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They also made the disastrous update to the dashboard feed which made the frontpage pretty much useless.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343

Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media on Monday March 25, 2024 @04:57AM (#39813999)
I have also been pondering with similar idea. Instagram and Twitter style services could be created with an RSS or RSS-like file format. Biggest problem is content discovery, but the Internet has traditionally solved discovery problem by itself.

https://www.appelsiini.net/2021/decentralized-social-media/

RSS was really great and still is. I still read my blogs using it and ignore the ones which do not offer a feed.

Re:New GitHub feed is hot garbage on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:25AM (#37432158)
I used to dislike GitLab UI because I find it sometimes confusing. This change makes me dislike GitHub UI more.
Re:Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (2013) on Saturday August 26, 2017 @04:47PM (#15107356)
In the unfashionable PHP world the Packagist libraries tend to be very strict about following semver.
While you are at it, you could hypothetically add rest of the Admiral domains too.

https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/admiral-domains.txt

Re:Ad blocking is under attack on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:44PM (#14992940)
The DMCA request itself seems to be here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2017/2017-08-02-L...
Re:A Brief History of the UUID on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:43AM (#14513403)
Since am big fan of everything Base62 I started to work on a PHP implementation of KSUID.

https://github.com/tuupola/ksuid

Re:Reverse Engineering Apple Location Services Protocol on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:20PM (#14313630)
You are correct. I have not tested this yet, but they are most likely strings prefixed with their lengths. I was trying to be too smart and assumed they used ASCII control characters.