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Re:I/O 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:45PM (#31346921)
Nope
Re:I/O 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:44PM (#31346906)
They added more languages during this keynote than Apple Translate supports in total.
Re:I/O 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:42PM (#31346884)
"Users will have a new way to filter by relevant skin tones" is my favorite quote from the keynote.
Re:I/O 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:39PM (#31346858)
The "remove people and stuff" feature for Google Photos that they just announced had already been announced 4-5 years ago. We are still waiting.
Which browser are you using? Chrome doesn't ask again if you say no.
Re:Adopting Matrix at the Gnome Foundation on Sunday May 01, 2022 @11:55AM (#31226048)
Key points suffice or do you need the whole list?
Re:Introducing Threads in Beta on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:21PM (#31136862)
Google Chat (part of Google Workspace) has this. At work we use Slack though :/ (would like to try Chat instead).
Re:Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas for side projects on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:54AM (#31050804)
> What’s your thought process of coming up ideas and executing them.

Usually the come up naturally: I have a need and can't find any product satisfying that need.

> Lastly how do you turn them into profitable business

I don't (need to). I have a well paid job and publish side projects as open source (if they get far enough). Are you looking for some kind of business advice?

I was confused because I got an email from Salesforce to my personal email. (We use Salesforce at work.) Email looked phishy (e.g. unsecured (non-https) links). Apparently they acquired Heroku in 2010.
Only "app installations" from the GitHub marketplace can be limited to specific repositories. For OAuth apps this is not possible sadly (everything that uses GitHub to login or connect accounts, e.g. Travis CI, Terraform Registry, Heroku).
> If one thing can be gotten from that incident is forcing GitHub to create finer OAuth scopes and per repository.

This. Limiting OAuth app access to specific repositories. I really wish this was a thing. For this exact reason I'm creating a new GitHub account for every new integration and share the repo with this account. It's technically against the TOS (they only allow single bot account per user) but there is no other way if you want security.

Maybe GitHub will implement this feature now. My hopes are high.

Re:Request to remove tracking from Go websites on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:27AM (#31041278)
They're not even using 3rd-party analytics tools, like most sites do. Some people can never be happy.
Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:09AM (#31041090)
> and offered GitHub money to help

It's not like they can just run a few SQL queries on prod and have the author PayPal them 10$.

They need to create a plan, cost estimate, risk assessment, get management/qa/security/SRE/... approvals, write the code, documentation, reviews, tests, run on prod, create invoice, etc. This means 10-20 people work for 1-2 days. I doubt that the author is willing to pay 20000-60000$ for this.

There were many ways, all of them hidden very well, one of them was pressing Shift+Z in the web interface while selecting a file or directory.
There was a keyboard shortcut Shift+Z to add a file to another location (i.e. create a hard-link). Not sure if it still works. The sidebar also has a list of locations that a file is in. Also there are public APIs and documentation for everything.
Can you explain why team drives (now called shared drives) have a limit of 400.000 files while there are no limits and unlimited sharing for files in "my drive"?
Re:Incident Report for Confluence on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:41AM (#30998701)
Former Gitea (Gogs) contributor here. I see your point and you're not really wrong but it's not that easy either:

- GitHub has way more features. More features means more scattered data (e.g. different micro-services databases, file storage).

- You cannot use Gitea in an organization with hundreds or thousands of engineers. It provides nether the features nor the scalability you need. I like Gitea but I'm happy that my company uses GitHub.

- Individuals and open-source use GitHub because it's free and has all the features (including stuff like free CI/CD which is expensive). This is all being paid for by companies like mine who buy expensive enterprise licenses for thousands of engineers.

- It's not uncommon to shard by customer/account, even in the cloud and GitHub is actually trying to do this right now for their primary database. Doesn't solve the problem with different storages for different micro-services though.

People are more forgiving torwards themselves and their own folks, I can understand that. I'm just thinking it's important to make decisions based on facts. Some self-hosters walk around with this "my own basement is safer than Amazon datacenters" attitude and that's just not true (in most cases, I guess :D).
We're using the cloud version and we're fine too (no outage). What's your point? Are you claiming that self-hosted is never down? Or that self-hosted is more reliable? Because I doubt that. Difference is just that when self-hosted goes down, it doesn't end up in the news.
Re:Super Simple Storage Service on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:12AM (#30974820)
Buy now with PayPal button does not work.
Re:Atlassian products have been down for 4 days on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:07AM (#30974797)
The "New GitHub Issues" (beta) is very actively being worked on, with monthly feature updates and blog articles and everything. Highly recommend to try the beta.

https://github.com/features/issues