471–480 of 481 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> companies that care far less about data security already have my phone number ... including my phone company. Far less than these? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40592789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Privacy... This is unlikely.
The bar is a lot lower than you think.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People like that had better accept whatever they get. no, I am not obligated to merge badly written PRs introducing bugs just because I had no time to implement the feature myself
Let all those "bad PRs" with useful features and fixes accumulate at your own peril. You might wake up one day and find you're not upstream anymore because someone else has merged them all into a fork. I've seen it happen.
In fact it not always is a problem. For some I would love if someone else would maintain it, for some fork is friendly and has a bit different purpose and so on.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Recently I also got "rate limited" after opening about three web pages. People who haven’t used it logged out recently may be surprised to find that they have, for some time, made the site effectively unusable without an account. Doing one search and clicking a couple results gets you temporarily blocked. It’s effectively an account-required website now.
I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized that if not logged in, I could no longer search a repository for code references. You're really going to make me clone a project locally to do a search. I just end up using google to search github. It's so stupid.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never noticed that and am rarely logged in.
Weird. Maybe it just hates my last two ISPs (Google Fiber, Frontier). The usual way I notice I'm not logged in is by getting blocked after interacting with ~3 different parts of the site within a minute. If I search, click a single repo, and stay in that repo without using search, it seems to go OK, but if I interact with search and then a couple repos, or search again, temp-banned.
And sometimes even using the exact repo name in Google search, I cannot see the corresponding (non-popular) repo.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized that if not logged in, I could no longer search a repository for code references. You're really going to make me clone a project locally to do a search. I just end up using google to search github. It's so stupid.
Or, log in?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
ironically hardly anybody outside of the linux kernel community uses it the way it was intended lol. Didn't all this start with Linus getting into a spat with the bitkeeper dev involving some sort of punitive measure as a response to somebody making a reverse-engineered FOSS client? I don't remember the details and I'm sure I have at least half of them wrong, but that's easily one of the most disastrous decisions in…
EA not making sports games for Dreamcast wasn’t a bad decision for EA. It cost Sega a huge amount of money to produce and license their own sports games exclusively for Dreamcast, not having EA sports was a huge blow. And while NBA 2k destroyed NBA Live it took until 2009 for that to start happening (long after Sega ownership), mainly down to sliding standards in EA’s NBA Live titles and eventually some disastrous EA…
Also the last football game in the series, ESPN NFL 2k5 (actually released in 2004 a few months before they sold the studio to Take-Two) was seen as the primary reason why EA payed off the NFL to stop selling licenses to their competitors; so it's indisputable that the 2k-sports brand had a negative impact on EA's bottom line while it was still a SEGA subsidiary.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say that using GitHub only for a public git repository is pretty good value. It is free and robust, and there is not much bad Microsoft can do to you. Because it is standard git, there is no lockdown. If they make a decision you don't like, migrating is just a git clone. As for the "training copilot" part, it is public, it doesn't change anything that Microsoft hosts the project on their own servers, they can…
Question: could I offer a patch without having a GitHub account? Definitely I can access the source code. The review tools are not on GitHub. But is it even possible to host my proposed changes elsewhere, not on GitHub? I suppose that the answer is negative, but surprises happen. This is a relatively theoretical question, but it explores the "what bad Microsoft can do to you" avenue: it can close your GitHub account,…
Yes, in fact it is only possible to submit patches through Phabricator. You cannot submit patches through Github.
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back. Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by dist…
You can also quite easily set up a temporary remote (this can be as simple a directory on an SSH server), or if you're on the same local network, pull and push directly from each others' local copies.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will GeckoView and Mozilla Android Components be on GitHub too?
I was gonna say they already were and had been for a while, but apparently a few weeks ago they moved back in to the main Firefox repo. Which means I guess they're back on Github now.
I wonder how long it'll take for my PR which entirely removes the built in Pocket integration will take to be dismissed.