i use a variety of browsers and configs. I don’t recall which one burnt me (probably Tor Browser which has noScript built-in and thus runs 1st party js).
Lynx is simply a text browser.
web enshitification warning: use lynx to view that page unless you want to get clobbered with shitty anti-popup popups and cookie walls.
Yes (hence why I looked at what their premium plans are advertised to offer).
I noticed complaints about loss of “split tunneling” (not sure what that is, but I wonder if VOIP would be affected since voip works in a split kind of way.. that is, there is a signalling session and the audio is a separate connection).
Well, actually I was just now able to edit some titles of posts. So not all posts are treated equally. But note as well timing is irrelevant (I still cannot edit the post above).
Riseup apparently has one
In fact the post I linked is not special. I just now tried to make a small edit to the post I am replying to, and it again had no effect.
Having a bug tracker in that walled garden is the biggest problem. It demonstrates what I’m talking about: digital rights being disregarded.
Git itself is not proprietary so all the projects can survive without GitHub if the need arises. Ad
You’re neglecting the exclusion that’s inherent in Github when the need to bounce does NOT arise.
Also worth adding that during the war in Gaza some of us boycott Israel. Which implies boycotting Microsoft.
Additionally, you don’t need an account to view the repository or its discussions.
Advocating read-only access is comparable to endorsing only freedom 1 and 2, not freedom 0 or 4. Which is precisely what I’m talking about: FOSS projects that discard digital rights and partake in digital exclusion for some convenience frills.
There is of course a walled garden for participation and it is an issue, however it doesn’t compare to discord, which is much, much worse.
Bug trackers have more of a monopoly on bug reports than discord has on discussions. There are countless decentralized discussions about free software all over the place -- threadiverse, probably facebook, ad hoc phpbb forums, IRC, usenet, mastodon, mailing lists, conferences like FOSDEM … and rightfully so. Discussions don’t need the centralization that bug trackers do. General discussions also do not have the degree of importance to QA that bug tracking does.
Case in point, when bugs are reported outside of Github, they don’t get noticed by developers and triaged.
There’s not really much point in using a self hosted gitea or codeberg or sourcehut if you want the barrier of entry to be as low as possible for potential contributors.
But GitHub has more features (like discussions), provides better hosting and ease of use.
Bingo. Prioritizing convenience features above digital rights principles is exactly why Github’s walled garden dominates over forges that have a lower barrier of entry.
The focus of any open source project should be on development of the software, not the software which supports its development.
Again, people to setting aside their principles is exactly what I’m talking about.
I give a shit.
There are not enough of you. Evidenced by ~95%+ of noteworthy FOSS projects being jailed in Github’s walled garden.
from the article:
In short, using Discord for your free software/open source (FOSS) software project is a very bad idea. Free software matters — that’s why you’re writing it, after all. Using Discord partitions your community on either side of a walled garden, with one side that’s willing to use the proprietary Discord client, and one side that isn’t. It sets up users who are passionate about free software — i.e. your most passionate contributors or potential contributors — as second-class citizens.
Interesting to do a “s/Discord/Github/” replace on the above. Same situation yet hardly anyone gives a shit.
So yes, Drew DeVault is right. But he overestimates people’s commitment to free world digital rights principles and consistency thereof.
I don’t understand how split tunneling would be something done on the server side of things. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but shouldn’t the routing be controlled on the user side? I could probably create a virtual network device called something like
vn01which tunnels via protonVPN and have select apps use that and other apps using tor or clearnet without protonVPN having any knowledge or control.