Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.message-squaremessage-square283linkfedilinkarrow-up12.28Karrow-down118file-text
arrow-up12.26Karrow-down1message-squareOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square283linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up188·2 years agohttps://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up261arrow-down2·2 years agoInsane 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-up214·2 years agoSounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up104·2 years agoI was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down2·2 years agoAnd all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too
minus-squareAtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·edit-25 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareasap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·2 years ago 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-down2·2 years ago sanctioned region What’s that?
minus-squarezelnix@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down5·2 years agoA country the USA doesn’t like
minus-squareMisterFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoSeems 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
deleted by creator
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)