In the past week, Github has made moves aimed at taking over both free software packaging and now free software crowdfunding.

This is utterly scary, and I'm surprised nobody is talking about it.

it's 91F out and I'm in the un-airconditioned house, by a window, enjoying feeling a bit chilly, since the floor is 65F.

This is why I love my house, earth-shelter construction rules. (Until the 90% humidity comes.)

"recursion as a service" -- the ultimate ycombinator venture

(hat tip to @arosien)

I'm at a FP conference, and just as the speaker put up this slide the entire hotel lost power.

@cwebber https://ruby.social/@amirrajan/101985836120728909 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bhfigf/a_dark_room_a_game_released_last_week_includes_a/

(and yeah, it's a very good game, and free software besides)

Notice the cognitive dissonance in the reactions to A Dark Room having a repl, vs the architypical dev's "my 8bit computer booted to a repl"

What we have here is social classes, gatekeeping, etc.

@cwebber hate to break it to you, but kernel modules are a package format

author and license metadata, dependencies, bundle of objects, ..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/beto-orourke-teenage-member-hacking-group-cult-of-the-dead-cow

what the...

@ocdtrekkie Github wiki, gists, user pages are all stored in git repos. Rest isn't. I don't know about the equivilants on Gitlab.

Also, https://github-backup.branchable.com/ pulls all the data into a branch (and backs up all repos you star or fork); I wrote it 6 years ago partly to demonstrate feasibiity, partly to not lose information when the inevitable github backlash happened.

the single most important criteria when replacing Github
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_single_most_important_criteria_when_replacing_Github/

Consider all the data that's used to provide the value-added features on top of git. Issue tracking, wikis, notes in commits, lists of forks, pull requests, access controls, hooks, other configuration, etc.

Is that data stored in a git repository?

#github

Oh good greif, someone sent me bitcoin. Now I have to cash it out to avoid risky currency speculation, and then feel bad if bitcoin price later reaches the oort cloud or whatever