Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn’t do the test right, gaslighting me with a picture of what I chose (which I didn’t choose) and showing me the correct picture (which I did choose and it claims I didn’t select).
It’s fucking bullshit and it’s more corporate control of open source software. For people who have their discussion or issue tracker, I can’t even participate without hardware identifiers likely linked to me some other way and phone numbers. It’s fucking bullshit. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, FUCK YOU!!!
I am so tired of this bullshit. I just want to post an issue about a piece of software. You don’t need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit. This is a slippery slope. Fuck them.
I really hope more developers just get the fuck off Github. Honestly, if you are developing privacy-oriented software and using github, there’s a mistmatch and it’s bullshit, and I know it’s time consuming and annoying to move, but please do. This is fucking bullshit and it’s not like it’s going to become LESS annoying over time. FUCK THIS.
With the risk of AI spam and bot accounts, being able to identify a user on Github is important.
Playing devil’s advocate, it’s probably more about blocking bots from creating accounts than it is about blocking privacy minded users. You just end up being collateral damage.
Obviously that still sucks, I’m just saying it’s not that simple
Gitlab.com has similar problems, sadly. Meanwhile, I haven’t ever heard of Codeberg doing somethign similar, but who knows I guess.
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Is there some way to mirror a repo on both, with out having to setup some api keys?
I’ve been getting more and more authwalls on gitbub. That goes against everything I’m doing with foss
Link to article?
If you want a cloud alternative to GitHub run by a non-profit and hosted outside of the U.S.
If you want to get your data out of the cloud entirely, or at least under a VPS you control, self host your own git repo (Using the same software as Codeberg)
Done, thanks for the links. 👍
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I stopped using github when they held my account hostage. Told me I had 2 months to set up 2fa.
Realized I don’t even need github for anything and if I want to share my source code, I’ll just put it up on my site.
Bro what? 2fa is needed brother. You can do offline totp on an app or separate device and get a hardware key. They have so many options
Even if it were, which I obviously disagree with, that’s not an excuse to hold someone’s longstanding account hostage
I downvoted for the image. If you’re going to make a text post, make a text post.
a coworker invited me to his company GitHub team or something recently, and I tried to join several times. each time, I got stuck with a 10 question test to “verify I was human”. it was not quick. eventually, I had time to actually complete it without timing out.
after completing it correctly twice without success, I gave up
Codeberg for the win.
What about GitLab? When Microsoft bought GitHub, people got angry, and migrated their code to GitLab. When that happened, GitLab was all over the headlines for a while, but I haven’t read much about it ever since.
Gitlab has a horrible UI when you have a smaller screen or lower end device, and I heard also not really great server-side performance compared to forgejo and gitea.
Also, the gitlab.com instance randomly blocks people or demands their credit card data.
My college has a Microsoft email account they just gave me but It says I need to download an unrelated app to log in. I don’t really want to do that
Fuck computers they’re war machines.
“How about a nice game of chess?”
Some people: Hey do you want to play a game where you’re forcred to limit your options while you give up ever more figures representing various subjects of a European medieval kingdom until you only have a couple of pieces left on the board which represent the nobility?
Me: Not really
Same here, I was just quoting the movie War Games
Never seen it, is it good?
It’s a great early 80s movie about Matt Broderick('s character) hacking into a “supercomputer” that’s programmed to simulate and potentially execute nuclear war, check it out if that seems up your alley
Sounds okay, is irony the right word to use when we have mad men trying to use AI for that exact purpose? I also heard that it’s the reason why Chomsky was MIT so that generals could eventually just talk to computers.
Fucking computers, paul cockshott had a great video on the history of computing machines, they were always used for shitty fucking purposes. I loved the book WE as a teenager maybe I should reread it.
I miss the days when I used to love technology and be excited about all the great things it could potentially do for society. Now I’m a luddite trying to stick to older and simpler stuff at most while I cynically point out all the awful ways technology will be used by the selfish and the powerful
No thanks, I stopped enjoying chess a loooooong time ago and I always hated humoring people and playing it, Chris Hedges had a great show about the psychology of chess players. I’m responding more for the sake of having some kind of interaction, I got the joke.
No worries man, glad you got the joke. I don’t play chess either
I’m just being an isolated internet denizen trying to spark up conversation at any opportunity.
Can you put the picture as NSFW? Makes me a bit nauseated and I wanna keep visiting the post for new comments lol
I can’t figure out if Free software projects don’t know or don’t care that GitHub is run by Microslop.
