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OS X only for now.
Wtf. Why would one start with the software-patent and lawsuit-based platform? Does nobody at github have any sense of ethics? Github was built on open source software and Linux. Why not give something back? Why support those who spend national budgets on anti open-source lawsuits?
From the README: > 4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics]( https://github.com/atom/metrics ) for details. That is quite horrible in my opinion. Do I want an application on my computer that constantly sends information to Google and Github? What kind of information is it sending? (from the link) Collected Data + A unique identifier that is generated by co…
That is disturbing. I've had *.google-analytics.com nullrouted ever since I heard of GA. > SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address. There's only 2^48 MAC addresses, there are 2^160 SHA-1 hashes. With computing power at where it is today, a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long. On the other hand, spoofing the data is also an alternative way of opposition...
Indeed, best supercomputers are running today around 10 petaFLOPS (= 10^16 FLoating-point Operations Per Second) and there are 2^48 ~= 10^15 possible MAC addresses.
Does anyone feel it's very, very wrong of Github to take down that gist?
Can you articulate why? Their terms of service aren't exactly a grand stand for freedom of expression: We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service. From: https:…
While I understand that Github is a private body and that their site is, well, their site ... forcibly deleting someone's gist simply because they don't like that that someone has found a way around their invite process smacks of underhandedness.
Will they suspend his account permanently as a result of this leak? Will he have his account limited in some other way, preventing him from having private repos, for example? Will they lash out against anyone sharing Atom.zip that they can trace back to a github account?
It's just all very "our show, our rules" of them to delete the gist.
And yes, I understand that it is their show. And yes, their ruleset too.
Doesn't make me feel any comfier in the knowledge that they'll simply delete anything that they don't approve of.
Does anyone feel it's very, very wrong of Github to take down that gist?
isn't that the same message if the user took it down? I.e. how do you know GitHub took it down themselves? btw, I also feel it's pretty wrong to exploit a workaround like this to obtain the software against the authors' wishes.
I'd still put money on them having done it.
From the README: > 4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics]( https://github.com/atom/metrics ) for details. That is quite horrible in my opinion. Do I want an application on my computer that constantly sends information to Google and Github? What kind of information is it sending? (from the link) Collected Data + A unique identifier that is generated by co…
I think I've found the original gist: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9265315
$ curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download {"message":"Not Found"} $ curl -sLI https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:23:50 GMT Set-Cookie: request_method=HEAD; path=/; secure Status: 404 Not Found Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options:…
-A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5How can I download it for Windows ?
OS X only for now.
If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting some effort in the GNUstep project. Once GNUstep is up to par they should be able to build for that on Linux and Windows with minimal porting efforts.
Still, I'm disappointed in the lack of vision many of these so-called 'open source' companies exhibit. Don't they realise that by pushing these closed, proprietary platforms they undermine the very base of their own existence? The software and community which github depends on was not the result of the generous sponsorship from Microsoft and Apple after all...