You've probably seen all the rumours and now it's official with the Microsoft announcement, they're acquiring GitHub.
I'm only slightly joking about loose change too, with the deal being $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Sounds like a huge amount to us mere mortals, but to Microsoft that's still probably change that fell down the back of their massive sofa.
I know this isn't specifically gaming news, but it's a pretty big piece of news to take into consideration. Why? Well, with so many open source games, toolkits and many more important open source projects being hosted only on GitHub, it may cause alarm to some developers. However, I'm trying to look at this with a cool head. I've already seen talks of mass migrations to GitLab, for example:
We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM We're scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on https://t.co/hN0ce379SC and @movingtogitlab
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 3, 2018
With that out of the way, let's look at this key part of the announcement I think is important for people to make sure they read:
GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for all developers in all industries. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects — and will still be able to deploy their code to any operating system, any cloud and any device.
Emphasis mine.
So, business as usual for now. Sure, the Microsoft of old used the term "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", so it does pay to remain cautious, but I wouldn't go completely nuts over this.
I mean, look at Mojang. Microsoft acquired them back in 2014 and has anything actually changed—no. The Java edition of Mojang is still full steam ahead and works fine on Linux as always. I heard only recently they took on more staff, one of which said they would be specifically taking a look at getting their new launcher officially supported on Linux (I can't back that up right now, because I'm a moron and didn't copy it down at the time).
GitHub is still very useful and likely will remain so, but I am quite a fan of GitLab personally, which you can even run yourself (always the better choice to do—if you can). Just remember, don't keep all your eggs in one basket. It's going to be very interesting to see what the open source movement does as a result of this.
What are your thoughts?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Luke_Nukem Jun 6, 2018
Quoting: ArdjeAnyway: for the selfhosters:
* gitlab
* gogs
* gitolite
In order of decreasing resource usage. (maybe more?)
And the very good fork of gogs called gitea (git with tea)
Quoting: antisolMicrosoft.
Cannot.
Be.
Trusted.
That was an excellent post, agreed with everything.
One question though... how the hell do you "like" a comment on here? I see buttons for Report, Block, Bookmark, Link and Quote. I do have some extensions that block like buttons from third-party social media platforms... maybe they're hiding the button thinking it connects to Facebook or something. Anyone else having this issue?
Quoting: RybladeOne question though... how the hell do you "like" a comment on here? I see buttons for Report, Block, Bookmark, Link and Quote. I do have some extensions that block like buttons from third-party social media platforms... maybe they're hiding the button thinking it connects to Facebook or something. Anyone else having this issue?
It should be to the right of the quote button. And yes, some of the social filters take it out.
You may as well disable the blockers. There is nothing left on this site that needs blocking.
Quoting: Rybladehow the hell do you "like" a comment on here? I see buttons for Report, Block, Bookmark, Link and Quote. I do have some extensions that block like buttons from third-party social media platforms... maybe they're hiding the button thinking it connects to Facebook or something. Anyone else having this issue?
It should be a last button after a quote button. It has quite generic CSS classes (li.like-button a.likebutton span.icon.like), so it might be the case something is blocking it.
Quoting: EhvisIt should be to the right of the quote button. And yes, some of the social filters take it out.
You may as well disable the blockers.
You're right, making an exemption for this domain in uBlock Origin did make the button appear. Thanks!
Quoting: EhvisThere is nothing left on this site that needs blocking.
Bull! Every website these days commits all sorts of evil with JavaScr... wait a second...
*checks uMatrix*
Holy crap. Is this the only pure website left on the Internet? I'm seeing nothing but first-party requests. This... this is so beautiful.
Liam, you are a GOD. Never change.
Quoting: RybladeQuoting: EhvisIt should be to the right of the quote button. And yes, some of the social filters take it out.
You may as well disable the blockers.
You're right, making an exemption for this domain in uBlock Origin did make the button appear. Thanks!
Quoting: EhvisThere is nothing left on this site that needs blocking.
Bull! Every website these days commits all sorts of evil with JavaScr... wait a second...
*checks uMatrix*
Holy crap. Is this the only pure website left on the Internet? I'm seeing nothing but first-party requests. This... this is so beautiful.
Liam, you are a GOD. Never change.
What plugins are you using , out of curiosity?
I only have uBLockOrigin and NoScript
Quoting: RybladeBull! Every website these days commits all sorts of evil with JavaScr... wait a second...
*checks uMatrix*
Holy crap. Is this the only pure website left on the Internet? I'm seeing nothing but first-party requests. This... this is so beautiful.
Liam, you are a GOD. Never change.
If you follow Liam on Twitter, the pureness of the site is no surprise. He's been reworking, removing or plain blocking third party content for about 6 months in the lead up to GDPR. Where other sites will simply stick an updated privacy policy to cover their legal asses, Liam's work makes a privacy policy nearly irrelevant (other than to cover your account on the site). It's mental the work he's put in.
Quoting: razing32What plugins are you using , out of curiosity?
uBlock Origin, uMatrix (much better than NoScript), Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere. That's it.
I also use the custom user.js file from gHacks. It's like chemotherapy for Firefox.
https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
Quoting: scaineIf you follow Liam on Twitter...
Nope. No Twitter for me, thanks. I believe you, though.
Last edited by Ryblade on 11 June 2018 at 4:33 pm UTC
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