Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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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
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Microsoft literally had no choice.
when you're a corporation with billions of dollars and US politicians cost millions on the high end, you can choose to do whatever you want.
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So a person that happens to be iving in a sanctioned country, makes them banned? Bullshit
Yes. That’s how sanctions work.
Part of the intention is to pressure citizens of the country for violating international law so they exert pressure on their governments to stop.
Another part is to remove the use of tooling to support the sanctioned nation.
Russia could stop the war and problem is solved. This isn’t Microsoft being the bad guy, this is Microsoft following international law.
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when you're a corporation with billions of dollars and US politicians cost millions on the high end, you can choose to do whatever you want.
It is still an unnecessary risk for them.
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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.
You know, git initially was that kind of thing where people would send diff commits on mailing lists. And that is perfectly decentralized! And there's no need for federation too.
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It is still an unnecessary risk for them.
true, but let's not pretend that they were without agency in this decision and in decisions leading up to the current context.
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Russia is free to fuck off out of Ukraine, simple as.
I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.
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The issue tracker is usually the concern
How would decentralization work for an issue tracker? The issues have to be stored somewhere.
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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...
SourceHut encourages an e-mail–based workflow that does not require anyone but the repository owner to have an account. In fact, that’s how Git originally worked before GitHub enshittified it.
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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
By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:
GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.
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Sanctions are bullshit economic violence. This is a great example.
Probably better this economic violence than I dunno, the physical violence Russia has exerted on the Ukrainian populace?
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Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft. And Rust since heavy ties to Amazon. Actually, just to spare you the time, avoid programming altogether and do something like farming, since no Big Tech influence there. /s
Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.
This, but unironically.
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Welcome to the "free world".
conservative: says a racial slur
Online Platform: bans user
conservative: "sO mUcH fOr tHe tOlEraNt lEfT
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