Tea to [email protected]English • edit-23 months agoOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up168cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up168imageOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devTea to [email protected]English • edit-23 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agohttps://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months ago Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region? Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it: https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761 No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.
minus-squareJustinlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoInsane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoSounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoI was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoAnd all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
What’s that?
A country the USA doesn’t like
Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761
Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.
Sounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
I was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
And all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too
I heard they got upgraded to DSL