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What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if
there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know
it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad?
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Aditya Goturu <aditya3098_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if
> there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know
> it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad?
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Aditya Goturu <aditya3098_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there
>> is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or
>> do you mean the community of github is bad?
>>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:41 PM, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800
>>> Ivan Tham <ivanthamjunhoe_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ivan,
>>>
>>> > I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized.
>>> > I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is
>>> > better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by
>>> > suckless work together in the suckless community. What do you think?
>>>
>>> GitHub is a deadly cancer infesting the very tissue of what makes up
>>> quality software development. GitTorrent though is not affiliated
>>> with it, and apart from the worries how to support "pull requests" and
>>> other bullcrap, it's just a fundamental idea based on vanilla git.
>>>
>>> Now, regarding GitTorrent: Decentralizing is cool, but it's just too
>>> complex to handle for most people. I've been into this area for some
>>> time now, but I'm still not able to explain blockchains to a newbie,
>>> which indicates that I'm still not intuitively handling this topic.
>>> Same applies here: A central point, a server, can be a weak spot and
>>> for large datasets, going decentral is very cool!
>>> In the end though, same as with torrents (I only torrent the Debian
>>> Live CDs/DVDs and other non copyright stuff of course (;), if a
>>> torrent is not seeded, it will die.
>>> Nowadays, if you want to keep a torrent service running as ideally as
>>> on the paper (namely, people seeding back to a ratio of >1) you have
>>> to force them into it by punishing those who just leech.
>>> In the end, torrents which nobody downloads are less likely to be
>>> seeded. And looking at suckless, we have numerous git-repos which just
>>> are not that popular to begin with.
>>>
>>> The big problem I see is authentication, which has already been
>>> discussed in the article. Using and developing blockchains is not
>>> easy and this leads to errors which I'm personally not keen on handling.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> FRIGN
>>>
>>> --
>>> FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Aditya Goturu
>> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling
>> down the highway.
>
>
>
> --
> Aditya Goturu
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
> hurtling down the highway.
--
Aditya Goturu
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
hurtling down the highway.
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