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Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by couchand »

davemp wrote: post #94

Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…

I've been very happy with SourceHut (git.sr.ht). It's fast and slick. Does what you need, none of the cruft. Among other things, I really like: I can push to any URL under my username and it creates a repo automatically, and that it reminds me to put a license file on public repos.

I really like how the author is open about both the development and the business side.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #91
dataengineer56 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that looking at repos is just about the only thing that I can do then I'd say that seems unlikely.

I was more implying that this could be a result of an attack borne out of retribution.

Is the implication that someone affiliated with Twitter took down GitHub because of something someone hosted there? Does that honestly seem plausible to you?

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

Bostonian wrote: post #43

Suppose you start your day by downloading some code from GitHub to work on. This morning you would be stuck. Do you save code on your hard drive or company servers or GitLab to handle this risk?

"GitHub is down" probably wouldn't even make the top 10 stupidest reasons that I couldn't work. Is the idea here that you're downloading brand new code? I would imagine most people would have a stale from Friday copy of the repo locally.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by new_user_final »

raxor53 wrote: post #48
new_user_final wrote: post #39

Why GitHub is down so often? Why is it not possible to keep it up 100% of time (without counting physical failure)?. I haven't seen any down time for my system (it has hundreds of thousands of users online) in months since I have completed the setup.

I'm sure your scale is similar.

ummm, I guess scale is similar. I am just a single person vs an organization. My google knowledge vs industry expert with years of experience.

My point was not about similar scale though. How hard is it to keep a system up? AWS is a whole universe compared to GitHub, yet it doesn't go down as often as GitHub.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by edgyquant »

drewbug01 wrote: post #103

One wonders if MSFT leadership will ever connect the dots between “hollowing out talent over the years,” “hiring freezes,” and “layoffs” to this outcome. One wonders sometimes if that’s the goal.

Depends on if it’s at all related

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #152
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was more implying that this could be a result of an attack borne out of retribution.

Is the implication that someone affiliated with Twitter took down GitHub because of something someone hosted there? Does that honestly seem plausible to you?

I'm not saying "that happened", I'm asking about the possibility. Does it seem plausible that someone sympathetic to Twitter launched an attack on GitHub in retaliation? Absolutely.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #157
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the implication that someone affiliated with Twitter took down GitHub because of something someone hosted there? Does that honestly seem plausible to you?

I'm not saying "that happened", I'm asking about the possibility. Does it seem plausible that someone sympathetic to Twitter launched an attack on GitHub in retaliation? Absolutely.

Honestly, while it's certainly possible it doesn't seem plausible to me. I have a hard time seeing someone with the extreme emotional connection needed to lash out because of the leak also having the technical sophistication required to bring GitHub down.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by sebazzz »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #125
davemp wrote: post #94

Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really respect the authors of the code they host. Honestly open source in general has gotten a little less compelling to me after Copilot. The recent security issue at GH has also turned me off even more on…

Gitea[1]. It's a self hosted Github alternative, and it's quite lightweight too. [1] https://gitea.io

Good API too. With some Powershell magic I added commit checks which get their status from TeamCity (you can also use Gitea actions but that doesn't work on Windows).

Then use Renovate and Google OSV scanner as a replacement for Dependabot and Github Advanced Security.

Re: GitHub issue - resolved

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Post by pixl97 »

smcl wrote: post #82
jonas-w wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everytime something has degraded performance or is down for me: 1. check my internet connection 2. check HN 3. check official statuspage

Step #3 is unfortunately often pointless given that often either: 1. the status page is unavailable too 2. the status page reports the service as green/available even though it's red/down (maybe it's still accessible to the service pinging its health status, maybe it's "accessible" but not actually functional, maybe the engineers were too busy fixing the problem to click the button to update the status page, maybe no…

Most places don't have an automated status page because of the issues with automation showing outages when they don't exist. Someone manually goes and clicks something on the status page.
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