Big rant against GitHub of the day.
I finally managed to get "Accibot"'s account reinstated: https://github.com/accibot. It's now merrily updating my Golang repos.
It was flagged about 3 hours after creation for, and I quote, "because you appear to have registered more than a single free user account. The GitHub Terms of Service Account Requirements state that an individual may not maintain more than one account."
Meanwhile, here's what GitHub's ToS actually says:
> - A machine account is an Account set up by an individual human who accepts the Terms on behalf of the Account, provides a valid email address, and is responsible for its actions. A machine account is used exclusively for performing automated tasks. Multiple users may direct the actions of a machine account, but the owner of the Account is ultimately responsible for the machine's actions. You may maintain no more than one free machine account in addition to your free Personal Account.
> - One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).
By the way, before anyone asks: Renovate can update Golang’s version (Dependabot can only update dependencies). You don’t need to use a bot to do this manually: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate.
This is all part of an experiment. I want a machine account to be able to generate and sign HAVEN releases, and handle all sorts of CI/CD shenanigans in a portable way, in case we ever decide to move off GitHub.
At the moment, GitHub is a necessary pain in the neck for maintainers. For example, I’m happy to migrate to NIP-34, run my own instance of ngit-relay (can’t thank you enough nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszgnhwden5te0dpshvetw9ejxzmnrdah8wctev3jhvtnrdakj76twvfhhsqguwaehxw309a5xzan9dchxgctwvdhkuamp09jx2a3wvdhk6qpq5qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exskxljkd ), or use non-Nostr tech like Forgejo. Still, this basically means we'll get little to no contributions from the community, even from a tech-savvy crowd like we have here on Nostr.
So yeahp, I keep having to jump through hoops to push my code to GitHub so that Microsoft and OpenAI can use it to train LLMs and build more vibe-based coding tools for you folks.
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