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> April 28, 2026 > GitHub Enterprise Server customers should upgrade immediately - at the time of this writing, our data indicates that 88% of instances are still vulnerable > Upgr…

I'm asking about the infrastructure, obviously they chose for some reason to make my computer fans turn on to show some red and green lines on a text file.

> Git is pretty simple internally, and its ui is just knobs and levers to reach into that simple reliable internal structure. that's not true either. originally it was simple inter…

anyone who's actually worked there, could you explain why they're finding scalability and reliability so hard? naively it seems like 'repo groups', ie clusters of repositories link…

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

github added support for this in the last six hours - https://github.github.com/gh-stack/faq/#will-this-work-with-...

raph wrote about that already: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/07/15/next-dozen-g...

why did you make it so complicated? magit has a `magit-wip-mode` that just silently creates refs in git intermittently so you can just use the reflog to get things back.

would diffusion models benefit from things like Cerebras hardware?

of course not, but it can often give a plausible answer, and it's possible that answer will actually happen to be correct - not because it did any - or is capable of any - introspe…

> Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license? what proprietary software stack? they just publish it all on https://github.com/oxi…

it's simpler than that - making it faster means it becomes less of an asynchronous task. current speeds are "ask it to do a thing and then you the human need find something else to…

which won't be surprising if you think about a little bit - 8.8.0/24 is anycasted, which just means that multiple independent locations around the world announce the IP range, so t…

yes, OPs one has strictly less listings (diskprices.com does multiple countries).

why would you look at the "front page" if you only wanted to see things you subscribed to? that's what the "latest" and whatever the other one is for. they have definitely made red…

> I have ADHD. I think. then think about talking to a medical professional, and a therapist, and coming up with your own coping strategies. > How do you manage the constant stream …

yes

Someone should IARC the internal one.

anything critical of the US regime is almost immediately flagged and downvoted. it's uh pretty confronting!

yes, obviously? anyone who is doing serious enough engineering that they have the rule of "one human writes, one human reviews" wants two humans to actually put careful thought in …