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Microsoft GitHub Exodus: Technical Failures and Slopfest
Note that weeks ago the manager of GitHub left. It shows.
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David Bushell ☛ GitHub is sinking
GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww!
Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. Whatever the truth, it’s impossible to miss the delightful experience that is Microsoft GitHub if you use it semi-regularly.
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Tangled Labs Oy ☛ we need a federation of forges
GitHub seems to be crumbling the past couple of weeks. Whatever the reason, ultimately its not great for 90% of the world's OSS to depend on one provider. Centralized systems always crumble; it's the emails, gits, and IRCs that stand the test of time. Tangled aims to fit in this space, allow me to explain.
Code collaboration has always made use of two protocols, one for code transfer and one for communication: [...]
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Hellbeast ☛ Github banned me for no understandable reason
Read my lips:
If this can happen to me, it will happen to you
You can disappear with no trace at the click of a button
Get off Github
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Lonami ☛ Ditching GitHub | Lonami's Blog
AI. AI AI AI. Artificial "Intelligence". Large Language Models. Well, they sure are large, I'll give them that. This isn't quite how I was hoping to write a new blog post after years of not touching the site, but I guess it's what we're going with.
To make it very clear: none of the text, code, images or any other output I produce is AI-written or AI-assisted. I also refuse to acknowledge that AI is even a thing by adding a disclaimer to all my posts saying that I do not use it. But this post is titled "Ditching GitHub", so let's address that first.