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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

Advent of Code, 2018 Edition

Here's a curated list of Advent of Code events for the 2018 holiday season. This is a living list, all PR's are welcome (and encouraged).

Wha?

An Advent of Code is like an advent calendar for nerds. First you might want to know what an Advent Calendar is - the TL;DR is it is normally a paper calender where there is a small treat hidden behind a perforated opening for each day in the month of December, leading up to the 25th. For our purposes though, instead of a physical calendar with candies, we get a coding challenge for each day - a great way to work some coding muscles and get exposed to new ways of writing software.

These calendars normally kick off on December 1, and each day presents a new challenge or task. Some of the websites in this list will not update until December 1, so this list may also grow extremely quickly just before the month of December kicks off.

Update: https://www.cyanhall.com/posts/notes/7.homebrew-cheatsheet/#java

on El Capitan, after installing the brew...

$ brew update
$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew install Caskroom/cask/java

And Java 8 will be installed at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.xxx.jdk/

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (~~HTTPS Everywhere~~ No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, ~~Privacy Badger~~ etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

Pull Request Process

Ensure any install or build dependencies are removed before the end of the layer when doing a

There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.

All three of these mistakes have been made in Kubernetes code, getting past code review at least once each that I know of.

Loop variables are scoped outside the loop.

What do these lines do? Make predictions and then scroll down.

func print(pi *int) { fmt.Println(*pi) }

This guide is outdated

Please check out the official installation guide here: https://github.com/mark2devel/mark2/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Prerequisites

a vswap OpenVZ VPS or a KVM/Xen/VMware VPS with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS installed (architecture doesn't matter), or a dedicated server
patience and a willingness to learn
approximately 10 minutes of time

	$ brew install imagemagick
	# `convert` and `mogrify` provided by imagemagick
	$ mogrify --version
	Version: ImageMagick 7.0.7-3 Q16 x86_64 2017-09-18 http://www.imagemagick.org
	Copyright: © 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC
	License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
	Features: Cipher DPC HDRI Modules
	Delegates (built-in): bzlib freetype jng jpeg ltdl lzma png tiff xml zlib

	# "mogrify quite useful in converting icons to multilayered ICO format from SVG images.

	#!/bin/bash

	### USAGE
	###
	### ./ElasticSearch.sh 1.7 will install Elasticsearch 1.7
	### ./ElasticSearch.sh will fail because no version was specified (exit code 1)
	###
	### CLI options Contributed by @janpieper
	### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch

	#!/bin/bash

	# install homebrew's official php tap
	brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php

	# install homebrew-dupes (required to install zlib, php54's dependency)
	brew tap homebrew/dupes

	# install nginx + mysql + php 5.4 + php-fpm + apc + xdebug
	brew install nginx mysql