I wonder if archive.org could be convinced to introduce a formal, mirror-only code hosting service. Code upload and display only, no collaboration features. I know they're already hosting a lot of vcs repos (the bitbucket backups, for example) so it might not require much change at their own end to bridge to a "GitHub-alike", you'd only need an HTML code viewer (which could be generated AOT like an SSG even) and a dedicated button on the search frontend.
On a related note: Is there any existing software that can act as a "static site generator" for a git repo? Like just generate the branch/code explorer pages that GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Forgejo would have, but instead of doing it dynamically you do it once and then serve static pages. The main thing that worries me about self hosting Forgejo is that a badly written "AI" crawler will find an expensive endpoint I don't know about and hammer it repeatedly. I want zero endpoints.
I wonder if archive.org could be convinced to introduce a formal, mirror-only code hosting service. Code upload and display only, no collaboration features. I know they're already hosting a lot of vcs repos (the bitbucket backups, for example) so it might not require much change at their own end to bridge to a "GitHub-alike", you'd only need an HTML code viewer (which could be generated AOT like an SSG even) and a dedicated button on the search frontend.
Several people sent me this: Github is no longer an independent company; rather as of today Github is under the AI team. As far as I'm concerned, this is an open admission the function of Github is not to host source code, but rather as an intake for Microsoft to harvest source code to train their AI.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
I guess it always seemed unlikely MS would've paid all that money to altruistically host the open source community. "Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks…"
I guess the curse of Sourceforge comes for us all, eventually
Been switching to Codeberg because it's nice but increasingly looking like I soon will HAVE to abandon Github, because the entire interface will soon be just one giant maze where at each intersection one path leads to the feature you wanted and the other path is Copilot
https://fosstodon.org/@anuytstt/115009836366326911
Several people sent me this: Github is no longer an independent company; rather as of today Github is under the AI team. As far as I'm concerned, this is an open admission the function of Github is not to host source code, but rather as an intake for Microsoft to harvest source code to train their AI.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
I guess it always seemed unlikely MS would've paid all that money to altruistically host the open source community. "Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks…"
Been switching to Codeberg because it's nice but increasingly looking like I soon will HAVE to abandon Github, because the entire interface will soon be just one giant maze where at each intersection one path leads to the feature you wanted and the other path is Copilot
https://fosstodon.org/@anuytstt/115009836366326911
Sleep should be easy. Someone should make a version of sleep that is easier to use
What I'm listening to today: "OB6 Dub Techno", dc11
The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that "chonkchonkchonk" noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went "I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song" and built a life support system around it. Result:
Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXeiQ6KdWM
If ur bored stop at ~5:00
What I'm listening to today: "New Instrument, new sound!", Fron Reilly
A short demo of a musical instrument created by this YouTuber/woodworker. It's… kind of a brilliant idea, actually, simultaneously shocking and in-retrospect obvious.
The video is 100 seconds of abstract noises that, if you'd played it for me without the video, I could tell you how to create with FFTs and DSP techniques but would not have believed was a recording of a completely acoustic device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHIcU3g8Ps
So, I want to signal flare a project @hikari@social.noyu.me is spinning up. I'd summarize this project as:
• Try ReactOS again, but with Linux+Wine instead of the ReactOS kernel.
You might have heard of ReactOS long ago— it's a project to make a Windows-API-compatible GPLed operating system. It promptly rabbitholed on writing a kernel, which was never finished (as of 2025 no SMP)
However, Wine is now sophisticated and in SteamOS can run most commercial games.
Why not replicate that for desktop apps?
(1/5)
Hikari's idea was to try running the non-kernel parts of ReactOS inside Wine, and even in a very preliminary test met with decent success:
https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01HYRYZXMSDQHA2NPAFHS31Y9C
She's now returning to this, and seeking collaborators to try to create a "distribution" or packaging pipeline for a self-contained, all-win32 desktop environment that can be installed atop Linux:
https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01K2AAH9A2MD2GNXHKBTBAWE1B
Hikari is mainly seeking folks with distro/packaging experience, something she doesn't have. (2/5)
(All Linux:)
So, I want to signal flare a project @hikari@social.noyu.me is spinning up. I'd summarize this project as:
• Try ReactOS again, but with Linux+Wine instead of the ReactOS kernel.
You might have heard of ReactOS long ago— it's a project to make a Windows-API-compatible GPLed operating system. It promptly rabbitholed on writing a kernel, which was never finished (as of 2025 no SMP)
However, Wine is now sophisticated and in SteamOS can run most commercial games.
Why not replicate that for desktop apps?
(1/5)
I ran out of AAAA batteries but then I bought more AAAA batteries. Now I have extras
mcc