Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn’t do the test right, gaslighting me with a picture of what I chose (which I didn’t choose) and showing me the correct picture (which I did choose and it claims I didn’t select).

It’s fucking bullshit and it’s more corporate control of open source software. For people who have their discussion or issue tracker, I can’t even participate without hardware identifiers likely linked to me some other way and phone numbers. It’s fucking bullshit. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, FUCK YOU!!!

I am so tired of this bullshit. I just want to post an issue about a piece of software. You don’t need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit. This is a slippery slope. Fuck them.

I really hope more developers just get the fuck off Github. Honestly, if you are developing privacy-oriented software and using github, there’s a mistmatch and it’s bullshit, and I know it’s time consuming and annoying to move, but please do. This is fucking bullshit and it’s not like it’s going to become LESS annoying over time. FUCK THIS.

  • veroxii@aussie.zone
    96·
    3 hours ago

    Git is a DECENTRALIZED version control system. It doesn’t even need a server. So for someone so privacy focused to be using VPN software etc this is kind of a weird rant to go on.

    You can literally store or self host a git repo anywhere in any form.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        22·
        2 hours ago

        Git is a version control system, not an issue tracker.

        If you want issue tracking then you can use a system like forgejo or if you don’t want to self-host and are okay with risking creating a new centralized service which will eventually betray everything they stood for, you can use Codeberg.org (which is just a forgejo instance).