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arrow-up12.26Karrow-down1imageOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 个月前message-square280fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: selfhosted@lemmy.world
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up187·5 个月前https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up263arrow-down2·5 个月前Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up216·5 个月前Sounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up104·5 个月前I was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down2·5 个月前And all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too
minus-squareAtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·5 个月前I heard they got upgraded to DSL
minus-squareasap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·5 个月前 Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region? Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it: https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761 No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.
minus-squareRinox@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·5 个月前 sanctioned region What’s that?
minus-squarezelnix@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down5·5 个月前A country the USA doesn’t like
minus-squareMisterFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 个月前Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.
Sounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
I was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
And all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too
I heard they got upgraded to DSL
Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761
GAFAM is all one hydra.
What’s that?
A country the USA doesn’t like
Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)