Corporate goodbye post: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

GitHub employees are called “hubbers”

GitHub is now folded into Microsoft more explicitly than before and is now a platform for advertising Microsoft products.

For those who love “open source”, I’m glad many have no cognitive dissonance to hosting on GitHub (and using VSCode when Emacs is right there), a proprietary made-for-profit Microsoft product that is probably the single biggest reason for the virus that is permissive licensing.

Anyway, fuck GitHub, statistically speaking only 1 other person is going to contribute to your “open source” project if you’re lucky so using GitHub is an abuse in of itself.

Also:

• https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/github-and-trade-controls

We are committed to advocating for the broadest possible developer access, as we believe offering code collaboration services for developers in sanctioned regions makes the global developer community stronger, advances human progress, and supports the enduring U.S. foreign policy of promoting free speech and the free flow of information.

On which countries and territories are U.S. government sanctions applied?

Crimea, the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. With respect to Iran, however, GitHub now has a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to provide cloud services to developers located or otherwise resident in that country. GitHub cloud services, both free and paid, are also generally available to developers located in Cuba.

Literally anything but GitHub:

• https://notabug.org/
• https://sr.ht/
• https://codeberg.org/
• Backing up .git literally anywhere because you don’t need GitHub to use git.