So, #Bluesky is all the hype now and a lot of #Mastodon people are falling for the olde "invite link" trick which not only paints, what is ultimately going to be another social media shitshow, as an exclusive club, but also sneakily turns everyone's curiosity into a vessel for word-of-mouth advertisement to ride piggy back on.
Well, maybe the AT Protocol is at least better than #ActivityPub. So, since it is on #Github [1] , let's have a quick look and ... Aww shit! Thread time..
#NotOnGitHub: Tell us about your favourite #OpenSource / #FreeSoftware projects that are not available on mainstream platforms, whether on a self-hosted cgit or available as an archive download only.
> Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. 🤖 See how GitHub’s AI-powered platform vision evolved into a new reality for the world’s developers, and find out everything we announced at this year’s #GitHubUniverse. https://nitter.net/github/status/1722309261680607674?s=20
For years I've been saying that using Microsoft GitHub to host #FLOSS code is dangerous and would backfire. :blobcatcoffee:
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
Has anyone else noticed on GitHub that we can't even browse source code now without running their JavaScript? Well, I can't in a FireFox-based browser with privacy plugins anyway. This is just another step down the path to the further enshittification of GH by its small, soft overlords.
If you are still developing Free Code on GH, it's long past time to consider an exodus. There are plenty of community-hosted replacements:
Hey #Linux peeps, can someone tell me why I get prompted for a username and password on #Github when trying to clone a repository on my brand new headless #Debian installation?
I'm just trying to install #FancyMOTD on my server. I do NOT get any such prompts when I tried it just now on my laptop running Manjaro, or earlier on Ubuntu Server.
Is this a Debian thing?
EDIT: Thanks for all the help, everyone. It was a dang typo.
This is why people like GUIs and clicking on shit, BTW.
I'm unsure if signing my #Git commits is the best idea. When my #GPG key expires, commits will show on #Github as unverified. Should I stop signing my commits? I'm aware you can renew keys. However, if you no longer have access to the key, then it can't be renewed.
If a GPG key could no longer be retrieved, all commits signed with that key would appear as unverified, from what I understand.
Perhaps #boost for more visibility? :blobcatshrug:
Ok #NixOS peeps. I'm currently running NixOS and subscribed to the nixos-22.11 channel. I installed Vivaldi but I'm not on the latest release.
If search Nixpkgs, I see that the latest release on stable is 5.4.2753.47. However, I can see the pull request and merge to update the package to 6.0.2979.15 on the master branch in #Github. Shouldn't I be getting that version when I update my config?
Man can somebody please just build me a nice little #static#website to host my bullshit #blog with like #githubpages or something? Or just teach me how to do it. Sure I have a #github account but that doesn’t mean I know what I’m doing 😂 #eleventy and #jekyll have great docs I just. Do. Not. Get. It.
If you style it out in the #nord theme too, that’d be great.
A surprisingly common mistake people do when contributing to #OpenSource projects is to forget the (often required) sign-off on their commit, and then close the PR only to open a new one where the sign-off is included. This isn’t needed! Next time, just:
git commit --amend --signoff
git push --force
And your signoff will be added to the commit in your PR.
Given everything that happened to #RedHat under #IBM’s control, it makes me very uneasy that #Microsoft owns #GitHub… I pessimistically predict this will be the next big blow to #OpenSource that we’ll have to recover from.
I'd love to integrate my linter #Regal in GitLab CI pipelines, and it would be sweet if the output could actually annotate the #Rego source code at the location of a violation.
Looking at the GitLab docs I'm thinking "no", but I'd love to be wrong about that!
When reviewing a large diff in #GitHub (I’m talking about several dozen files with a few thousand changed lines) the UI shows only the first 4 files. To view more, you have to scroll the page. Fine for mouse users, but I can’t find a way to accomplish this from the keyboard. So now I can’t do part of my job, and of course this isn’t documented anywhere. Tips welcome.
OK, now I'm totally sold. Turns out that because of my history of building open source projects, I get to use #github#copilot for free. Kind of hard to beat that deal. I am definitely going to hype this project, even though I know some are not happy with it.
Still fascinating how unusable #GitHub has become since the Microsoft takeover. The same happened to LinkedIn - previously it had limited functions, but those seemed to do their thing okay-ish.
GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in. (github.com)
Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub's VP of Developer Relations:...
If you use firefox, check out these 55 single-function addons to improve life (all same dev; not me)
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....