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Your move, Rust. I'd love to see it happen.
Yeah surprised it hasn’t. Rust Foundation went as far as abandoning their X account a long time ago.
They get a lot of compute for cheap/free and their well supported target follow the available github runners.
While writing this comment I found out that the crater run happens on AWS. It tests all packages on crates.io and most public rust projects on github.
Why? Microsoft gives them a ton of money for CI and infrastructure. Unless they are having serious technical issues I don't see why they would move to a more expensive and probably less well integrated CI provider.
It's "relationship with ICE" is that they haven't banned an official US government agency from buying their software. I might not agree with what ICE is doing but I also don't agree with every corporation in the world having to morally police all of their customers for fear of being pilloried by cancel culturists.
The "created by monkeys" seems to be a minor bug. What system doesn't have those? I've certainly had plenty worse bugs with Gitlab CI.
"Completely neglected" is complaining about the lack of FreeBSD support!
I do think GitHub is relatively neglected. There are quite a few big issues they could fix with relatively little effort but they seem to go years with no comment.
It's not really much better with Gitlab though; the only difference is you see more "a large premium customer is requesting this" comments!
I doubt Forgejo really have more resources to fix bugs than GitHub or Gitlab.
I don't think ICE behavior is remotely equivalent to celebrities who annoy people into trying to organize a boycott. To compare them like this suggests to me that the person doing so is either willfully complicit, or unfathomably out of touch. I hope you'll give your position some more thought.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
I didn't say they are equivalent. I said I dislike them both.
Official government agency doesnt make voluntary deals with them just or ok.
Voluntary deals that include mass surveilence and automation of a genocide and an ethnic cleansing.
I love those! /s 😄 It can certainly feel like a pattern, specifically for some tickets.
To show some backbone. Microsoft was involved in enough abominable things in the last years alone; any one of them is reason enough to boycott them for it.
I must have missed those abominable things...? You don't mean the ICE stuff?
maybe they also mean Israel/Gaza or the AI push
I wouldn't say those are "abominable" either. AI is fine. Microsoft actually cut off Israel's access to Azure...
They're operating infrastructure. They aren't going to morally vet every single customer. Imagine how many dubious things run on AWS that we never hear about!
After months of pressure and trying to silence internal criticism.
I had to look it up to make sure "months of" is correct. Wikipedia has the infos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Israeli_military_support 2023-2025, various employees fired
“Microsoft actually cut off Israel’s access to Azure” doesn't really cover or adequately represent their behavior regarding this topic.