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	5 --[ GitHub: The Facebook of coding
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	8 In my opinion, there is no question that GitHub is the new Facebook for
	9 coders and geeks. What I mean by the new Facebook is two-fold, first the
	10 type of users you find on GitHub and secondly the businesses shenanigans
	11 over the years.
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	14 THE USERS
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	17 Essentially, GitHub is now a necessity when you are applying for jobs
	18 inside the tech industry, recruiters look for it, businesses are
	19 requiring it and insist you engage in coding challenges that must be
	20 done on the platform. This doesn't sound like a bad thing really, or
	21 does it?
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	24 YES, actually, it does!
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	27 GitHub has now become a shit storm of individuals seeking to pimp out
	28 their profiles with bullshit Pull Requests, faking timelines, forking
	29 repos and raising entirely pointless issues. Everything with the goal
	30 of showcasing how much they have contributed to open-source projects. As
	31 a recent example look no further than Digital Oceans Hacktoberfest
	32 clusterfuck, useless PRs such as deleting spaces all in the hopes of
	33 getting a t-shirt.
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	36 Another real world dilemma impacting users is the knowledge gap of
	37 actually using git normally, GitHub is NOT git. GitHub is a proprietary
	38 closed-source front-end for a centralized git hosting service. Users
	39 have become completely dependent on features that GitHub have built such
	40 as PRs, forks, online editing, branch protection to name a couple.
	41 I doubt that many users are even aware of commands such as send-mail
	42 which is a core function of many projects outside the GitHub world. Nor
	43 does it help when the web interface of GitHub encourages sloppy git
	44 practices, relying exclusively on one way of doing things, the GitHub
	45 Flow.
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	48 THE COMPANY
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	51 Let's start off with the obvious fact that Microsoft owns GitHub.
	52 Microsoft has a long track record of open-source hatred, the CEO has
	53 even gone as far as stating "Linux is a cancer" at one point. This is
	54 not good, Microsoft were outed by the U.S. Department of Justice for
	55 using this internal term. In short, it ties in well with buying their
	56 way into open source projects right? Sounds like GitHub is at the
	57 Embrace stage...
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	60 "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" [5]
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	63 Electron, the Chromium engine / NodeJS pile of shit that requires a few
	64 Cray supercomputers to run a calculator app on was developed and pushed
	65 into the ecosystem by good friends, GitHub. Now we are blessed with
	66 awesome spyware programs such as WhatsApp, Discord and Skype that will
	67 now run on Linux YAY /s. I mean there is just so much mud around GitHub
	68 that I just don't have the urge to go wading through it, searching even
	69 more than I have already. Here's a short fire list with some sources to
	70 follow-up on, if you are interested.
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	73 * Denied employee harassment by CEO
	74 * Blocked users from country's under US trade sanctions
	75 * Have dealings with ICE, they keep kids in cages
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	78 Due to an incredibly weak DMCA take down notice by the RIAA, youtube-dl
	79 was recently banned by GitHub. After it hit main stream news GitHub
	80 crapped the bed and started on the news PR. It was not, however, until
	81 after the EFF moved in and sent a letter [10] to GitHub describing how
	82 the DMCA notification was absolute dog shit that GitHub did something.
	83 After this, GitHub went into complete PR mode after and they made it out
	84 that they were the saviours of the day and how they'd stronger and
	85 better in the future.
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	88 Anyway, enough of this rant. If you are looking for a 3rd party hosted
	89 git solution then please take a look at these two:
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	92 * SourceHut, https://sr.ht
	93 * GitLab, https://gitlab.com
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	96 Or do what I do an just use the naked git protocol without any front-end…
	97 stupidly simple.
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	100 SOURCES
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	103 >> https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html
	104 >> https://git-send-email.io/
	105 >> https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html
	106 >> https://davelane.nz/microsoft-there-way-win-our-trust
	107 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
	108 >> https://tknk.io/01P8 Electron
	109 >> https://tknk.io/xnsf
	110 >> https://tknk.io/rddV
	111 >> https://tknk.io/8pfH
	112 >> https://tknk.io/RMLT
	113 >> https://tknk.io/XtFd
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	116 .EOF