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[–] 150 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It blows my mind that so many devs did not see this coming the moment Microsoft bought it. I was waiting for this to happen the moment I found out about the acquisition.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

    Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Use Codeberg, or self-host Forgejo

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All I want for Christmas in Forgejo federation.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Codeberg has a 750mb limit, for me that is not enough. I need to store asset data as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Split the repository? It's not an unreasonable thing to do.

    That said, FreeBSD's repo is 2ish GiB, and Linux is 3, LLVM is huge too. Not unreasonable to want to mirror those.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good point! I wasn't aware of that.

    Im going to remove my Github content and host it just for myself in my own Forgejo at home.

    Pity that the world is falling apart in so many ways.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.

    won't ever look back.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Meaning you have your own machine to host on or how does it work?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.

    it's available over LAN or VPN.

    nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?

    I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.

    if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.

    my gitlab backups are around 80gb.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I fully saw it when I heard but alas. I still need the green squares on my github page to get hired. Nobody looks at projects as much as the green squares.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm not a developer, but I can certainly understand your position. It's unfortunate that companies rely on this type of company to decide if someone is worth hiring. There's a need for companies to have streamlines that look at the actual capabilities and values of potential hires, regardless of where the evidences are hosted.

    This world is way too broken, and getting worse every day.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.

    There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.

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