Of course #GitHub is down right when I need to review documentation only available on GitHub. Ugh.

Folks, let's all switch to #Radicle. Make inaccessibility issues a thing of the past.

GitHub Security Advisories added a new feature: "Confidential Comments"! 🥳

This is both an awesome feature in general (no more having multiple channels for each report 🎉) and is hopefully a sign that more development on this critical feature will be coming soon.

#security #github

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A checkbox below the comment box in a GitHub Security Advisory labeled "Confidential. Only maintainers will see this comment."

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

https://github.com/brumar/chess-postmortem-skills

#chess #github

While it is not yet possible to create SHA256 repositories on #Github officially, you can create a fork of Brian M. Carlson's talk-rust-in-git repository and then force-push whatever history you want into your fork.

https://github.com/stspdotname/got-in-a-sha256-repo

Seems to be working fine, I hope they will ship it soon ​

Though, since I tied the "mirror to github" to our autosync, there may be some delay between when an hbsd developer pushes a commit (or multiple commits) to our repo on #Radicle , and when that commit (or those commits) show up on #GitHub. The work will get mirrored to Github during the next autosync cycle (every six hours), assuming no further merge conflicts happened. Merge conflicts are resolved by hand. Rinse and repeat every six hours until an autosync successfully merges without conflicts.

#HardenedBSD

#HardenedBSD sync to #GitHub re-enabled for our autosync branches in src and ports.

Current status: Enhancing the #HardenedBSD autosync program to support pushing to multiple remotes. This is needed to be able to support #GitHub as a read-only mirror of the HardenedBSD repositories on #GitHub.

Good #IPv6 morning to #GitHub (with a little help from #FOSDEM)

% host github-debug.com
github-debug.com has address 140.82.121.2
github-debug.com has IPv6 address 2606:50c0:c0de:a00::390
%

Getting there..

Interesting, #GitHub is switching to JWT for auth tokens: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-15-github-app-installation-tokens-per-request-override-header/
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-24-notice-about-upcoming-new-format-for-github-app-installation-tokens/

I just realized I haven't logged into #GitHub in well over a year at this point.

I don't think I'll be looking back, now that I've found home in #Radicle.

#DVCS #git #programming

The next #GitHub is not worth winning

https://davidpoblador.com/blog/the-next-github-is-not-worth-winning.html

#GitHub down? Nixpkgs can and should in most cases be fetched from channels.nixos.org because that is redistributed world-wide via #fastly with much higher availability and IPv6 support.

E.g. in your #flake use

nixpkgs.url = "https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.05-small/nixexprs.tar.zst";

instead of the github-flavored expression. Works for all supported channels.

#nixos #nixpkgs

Pink unicorns, as far as the eye can see.

#GithubDown #github

I wonder if they're going to tell us that an AI "slipped through its guardrails" and deleted the whole of Github.

#GithubDown #Github

You're absolutely correct! When you asked me to "clean up and archive some old data" I should not have sent the command "DROP DATABASE github.master" to the SQL server.
I'll make a note to ask before I do this next time.

#GithubDown #Github

As #GitHub suffers a major outage, I'm all the more thankful for #Radicle and especially the generosity of those running open seed nodes.

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx - many #GitHub services are degraded right now

Oh, great. So apparently #Microsoft decided to add "#Copilot Pull Request Reviewer" to my "Authorized #GitHub Apps", behind my back.

If you need to check quick: https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations

#NoAI #NoLLM

@Codeberg so, about /me threatening to switch off #IPv4 during #FOSDEM and thus taking down #GitHub... Look what they did two days after my toot...

https://bgp.tools/prefix/2606:50c0:c0de::/48#whois

They're not reachable yet, but that's progress. No matter what, I will only have #IPv6 on the @fosdem default network.

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Screenshot of the text at https://bgp.tools/prefix/2606:50c0:c0de::/48#whois

For the poor souls who burn in #monorepo hell, this is godsent:
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
#GitHub

Quite interesting remark by @struberg on the Java champions mailing list about #Maven #Central being a target of #AI scrapers

> Most of the jars also have source attached, and this is a highly interesting target for all kinds of AI research.

Never thought about it that way, but for sure, there's a ton of stuff there predating #GitHub which has been already "harvested"…

Out of the 100 million USD that has been donated through #GitHub sponsors, 0.0641% was given to #curl (64K USD since 2019)

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/100-million-for-open-source-a-milestone-built-by-the-community/

Hey #GitHub, it's roughly half a year until #FOSDEM.

As a reminder, I will disable the #NAT64-based #IPv4 fallback on the default network next year. The default network will be #IPv6-only.

I do note that @Codeberg does support IPv6.

I don't know what's more stupid: #OpenSSH using different authentication flow depending on whether you have a `.pub` file in addition to the private key or not, or #GitHub suddenly starting to reject one of the two valid RFC 4252 workflows.

https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html

#SSH

I hope that @Codeberg members vote to exclude #GenAI projects.

It's a justifiable stance that will enhance the platform IMO, leaving #GitHub to wallow in sloppy, degrading projects along with those who deserve to be shunned for their judgement and broken values.

BTW #Codeberg is an EU based non profit that provides free git hosting and CI. But if you pay a small fee to be a member you get to have a say in decisions.

#LLM #Codeberg

I just got this bill from #microsoft for #github usage. See if you can spot what is ridiculous about this bill.

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Screenshot of my “account usage” page at GitHub. It lists a bunch of “Included usage” items, each of which is zero dollars. They’re things like 2,000 Actions minutes .5 GB Actions storage 10 GB Git LFS storage Then it says Free usage: 100% off per month Zero dollars and two cents. The only thing on the list that explicitly says one hundred percent discount has a non-zero charge.

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 490 - Week Ending July 3, 2026

https://zc.vg/KjGcr?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #aspnetcore #azure #javascript #css #cpp #xaml #windowsdev #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #github #githubcopilot #m365 #python #devops #agile #IoT #appdev #podcasts #sqlserver #data #powershell #cli

This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd

#github #netbsd

Zwischendurch noch ein negativer Shoutout an GitHub

Es kann doch nicht angehen, dass man einen GitHub Account braucht, wenn man einen Missbrauch melden will!!!
🤬

5/n

#GitHub #Rant #UXFail #Cybersecurity

Later this week #GitHub introduces a way to limit how many pull requests users without write access can have open at one time... As a way to combat heaps of low-quality PRs.

I'll start out trying with this set to 2 for #curl.

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"Restrict how many pull requests users without write access can have open at one time"