Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

Two reasons:

• interface rocks
• maps are downloaded for offline use

First off, that's literally what Forgejo is trying to do

Secondly, git is technically already federated.

Things are a lot better than you might think. It's just that people naturally gravitate towards centralized services, because of the network effect.

One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.

they were blocked for supporting russia invasion of Ukraine.

Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).

It works well, and I'm a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it's bassed on). But it doesn't do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.

If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom's traffic API, I'd make the switch.

Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.

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.

sanctioned region

What's that?

Forgejo is in fact working on being decentralized, just like the underlying git structure is. There are some first federation things in there, but the full implementation is still pretty far out.

Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.

Gitea has basic federation, I believe

if you are looking for decentralised vcs you can try radicle, I tried a while ago pretty good. FYI Forgejo supports mastodon login

Have you heard of ... Git?

:-)

Edit: I was jesting, got interesting responses!

I think that's bad (for my personal use) because if I accidentally commit a secret key, how do I claw it back? Basically, how would I claw anything back if it's on a blockchain aka on thousands/millions of computers already (you can't).

Wouldn't it be the other way around, having someone centralized so with one account you can report bugs in any public project?

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

Yep I got one too. Works great and self hosted. I swear its actually faster than GH is nowadays.

And I like that it doesn't try to advertise and recommend a ton of repos to do you like GH does now.

Forgejo Actions is definitely not a turnkey idential-to-GitHub solution, but it's quite similar and for most not-super-complicated setups it's basically the same (for better or worse, depending on if you like GH's Actions).

As far as I remember, everything that I need works out of the box, except for Docker. In fact, just about everything Docker is somewhat quirky in Forgejo Actions.

1. One mildly annoying quirk of Forgejo is that as of current, the token generated for each Actions run is not quite the same as GitHub's token. For my specific use case, if you want to upload a Docker Image to the package repository, you can not use the standard auto-generated token, which GitHub does allow you to use. Forgejo instead currently requires you generate your own app token and use that instead, as the auto-generated one lacks permissions over packages. (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/3571)
2. Depending on your infrastructure, it might just be impossible to make the various Docker-related actions (such as https://code.forgejo.org/docker/build-push-action) work. As an example, my infrastructure outlined below is one such case where those actions simply do not work.

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Bare Metal (Debian 12) /
├─ Rootless Podman/
   ├─ Forgejo
   ├─ Forgejo Runner
   ├─ Podman-in-Podman (Inner Podman also Rootless)/
      ├─ <Actions Containers Run Here>

* If you use rootful Docker with Docker-in-Docker, those actions will then work as expected. It is just that attempting to make them work with Rootless Podman (at least the version that ships with Debain 12) currently seems to be impossible.


  

Oh...I was interested until you said actions. What a terrible system for ci.

Codeberg is a non-profit that has no fees, but accepts donations. They only allow FOSS projects.

Why would I move away from git if I could just move away from github/lab and keep git?

By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.

Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft. And Rust since heavy ties to Amazon. Don't look for a job on Linkedin (where most listings are posted) because that's also Microsoft. Actually, just to spare you the time, avoid programming altogether and do something like farming, since no Big Tech influence there. /s

VS Code has a fully open source base which excludes proprietary extensions and default telemetry ( kind of how AOSP is for Android)

Check here for more info:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code

Might check out Zed. Relatively new editor from the folks behind Atom and treesitter. Extremely fast with an excellent interface and vim mode. The second best vim mode behind Neovim.

I can forgive not knowing github is MS.

but, how in the actual fuck did you not know VS Code is MS?

do you just close your eyes and code blind all day long?

you can say shit on here. also fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet

Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it's feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn't matter, the outcome is still worth it.

Apparently, one of the contributors did a push while visiting Cuba and since Cuba in sanctioned by US they just blocked the entire repo. Insane.