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The multiple levels of abuse here are astounding. That grown adults can think projects like this are acceptable, let alone promote them, is hard to believe. I am 90% sure this is yet another vibecoded project. Has vibecoding really corrupted people?

First, I am fairly certain this violates Github's ToS. Second, it effectively amounts to a denial of service. Third, are people seriously using the .charity TLD to host something this frivolos? Have people got no sense of propriety anymore?

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Like social media vibe coding doesn’t change people. It just makes their character more obvious

You can criticize the idea. You don't get to invent my motives nor my character, you have no idea about me at all, and you're totally 100% wrong about me, that's it.

If you have a criticism of ghost, make it. Otherwise you're just doing deluded moral posturing. Bye

That is moral panic, not an argument.

Ghostbox helps a user run dev workflows in their own GitHub account, using their own Actions minutes. You can criticize the project, you don't get to fabricate my character.

> Has vibecoding really corrupted people?

You have to go back further back than that, to the Great Recession, IMO.

> Have people got no sense of propriety anymore?

Judging by the proportion of drivers with their high beams on, blinding me on well-lit roads after dark - no, not anymore.

No, this is just using GH Actions runners as ephemeral dev machines for your software work, plumbed together with cloudflared and tor for SSH and HTTP connectivity. It would likely been just a % of all Actions across all other jobs even if it was wildly popular. This is a mistaken interpretation, in reality.

You can read what it is more clearly, here: https://github.com/crisdosaygo/ghostbox-home-reveal

Looks like that's definitely been disabled for breaking ToS. I guess that answers that question then.

No lol that’s just because people on the thread flagged it to GitHub. They haven’t looked at it yet. I’m confident they’ll bring it back when they do

This website has completely lost its ethos.

I think it's just a good idea can trigger people. This is a good idea. But also perhaps some of the mad responses here are from people who are building secret ceremony "AI agentic coding isolated workspace" orchestrations startups or whatever, and they don't want you to know you can just use GitHub, on your free plan.

There are several claims here - ToS violation, denial of service, abuse - but 100% zero actual argument for them.

Ghostbox/ghost helps a person start and connect to workflows in their own GitHub account, using their own Actions minutes, for software development work.

You can dislike that. You or others can argue the ToS point. But trying desperately and deludedly to turn that into some nonsense statement about my character that you know nothing about is not criticism at all - it is just 100% werid-ass projection from you, and only abgout you. Do you get that?

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