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It looks like the free services provided by GitHub are still available: "A selection of GitHub services such as access to public repositories will remain avail
by cochne 7y ago
It looks like the free services provided by GitHub are still available:
"A selection of GitHub services such as access to public repositories will remain available to everyone, the company said in a statement on its website. “This includes limited access to GitHub public repository services (such as access to GitHub Pages and public repositories used for open source projects), for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes.”
- mieseratte 7y agoSo what can't restricted foreign-nationals do? Private, paid-for repositories? Is there something else particularly important?
- Algent 7y agoIf I recall right from previous thread they can still create and commit to public repo but can't delete them. They also can't touch even their own private repo anymore.
- theturtletalks 7y agoThey added the option to make private repos public so you can back it up. But again, you can’t delete the now public repo.
- emilfihlman 7y ago>They added the option to make private repos public so you can back it up. And allow all to see their contents, likes business and trade secrets. Top tier.
- theturtletalks 7y agoYep. If you want to access your blocked private repo, you literally have to let everyone access it. And you can’t even delete it afterwards.
- mieseratte 7y ago> Yep. If you want to access your blocked private repo, you literally have to let everyone access it. And you can’t even delete it afterwards. One must wonder just how many companies with juicy trade secrets situated in a nation with adversarial relations to the US are hosting that juicy data in the US, with a US corporation. Given that the public, open-source situation is not changed this is starting to sound like a tempest in a teacup.
- tedmiston 7y agoCouldn't one temporarily travel outside of the affected regions to access their private repos normally?
- theturtletalks 7y agoGithub does have an appeal process if the algorithm mistakenly tagged you. I’m not sure what proof they ask for.
- dijit 7y agoThis is interesting, I didn’t see that. In which case they are actually providing -more- than gitlab does.
- fartcannon 7y agoIt's google that's blocking gitlab users/servers. Gitlab's mistake is using Google.