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Re: GitHub and the crime against software

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post #119

Internet has made it incredibly easy for people to simply complain about everything all the time. Negativity never helped humanity move forward - this post is a just a complain. The good thing? The author could actually contribute to Gitlab's code instead of writing what they should do instead because they are noobs and have no idea on to write performant code. Secondly, I'm actually grateful for all these years wher…

Isn't your whole post "just a complaint" too?

The first few words perhaps, to point out that well, stop complaining.

Re: GitHub and the crime against software

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I know it’s supposed to be simple, but any chance of a write up of the macmini as a server approach? I would be interested in learning about the details of how you set it up. I would read this blog post if you ever write one!

If I had to guess, using tailscale is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.

I absolutely LOVE Tailscale. but uhh. I think they shoulder exactly the same risk, right?

Re: GitHub and the crime against software

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post #45

All this hate directed at github feels odd, every time I look into people complaining, or moving their projects off, other than a few related to genuine bugs, many just seem ideological. This article, calling it a crime against software? ... It's just silly. The article itself is a crime against articles, barely readable, weird ass colors. It mostly seems a regurgitation of other peoples complaints and mostly overblo…

>it's still top dog in this space That was a laughable idea before they had achieved an average of 1 outage per day. It has serious, terminal, product manager rot.

where are you getting that information from? see https://www.githubstatus.com/ uptimes are really high. This is kind of exactly what I'm talking about, people are over exaggerating problems with github for some weird reason. Working with github daily, I haven't even noticed down time expect maybe once or twice in the last year or so.

Re: GitHub and the crime against software

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>it's still top dog in this space That was a laughable idea before they had achieved an average of 1 outage per day. It has serious, terminal, product manager rot.

where are you getting that information from? see https://www.githubstatus.com/ uptimes are really high. This is kind of exactly what I'm talking about, people are over exaggerating problems with github for some weird reason. Working with github daily, I haven't even noticed down time expect maybe once or twice in the last year or so.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

https://blog.incidenthub.cloud/github-reliability-outage-his...

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

And here's GH admitting to it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

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