Fuck this shit site. It was always cancer but ever since M$ took over it's on another fucking level.
>have an anonymous account to do shit like report bugs and minor PRs to some small programs/libraries i use
>try to log in after a few weeks
>We sent you an email to verify your account!
>i forgot to write down the unaliased guerilla mail i used for it
>decide to make new account with new guerilla mail
>account flagged
>can't verify guerilla mail accounts
>fuck it, let's make a yandex account just for this shit
>yandex lets you create an account without phone number, but emails are silently rejected unless you add phone
>spend a day waiting for github verification thinking their emails are shit
>turns out it's a yandex problem
>try cock.li instead
>cannot verify domain airmail.cc
There's 10 million github clones that are more featurefull and don't have half the bullshit, when are devs going to wake up already and leave? Why are we even still in the year of our lord CY+3 relying on autocratic, censor-happy companies to host a few kbs of code instead of just running our own? Why is there still after 14 years of git not yet a p2p git distribution network?
The short answer is that somewhere along the line github became a kind of linkedin for programmers. It is no longer a mere source repository and now has many of the same defects as other social media platforms.
>login
>detected new browser
>verify it's you by email
This happens every single time I log in because I use Tor. I'm pretty sure there is no way to disable it.
>cock.li domains are blacklisted
I emailed them to take them off the list because they weren't throwaway email addresses and that they required solving a captcha to make an account. They replied back saying they won't unban them since they are used by spammers. I followed up saying that other popular email services they allowed are also used by spammers. I also asked if they could at last manually change my primary email to a cock.li based one. They never got back to me after that.
>visit controversial PR
>you must be signed in to view this comment
I'm not sure if this is a trick to avoid these comments from being indexed by search engines or if they a tracking who visits and reads these comments.
>>9375 oof, it got pozzed. back when i signed up i didnt even need to provide an email address, even over Tor
also there is no nigger username which is a red flag
>>9375 Whatever name we can put on it, the hacker movement, free software movement, "open source" movement, whatever. The collection of hackers making software with publically-available source code, who desire privacy, who spend their time attempting to refine software.
That group has been subverted. Now we have hordes of nu-/g/ memers with twitter accounts, trannies, redditors, hackernews pajeets, you name it. They don't oppose any of that. And they've latched onto the movement and are pulling it down to their level.
I bet they all love Microsoft now and will ignore everything they have done, still do, and will do, just because they're somehow "BASED AND REDPILLED" for buying github.
There's another sect as well though:
The "anti-censorship" morons who can't see beyond the damn hood ornament.
>Oh, centralized clearnet companies YouTube and Twitter are becoming evil and bad and we are loosing money?
<Quick, let's switch to centralized clearnet companies Bitchute and Gab!
>Onion fediverse instances (like PeerTube and Pleroma) exist.
<Ignored.
<lol Tor is only for illegal bs
Probably because they only give them a cursory look and see a bunch of lefty wackos running the instances.
<Whats federation lol?
But of course they don't know wtf an instance is, and see it as one unitary "platform", because they only care about tech as far as their wallet, viewership and standalone proprietary "push button" ease of use is!
I bet some of them see the new (admittedly terrible) CoCs of Linux and FreeBSD and think "thank god I'm using Windows".
Point is that both sides are aggressively ignorant, counter productive, and maybe even kind of like it.
GitHub's search is so bad. Usually it's easier to just clone and grep through it yourself. Additionally, when using their search you click on a result and are taken to a random version of the repository instead of the latest one.
>>9471 >Usually it's easier to just clone and grep through it yourself.
this applies to pretty much every website ever made, assuming its important enough to bother making a scraper for
>>9377 >>cock.li domains are blacklisted
>I emailed them to take them off the list because they weren't throwaway email addresses and that they required solving a captcha to make an account. They replied back saying they won't unban them since they are used by spammers.
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF EMAIL there shouldn't be fucking domain names
there shouldn't be fucking IP addresses
i just want a fucking inbox fuck
email is another fork-in-the-brain absolute non-solution to a trivial problem, along with webshit
>have an anonymous account to do shit like report bugs and minor PRs to some small programs/libraries i use
>try to log in after a few weeks
>We sent you an email to verify your account!
>i forgot to write down the unaliased guerilla mail i used for it
>decide to make new account with new guerilla mail
>account flagged
>can't verify guerilla mail accounts
>fuck it, let's make a yandex account just for this shit
>yandex lets you create an account without phone number, but emails are silently rejected unless you add phone
>spend a day waiting for github verification thinking their emails are shit
>turns out it's a yandex problem
>try cock.li instead
>cannot verify domain airmail.cc
There's 10 million github clones that are more featurefull and don't have half the bullshit, when are devs going to wake up already and leave? Why are we even still in the year of our lord CY+3 relying on autocratic, censor-happy companies to host a few kbs of code instead of just running our own? Why is there still after 14 years of git not yet a p2p git distribution network?