Sorry, messed up something about plain text. Here is my message: What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad?
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Aditya Goturu <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if > there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know > it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad? > > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Aditya Goturu <[email protected]> wrote: >> What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there >> is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or >> do you mean the community of github is bad? >> >> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:41 PM, FRIGN <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800 >>> Ivan Tham <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ivan, >>> >>> > I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. >>> > I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is >>> > better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by >>> > suckless work together in the suckless community. What do you think? >>> >>> GitHub is a deadly cancer infesting the very tissue of what makes up >>> quality software development. GitTorrent though is not affiliated >>> with it, and apart from the worries how to support "pull requests" and >>> other bullcrap, it's just a fundamental idea based on vanilla git. >>> >>> Now, regarding GitTorrent: Decentralizing is cool, but it's just too >>> complex to handle for most people. I've been into this area for some >>> time now, but I'm still not able to explain blockchains to a newbie, >>> which indicates that I'm still not intuitively handling this topic. >>> Same applies here: A central point, a server, can be a weak spot and >>> for large datasets, going decentral is very cool! >>> In the end though, same as with torrents (I only torrent the Debian >>> Live CDs/DVDs and other non copyright stuff of course (;), if a >>> torrent is not seeded, it will die. >>> Nowadays, if you want to keep a torrent service running as ideally as >>> on the paper (namely, people seeding back to a ratio of >1) you have >>> to force them into it by punishing those who just leech. >>> In the end, torrents which nobody downloads are less likely to be >>> seeded. And looking at suckless, we have numerous git-repos which just >>> are not that popular to begin with. >>> >>> The big problem I see is authentication, which has already been >>> discussed in the article. Using and developing blockchains is not >>> easy and this leads to errors which I'm personally not keen on handling. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> FRIGN >>> >>> -- >>> FRIGN <[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aditya Goturu >> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling >> down the highway. > > > > -- > Aditya Goturu > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes > hurtling down the highway. -- Aditya Goturu Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
