The website works fine unless you enable javascript. That's usually the way it is with these sort of things. The webdev or CMS creates a perfectly functional website using HTML and CSS, then some javascript is added to shit the whole thing up. Disable javascript by default for a better web experience.
IMHO it's in the guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm a big fan of neat statistical analyses, but when I look at the archive site https://www.gharchive.org/ , the overwhelming feeling I have is "creeped out". Taking periodic snapshots of repositories and their issues and wikis sounds good, but do we really need a log of every time someone watches an issue, and every commit message being irrevocably set on public record? That level of details on individual activity seems to have little value outside of cyberstalking
I did have a look at the bottom of the page where prominent uses are listed, but nothing stands out as actually useful tbqh
> That level of details on individual activity seems to have little value outside of cyberstalking
A selling point for business-level is that they can do whatever OKR they want on top of that details. To make any employee dance whatever business can imagine. Any amount of Tb seems OK until it helps selling "Business" tier github.
I have a GitHub account under my real name, but recently I've started using GitHub under a couple of other names instead. There's so much stuff you do in public on GitHub that I want to avoid people doing exactly this kind of analysis on.
I wish using multiple identities was at least some level of foolproof though. I have to be careful to configure my local copies of repos to use the correct username, masked email, and PGP signing key. It would be super handy if git had a global config of multiple identities and if I could have it prompt me to select one either when I clone a repo or the first time I push to it.
Yes but the specific ways that large companies like Microsoft violate user privacy tends not to include posting sensitive user data on the open internet. Especially not for business customers.
You can have includeIf sections in your .gitconfig that applies only to things within a certain directory. So you if you create top level directories in your $HOME for your various identities, all you need to do is to make sure you are cloning into and working within the appropriate directory hierarchy.
note that this is technically against their TOS if not using paid accounts:
> One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)
Well, to be fair, some of the most vile hateful stuff I've ever seen in my life was posted on Facebook-powered comment sections under news articles, next to real names and pictures of smiling grandparents holding their grandchildren
It's a really tough situation. I want both at the exact same time. But since that's not possible, I lean towards anonymity. Stuff that's published on the internet is out there forever. Because of automated tools that exist now and that will only get better in the future, it will be easy to surface.
And it's hard because there's so many ways someone could make connections that aren't immediately obvious. For example, I used to have my home's IP address set as a subdomain of the same one I use for email (for VPNing in). But later I thought about it and realized that anyone could easily look at the DNS records for my domain and know more than I really want them to.
That's one of my favorite parts of reddit. Accounts are just pseudonyms, and you can generate as many as you want. I personally generate a new one every few months, which helps keep too much identifying data from building up over time.
and Jack Dorsey happens to have put up a 1 billion sats bounty to """Create a “complete” Nostr-based suite of git tools, such that projects like bitcoin-core are sufficiently confident to move away from GitHub."""
If you really were on the web since before gnu/Linux you would never have expressed it that way...
You'd say you were around when you dialed into BBSes.... Like those who actually were on the "web" before gnu/Linux.... Do you actually understand what you claimed with that?
Quick edit: just in case it's not clear enough
"First released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds"
"By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web"..."In 1991 the Commercial Internet eXchange was founded"
Unless you were friends with Tim it's literally impossible....
That's a term of service that I'm not too worried about. I'm not going to cry if they terminate those two accounts (main account is paid, so that's not in violation). And I'm not doing anything unusual or abusive with the accounts so I'm not worried they'll take action anyway.
This kind of information has become even more easily accessible for everyone with the introduction of the Activity tab. I really wish that force-pushed commits and deleted branches would be permanently lost instead of being permanently stored like on a blockchain.
How so? I deleted my previous accound and they replaced all interactions with "ghost". Deleting all interactions would be going a step too far IMHO since it would destroy documentation of issues, etc, just like public forums usually argue against deleting all posted content when you delete your account.
Based on Serbia but operating the servers in Frankfurt.
With the cavalier attitude to scraping and linking people's identifiable data without any sort of opt-in I had assumed it would be a US company.
Lol let me introduce you to a little organization called the National Security Agency, with their "creepy" periodic snapshots of much more intriguing datasets.
"Stellar Wind" is a good place to start.
Including, but of course not limited to, every communication made by any person within the United States (or outgoing) for the better part of two decades. Internet traffic, communications, all of it.
Don't blame the archiver who is only doing what is allowed of them by Github. If you don't want to be public don't be public. Other archivers aren't making themselves publicly known but have the data all the same.
If you put information online publicly, you should be always working under the assumption that it will be immediately archived by someone. Whether that is the Internet Archive for websites, a Discord bot archiving edits and deletions, Pushshift (formerly) for Reddit, or just some private group operating a web scraper.
At least in this situation the archived data is public.
On Firefox and even Microsoft Edge there is a "reader mode" option for most websites. I click on that often enough when I expect an article, to remove noise from ads.
Was this written by GPT? I was quite interested in the topic of the article but I started to get the brain fog I associate with parsing ChatGPTs convoluted sentences.
Agreed... I wanted to understand what it was all about, but really struggled to follow. They talk about the whole thing taking around 24 hours, but some part took over 30. Also that it ran on a 4GB of RAM machine, but they needed larger ones to do all the parsing.
Also in the end, unsure of what the actual results are. Maybe I missed clicking on something.
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didn’t work correctly on the page, it just ceases to scroll after a point.
a while back I was thinking about creating an extension that deals with this issue but I've heard some browsers are already working on that.
I did have a look at the bottom of the page where prominent uses are listed, but nothing stands out as actually useful tbqh
A selling point for business-level is that they can do whatever OKR they want on top of that details. To make any employee dance whatever business can imagine. Any amount of Tb seems OK until it helps selling "Business" tier github.
I wish using multiple identities was at least some level of foolproof though. I have to be careful to configure my local copies of repos to use the correct username, masked email, and PGP signing key. It would be super handy if git had a global config of multiple identities and if I could have it prompt me to select one either when I clone a repo or the first time I push to it.
~/.gitconfig:
```
[includeIf "gitdir:~/Personal/"]
```~/personal.gitconfig:
```
[user]
```And you can have arbitrary numbers of "profiles" like this, as long as each is in their own directory.
> One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
And it's hard because there's so many ways someone could make connections that aren't immediately obvious. For example, I used to have my home's IP address set as a subdomain of the same one I use for email (for VPNing in). But later I thought about it and realized that anyone could easily look at the DNS records for my domain and know more than I really want them to.
nostr is allowing for more options
and Jack Dorsey happens to have put up a 1 billion sats bounty to """Create a “complete” Nostr-based suite of git tools, such that projects like bitcoin-core are sufficiently confident to move away from GitHub."""
https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/
You'd say you were around when you dialed into BBSes.... Like those who actually were on the "web" before gnu/Linux.... Do you actually understand what you claimed with that?
Quick edit: just in case it's not clear enough
"First released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds"
"By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web"..."In 1991 the Commercial Internet eXchange was founded"
Unless you were friends with Tim it's literally impossible....
https://github.blog/changelog/2023-05-31-view-repository-pus...
"Stellar Wind" is a good place to start.
Including, but of course not limited to, every communication made by any person within the United States (or outgoing) for the better part of two decades. Internet traffic, communications, all of it.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2015/PSP-09-18-15-vol-III.pd...
Society frequently has norms and unwritten rules that we usually follow. Not every rule needs to be written down as law.
While on github there is no rule like that.
Doesn't make it any less creepy.
At least in this situation the archived data is public.
Also in the end, unsure of what the actual results are. Maybe I missed clicking on something.
For example, you can load the GitHub Archive to ClickHouse, and it will be accessible with interactive real-time queries: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
See also https://til.simonwillison.net/clickhouse/github-explorer
Caveat: you have to have Snowflake account