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Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#181
post #87

Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience

As long as you didn't go all in on GitHub Actions. Like my company has.

Then your CI host is your weak point. How many companies have multi-cloud or multi-region CI?

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#182
post #83

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we depend too much on usa centralized tech. we need more soverenity and decentralization.

Please check out radicle.dev, helping hands always welcome!

> Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner

You lost me there

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#184

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I think it would be pretty hard to argue against that point of view, at least thus far. If DOS/Windows hadn't become the dominant OS someone would have, and a whole generation of engineers cut their teeth on their parents' windows PCs.

There are some pretty zany alternative realities in the Multiverses I’ve visited. Xerox Parc never went under and developed computing as a much more accessible commodity. Another, Bell labs invented a whole category of analog computers that’s supplanted our universe’s digital computing era. There’s one where IBM goes directly to super computers in the 80s. While undoubtedly Microsoft did deliver for many of us, I am…

AT&T sold Unix machines (actually a rebadged Olivetti for the hardware) and Microsoft has Xenix when windows wasn't a thing.

So many weird paths we could have gone down it's almost strange Microsoft won.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#186
Haha I don't know if its a good test or not but I could not figure out why git pull was failing and Claude just went crazy trying so many random things.

Gemini 3 Pro after 3 random things announced Github was the issue.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#188
can’t go down is better than won’t go down.

the problem isn’t with centralized internet services, the problem is a fundamental flaw with http and our centralized client server model. the solution doesn’t exist. i’ll build it in a few years if nobody else does.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#189
post #81

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Been on GitHub for a long time. It feels like they're more often. It used to be yearly if at all that GitHub was noticably impacted. Now it's monthly, and recently, seemingly weekly.

In the early days of GitHub (like before 2010) outages were extremely common.

I think it was generally news when there were upages and the site was up. Similar with twitter for that matter.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#190
post #44

GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.

Forgejo, my dudes.

Do we know its uptime statistics?
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