alt Hacker News> It just takes a bit of planning.
Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes.
github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basically everything you can think of for the last few years has been through this approach.
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efilife • yesterday at 3:07 PM
I wonder how they prompted these users to change their usernames. Was it just a "we need your username for our business, so comply" notice?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210702114132/github.com/copilo... some proof this was an actual user
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"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"