Get Off GitHub!

[Farley Flud]

I have always advocated that developers should not publish their
work on that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Use GitLab or some other equivalent, fer chrissake.

But now the FSF advocates the same:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/0327209/fsf-urges-moving-off-microsofts-github-to-protest-windows-11s-requiring-tpm-20

However, this move away from GitHub should not be a protest
against mandatory TPM. Programmers should get off GitHub simply
because it is fucking Microslop, fer chrissake.

(Note: TPM is not a requirement for those that know how to
kick the flabby ass of Microslop.)

Get off GitHub. Now!

I applaud all those developers that use GitLab or equivalents.

[DFS]

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

Post by Farley Flud
fucking Microslop
the flabby ass of Microslop.

Get to work early tomorrow and boot up Win10. Boot it!

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?

GitHub is yet another "product" that Microsoft purchased.

https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
June 4, 2018 | Microsoft News Center

Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance
Microsoft services with new audiences.

Such innovators, aren't they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft

The table in there shows 276 acquisitions by "innovator" Microsoft.

:-D

[Joel]

Post by Chris Ahlstrom

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?

GitHub is yet another "product" that Microsoft purchased.
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
June 4, 2018 | Microsoft News Center
Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance
Microsoft services with new audiences.
Such innovators, aren't they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
The table in there shows 276 acquisitions by "innovator" Microsoft.
:-D

Is it forbidden to use anything remotely connected with M$? I like
their Linux-native stuff, much like Office for Mac.
--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Post by Joel

Post by Chris Ahlstrom

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?

GitHub is yet another "product" that Microsoft purchased.
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
June 4, 2018 | Microsoft News Center
Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance
Microsoft services with new audiences.
Such innovators, aren't they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
The table in there shows 276 acquisitions by "innovator" Microsoft.
:-D

Is it forbidden to use anything remotely connected with M$?

Of course you can use it. I was just laffing at DFS.

Post by Joel
I like their Linux-native stuff, much like Office for Mac.

Microsoft has a ton of good programmers, but their QA (quality assurance)
leaves something to be desired.

[Andrzej Matuch]

Post by Chris Ahlstrom

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?

GitHub is yet another "product" that Microsoft purchased.
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
June 4, 2018 | Microsoft News Center
Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance
Microsoft services with new audiences.
Such innovators, aren't they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
The table in there shows 276 acquisitions by "innovator" Microsoft.
:-D

Honestly, Chris isn't even clowning around here. Microsoft often buys
whatever company manages to provide a better program than they could
ever hope to produce. The problem is that the acquisition almost
immediately results in mediocrity for that company. Think about what
happened to Rare who used to produce some of the most memorable games
for Nintendo. Consider Skype which was once the most important
videoconferencing program and is now surpassed by just about everyone.
We used to make jokes about it in the 90s: 1) create a company, 2)
produce a cool program, 3) wait for Microsoft to buy it, 4) quit, 5)
create a new company, 6) repeat.

If they didn't have a near monopoly on the operating system and office
software, one has to wonder how they would make their money. Just about
every obvious innovation escapes them. I'll give you an example: when
iTunes emerged as a music store, Windows Media Player already had a
mechanism within it that would have allowed people to set up a
competitor, but they never bothered. They created their own awful music
store for 8, but closed it before 10. Another example is how they
essentially killed AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ with the release of
Windows Messenger, but decided to kill that off at the peak of its
popularity because they thought that everyone would migrate over to
Skype. Instead, they went to Facebook and its messenger before leaving
that too to whatever seemed fanciest. They already had what seemed like
a monopoly for instant messaging as a result of Windows Messenger being
bundled with the operating system and being tied to their e-mail
service, but they managed to screw that up too.

Like Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden, don't underestimate Microsoft's
remarkable incompetence.

[Andrzej Matuch]

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

How?

[Stéphane CARPENTIER]

Post by DFS

Post by Farley Flud
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.

Blows GitLab out of the water.

How that? By numbers of users? If popularity is your only way of judging
repositories, I don't care about it. Thanks to copilot? If so I really
don't care. With a superior functionality? I'd like to hear it. Because
if github is more displayed in the FOSS world than gitlab, it's not the
case in companies where technology is more important than popularity.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by Stéphane CARPENTIER

Post by DFS
Blows GitLab out of the water.

How that? By numbers of users?

By the fact that GitLab runs on poor old Linux, of course. Whereas GitHub,
being from Microsoft, is powered by, um ...

[CrudeSausage]

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by Stéphane CARPENTIER

Post by DFS
Blows GitLab out of the water.

How that? By numbers of users?

By the fact that GitLab runs on poor old Linux, of course. Whereas GitHub,
being from Microsoft, is powered by, um ...

Interconnected Atari ST 520s.

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by Stéphane CARPENTIER

Post by DFS
Blows GitLab out of the water.

How that? By numbers of users?

By the fact that GitLab runs on poor old Linux, of course. Whereas GitHub,
being from Microsoft, is powered by, um ...

Note: GitHub is not from Microsoft. They bought it. They hide the OS:

$ lynx -head https://github.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:46:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

But then:

Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; child-src
github.com /assets-cdn/worker/ github.com/webpack/ github.com/assets/
gist.github.com/assets- cdn/worker/; connect-src 'self' uploads.github.com
www.githubstatus.com collector. github.com raw.githubusercontent.com
api.github.com github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com
...

It goes on and on and on.

"Content-Security-Policy is the name of a HTTP response header that modern
browsers use to enhance the security of the document (or web page). The
Content-Security-Policy header allows you to restrict which resources (such
as JavaScript, CSS, Images, etc.) can be loaded, and the URLs that they can
be loaded from."

Ya learn sumptin' new every day....

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Post by Farley Flud
I have always advocated that developers should not publish their
work on that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.
Use GitLab or some other equivalent, fer chrissake.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/0327209/fsf-urges-moving-off-microsofts-github-to-protest-windows-11s-requiring-tpm-20
However, this move away from GitHub should not be a protest
against mandatory TPM. Programmers should get off GitHub simply
because it is fucking Microslop, fer chrissake.
(Note: TPM is not a requirement for those that know how to
kick the flabby ass of Microslop.)
Get off GitHub. Now!
I applaud all those developers that use GitLab or equivalents.

Github, in spite of being glorioski over-featured by Microsoft, is
a convenient place to store code, and many people still depend on it.

Alternatives are good, but don't cut off your nose to spite... whatever.