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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 02:27:48 JST mcc

   By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code written by Claude will actually have a warning sigil

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     Coraline Ada Ehmke (coralineada@ruby.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 11:55:27 JST Coraline Ada Ehmke

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     @mcc I actually built the feature that warns you about blocked users, back when I worked for Github for a minute. Could not have predicted this use case!

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     Martin Hamilton (m@martinh.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 11:56:09 JST Martin Hamilton

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     • Coraline Ada Ehmke

     @CoralineAda @mcc Thank you so much for this, Coraline - you may have just saved humanity! :blobthanks:

     Hmmm. Perhaps we could use the GH API to give us an early warning when a much loved codebase is compromised. Maybe starting with something like this:

     curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH_TOKEN" \
     -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
     "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=is:pr+is:merged+author:claude&per_page=100&page=1" \
     | jq -r '.items[].repository_url | sub("https://api.github.com/repos/";"")' \
     | sort \
     | uniq -c
     

     This gets us a very lazyweb list of recently infected repos, although there are only ten results returned, with no pagination. That's a bit less than the 2.3 million commits reported in the web UI :blobfoxconfused:

     1 biner88/chart_sparkline
     1 davidray/twitter-bootstrap-calendar
     1 laudspeaker/laudspeaker
     1 ripienaar/free-for-dev
     4 segmentio/action-destinations
     2 uptech/flutter_app_analytics
     (etc)
     

     Also author:claude is of course but one vector for the hungry ghosts... :sadturtle: