How clean is your #fork? #github, the place that #microsoft gets #openSource developers to provide it free #ai training data for use by proprietary products, is being attacked by bots making millions of malicious forks (copies) of projects and adding password stealing code.
Check your sources carefully before you #git clone!
Open-source and research software (#RSE#RSENG) experts:
Where should open-source research software projects go to learn about best practices for
a) governance documents
b) roadmaps
c) contributor documents
d) codes of conduct
"GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers that GitHub is the best ... place for FOSS development. However, as a proprietary, trade-secret tool, GitHub itself is the very opposite of FOSS."
Is setting up a #Discord server fairly easy? Looking to set one up for a #writing group so we can share work, critique, chat, have group video calls etc.
Thanks to @minimoysmagician for his patches to the little #GiveUpGitHub script I wrote last year when @librecast gave up GitHub in response to the campaign by @conservancy
Do you have a project on GitHub? Does it use GitHub Pages for documentation or other purposes? Would you like to archive a copy of those GitHub pages in the Internet Archive automatically whenever you release a new version?
I wrote Waystation, a simple and free GitHub Action, exactly for this purpose:
"Sorbonne University has decided to redirect its efforts towards the exploration of open, free and participative tools. This decision is in line with the University’s overall policy of openness."
My guess is that Openalex is not yet ready for "ordinary" users to use directly, and that the Sorbonne will use its own web interface to access the data. I'm sure that the Sorbonne has a competent enough DSI (IT dept) to use Openalex as a backend.
@OpenAlex can probably clarify if it has plans to do front ends itself, and when it plans to #GiveUpGitHub [2].
Serious now. #Github is becoming a one-stop-shop for #development, that uses#FOSS to expand its dominant position. Gradually locking people in, with rich feature sets. Good #CodeForge alternatives exist, and can soon integrate with the #Fediverse via #ForgeFed protocol.
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Open tech, be afraid. Be very afraid. Microsoft owns both Visual Studio Code “VSCode” and MS-GitHub, two intertwined and utterly proprietary product-service ecosystems with a bit of open-source in their core to lure us in. Because they love open source? Yeah, no.
Soon after leaving GitPod whose technology links the two, Geoffrey Hunt last year explained their strategy and what it’s doing to our open tech world, in a great and “harrowing” article, “Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture” https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
“The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as ****, and people seem to be okay with it…”
This is why MS-GitHub is not our friend.
This is why falling for their trick, disguising MS-VSCode as a neat “free” editor, will come back and haunt and hurt us.
Vendor lock-in double-whammy. Using open source as “a financial weapon”.
“… the biggest challenge for Gitpod, GitLab, Datacoves, OpenBB, Foam, et al lies ahead - developing open language tooling for each community where Microsoft has forked the communities over to proprietary language servers…”
If we have a grain of public spirit, if we are motivated at all by the Freedom that’s supposed to be afforded by Free-Libre Open-Source Software, we must #GiveUpGithub, we must recognise the trap, we must choose truly open #FreedomTech.
I ran a #HumaneTech awesome list at Github, but with a #GiveUpGithub this is now part of the #delightful project and you might PR findings to this list..
I am already reluctant considering #GitHub as a safe place for our #floss
After reading this Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot., It doesn't seem to me that #MicroSoft is moving to the right direction for changing my mind.
Finally got around to migrating all my non-trivial git repositories from MS/GH to #Codeberg - just before the 2FA-MS/GH-probably-will-require-your-telephone-number deadline. :) I'm keeping my account there since some communication [1] with #TyrannyOfConvenience people can still be useful.
@Gargron 's branch of Mastodon still has issue 22572 of #GiveUpGitHub migration unsolved [2].
Github actions are designed with no CPU efficiency in mind.
It terrifies me how much time Github actions spent doing same things again and again in cases where it could easily be mitigated by cache and a good CI system design that targeted to spent resources effectively in general.
Unsurprisingly Github Actions billing is based on minutes spent repeatedly doing those things.
Not the "Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects." we signed up for years ago. (github's main page from webarchive).