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An interesting somewhat related thing. GitHub has a program called "GitHub Next" where they work on future stuff. Many of their projects are related to GitHub Copilot. Recently I got an E-Mail from "githubnext.com" (not github.com, mind you) which said something along the lines of: "Congrats, you now have preview access to GitHub Copilot CLI. Please download and globally install this node module, run a command to authenticate it with your GitHub account and then add x lines to your shell profile." I was in all honesty perplexed. I know that it's GitHub who's actually behind it and not some scam. But just because of how much they managed to make it _seem_ like a scam i noped out of their whole program.



I was similarly confused when officially sanctioned GitHub project chose to use a non-github.com domain for their things. But then, we're talking about Microsoft in the end here, who are famous for changing domains every N months at least, particularly when it comes to authentication services.

Remind me, how many domains do you go through again when authenticating with online version of Outlook? Last time I looked, they send you through something like 4 different domains. And emails from Microsoft seemingly are on purpose sent from as many different domains as possible.




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