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SourceHut, Notabug, Codeberg, etc. are free in both money and liberty, unlike GitHub.
How are you being oppressed by a SaaS offering that charges you nothing and uses a standard protocol (git)?
uff. I cant even imagine what loosing github would mean to an economy and hope you will be back on track soon.
I doubt it would mean much, you don't even need to self-host git just use gitlab, bitbucket, etc. Hobbyists and small projects would be the most affected but VPN's are a trivial solution for this demographic.
The fact that people rely on GitHub, even when it is based on git, which is free and distributed software, shows how easy it is for big companies to force users into their closed software.
Indian here. This seems to be blown a bit out of proportion. I am residing in a Tier-1 city in India and have an internet connection with a local ISP. I am able to access the content on the supposed blocked domain, so this is probably one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so (court order can't be ISP-specific AFAIK). I work in a large consultancy firm and have friends in other…
What do you mean blown out of proportion? OP has mentioned that it's a partial block and shared a source showing multiple people facing the same issue.
It is on the HN front page :)
What’s Microsoft’s reaction?
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Your instructions would only apply to a dead repo. Migrating an active repo is going to require coordination, dry runs, validation, and planning coupled with updates across your integrations. If you rewrite any history, all bets are off. You're also not taking into account any cleanup activities like reflog expire, or gc prune. I would also argue that moving to a self hosted remote is going to have significant admini…
> updates across your integrations That's already vendor lock in - you're using GitHub's CI pipeline? You're locked.
Indian here. This seems to be blown a bit out of proportion. I am residing in a Tier-1 city in India and have an internet connection with a local ISP. I am able to access the content on the supposed blocked domain, so this is probably one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so (court order can't be ISP-specific AFAIK). I work in a large consultancy firm and have friends in other…
Works for me, no repro, not an issue, right? The post specifically mentions which one ISP is doing the blocking. If you're not using them, then it likely wouldn't affect you... until your ISP also starts following the order. If anything, your comment is trying to heavily downplay what is happening.
But I also mentioned it is unlikely to happen since all major IT Consultancy firms in the country rely on GitHub for their work in one way or another. And not just with their code but also with their client's code.
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By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism
Bypassing the block renders the authoritarian control measures ineffective and/or void. This is an act of resistance in itself. Why do you think bypassing the ban is conforming to authority?
While F you, got mine is tempting, you gotta remember the follow through. Always punch up.
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Here in China the GFW block any traffic with encrypted SNI.
Hence the "no fallback" point. Bad guys can always block entire IPs, and by not having a fallback to insecure SNI, that's their only choice.
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I doubt it would mean much, you don't even need to self-host git just use gitlab, bitbucket, etc. Hobbyists and small projects would be the most affected but VPN's are a trivial solution for this demographic.
The code you need to read, the bugs you need to file and the downloads you need to make from every other project will still be on GitHub. I don’t use GitHub for issues or version control at work, but I’d be significantly slowed down without it.