BST, GitHub and Stockholm Syndrome

We are back onto BST today and longer days are here. Rejoice! It’s that time of year again when tax returns become due and must be paid. No rejoice. On my first day of BST (bullsh*t summer time), I notice a lot of complaints again about dear GitHub. Everyone is up in arms, rage-baited once more by something or other GitHub-related. Oh, today they are upset by GitHub’s plans to train AI on data generated from users Copilot interactions. From April 24 onward, interaction data — specifically in...