[HN Gopher] Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub accou...
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Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by
Microsoft
Author : mraniki
Score : 94 points
Date : 2025-03-30 16:32 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| mraniki wrote:
| Why blocked? > We have a temporary glitch with GitHub--probably
| some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no
| details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have
| been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S.
| law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.
|
| https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
| tomrod wrote:
| > the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub
| - it is just U.S. law.
|
| "I was just following orders" is an invalid defense.
| throwawaymaths wrote:
| i mean ok but no one is being killed or tortured or even
| kidnapped here.
| bauruine wrote:
| I think it's not bad to remember people from time to time
| that "just following orders" oder "Just doing my job" isn't
| an universal excuse and that we hanged people rightfully
| for "just" doing that. If that's your only excuse for what
| you're doing you may should at least deeply think again if
| what you're doing is excusable.
|
| They only want to protect MS in this case, I guess to
| increase their chance to resolve it positively.
|
| But I just recently thought about this. If you develop
| exploits for say NSO und a journalist gets tortured to
| death. Should you be put on trial? I'm not sure why not
| tbh.
| doublerabbit wrote:
| > no one is being killed or tortured or even kidnapped
| here.
|
| Maybe not but the vibe feels more like open source being
| gunpoint.
|
| "Upload documents or else"
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| So a corporation should be in contempt with US law just to
| uphold a moral high ground for a some random user?
| mcv wrote:
| Sounds like another reason not to repy on US-based
| services.
| throw_a_grenade wrote:
| > Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub
|
| I don't think this is a question of blame, rather than
| suitability. In the spirit of blameless postmortem, I'll state
| that GitHub was found unsuitable for hosting a FOSS project.
|
| Why it's unsuitable is truly a secondary question, but it
| shouldn't prevent us, Free Software maintainers, from drawing
| necessary conclusions.
| happymellon wrote:
| Sounds like a reasonable reason to dump a service that will
| just block you.
|
| Nothing you put there sounds like a reason not to move, in fact
| it sounds like all the more reason to do it.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| _> Sounds like a reasonable reason to dump a service that
| will just block you. _
|
| ANY and I mean absolutely ANY service can just block you if
| they think you're violating ToS, including Google/Android and
| Apple.
| zamalek wrote:
| > it is just <country> law
|
| Ah, a chief among the causes of brain drain.
| anonym29 wrote:
| Glad to see more and more organizations moving to rights-
| respecting platforms, away from the intelligence community's
| surveillance + social control dragnets of choice.
| sschueller wrote:
| I didn't know forgejo existed and I have been using gitlab ce
| which is getting more and more difficult to deal with for just
| home use. All of a sudden I see that I am no longer getting minor
| updates because my debian version isn't the latest and during my
| last update it broke the db again.
|
| forgejo seems to have everything I need including CI pipeline and
| container registry so I am definitely going to give it a try
| before trying to update gitlab.
| omnimus wrote:
| It's also way easier than Gitlab to selfhost. Been running it
| for some time on small office NAS and it's solid.
| jalict wrote:
| Switched from Gitlab to Forgejo at work and it is working
| fantastic for us. I am also using at home.
|
| Using both container registry and self-hosted runners, etc.
|
| I was personally very frustrated with ACL and generally
| inheritance rules in gitlab and it is much more sensible and
| easy in Forgejo.
| dizhn wrote:
| FYI it's a fork of gitea, and like gitea, only a single go
| binary. Super easy to upgrade. I have been running gitea first
| and now forgejo under docker. It's literally a 5 minute deal to
| install once you know how it works.
| doubled112 wrote:
| I did a bare metal to Docker container migration in about 30
| minutes a couple of weeks ago. It's not a very complicated
| setup, with few surprises, and this system admin appreciates
| that.
| mdaniel wrote:
| > including CI pipeline
|
| You'll want to be cautious, because readme and promises are not
| software; they're attempting to squat on[1] nektos/act[2] which
| itself is the 20/80 of GitHub Actions
|
| You'll almost certainly be happier using woodpecker[3] or some
| other "external" CI system so you don't have to hopes-and-
| prayers your CI system
|
| 1: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/act
|
| 2:
| https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/tag/v10.0.3/go.mod#...
| and
| https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/tag/v10.0.3/go.mod#...
|
| 3: https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker _(Apache 2)_
| wvbdmp wrote:
| What's the latest in Forgejo vs. Gitea?
| omnimus wrote:
| Sometime in 2024 Forgejo became hard fork no longer merging
| Gitea code so both projects slowly diverge. But i think
| momentum is on Forgejo side. Codeberg is popular and
| development seems to be stable and solid.
| fitblipper wrote:
| Organic Maps is great and I'm hoping the transition to Forgejo
| goes smoothly for the project.
|
| I've recently started hiking and just generally going outside in
| my community more. When I relied on Google Maps I would get some
| random business highlighted when navigating around. Since I
| switched to Organic Maps I see trails, artwork, parks, scenic
| views, etc, etc that I never knew existed even in my own
| neighborhood. I also love the idea that if I find something not
| right on it I can just open up Open Street Map, make a simple
| edit, and improve the life of everyone else using the app that
| comes after me.
| mcv wrote:
| I love Organic Maps too. The UI could be a bit nicer, and
| sometimes it struggles to find where I want to go, but bicycles
| routes are far superior to those from Google.
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