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Actually I think that's roughly how threat analysis works though.
For threat analysis, you need to know how hard you are to break in, what the incentives are, and who your potential adversaries are. For each potential adversary, you list the risk strategy; that's threat analysis 101. E.g. you have a locked door, some valuables, and your opponent is the state-level. Risk strategy: ignore, no door you can afford will be able to stop a state-level actor.
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
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Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#142Maintain on codeberg, mirror to GH. Tell everyone to contribute on CB done.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#143IMHO, the main advantage of github is that it is an ecosystem. This is a well-thought-out Swiss knife: a pioneering (but no longer new) PR system, convenient issues, as well as a well-formed CI system with many developed actions and free runners. In addition, it is best to use code navigation simply in a web browser. You write code, and almost everything works effortlessly. Having a sponsorship system is also great,…
I don't agree with this at all. I think the reason Github is so prominent is the social network aspects it has built around Git, which created strong network effects that most developers are unwilling to part with. Maintainers don't want to loose their stars and the users don't want to loose the collective "audit" by the github users. Things like number of stars on a repository, number of forks, number of issues answ…
??? Seriously?
> All these things are powerful indicators of quality
Not in my experience....
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#144The edit history of the announcement is quite a ride: > [2025-11-27T02:10:07Z] it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress [1] > [2025-11-27T14:04:47Z] it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the…
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#145The edit history of the announcement is quite a ride: > [2025-11-27T02:10:07Z] it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress [1] > [2025-11-27T14:04:47Z] it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the…
It would appear they listened to that feedback, swallowed their ego/pride and did what was best for the Zig community with these edits. I commend them for their actions in doing what's best for the community at the cost of some personal mea culpa edits.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't agree with this at all. I think the reason Github is so prominent is the social network aspects it has built around Git, which created strong network effects that most developers are unwilling to part with. Maintainers don't want to loose their stars and the users don't want to loose the collective "audit" by the github users. Things like number of stars on a repository, number of forks, number of issues answ…
You don't need to develop on Github to get this, just mirror your repo.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#147IMHO, the main advantage of github is that it is an ecosystem. This is a well-thought-out Swiss knife: a pioneering (but no longer new) PR system, convenient issues, as well as a well-formed CI system with many developed actions and free runners. In addition, it is best to use code navigation simply in a web browser. You write code, and almost everything works effortlessly. Having a sponsorship system is also great,…
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#148I have sympathy for some of the GitHub complaints. otoh just went to try to signup for Codeberg and it's down ... 95% uptime over the last 2 weeks? https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
I would even consider that moving everything from one single point of failure to an other is not the brightest move.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#149Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't agree with this at all. I think the reason Github is so prominent is the social network aspects it has built around Git, which created strong network effects that most developers are unwilling to part with. Maintainers don't want to loose their stars and the users don't want to loose the collective "audit" by the github users. Things like number of stars on a repository, number of forks, number of issues answ…
> Maintainers don't want to loose their stars ??? Seriously? > All these things are powerful indicators of quality Not in my experience....
People don't just share their stargazing plots "for fun", but because it has meaning for them.