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  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after allEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Date

    As of April 24 you’ll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

    Current scope

    The code locker’s revised policy applies to Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ customers, as of April 24. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are exempt thanks to the terms of their contracts. Students and teachers who access Copilot will also be spared.

    To opt out (link edited by me to make it clickable)

    Those affected have the option to opt out in accordance with “established industry practices” – meaning according to US norms as opposed to European norms where opt-in is commonly required. To opt out, GitHub users should visit github.com/settings/copilot/features and disable “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” under the Privacy heading.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outagesEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Both factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome

    The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.

    When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.

    The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example

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