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GitHub/Microsoft’s status as a defense contractor and vendor to NSA/DoD (MS) and ICE (MS and GH) is why you should self-host your repositories, not their uptime levels.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjwwp/as-githubs-confere...

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Several of their staff have resigned over it, and speakers have pulled out of their conference. Their CEO defended the decision to work with the organization that puts young children in concentration camps.

That’s more than enough for me to delete my repos there. Gitea is an excellent and easy-to-deploy replacement that integrates well with Drone and supports u2f.

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1) Most people don't care enough about that to even be bothered by it, never mind change their entire tooling and move large amounts of code out of protest.

2) You are the exact same, it seems, if not worse on account of your hypocrisy? Your GitHub address is still listed in your HN bio, you've been active as recently as yesterday, and you're a pro user, so you _literally_ give GitHub money.

If these issues actually matter to you, delete your account. I'm sure someone would love to scoop up the username "sneak". But don't come here on your high horse shouting about ethics while you actively financially support the organization you're lambasting.

My account is comped, and has been since long before the acquisition. I'd forgotten about the link in my bio, as I put it there a long time ago. It's gone now, thank you for reminding me. :)

I am migrating my repositories off of GitHub this week, which is why I now only have about six remaining there instead of the 60+ that I had for many years. The remaining ones are the ones that need to remain online for services that pull from there; I intend to remove my remaining code from the site very soon, on the order of days. I actually happen to be building my new self-hosting server today, having tested out Gitea and found it a perfect replacement.

My account will remain, to squat my username to prevent impersonation, with a single public repo containing only a README explaining the situation and why use of GitHub is inappropriate.

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