Tea to [email protected]English • edit-221 days agoOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up153arrow-down1imageOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devTea to [email protected]English • edit-221 days agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•21 days agohttps://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
minus-squareJustinlinkfedilinkEnglish2•21 days 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]linkfedilinkEnglish2•21 days agoSounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•21 days agoI was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•21 days 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.
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
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
Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761
What’s that?
A country the USA doesn’t like