I guarantee, as usual someone posts something along the lines of "This is why you should self-host <insert github alternative here>." Followed by comments like "Yeah, if you have time to maintain it"
Do you find these mind-blowing?
As for self-hosting GitHub, yes, that's much more viable and I believe more of us should be doing it (although I personally plan to still have GitHub as a central source of truth and just backup all my repos to several servers under my control). But GitHub is also very socially entrenched and provides a real value-add in terms of good PR interface, Wiki, issues, discussions and whatnot.
(And I'm not counting GitLab, it's worse in almost every way. And is very slow.)
We're way past idealistic slogans. Be the change you want to see. Give example to the rest of us. Many will follow.
In the meantime, I want my free time mostly free of computers.
FWIW, I like (and pay for) sr.ht even though it doesn't have feature parity with GH.
Hate to be that person, but GitLab is better than GitHub at everything. UX is different in some places, and it's an entirely subjective question which one is better ( i prefer GitLab but to each their own), but in terms of features it isn't even close - GitLab absolutely blows GitHub out of the water, even with Microsoft's incredible investment and recent deluge of announcements. In terms of speed i think GitLab is slower while doing some things, but it's not ( at least for me) painful like Jira Cloud is.
I manage GitLab just fine but it's way too slow for me.
I'm with you. I was looking for a HN comment I saw once so I could link to it. A guy was explaining how his response to "why do you use linux?" is "it gives me more control" but his response to "what would Linux let me do that windows doesn't?" and his response would be "nothing". If that person didn't already know, then there's no valid answer that actually applies to that person.
But it's flashier to have a subscription product instead of a strong commons and self-sufficiency.
I can trust GitHub with my deploy secrets; Can you trust your $5 last-updated-in-2019 box?
If you self-host, either you're a sysadmin or you must become one.
Plus GitHub is not just git, so I hope you'll also like to you set up "GitHub Actions" on that $5 box.
aws s3 sync source destination
"...Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud..."
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
If you need backup, then use rsync, but Dropbox isn't just backup.
aws s3 presign s3://<bucketname>/<object>
The original rsync comment, here in this community, does not get the respect that it deserves. If you are a user, maybe you should read this:
"Criticism of Dropbox" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox