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Re:GitHub Down Again? by Lapel2742 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:41AM (#50412066)
> All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents.

You are probably wrong on that.

> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:31AM (#50412350)

  You are probably wrong on that.
I don't think I'm. If another Git service gets popular, they too will experience surges and go down often.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:52AM (#50412475)
You missed the rest of the comment, which was to the effect that such AI agents are not allowed on Codeberg. Any abuse at scale will be easily detected and banned.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:22AM (#50412657)
How would they know?
Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:50AM (#50414867)
I said any abuse at scale. Very good heuristics are quite straightforward, you can then manually check those that are less reliable.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:37PM (#50415318)
Manually check? What? You want their staff to check your company's secret code?

Come on man.

Heuristics are never 100%. Even a 0.001% error rate is simply unacceptable to businesses.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:05PM (#50415552)
We’re talking about Codeberg. “Your company’s secret code” is not welcome there.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:28AM (#50422228)
Then why are we even talking about it as an alternative to professionals?