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This is great - add them to github!
by LastTrain 3y ago
This is great - add them to github!
- megous 3y agoOr maybe don't feed the machine...
- outside1234 3y agoIf it is not on Github it is never going to feed anything
- quickthrower2 3y agoA http server is all you need
- TedDoesntTalk 3y ago… which dies with the author, or a couple years later when his domain expires.
- quickthrower2 3y agoYou believe that Github is some kind of heritage organisation? Incentives are aligned now, kind of, except they train an AI that they sell to other people on your code. I use Github but do it with open eyes.
- sesm 3y agoGitHub has Arctic Code Vault program.
- quickthrower2 3y agoJust looked it up. That is impressive. Probably could do with some Antarctic geo redundancy ;-).
- pabs3 3y agoSoftware Heritage are also archiving all of GitHub (and more): https://www.softwareheritage.org/ https://www.softwareheritage.org/
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- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoAdd $1000 to your Namecheap accounts, turn autorenew ON, you are good for couple decades ...
- soulofmischief 3y agoSo we'll trust Namecheap for a couple decades but not a Microsoft-backed purpose-built website?
- cellularmitosis 3y agoThe question of "how long would a non-famous repository stay alive on github" is actually an interesting thought experiment.
- simonw 3y agoGitHub's track record on this so far is fantastic. Repos that were created 15 years ago and didn't see another commit since their creation are still there today.
- pgeorgi 3y agoBy this metric, folks should go for sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnome-napster/code/ https://sourceforge.net/p/gnome-napster/code/ has last seen activity 23 years ago, while https://sourceforge.net/p/primal/code/ci/master/tree/ https://sourceforge.net/p/primal/code/ci/master/tree/ saw changes this year.
- soulofmischief 3y ago> Last Update: 2013-02-19 Am I missing something? Where did you get 23 years from?
- a1o 3y agoThey are living four decades from now in 2040.
- flykespice 3y agoThere is also the lesser known repo.or.cz
- megous 3y agoIt's older than github, I think. I hosted one of my projects there in 2006 or so.
- LastTrain 3y agoI do love personal websites - but the proper place for sharing code, where it can be forked and shared, is GitHub or a place like it. Plus, author has already licensed their code in a way to allow it anyway.
- fallat 3y ago> the proper place for sharing code [...] is GitHub Man how far people are brainwashed.
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- LastTrain 3y agoOK. Straighten me out. Explain the difference between sharing my 20 year old code on a personal sever with a license that says “do what you like” and posting my code on GitHub/GitLab/SourceForge etc.
- salawat 3y agoYou mean besides Microsoft R&D slurping all Github code up by default into an LLM training set by default? Not much.
- fallat 3y agoThat's not the problem. The problem is saying "the proper way to share code is with GitHub". There is no single proper way to share code, least using a commercial platform(s).
- dboreham 3y agoPeople can poke around in it more easily. E.g. I wanted to look at the 6808 OS code but it's a zip file and I'm using a phone, so... Not saying it needed to be on github only, but unzipping into a set of repos there in addition to posting the zips would be helpful. I suppose anyone could do that, but then the provenance is not preserved.
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- pgeorgi 3y agoThere's also codeberg.org for git-shaped artifacts, or archive.org for everything else.
- screamingninja 3y ago> Or maybe don't feed the machine... Curious as to why you consider that a bad thing.
- megous 3y agoBecause it gives power to Microsoft to impose its will on millions of developers, and for little reason in this case, when the goal is just publishing software, and not development. Its UI for presenting large number of software projects sucks, too.