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> Forgejo in particular has self-hosted actions runners that can be registered offline, and the runners themselves can be given labels and execute most existing GitHub actions (in …

Reminds of the GitHub issue for hosting Gitea on Gitea, it's... a read to be sure: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

IIRC people actually tried to get rid of that. Thankfully it failed.

I hate these 2FA mandates. I don't use PyPI, but I do use GitHub, which has also announced a 2FA mandate. I use my GitHub account to make bug reports, small pull requests, and sill…

And that's what I deserve for not reading the entire page. Thanks for the correction.

On the topic of user freedom, Firefox also doesn't allow installing extensions not signed by Mozilla unless you use a fork, Nightly, or Developer Edition (which is just a badly nam…

Firefox doesn't allow users to install unsigned extensions unless they use a beta version, because users apparently can't be trusted to install software. I trust Mozilla to fight f…

This is really minor compared to other parts of Firefox. Notably, Firefox requires all extensions to be signed by Mozilla. And the only way to turn that restriction off, is to eith…

I just wish Firefox would stop trying to open external programs when I type "site:" in the address bar. It's so annoying to type "site:example.com hello" and just get a "No apps av…

I've never contributed to Go before, but from reading this, I have to wonder who thought this system was a good idea. From the sounds of it, the only situation where this PR-mirror…

So does all forms of automation. By your logic we should've never invented computers because they took jobs from human computers[0]. Improved technology and automation reduces jobs…

Like GitHub's new code viewer! I have to load the raw text just so I can use Ctrl-F!

> I've been using Discord since 2017 and in that time I think I've literally never accidentally joined a voice channel? I've also been on Discord since 2017, and I've done it many …

Please no. As someone who doesn't use voice channels, I can't even count how many times I've accidentally joined them because I mis-clicked. And then I have to find the "end call" …

Not a lawyer, but if this was true, wouldn't a bunch of developers and companies be facing fines? Especially smaller open-source stuff. And larger companies as well (for instance, …

People generating fake photos will just use an AI that doesn't leave a watermark. We are quickly approaching the point at which AI-generated and real images just cannot be distingu…

> If you allowed free reign access to the sensors people could record the inside of your house/work, capture your face, fingerprints, retinal pattern etc. Yes, yes they could. That…