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 <aditya3...@gmail.com> 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 <d...@frign.de> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800 >> Ivan Tham <ivanthamjun...@gmail.com> 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 <d...@frign.de> >> > > > > -- > 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.
