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Yes. It is incredibly frustrating that everything is hosted on GitHub nowadays. I wanted to install Bazzite (a Linux distro!) and I cannot download their ISO, I cannot download their recommended partition tool, I cannot even download Rufus to start formatting some drives. And then you go and check their status page and you get the "all good nothing wrong here". So annoying

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It's frustrating that engineers, who should know better, design systems in such a way as to have single points of failure. We have the technology and knowledge to have reliable systems, but here we are.

Fashion and religion are well-known overrides for reason. And people who call themselves engineers are not immune.

Is it a single point of failure though? Or just a convenient end point?

Alternatives are being built. Consider migrating to Nostr repos and host a relay if you can: https://ngit.dev/ https://gitworkshop.dev/danconwaydev.com/ngit

The real underlying problem is hardware manufacturing (explained further here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690354), which exerts centralizing pressure all the way up the stack. We should have pursued computer manufacturing in a print shops and printers kind of way instead of building large fabs, but that would have required foresight decades prior.

You could torrent it from https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/bazzite/

The real lock-in is stars, and not reliability

https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/

as someone who has been stuck in github for a hundred years and pays essentially zero attention to stars, eh.

for me the lock in is cheap data reliability and low chance of loss. downtime problems blow, but if they lost any of my data for any reason other than a eula/tos violation or some such then i'd run.

Everybody claims to not care about GitHub stars even though there are tons of websites for buying them.

personally i just like how if someone questions my release, theyre welcome to check out my pipeline

"Everything" has been hosted on GitHub for a while, but I don't remember those issues being very frequent. Probably because A.I. has made everyone so productive or "productive" nowadays. I mean, the other day I stumbled upon a profile with literally over 5000 repos.

"well, who would not have the internet!"

(the anduril-type folks using nix for high-assurance setups!)

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