In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

Three years ago I got my second #GitHub contribution matrix in steel:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/04/09…

Yeps, those are the two i have. Nothing since.

More steel

I didn't expect this, and this year I wasn't asked ahead of time if I wanted to receive this gift. It is however something of a collector's item that I find very enjoyable. I received my GitHub contribution matrix printed in steel.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

I can't rank the issues for all of FOSS projects but to add one missing in your suggestions:

The increasing fragmentation of development platforms after a phase of >10 years of concentration on #GitHub.com. I think its decline started with the acquisition by #Microsoft. That wasn't good either but fragmentation makes it harder to get contributions by newcomers who are not yet part of your platform.

#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 15 Fix crash reading unsupported pkpass files Improve pkpass support

^GitHub

It's that time of the month again, this time I wrote a whole blog about it:

“Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed” 🤡

#github #copilot #llm #ai #genai

sethmlarson.dev/your-github-co…

Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed 🤡

As a maintainer of a "popular open source project" ever since Copilot was announced I've been receiving monthly reminders that my free GitHub Copilot access has been renewed. If I was paying for t...

^{sethmlarson.dev}

I just lost access to a substantial amount of issues on one of my #GitHub projects.

I would appreciate if people could help upvote github.com/orgs/community/disc… to get more attention.

GitHub staff won't even tell me how much data they've hidden from me, which is quite discouraging :(

#GitHub #OpenSource #DataLoss

After gradually moving all my code repositories from #Github to @Codeberg I have now disabled my Github Sponsors account. A very big thank you to everyone who has supported me over the years. 😍

Not just in light of recent events - after all this is a process I started over two years ago - but also in light of recent events I want to have as little dependencies as possible to platforms run by the Tech Oligarchs.

Are you a GitHub user, or wanting to be a GitHub user, but have issues because of IPv6? Upvote and join the discussion.

Feature Request: Provide a centralized resource and GitHub Public Roadmap tracking of IPv6-support for GitHub Services

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#GitHub #IPv6 #IPv6Only

Feature Request: Provide a centralized resource and GitHub Public Roadmap tracking of IPv6-support for GitHub Services · community · Discussion #151477

Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Summary Our OSS project is running into difficulties with users and community members that are accessing GitHub via IPv6-only networks/services. People are l...

^GitHub

@forgejo

Remember that @swheritage has archived all of GitHub... That might help

💪

#selfhosted #github

Decided to sign up for #Codeberg, the #GitHub alternative that the Fediverse at large is insisting is worth a try and, in some cases, claiming will improve project contributions by avoiding some of the GH antipatterns. I expected to find some #accessibility issues; this is the modern web, after all.

I did not expect a fully inaccessible visual CAPTCHA with no workarounds. I'm unable to solve it, so I cannot create an account.

In short: If you want people who are #blind or #lowVision to contribute to your projects (you do, right?), Codeberg is currently not an #accessible platform.

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

^{lil.law.harvard.edu}

Een van de heikele thema's bij het starten als organisatie met opensourcewerken... Welke publicatieplatform kies je? Daniël Vos schreef er een stuk over dat je kunt gebruiken ter inspiratie: opensourcewerken.nl/blog/view/…

Welk platform gebruik jij het liefst? 🤔

#SCM #GitHub #GitLab #opensource
opensourcewerken.nl/blog/view/…

Kiezen voor SCM-platform GitHub of GitLab

Als je aan de slag gaat met opensourcewerken zul je op een gegeven moment een keuze maken voor een sourcecodemanagementsysteem (SCM). Welke scenario's zijn er? Waar…

^{Opensourcewerken}

Finally! sethmlarson.dev/how-to-disable…

Thank you @harrysintonen for making me aware #github #copilot

How to disable Copilot in GitHub

For the first time in months GitHub has released a feature that I actually enjoy: a way to disable Copilot on the home screen. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for sharing this on Mastodon: Login to gith...

^{sethmlarson.dev}

#catima 2.34.4 is out!

This reverts Catima to targetSdk 34 (Android 14) for now, to fix the UI regressions introduced in Catima 2.34.3.

It also includes the fixes in 2.34.3 and a new little feature to sort your cards by the "valid from" date, useful for things like train tickets.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.4 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Ability to sort cards by start of validity Temporarily revert to targeting Android 14 to fix some UI issues

^GitHub

Happy holidays to all who celebrate them!

I just released a minor Catima bugfix release: 2.34.2. This version fixes the archived/starred status being hard to see or even invisible when displayed on top of certain card images.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #GitHub #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.2 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Improve archive/starred icon display

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.1 is out!

This fixes a minor bug in Catima 2.34.0 where selecting an "invalid" pkpass file (corrupted/not actually pkpass) after choosing to open from Pkpass would cause the app to crash. Now, you just get a little message stating the file could not be read instead.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
catima.app

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.1 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix crash when opening invalid pkpass files

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.0 is out!

This release adds support for #Passbook (#pkpass) files, commonly used for event tickets and more!

It also contains some other minor fixes and better handling of image thumbnails (especially transparent ones).

On the end-user side, this release probably doesn't look that different, but it contains some major code refactoring. It is also the first release with #Kotlin code in it.

catima.app/

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add Passbook (.pkpass) support Fix import of transparent PDF files Improve display of transparent thumbnails

^GitHub

Microsoft Mgmt Deteriorates GitHub UX - Goodbye Perf and Progressive Enhancement?

Mu-An Chiou writes @muan:

"React got pushed down from Microsoft management and most of us on the [GitHub] front-end team quit."

muan.co/posts/javascript

#webperf #ProgressiveEnhancement #github #Microsoft

JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou

Do When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality of a feature can benefit from some JavaScript. Start with only HTML, then progressively enhance it, so it can still work without Jav...

^{Mu-An Chiou}

#Catima 2.32.1 is out!

This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

#Android #IzzyOnDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub

Fix text wrapping on add dialog by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2142 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Before After

^GitHub

🆕 blog! “GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?”

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/githu…
⸻
#AI #github #LLM

Three hours ago #Github released an "AI Autofix" feature: github.blog/news-insights/prod…

Now their entire system is completely offline.

Oops.

Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix - The GitHub Blog

With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog security debt.

^{Mike Hanley (The GitHub Blog)}

Everyone else just staring at the github status page?

githubstatus.com/

#github

@markuswerle @jakob @pluralistic This is how I interpret the situation: #GitHub offers open source programs free access to GitHub actions today exactly as it did in the past. This access is limited in CPU performance and parallelism. It always was. All free CI services do this.

The #curl project was bumped to a fancier account to give us more actions powers: more CPU and more parallelism.

That is them doing us a favor and them supporting us, not the other way around.

In just a couple of weeks, Carie Fisher and Jesse Dugas from the GitHub Accessibility team will be sharing the accessibility features of GitHub Copilot that you can use to enhance your own projects.

Mark your calendars for July 23, 2024, 1pm ET
a11ytalks.com/posts/2024-jul
#A11y #Accessibility #A11yTalks #Drupal #GitHub #Copilot

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