Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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So why were they blocked.
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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.
Rather have it on IPFS or something like OrbitDB, so no one can just lock/delete stuff.
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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.
Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.
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Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
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Are you talking about Fossil ?
Fossil's commands are just like git's & with the added benefit of having Github-in-a-boxThat's a gimmick that doesn't justify the costs of switching from Git (IMO)
If you want decentralized collaboration features in git without using forge software, you can use mailing lists like the Linux kernel does.
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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.
There is this, havent tried
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Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
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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.
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Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.
The issue tracker is usually the concern
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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.
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).
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It works well, and I'm a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it's bassed on). But it doesn't do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.
If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom's traffic API, I'd make the switch.
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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.
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.
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ai driven anti-spam is destroying the internet
Plausibly deniable attacks on political opposition.
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I'm not trying to be like some HOLY MOUNTAIN that no unclean things can ever touch.
I'm just trying to keep myself free. I'll use people's stuff. If that starts becoming bondage, I'm out
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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.
Have you heard of ... Git?
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So why were they blocked.
One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.
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"US sanctioned region" is russia. The developer team fully consist of russian citizens, some of them are still in russia.
Why aren't russian people allowed to upload code. Why does the US get to dictate everything
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I prefer Gitlab CICD but there are many. Actions had a lot of potential. Then Microsoft bought GitHub and just slapped the Actions label on their CI. If you pull off the mask, it is just Azure devops.
I do too. I kinda miss Jenkins but a lot of the conveniences in GitLab's CI are really nice and it's better for 99% of use cases.
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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).
You are correct in principle, but Lemmy isn't on a blockchain. It's much less permanent.
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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.
