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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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That makes very little sense to me. When your Subversion server is gone, you're hosed. When your Git forge is down, you take any old SSH shell account anywhere, push and keep working.

The last subversion server I had was on prem on VMware. There wasn’t any unscheduled downtime in a decade.

There’s no architectural limitation in Git preventing you from replicating that exact setup for another decade, though.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

I feel like this misses the value of something like Github or Origin entirely though. There's nothing terribly difficult about hosting a git server. The UX and pull requests capabilities are a little involved, but there are alternatives today. What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very leas…

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Good god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you?

Probably the ever-increasing corporate homogenization, sanitization, and empty words that are flooding the internet (only accelerated by LLMs, of course). Which, for readers playing along at home, is kind of antithetical to the "hacker spirit."

lol I wanted the joke to work, but unlike the fairphone thing, the use of intentional makes sense here.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

I feel like this misses the value of something like Github or Origin entirely though. There's nothing terribly difficult about hosting a git server. The UX and pull requests capabilities are a little involved, but there are alternatives today. What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very leas…

> I've been saying this for a while, but I really wish Linear would swoop in and become the unified platform for software development.

And then, 5 years later, we are back at square one when everybody uses Linear and they start going the fate of GitHub. Self-hostable, standardized alternatives are the only real sustainable solution.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I really hope more people would use Tangled ( https://tangled.org/ ) You get: - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want) - Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want) - Self hosting your CI (if you want) - Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled) It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will s…

Just to clarify, when you say "self host issues/PRs" is it mostly "self host a knot"? I kind of expected something similar to what you can do for CI but I'm not able to find any docs regarding self hosting issues and PRs outside of Tangled itself.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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In theory, sure, but the reality is that "development activity" revolves around "codebase". Plenty of projects have separate bug tracker, source code control and CI system. Most people likely prefer GitHub's all-in-one solution, especially for small-medium open source projects.

And do we not see how terrible this is as a result? Hitching your tent to corporations, especially American corporations, is always an exercise in misery.

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