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   On Wed, 20 Feb 2025, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
      
   > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >> In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >>> Indeed, so long as you block all FB's scripts and images on   
   >>> otherwise unrelated websites. Although I don't tend to make close   
   >>> friends so I don't need to worry about controlling their FB usage.   
   >>   
   >> Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting   
   >> photos of you on there.)   
   >   
   > What I don't tell, they can't post, and the same with what they   
   > don't photograph. Although I guess that does leave a bit of an   
   > information vacuum there which some nutcase could exploit to make   
   > up missing personal info/photos on me if they so desired.   
   >   
   >>> Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source   
   >>> software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned   
   >>> by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now   
   >>> very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and   
   >>> especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely   
   >>> unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.   
   >>   
   >> Many, I suspect, started using Github before Microsoft bought them in   
   >> 2018.   
   >   
   > For software projects I use, many more seem to have moved to there   
   > since 2018 than before. You'd think they like the M$ acquisition.   
   > Occasionally I object and am ignored.   
      
   You have been heard! I will not be hosting my stuff on github. On the   
   other hand, I have nothing interesting to host, so perhaps a moot point.   
   ) My home made scripts and little utilities live on my laptop and   
   sometimes on my server, and are shared upon request.   
      
   >> Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to   
   >> Codeberg.   
   >   
   > I don't know about Codeberg, but there have been lots of   
   > alternatives all along. Tons of projects switched from SourceForge   
   > to GitHub. Many projects have their own websites too, so why not   
   > self-host? GitHub do offer a lot of extra features for free, but   
   > that's dealing with the devil IMHO. Especially as the more tied in   
   > to GitHub-specific systems a project gets, the less practical it is   
   > to move away if M$ get more greedy later on.   
      
   I have heard about gitea. It seems as if it allows you to setup graphical   
   git hosting yourself. I personally use a fossil repository accessible only   
   over ssh. I don't use any of the wiki/ticket/chat functionality included   
   in it.   
      
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