Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
look at git's --mirror
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is forgejo the same thing as codeberg? it looks similar.. just curious
Let me give you a rather long explanation for fun.
CodeBerg ≈ GitHub
Now imagine if Github allowed you to self-host your own Github instance;
That's ForgeJo -
Github was bought in 2018. For all we know, OP could have been 10 at the time
OP said they were 63 and only now getting into programming. I can understand not knowing these things tbh.
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Who could have ever anticipated Git hub going to shoot after Microsoft bought it
you can shit and fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet
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Nice!
I actually recently set up my own Forgejo instance, and it's remarkably similar to GitHub, to the point where they share Github's "actions" code.
Congrats! More hosting diversity is a good thing.
how does this differ from codeberg
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Let me give you a rather long explanation for fun.
CodeBerg ≈ GitHub
Now imagine if Github allowed you to self-host your own Github instance;
That's ForgeJoCodeBerg is a Forgejo instance
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Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
Not according to that thread - it looks like they don't yet know what caused it:
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761
No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.
GAFAM is all one hydra.
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Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
No, it they didn't change anything add new git remote to the new address
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Might check out Zed. Relatively new editor from the folks behind Atom and treesitter. Extremely fast with an excellent interface and vim mode. The second best vim mode behind Neovim.
I've been testing Zed for the last couple weeks for some Vue / Nuxt projects. It works great for that and seems very stable so far, but is also developed by a for-profit. Curious to see how the Zedless project works out.
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I always kept telling Free-software & OpenSource projects to move to GitLab, Codeberg or SourceHut
You cannot fight capitalists on a capitalists platform.
& if you want something that's even more independent try Fossil
Codeberg is a non-profit that has no fees, but accepts donations. They only allow FOSS projects.
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So wait.
GitHub is Microsoft?
Can I suggest vim or emacs?
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Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
Good question. Commits are easy - they are part of git core functionalities so are included in every copy of the repository (for example developers' local copies) but github specific contents like comments, issues, PRs..?
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Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
You can make git clone and get all the code and commits.
Issues are a GitHub feature and they cannot be downloaded by a simple git command -
There is some serious crapitalist hate for organic maps. I never heard of it util is was taken off the play store for a bit. I side loaded it that day.
Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
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Oh come on, it was a really big deal. M$ bought GitHub. FOSS collectively shit itself for a week
It was also ages ago. Any discussion of it will have long since died down so if OP is new to programming then they won't have come across this.
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Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.
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Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
Its also a really great base project to build on top of. The routing system is a plug in library which can be easily replaced. That means if someone wants to build something that collects and utilizes live data for traffic/construction avoidance they can totally do that. Adding new map layers is also a big one that they made sure is going to be easy to do.
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Nice! It even supports the same RSS feed format. For anyone who also wants FOSS releases injected straight into their veins https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases.atom
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"US sanctioned region" is russia. The developer team fully consist of russian citizens, some of them are still in russia.
The developer team fully consist of russian citizens
I dont think thats correct. Do you have a source?
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you can shit and fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet
Could you like, stop policing other peoples speech? I am sure they know they can say shit on the internet, they just choose not to.
