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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 167 points 2 years ago (7 children)

archive.org is cool and all, but a centralized service will never be a reliable way to truly archive something.

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this repo still lives and we still have Suyu that looks promising, So, no worries atm https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases/tag/EA-4176

[–] viking@infosec.pub 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Github probably didn't receive a cease and desist yet, but I doubt they'll put up a fight against Nintendo.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I highly suggest starting to familiarize ourselves with federated git repos. I‘m testing forgejo atm hoping to be able to host it publicly at some point. That way, once something is out there, its pretty much everywhere.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

the issue isn't federation or anything like that, the issue is finding a repo hosting service in a dmca resilient country

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, I get that. But I dont think that its possible to really dmca every fork of a repo on 20 countries without running out of resources at some point because when one fork is taken down, people will make 10 more. the important part is discoverability imo. Feel free to educate me in case this is missing a point.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

its easy enough to send angry shit to every server, dmca and whatever rights violations they can think up, and it can become an issue.

Of course, the Federation is great, but you still need an instance that's in one of those privacy-oriented countries.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

You can get chatgpt to do this. Or write a simple script.

[–] kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

-- A wild Codeberg appeared. --

Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

Website: Codeberg.org


The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy's "Give Up Github" campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Certainly better than the U.S. in that regard but I wouldn't consider Germany "resilient" either.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unfortunately using codeberg itself is kinda crap. Its not the worst thing in the world, but it still has zero discoverability , and is missing features like code search.

it does have potential though if it is resilient.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The DMCA only applies in the US. Every other country doesn't give a shit about your DMCA request.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and yet, they still obey them...

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

And even EU based companies will bow down to DMCA takedown demands, if they want to serve American customers.

[–] eratic@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Federated git repos doesn't mean that the source code will be replicated across instances. It just means you can do things like create tickets and pull requests across instances.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand. I should be able to fork a public repo across instances, no? Why bother otherwise?

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Federation has nothing to do with that capability. git clone exists since the beginning of git.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

hmmmm... I see your point. Maybe I wasnt explaining my point clear enough. Right now, I cant see someones fork of some software if I'm on some gitlab which is not federated afaik. I should have said discoverability I guess. Does that make more sense?

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

When I create a fork (in the web UI) does my instance not git clone from the source instance? Not going around cloning random federated repos I can see, but...

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This isn't hard. Torrent with a seed box somewhere outside of copyright enforcement is likely the best option as a "backup" source.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

🤔torrent based git server, is this a thing?

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

will never be a reliable way to truly archive something

I think they're doing a damn fine job archiving something, and in reliable ways too

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Til it gets taken down and dismantled. Yes.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if IPFS would help in this case...

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your license thingy broke since that thread where you explained your script. It doesn't spoiler anymore.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does it look like for you? I'm on the web client

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe it's just the Boost app I'm using

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Probably. Does the Boost app support spoiler in another fashion?

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The Eternity app does the same thing as Boost.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing good is allowed to exist but in shadows. Shadow archives are essential.

[–] eardon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Assassin's Creed 1 & 2 were trying to tell us something.

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

A decentralized storage providing service based on blockchain technology, if I understood that correctly