GitHub isn't fun anymore • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by User23 » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

inawarminister wrote: post #619

User23 wrote: post #497

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"Western" in this context is referring to the western tip of the Eurasian landmass. The western hemisphere is part of the cultural "West" because of the European diaspora, not because of its geographic location.

Because of Western Rome and Catholicism, I think Eastern Europe and Russia weren't part of the West. Aren't they?

Correct. The division goes back to the Roman Empire and the reforms of Diocletian. Arguably however there were underlying cultural differences between the Latin Romans and the Greek Romans that were beneath those reforms and the later Great Schism between East and West.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by chrisan » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

conradludgate wrote: post #323

chrisan wrote: post #254

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> If everyone had to pay $1 to submit an issue and/or a pull request, open source projects would get a lot less "support spam" :) I dunno, that seems odd. Do you not want to know about bugs in your project to make it better? I realize people will submit a bug b/c they can't figure out how to implement something but that is worth being aware of real bugs in the code. Now if you could "tax" the "+1" spam culture, I'd b…

Do people still do that? How long has it been since they added reactions?

Not only do I still see it but I ALSO see the thumbs up comment instead of just clicking the thumbs up reaction

/cries

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by kreetx » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

prepend wrote: post #575

kreetx wrote: post #73

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I would like end-to-end encrypted repositories even they can't read - like keybase!

Thats possible now, right. If they supported it more I’m not sure how much value over just encrypting blobs. I wouldn’t trust github’s clients or servers to do it for me.

Keybase's remote helper (which does the crypto) is open-source, so if github did something similar you wouldn't need to trust them. That's the value of e2ee -- you don't need to trust the intermediaries, whether they start misbehaving, are forced to hand over data, get hacked, etc.