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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 19:01:57 JST 翠星石
   Oh nice, github is now pretty much unusable without running proprietary software.
   
   That took them a while.
   
   Thankfully `git clone` and gothub exists: https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub although it seems gothub needs to update its scraping.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 19:24:36 JST 翠星石

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     • Taxo Rubio:wq
     @taxorubio Before you could navigate and view the files and folders of a project without running proprietary JavaScript, now you just get a blank page as attached.
     
     The main project page with the file tree and readme viewing, plus viewing pull requests seems to work...for now.
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     Taxo Rubio:wq (taxorubio@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 19:24:41 JST Taxo Rubio:wq

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     @Suiseiseki What has changed? I haven't used GH in a while

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 20:10:06 JST 翠星石

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     • Taxo Rubio:wq
     @taxorubio Yes, microsoft loves "open source", as they can throw around buzzwords and make people "feel good" and fail to realise what is being advertised to them is proprietary software.
     
     They really love committing mass copyright infringement against all public projects too (the case for such infringements is pending, but sadly it seems the complainants made a few procedural errors and microsoft has more lawyers and endlessly deep pockets).
     
     
     I don't see as to why those tools would even need github already, as git over https and https fileserving is all those tools should need when it comes to downloading software.
     
     A okay post on this topic is: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
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     Taxo Rubio:wq (taxorubio@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 20:10:07 JST Taxo Rubio:wq

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     @Suiseiseki Most people are not going to care, but it really sucks that GitHub has become Microsft's platform to brag about loving open source while locking the developers.

     I would love to see a mass migration of repos to self-hosted forges, but there are many tools that depend on GH like cargo, Packer or Lazy :/