Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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I think that's bad (for my personal use) because if I accidentally commit a secret key, how do I claw it back? Basically, how would I claw anything back if it's on a blockchain aka on thousands/millions of computers already (you can't).
If you push a secret key you should definitely generate a new one. Way to many bots out there that scan new commits for exactly that reason
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The issue tracker is usually the concern
Yeah, that was my point in the first comment... But not only that...
The development with multiple people is decentralized, yes...
But even, if I add 3 remotes to my repo (1 to GitHub, 1 to Forgejo instance A and 1 to Forgejo instance B), guess what happens, if you don't have an account on each of these... Try pushing code or making a pull request and see how it fails, because you are not authenticated...
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I do, what I don't know is how Forgejo works. Doesn't having to make an account for every project mean it's already decentraliced, but just doesn't communicate between instances?
I agree that it's already kind of decentralized, so I also added the word "federated" to my original post.
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We need something like Forgejo, but decentralized, like Lemmy. I don't want to create a new account for every Forgejo instance.
Federation is on their roadmap
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If you push a secret key you should definitely generate a new one. Way to many bots out there that scan new commits for exactly that reason
Yeah please just rotate the secret if that happens. Doesn't matter what platform it is, this is true of GitHub as well. Secrets that are accidentally published are no longer secret.
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Russia is being sanctioned because of its aggressive war against Ukraine.
Microsoft aren’t the bad guys for enforcing international sanctions.
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if you are looking for decentralised vcs you can try radicle, I tried a while ago pretty good.
FYI Forgejo supports mastodon login
That's interesting. Did not even know, Mastodon supported doing something like this...
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There is no command
git issue create [hostname] [title] [description]and if there was such a command, it'd require authentication on the specific instance to prevent spam.You still need to create an account on each Forgejo instance to report a bug there...
And even, if you commit code or make a pull request... Git might be decentralized (you can develop with your friend independently from each other and merge it), but try to commit code to a GitHub project, GitLab instance or Forgejo instance without having an account there to authenticate yourself... It won't work.
You mean git inherently requires you to identify yourself?
Huh, shock
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I agree that it's already kind of decentralized, so I also added the word "federated" to my original post.
Okay, that makes it way more clear
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You mean git inherently requires you to identify yourself?
Huh, shock
I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
My point was from the beginning that I don't want to create 2 accounts when I report a bug a bug on Forgejo instance 1 and on instance 2.
The suggestion whether I have heard about git does not solve anything about that...
Some one else here mentioned that it's possible to login with Mastodon on each of the instance, which is the correct direction (allows to report a bug on both instances via an external account). Disadvantage is still: My 2 bug reports are not linked to each other, because there is no shared Forgejo profile, which would actually require something like federation.
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A country the USA doesn't like
Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)
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If you push a secret key you should definitely generate a new one. Way to many bots out there that scan new commits for exactly that reason
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But isn't there a possibility to fetch data from official websites (like https://stau.info/ in Germany) around your place? It won't be as good as google, but better than nothing.
As long as it only pulls data and doesnt share any its not as bad. But each of these local services most likely use different APIs and formats, so implementing it wont be so easy. For just large highways its realistic imo, but if you want data for inside cities it becomes impossible.
If the database of traffic info become so large that it's impossible to download it all at once it means you have to selectively download data for your location/route which makes it possible to infer user location again.
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Microsoft literally had no choice.
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Russia is being sanctioned because of its aggressive war against Ukraine.
Microsoft aren’t the bad guys for enforcing international sanctions.
Sanctions are bullshit economic violence. This is a great example.
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Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
Welcome to the "free world".
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Welcome to the "free world".
Russia is free to fuck off out of Ukraine, simple as.
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Sucks for Organic Maps but that's the FAANG.
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"US sanctioned region" is russia. The developer team fully consist of russian citizens, some of them are still in russia.
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Russia is being sanctioned because of its aggressive war against Ukraine.
Microsoft aren’t the bad guys for enforcing international sanctions.
So a person that happens to be iving in a sanctioned country, makes them banned? Bullshit
