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30 sats \ 7 comments \ @cointastical 20 Apr 2022 bitcoin
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @sam 20 Apr 2022 freebie
I’m so tired of this woke bullshit!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @goon_retired_acc 21 Apr 2022
the woke bog of eternal stench
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiatjaf 20 Apr 2022
https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @cointastical OP 20 Apr 2022
My @github account has been suspended without a prior notification. Perhaps because I am ethnically Russian. "GitHub’s vision is to be the home for all developers, no matter where they reside" they said.
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https://twitter.com/axilirator/status/1514943779236679681
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlueSlime 21 Apr 2022
To hell with Github if they go through with this. Git is plenty powerful on its own, and Gitlab interface is good.
Tor doesn't even bother with Github.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 21 Apr 2022
Well, for my own project, sure -- I can add the repo to my Gitlab account and continue without skipping hardly a beat. But when the project isn't mine , and the repo owner isn't either wanting to move it, or in any position to move it, then if I'm suspended the project continues but without my involvement. Sure I can create a new Github account and go through a VPN into Github again as that new user, but there's no guarantee the same thing won't happen at a later time once again using my new account.
In hindsight though, Github suspending my account would certainly be an incentive that would drive me to Gitlab for everything!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 20 Apr 2022
The accounts of sanctioned companies, like Alfa Bank Laboratory, Sberbank AI Lab, and Sberbank Technology, have been removed from the Microsoft-owned software development hosting service GitHub.
GitHub has gone a step further by suspending the accounts of individual developers affiliated with sanctioned companies.
The suspended Russian developers are working with or for, collaborating, or affiliated with sanctioned companies. However, some appear to have been suspended in error because they are no longer affiliated with the sanctioned companies.
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