Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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Not really nice of you to edit the message after it was replied to.
My last edit was at: Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 9:34:06 AM GMT+01:00
Your comment was posted at: Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 9:45:53 AM GMT+01:00
Those people could be Polish or Ukrainian or born somewhere completely different
They have russian state-specific latin names transliterations
Except for Roman Tsisyk, there's nothing specific in name.But most probably the guy from moscow got caught with russian ip which busted the whole gh organization. I don't think gh has any other sanctioned regions users id methods
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how about you police my policing, and then i will police my whole ass
BANG BANG BANG ASS POLICE OPEN UP
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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.
Wouldn't it be the other way around, having someone centralized so with one account you can report bugs in any public project?
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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
I retired and doing hobby projects in Python and java, so I get choices (including not playing) but wtf, big tech figured out how to take over open source?
That's particularly evil.
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how about you police my policing, and then i will police my whole ass
AssCopsAreBastards
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Every other ci in existence you just write a command. Then if it doesn't work you run the command on your machine and fix it.
Actions are "magic" which means you have to fake the ci runner with tools and reverse engineer the action to run local debugging and if it failed you might not even fully know what was running with digging into the actions source.
GitHub provides you the tools and their "easy" until they aren't.
It's very Microsoft though. It feels like trying to write a Windows app and trying to get your random
Net environment definition to line everything up and compile in VS then hoping the same thing happens when you deploy.You can just write bash scripts in your actions if you want them to be easily replicatable on your local machine, so you don't really lose anything with that system.
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AssCopsAreBastards
you can't just let them do whatever they want
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Wouldn't it be the other way around, having someone centralized so with one account you can report bugs in any public project?
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I do, what I don't know is how Forgejo works
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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?
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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.
Has anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet? This is one of the main reasons I use Magic Earth still. I regularly bounce between that, Organic, and OsmAnd. They all have slightly different features.
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Whyyy???
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You can import it on an alternative like gitlab. The process of moving something from github to gitlab is just as smooth as if everything was contained in the repo itself.
Personally, recommend forgejo, gitlab has a lot of features I didn't need and I found the upgrade process if you didn't keep on top of it annoying. Forgejo actions are pretty similar to github ones and setting up runners is super straightforward.
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I retired and doing hobby projects in Python and java, so I get choices (including not playing) but wtf, big tech figured out how to take over open source?
That's particularly evil.
They can support these languages because they have the resources to do so.
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Has anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet? This is one of the main reasons I use Magic Earth still. I regularly bounce between that, Organic, and OsmAnd. They all have slightly different features.
Has anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet?
Nah, because the organic team doesnt wanna deal with collecting user data. Getting live location data from millions of people requires using and feeding into google services and thats a no go.
Location data is just too sensitive and impossible to anonymize properly. No matter what you do, there will always be some company that has to collect all the data. That company no matter how cool and FOSS will eventually be forced to cooperate with law enforcement and then you are back to what we have now.
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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.
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I retired and doing hobby projects in Python and java, so I get choices (including not playing) but wtf, big tech figured out how to take over open source?
That's particularly evil.
A cynical explanation would be using the EEE theory to explain all of this.
A more nuanced one would be that corporations benefit from open source since it creates an easier pipeline to onboard engineers and they also benefit from the free labor that people put into the projects out of passion. Whether they want to kill OSS after embracing it is debatable, but they definitely want to have as much leverage on it as possible.
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I've switched to CalyxOS 6 or 7 months ago, OrganicMaps came with it. I have never looked back.
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Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it's feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn't matter, the outcome is still worth it.
What are we, North Korea? We can't accept information from certain countries? I can understand being wary of state-sponsored information terrorism, but "Hey, here's a Cuban road? A good place for a guava and cheese pastry?"
Come on. This was really the trigger?
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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.
I actually think their comments when it first went open source are pretty compelling. I don’t disagree with you and I’m interested to see how zedless fares, but new projects of this scale are tough to do well and quickly. I’m pretty happy with their current approach.
