There’s something heartwarming about a massive company completely ballsing something up like this, and losing money in the process.
I fucking hope microshaft goes bankrupt. I really do. I know it’s unlikely, but I’m trying to remember that no company is too big to fail
GIT is a distributed version control system, there is no reason to centralize it on GitHub, use Forgejo and the Fediverse for your development - today!
or a public instance like codeberg if you don’t want to (or can’t) self host
Forgejo is easy. Setting up a runner is the problem
codeberg.org (which runs on Forgejo) offers a nice ci solution: Woodpecker.
It’s nice that they have this but the real problem is GitHub Actions is provided for free for all repos. Woodpecker looks like you need to self host. I’m not going to set up and pay for host just for the small amount of time I have working on one of my projects.
You’re right, that it doesn’t just work as conveniently out-of-the-box on Codeberg. However you do not have to self-host: You merely have to apply to get access to their hosted Woodpecker instance at ci.codeberg.org.
See docs here if you want to try it out: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/
Onboarding requires a few manual steps, as to prevent the abuse of Codeberg’s limited resources. You will need to request access by filling out this form. After submitting, a Codeberg volunteer will review your request and grant you access if your use case is appropriate.
Edit: added quote from docs
Microslop ruins everything it touches.
Glad to see that Microsoft is still the best. The best at shooting themselves in the foot chasing the AI bullshit.
AND THERE ARE ENTIRE PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE HARDCODED GITHUB AS THEIR ROOT SOURCE!!
rotflmao…
Exactly the same as Canada presuming that the US was somehow “inherently” on our side, forever …
Non-autonomy bites one in the ass!
It isn’t IF, it’s WHEN.
Nobody’ll learn in-time, then, it looks like…
( both Haskell & Julia seem to have hardcoded it into many packages, or into the language+libraries themselves, to great extent…
Try setting-up a project in either language, with no github-username…
they deemed that to be universally a problem…
codependency isn’t synergy: it is suckerpunching-in-the-making. )
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Recently deleted all my GitHub repos. Going to put some up on codeberg.org !
I’m still not sure what to do with my own code.
I placed my public projects on GitHub to have a visible online front and invite people to submit patches. I haven’t had any issues with GitHub so far. I considered Microsoft to be a good steward… until recently, since articles like this keep popping up.
I also already have a self-hosted repository for my private projects. It would be simple enough for me to move everything there, but then I basically lose any chance of other people contributing and that online resume I built up over time.
Embrace, expand, extinguish.
I know this is fun to point and say about MS, but not really the case here IMO. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish describes the MS strategy for creating/maintaining a monopoly - but GitHub nearly is a monopoly. Extinguishing it only takes themselves out of the competition.
This is just plain old mismanagement if you ask me, and ostensibly a victim of the current AI craze.
