yourself as a human individual, with unique and ineffably magnificent mind.

Just like if you want nonsensical articles with invented facts, then article writing is a practical use case. But as I’ve pointed out already no reputable editorial is now using LLMs to write their articles…
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22132775

-–

The point is, there has always been a trade-off between the speed of development and quality of engineering…
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22351660

-–

“I’m Feeling Lucky” intelligence is optimized for arrival, not for becoming. You get the answer but nothing else (keep in mind we are assuming that it’s a good answer).

You don’t learn how ideas fight, mutate, or die. You don’t develop a sense for epistemic smell or the ability to feel when something is off before you can formally prove it…
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22522382

It’s a freaking mess, indeed. I am in a web and network security developer myself, since ~2000. And I do have some slight panic feel myself, trying to learn about it when time is available, with just a very little use of AI at work to almost nothing. And I do eliminate anything AI from personal life, including art and hobby - I will always do so.
Here, even if someone pushes you for to it, please do keep standing your point respectfully prioritizing confidence and self-awareness. Since, in the end, we must always stay human, I believe. Please don’t lose yourself in the trends and unstable technology. As we know, what is important is a human to stay a responsible, neat, respectful, and love-felt human, for the sake of magnificent future, your family, and your love for people, purpose, and art.

I believe it’ll be alright, but we must always be careful, as developers, and people.
And, sure, I wish you peace, stability, organization, and success!

Related: https://youtu.be/dbMXi9q78Tk (I almost quit YouTube… In this video, you’ll hear my honest take on AI burnout, the viral Matt Schumer article, OpenClaw, tech layoffs in 2026, and why the anxiety is the real problem… )