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Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 05:41:30 JST Tim Bray

Ouch, this sent a chill down my spine. [Tl;dr: GitHub locked a repo apparently because one of its contributors was in a US-sanctioned region]:
1. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
2. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114233788700982882
In conversation about 2 months ago from cosocial.ca permalink
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1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: files.mastodon.social
  
  Organic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)
  
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  Attached: 1 image We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.
2. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Organic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)
  
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  GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo@floss.social). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

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