Centralise all the things.
There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
Nginx has moved to GitHub
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Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I don't think this is a valid case of enshittifying. Products that you pay for that loses features or break or become more painful to use are enshittifying. A free feature that stays free but requires you to make a free account (no credit card needed), I can see at least one very valid reason: if the feature heavier than a simple page (which is the case here), then it's an open door for DDOS attacks. Bein…
> The alternative is having to do captchas and the like to use those features anonymously This is not the case. You may have noticed that Google Search, Bing, etc. don't require login or captcha to do a search. Billions of people use this search daily. And yet, they will throw a captcha at you, or even just say "you're a bot, stop bothering us" whether you're logged in or not , if their signals have detected what the…
The new GitHub search has some more advanced features than Google, Bing, etc. do, such as Regex: https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/github-code-search/...
Of course, they could have kept the old search (without advanced filters) open, but there is at least a sensible explanation why the new search requires being signed in.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#83does anyone use mercurial anymore?
Big corpos like Google and Meta (sort of, at least)
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#84Centralise all the things. There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
Ah no it's great. I'm waiting until they fuck something major up and will start an off-boarding consultancy.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#85I think it's disappointing that the default toolchain for collaborating on free and open source software includes GitHub which is very much not free and open source, and is backed by Microsoft which has a mixed history in regards to it's relationship with open source software.
I use it because its good right now. I used Windows until it turned bad (8) and Linux was easier.
If GitHub becomes shit I'm moving my projects off of there and that's that.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#86Centralise all the things. There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
No different to SourceForge of the 90's apart from it had a kind of a community feel.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The alternative is having to do captchas and the like to use those features anonymously This is not the case. You may have noticed that Google Search, Bing, etc. don't require login or captcha to do a search. Billions of people use this search daily. And yet, they will throw a captcha at you, or even just say "you're a bot, stop bothering us" whether you're logged in or not , if their signals have detected what the…
For the last seven months, Google has pushed every non-login search from my house network through a captcha; the image captcha is typically five to infinite repetitions. Audio captcha works after a single run-through, except that it is frequently "unavailable" now. I don't know why. Google won't tell me. They just started doing the same for YouTube: "Please login because we have detected malicious behavior from your…
You're probably blocking ads or blocking tracking in some fashion and denying them signals their naive models use to evaluate whether you're bot-or-not. It could be somewhat intentional but I'd lean towards it being an edge case they just don't care to address.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#88Centralise all the things. There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
Source control is not like other systems. It's (largely) a backup of stuff that is stored elsewhere. Resilience/ monopoly concerns are much less.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#89Centralise all the things. There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
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Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#90Centralise all the things. There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.
Source control is not like other systems. It's (largely) a backup of stuff that is stored elsewhere. Resilience/ monopoly concerns are much less.
^^ This. Git is a beautiful thing. Thanks again, Linus.