*GitHub Copilot just removed the one thing that kept it out of my servers: the login.

In the new 1.122 release, Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) finally works without a GitHub sign in. No Microsoft account, no Copilot subscription, no authentication handshake. You install the Copilot CLI, point it at a model, and it just runs.

That model can be anything. A local Ollama instance on the box itself, or a …*