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Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

pv8

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Fix virtualenv symlinks after upgrading python with Homebrew and then running
# `cleanup`.
#
# After upgrading Python using Homebrew and then running `brew cleanup` one can
# get this message while trying to run python:
# dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../.Python
#   Referenced from: /Users/pablo/.venv/my-app/bin/python
#   Reason: image not found

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The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

I'm still holding out for this being a hoax, a big joke, and that they're going to cancel the kickstarter any minute. It'd be quite the cute "lessons learned" about anonymity scams. However, I will be treating it from here on out as a genuine scam. (As of May 2nd, the kickstarter has been cancelled, after the strangest attempt to reply to this imaginable. Good riddance.)

This absolutely ridiculous thing was brought to my attention by a friend and since it was late at night I thought I must be delirious in how absurdly over the top fake it seemed. So I slept on it, woke up, and found that it had gotten a thousand dollars more funding and was every bit as flabbergasting as I thought it was.

Since I realize that not everyone has spent their entire lives studying computers – and such people are the targets of such scams –

shime

Having trouble installing the latest stable version of tmux?

I know, official package for your OS/distro is outdated and you just want the newest version of tmux.

Well, this script should save you some time with that.

Prerequisities

• gcc

prebenlm

Irssi in Mac OS X Notification Center

Overview

This guide will explain how you can make irc messages in a screen on a remote server appear in your Mac OS X Lion Notification Center with the help of terminal-notifier.

We will also explain how the process can be automatically started each time you log in to your Mac and ensure the connection to the server is kept alive.

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import random

for i in range(0, 100):
    if not i % 15:
        random.seed(1178741599)
    print [i+1, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][random.randint(0,3)]