GitHub suspended my account for forking a work repo
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Re: GitHub suspended my account for forking a work repo
#2i'm at an ai summit for my work, we're doing a hackerthon on abusing ai agents we develop.
i attempted to fork the dummy repository and was met with "You are unable to fork this repository at this time"; after this my co-worker went to view my profile and found that it 404s to anyone who is not logged in as my user.
went to submit a ticket to support.github.com & it redirected me to a specific reinstatement request support flow; wonderful.
i yearn for the day my company moves away from github and uses literally anything else, likely will be soon after this.
Re: GitHub suspended my account for forking a work repo
#3This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that when you are using an SaaS cloud solution instead of self-hosting, you are essentially subject to a digital landlord without any renters protection. A landlord who can, and will, kick you out to the curb whenever he deems doing so more profitable.
Re: GitHub suspended my account for forking a work repo
#4This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that when you are using an SaaS cloud solution instead of self-hosting, you are essentially subject to a digital landlord without any renters protection. A landlord who can, and will, kick you out to the curb whenever he deems doing so more profitable.
For version control, people should just use fossil.
No server infra needed. Issues/Wiki/Discussions all built-in. Customizable web interface. Adapter to export to git. Single-file (also an SQLite database you can query).
It's obvious it's the superior stuff.
Re: GitHub suspended my account for forking a work repo
#5This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that when you are using an SaaS cloud solution instead of self-hosting, you are essentially subject to a digital landlord without any renters protection. A landlord who can, and will, kick you out to the curb whenever he deems doing so more profitable.
For version control, people should just use fossil. https://fossil-scm.org/ No server infra needed. Issues/Wiki/Discussions all built-in. Customizable web interface. Adapter to export to git. Single-file (also an SQLite database you can query). It's obvious it's the superior stuff.
i personally host my own git instance for all my important projects, i'm just forced to use github for work.