Why #curl closes PRs on #GitHub

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11…

Our #GAAD edition In-Process #blog is out, featuring all the news on #NVDA 2024.2beta 1, the amazing mini-documentary @github made our new issue template and more!

Get on top of all the #GAAD #news here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Newsletter #GitHub #FOSS #ScreenReader

Catima 2.29.0 is out!

This release adds support for finding barcodes in PDF files[1] and dealing with multiple barcodes. It also properly colours the status bar during usage now.

As always, it's available on #GitHub, will soon be available on #IzzyOnDroid and will slowly roll out to other app stores.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

[1] Not sandboxed yet, help welcome in github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #OpenSource #Android

Sandbox PdfRenderer in a Service with android:isolatedProcess · Issue #1804 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

The Android documentation for PdfRenderer states: If the file is from an untrusted source it is recommended to run the renderer in a separate, isolated process with minimal permissions to limit the...

^GitHub

On this day forteen years ago, #curl switched to using #git and hosting on #github

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/03/23…

Are you a software engineer who uses GitHub in your day job, and you want/need to keep a work log including all the PRs you review each week?

This link will show all of them across all repos:
github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+rev…

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¿Eres ingenier@ de software que usa GitHub en el trabajo y quieres/necesitas mantener una bitácora de tareas con todas las PRs que revises cada semana?

Este enlace te muestra todas en todos los repos:
github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+rev…

#GitHub #SoftwareEngineer #Tip

Use GitHub?

GitHub Customer Research Panel—Feedback shapes everything we do at GitHub.

forms.office.com/Pages/Respons…

#github #webdev #survey

Hey #rust #rustlang bubble - I am giving up maintainership of the "config" crate: github.com/mehcode/config-rs/i…

If someone wants to take over, now's your time.

#maintainer #github #repository 🦀

Please boost to your rustlang bubbles.

Maintainer wanted · Issue #549 · mehcode/config-rs

This project needs more/new maintainers. I took over maintainership in 2019 (IIRC) during a project at my employer back then, because I needed fixes/changes in this crate to fulfill my task at work...

^GitHub

The #curl repo on #GitHub is now forked 6,000 times

github.com/curl/curl

GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub

#Catima 2.27.0 is out!

Honestly a fairly small release, mostly small UI tweaks and a minor bugfix. But that's fine, it's great when software updates are boring without major changes so there is nothing new to learn :)

Available on #GitHub right now, on #IzzyOnDroid within 24 hours and on other stores when they update (see the FAQ on catima.app for details).

Hope y'all enjoy it :)

On this day in 1999, 24 years ago, we started hosting the #curl source code on Sourceforge. Like all the cool kids. CVS baby!

In 2010 we switched to using git, hosted on #GitHub: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/03/23…

Another article on #OpenSource, this time written by Richard Pope, who was one of the founding members of the UK’s #GDS. There is just so much for which governments can benefit by engaging with the open source communities that they use. Furthermore, the government contributing their work back to the public #GitHub or #GitLab repositories makes the code more secure and drives down the costs for #DigitalGovernment.

digitalpublicgoods.xyz/behave

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

github.blog/2023-11-08-univers…

2. Go here:

codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform - The GitHub Blog

GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.

^{Thomas Dohmke (The GitHub Blog)}

Greetings!

I would like to sincerely thank @genewitch , for opening up a ticket for making the #Misskey web interface more accessible to all #Blind & #VisuallyImpaird users.
Comment among the #GitHub thread if anyone has ideas/thoughts, and spread the word!

github.com/misskey-dev/misskey…

More accessibility for visually impaired (blind) users · Issue #10702 · misskey-dev/misskey

many buttons without alt-text for blind or visually impaired persons using screen readers A user on my misskey said: As a #blind / #VisuallyImpaired user of the #Fediverse, at least if using the we...

^GitHub

"By being on GitHub, we reduce friction from the contribution process and we maximize the ability for others to join in and help. We lower the bar. This is good for us."

There have been many criticism towards GitHub on the Fediverse (#GiveUpGitHub). Some even say it's the "Twitter of hosting code". While I understand the rationale, I disagree. Been using GitHub for over a decade now and have hundreds of repositories there. Without GitHub it would be amazingly difficult to manage. I use for-profit products by Microsoft, can you imagine some of them have their place in the world?

I can quit Twitter, Facebook, etc. and self-host almost anything, but not my and the firm's code. Why?

Read: "What if GitHub is the devil?", an article by @bagder

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/28… #OpenSource #GitHub

Oops! 😅 Github accidentally committed their on SSH private key to a public github repo. They rightly have changed the keys, so you'll get bit scary “WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!” messages.

github.blog/2023-03-23-we-upda…
#ssh #github #devoops

We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog

At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.

^{Mike Hanley (GitHub)}

For my latest story, I got to correspond with a Ukranian developer with cerebral palsy who uses ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to communicate and code. It was wild, because I don't think our interaction would have been possible just a few years ago.

Beyond that, though, #GenerativeAI is removing barriers for him to code and contribute. He even released his first #OpenSource project recently sharing his experience!

github.com/readme/featured/ope…

#ChatGPT #GitHubCopilot #GitHub #A11y

Hey #Fosdem! Jason is heading to the #Github Open Social event tonight at Scott’s Bar and Kitchen— and he has a limited quantity of these #Thunderbird stickers and T-shirts to give away!

Want one? Find him between 8pm and 10pm. He’s wearing a Thunderbird hoodie.

"The Venn Diagram of the Techbro": perhaps the most succinct summary of the paper.

A _very_ interesting and thorough report on toxicity in #OpenSource communities on #GitHub, including a few suggested avenues for improvements.

Let's all strive to do better.

#Community #OpenSourceBehaviours
cmustrudel.github.io/papers/os…

Looks like there’s a new phish in town. Keep an eye out, folks

#phishing #github #security

#github is introducing tracking cookies. Have you moved your projects to #codeberg yet?

github.com/github/site-policy/…

#privacy #foss

Privacy Statement Updates September 2022 by olholder · Pull Request #582 · github/site-policy

GitHub is introducing non-essential cookies on web pages that market our products to businesses. These cookies will provide analytics to improve the site experience and personalize content and ads ...

^GitHub

A little template you can customise for your G****b readme ;)

# ⚠️ This repository has moved away from GitHub

## 👉️ [<app name> git repository (source code)](codeberg.org/)

Its new home is on [Codeberg](codeberg.org/), an independent and ethical not-for-profit git hosting service that’s powered by donations, doesn’t track you, and is hosted in the EU.

(They also don’t [violate your licenses to train their shitty AIs](mastodon.ar.al/@aral/106500204…).)

#github #codeberg

ar.al🌻 (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)

So GitHub copilot… correct me if I’m wrong here: it was trained on open source (including GPLed & AGPLed code?) by *spit* Elon Musk’s OpenAI and now it regurgitates said code and this doesn’t violate the GPL/AGPL because…?

^{Aral’s Mastodon}

And of course I have to learn of #ForgeFed @forgefed today. 😅 An extension to #ActivityPub. Capturing the collaborative nature of source forges.

The reason #github has kept its mountain 🗻 market share is its social network. The only true way to fight centralization is by joining our abilities as a collective. Through choice and breadth of interconnected forges we hold strength. An actual #DVCS.

forgefed.org/

Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!

drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Cop…

As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.

CC: @codeberg

#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg

#GitHub #Copilot just sells code other people wrote

twitter.com/ReinH/status/15396…

RT @ReinH@twitter.com

github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ReinH/status/15396…

Lots of understandable concern today as #Microsoft #GitHub announced their new #Copilot availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #ethics, #licensing, and other related issues, especially for #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource contributors.

Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?

Boosts welcome!

sfconservancy.org/news/2022/fe…

New Committee Will Investigate Copyleft Implications of AI-Assisted Programming

Software Freedom Conservancy announces a Committee On AI-Assisted Programming and Copyleft to develop recommendations and plans for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community response to the use of machine learning tools for code generation and…

^{Software Freedom Conservancy}

"People might not like what Gitee is doing, but Gitee will still be required to get their daily job done".

That's a dumb argument.

When it comes to building software (especially #FOSS), you are NEVER required to use somebody else's platform.

The Chinese-based #Gitee is obviously an extreme example of how things can go bad, and how a dumb filter for words censored by the party may result in your work of years gone up in smoke.

But the same principles also apply to #Github. DMCA complaints result in hundreds of projects a month taken down, mostly with no chance of appeal (pay attention here: a DMCA takedown request is sufficient for a repository to be removed, no need for any actual courtroom to come up with a verdict).

After youtube-dl was taken down, and I started sensing danger around my projects as well (since many of them use youtube-dl or Torrent search engines), I took things in my hands, got my VPS, installed Gitlab, and became the real boss of my own projects.

And if hosting Gitlab is too heavy for you, there's plenty of lighter alternatives. If they're heavy for you too, just go the old way. Remember that git is just ssh on steroids, so all you need to host a repo is a machine with ssh access and the git executable. No private company can EVER own that.

As open-source developers, we should avoid at all costs hosting our code on any platform that:

- Isn't open-source itself. It's easy for Github to say that they ♥ open-source. They can basically access and endless database of source code without having to provide their own that people can run locally, therefore having a HUGE edge of advantage over ANY competitor who could ever come: who wouldn't love that? Same goes for Gitee: if you love open-source, then show me your code.

- Has opaque rules around takedowns, and it allows an unelected third party to arbitrarily remove content with no possibility of appeal, any legal process, and often not even explanations of the reasoning behind the decision.

If you care about open-source code, then stay clear of Github, Gitee and all of their shitty clones.

technologyreview.com/2022/05/3…

How censoring China’s open-source coders might backfire

Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation.

^{Zeyi Yang (MIT Technology Review)}

RT @slimsag@twitter.com

Out of 2,000,000+ of the top repositories on #GitHub, 2,200+ have a #Discord invite, while 1,400+ have a #Matrix @element_hq@twitter.com invite, in their repository somewhere. Thought that was an interesting statistic!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/slimsag/status/147…