Notices by h (h@social.coop), page 7

@remotenemesis
You're not the customer, you're not the product. You're the battlefield.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611118/the-white-house-says-a-new-ai-taskforce-will-keep-america-first-and-protect-its-workers/

https://social.coop/media/Hs4j5TzK7hrq-v1iBKY

@remotenemesis No they aren't around anymore. The company was acquired by Oracle. Servers, Java, Solaris, Mysql, Staroffice, Virtualbox and other things are now part of Oracle.
The former Sun headquarters were sold to Facebook.

@remotenemesis Well, that's disappointing but at the same time I'm quite encouraged by the stand of the other 4000 who were offended enough to take a very public stand. That's a significant portion of Google's headcount estimated at 62,000.

@remotenemesis Reports are that twelve quit, but four thousand made it clear that they were on the fence, that would be a more accurate way to put it.

@remotenemesis Ah I get you now. Sorry, I thought you were referring to a different toot.

@paco Federation would obviously be for the part of the code, projects that need to be discoverable, and therefore obviously public.
You don't need discoverability of private repos, you can do that on your own self-hosted instance.

@clhendricksbc @Matt_Noyes

@remotenemesis I don't think I said that, sorry. You may have read that from somebody else.

@remotenemesis How could I possibly know. I had no idea that it was a thing to begin with.

@bjoern That's a great thing, hope they follow through on that plan.
Big if true, as they say 😃

The other problem I have with Gitlab is $1 million that Google Ventures gave them. Potentially a million problems, but they appear to be behaving well so far. As long as the software stays free and federated, we'll be buying time until other alternatives emerge.

@Matt_Noyes @clhendricksbc @Gargron

@paco I know, if you read what I was saying earlier, I said that self-hosted Gitlab instances are a good start, but they would need to be federated for them to act like a useful substitute of github.

@clhendricksbc @Matt_Noyes

Disclosure: I have some code residing in github, mainly for discoverability and interaction filing issues. The code I have there can't possibly be used for anything else than decentralisation.

http://github.com/htrob

@paco
They're not mutually exclusive things.

With every new customer that helps github to grow bigger, github becomes more centralised, there can be no rational argument about this.

It's fine if they give you a service that you find valuable, and it's good that you run your own server. But you're in the tiny minority of people who use github this way. You are just one data point.

It's a fact that the original intent of using git in a distributed way was subverted.
@clhendricksbc @Matt_Noyes