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A http server is all you need
by quickthrower2 3y ago
A 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.
- pgeorgi 3y agoLatest commit in CVS. I'm not sure what the Last Update date is about, but I think Sourceforge did some larger data shuffle in 2013, at least there are many orphaned projects where the site claims an update in 2013 even though nothing of the sort happened.