The unspoken reality of github: It would be significantly better both as a product and a vehicle in our economy if it was entirely worker owned.
git is worker owned - unless the worker chooses to outsource its ownership
Ghostty is leaving GitHub
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#982I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know. We've been…
I'm interested to see where you land the project at post-GH. The platform has just not grown in the ways I had hoped and their reliability has been a real issue for awhile now.
I would hope they would prioritize stability and features that devs have been asking for but it seems like that is not where their focus is at.
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#983GitHubs AI usage policy was enough for me to leave. Sick of corporate overlords stealing everything from us.
If it’s free - you are the product.
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#985Earlier quoted context omitted.
Decentralized version control only works if there is some way to find and access those distributed repositories. For many reasons and no matter the tech there is always a drift towards having a centralized registry so that the degrees of separation for individual actors is minimised. Be that a search engine or code forge or social network. For *most* users, fully distributed and disconnected is a bug not a feature.
I don't miss the days when every project had it's own SVN server....
Say what you will about github-the-source-control-platform, github-the-unified-login-for-bugtrackers has been a huge success.
Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub
#986I have my own forgejo and push to both that and github. My work does not have to stop if one or the other is down. Now ofc, I am not a 'heavy' user of Github automation, so for me this is easy. But making sure you at the very minimum have a fully inhouse possibilty of basic manual pushing and pulling from your various dev/test/prod environments when shit hits the fan should be a given for all.
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#987Imagine a world where Google had bought GitHub instead of Microsoft.
they would have shut it down after 5 years
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#988I can appreciate Hashimoto's genuine feelings about Github, and the world of open-source software development that it opened for him and that he spent a significant chunk of his life participating in. On the other hand, I can't help but think that some of this heartbreak would have been avoidable, if only he possessed more of the Richard-Stallman-esque attitude that non-free software is inherently suspect and unethic…
> Github has always been non-free software hosted by someone else, and run according to its owners' rules and for its owners' benefit, not ultimately the end user. This was true in 2008 and it's true today. Yup. At KDE we never seriously considered GitHub. We always built our own git infra, and eventually landed on GitLab, after banding together with Gnome and a (generous and forthcoming) GitLab to convince them to m…
Which features were moved? I would have thought required mandatory approvals would be the first ones to be moved.
Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub
#989I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know. We've been…
Spool of Wire Guy or Wiregate refers to a viral video of a man (named Dan) telling his wife (Cindy) that a spool of wire he's had for 40 years is almost at its end The spool of wire became a prominent metaphor on the app, representing something that might seem meaningless to others, but holds sentimental and nostalgic value to its owner. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spool-of-wire-guy
Damn
Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub
#990I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know. We've been…
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