In this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.
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@andrewrk congrats and good luck with the move :)
@andrewrk
I'm really tempted to learn zig, side from technicalities, just for how good your ideas are! But I guess it's too much for me
@andrewrk Congratulations for the move! 🎉
I hope Codeberg will be a better host for the project in the future.
@andrewrk The first paragraph was brutal and I sincerely hope it ages like fine wine such that you guys won't catch some flak for that by potential donors. With that being said, thank you for moving off of GH, I hope it inspires many more to do the same.
zig + codeberg = zoidberg
@andrewrk Perhaps the metaphorical "copy-on-write" of issues and PRs warrants a bit of a clearer description of the process you have in mind?
In case we want to comment on something that is already open on GitHub, how do we do that? Do we open a new issue/PR on Codeberg, copy-paste the title, put something like "cont'd from <github_link>" in the description and continue on Codeberg like that?
@andrewrk I really like your work.
I wanted to reach out , I'm currently building my own platform and I wanted to gather all the help I can get from others , I hope u don't mind helping me .
@andrewrk PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're prioritizing.
@miki would you mind providing a link to the respective issue?
edit: found it here: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1797
@andrewrk The issue is 9 months old, but it's a continuation of older discussions. It now seems that there's a workaround, but it's so well-hidden that at least 2 users in the issue + me missed it when looking at the form, and the maintainers were unwilling to explain it for some reason. Somebody finally took mercy on us and explained it in the issue comments, but that's about 15 messages deep in the thread, and there's no indication that it's even there, so unless a user is extremely patient and thorough, they won't find it either. The way the maintainers hint at it but are unwilling to explain it seems very strange and cagey.
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They are only required because governments fail in their duty of care and obligation to safeguard the people it serves, on account of serving the few who have the power to re-elect or dispose of them.
@andrewrk Love the whole vibe and migration off github, but calling people monkeys and losers is disappointing
@danvolchek I care about how what I say makes people feel, so, even though I personally believe taking shots at Microsoft employees is fair game, and that they can take it, I do regret causing people to feel upset and/or disappointed with that word choice.
However, since it's not serious enough to warrant some kind of apology/retraction, and it's more honest to let people read the article as it was intended, I'll just live with the discomfort of knowing people don't like it.
I was looking hard at Zig for future projects but when the project lead callously refers to me and my fellow hubbers as “losers” and “monkeys” I can easily skip his project.
If he shows that lack of compassion towards anonymous people, I can’t imagine how he would treat people whose PRs he doesn’t like.
And saying “I believe taking shots at MSFT employees is fair game” out of one side of his mouth while also saying that he “regrets causing people to feel upset” is duplicitous at best.
Andrew absolutely should apologize to the other human beings he denigrated - otherwise I would strongly encourage anyone thinking of using or contributing to Zig to examine the type of culture he is promoting.
From @andrewrk
https://mastodon.social/users/andrewrk/statuses/115620138939386546
@andrewrk good post, small suggestion. The GitHub repo now links to the blog post in the URL field and the README, but the blog post doesn't appear to have a clear link to the new Codeberg repo. I'd suggest adding one early in the post and perhaps changing the destination of the link in the GitHub README so that folks landing on the post or old repo can find their way to the new one easily.
@wezm oops, great point, thank you
@andrewrk Moved my donation to Every.org, keep up the good work
@tobyjaffey thank you, much appreciated!