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Re:GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down by csunbird on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:05AM (#27006876)
There is literally nothing preventing someone to host they code on gitlab/sourcehut/their own gitea server. Most people use github because it is free, but the git protocol is far from centralized.
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Re:GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down by judge2020 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:18AM (#27006978)
Thankfully `git clone kevin-wayne/algs4` doesn't default to asking github.com like some package managers [[docker]].
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