'free'
So is that 'sell my data' free? Or 'get you hooked on the product and then add a subscription a year later' free?
Bastards.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Both. And there is no guarantee they are not selling your data even if you pay.
Enterprise versions of Copilot do guarantee in the contract that they are not selling your data or using it to train their LLM.
If would be amazing to stop using the word free when we are talking about companies like Microsoft and Google
honestly copilot is great just to autocomplete repetitive lines of code but not enough to pay. i find the emmet snippets much better.
I've had much joy from using 'windsurf', the VSCode clone with the stupidest name.
Same here. I'm a Cursor subscriber but I loked Windsurf better after using its free trial.
Oh good, FREE SLOP FOR ALL!
uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:
github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###copilot-button-container
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
github.blog##article.changelog-label-models
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(LLM)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(OpenAI)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(ChatGPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(GPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Llama)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Gemini)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Grok)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(DeepSeek)
Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot
Time to start using VSCodium then, I want no cloud AI in my development setup.
i like vscodium but is sublime text still worth it. i use it for some things but the packages are harder to find/manage, i feel.
Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,
no complaints about it, imo it's what VSCode should be.
better use Zed, it is hot cake
just waiting on the windows version :(
i hope it never comes, use gnu/linux
as soon as i can afford a new laptop but until then i have what i have
Linux excels over windows on older laptops
But it has ai chats baked in as well, or is there a way to disable it? Haven’t looked properly yet.
there are ways to disable that, check r/zed
I don't need help to do copyright infringement Microsoft.
Better tl:dr;
GitHub announced a free version of its Copilot code completion tool, previously only available to students and open-source maintainers. The free plan, limited to 2,000 code completions per month, aims to expand Copilot’s reach and enable more developers worldwide. GitHub also announced reaching 150 million developers on its platform.
Can i point it at a local endpoint or do they wanna force me to send all my code to thwir servers
Run copilot’s proprietary model locally? You’re dreaming. But you can do this with ollama, and they aren’t forcing you. There are many local models that works pretty well.
I used Ollama locally and it worked decently well. Code suggestions were fast and relatively accurate (as far as an LLM goes). The real issue was the battery hit. Oh man, it HALVED my battery life, which is already short enough when running a server locally
No i mean i assume they are shipping a vscode extension as default. I was wondering if said extension allows me to point at said locally run model.
They aren't. Copilot is not a built-in extension. Can't say much about future plans though.
The fact that it even exists still shows how bad the state of programming is nowadays.
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