version-control

forges
- github
  - exported github-stars
  - proprietary source
  - rails app
  - bought by microsoft
    - allows and enforces false DMCA take down notices
    - banned iranian and syrian developers
    - banned russian developers despite public statements; numerous times
    - banned developer of tornado.cash and anyone who contributed code after US Treasury sanctioned
    - removes non infringing projects/mirrors without warning or take down
      - randomly removed MY mirror of goldberg_emulator without notice/alert
    - released copilot trained on uploaded and scraped code
      - copies copyrighted code verbatim
      - trained on openai codex's lies of >99% not verbatim
      - does NOT allow the use of gendered language or any other 'content filtered' subjects
        
        The list is client side filtering with hashes of the words
      - github sued for copilot copyright violation
        
        Oracle sued google over 9 lines and got to the supreme court
- gitlab
  - rails app
  - open core
  - proposed removing 'inactive' (1 year w/o commits) free account repos to save a quarter of their costs
    - despite apparent money problems gitlab has doubled down on using ruby on rails, despite knowing the cost increase from less than stellar performance
  - blocks us 'sanctioned' countries like cuba/russia etc
- sr.ht
  - mailing list based
  - disallows cryptocurrency/blockchain projects
- gitea
  - federation support for forgefed (activity pub) in 1.18.0
    - init support in 1.17
  - added artifact repo in 1.17
  - codeberg is a free hosted instance
    - Found to not use raid/redundant storage for hosting when investigating (data will be lost outside backup window)
    - must license software as foss (no unlicensed projects)

Version control

git

sapling