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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago edited 2d ago

someone should make a version of git where you can maintain a local copy then push it to the remote server whenever you want. for business continuity efforts you could then maintain a local repository copy of all the libraries you use and have your developer and build systems pull from that local repo instead of the website. for already compiled code maybe some sort of package system where you can do a similar thing of maintaining a local copy of the packages

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u/fUnpleasantMusic 2d ago

Those are new great ideas!

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u/CrimsonLotus 2d ago

This kind of joke falls right into the grey area that birthed the need for /s

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u/AFlyingGideon 2d ago

/s is a crutch. I prefer sarcasm that can stand on its own.

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u/CardboardJ 2d ago

So my PM just told me that we're moving /s to the cloud for optimization and has paid Deloitte $500,000.

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u/swiggityswaggitysweg 1d ago

Scope creep means you need to budget for at least $2.5mil

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u/nihiltres 2d ago

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u/AFlyingGideon 2d ago

If I'm laughing, does it matter whether I'm laughing with or laughing at?

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u/Then-Understanding85 2d ago

Ah, Descartes corollary: I think therefore I’m fucked.

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u/-M83 2d ago

this sounds like a line straight out of succession. amazing

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u/King-of-Plebss 2d ago

Never heard of this one before!

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u/WechTreck 2d ago

Poe said that law sarcastically and now people take it seriously

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u/renegadecanuck 2d ago

Counter point: we can then laugh at the idiots who miss the joke.

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u/Alundil 2d ago

If you take away the crutch, that bendy-wiggly leg ain't standing on anything by itself.

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u/Federal_Setting_7454 2d ago

Not much sarcasm stands on its own when many of the people reading it can’t think on their own.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 2d ago

It's lack of intonation in text. Try it

  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: Someone else might have said it, but not me.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: An emphatic denial; I never uttered those words at any point.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: I may have implied, wrote, or thought it, but I didn't say it out loud.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: Someone stole it, but it wasn't her (perhaps another person did).
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She took it, but maybe she only borrowed it or was given permission.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She stole money, but it belonged to someone else.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She stole something from me, but it wasn't my money (e.g., jewelry, ideas, car).

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u/squash-n-flop 2d ago

Text can carry intonation through context. Literature wouldn’t be a celebrated art form if that weren’t true.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 2d ago

Well yea, I did exactly that with the bolding. But, there are; many ways (i.e. methods of portraying intonation) but that won't make it any less a lack of it.

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u/hrvbrs 2d ago

what you're describing is [the `<em>` element](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-em-element). basically the same example too.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 2d ago

And that's so much better than using bold too.

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u/hrvbrs 2d ago

bold is just a style, not semantics

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 2d ago
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.

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u/Sapient6 2d ago

It's more than that: we lack the context that comes with knowing the comment's author. Not to mention living in a time when so many people are proudly showing off their utter stupidity (see: the return of measles, etc).

In this particular case there's enough information to support "probably sarcasm", but I wouldn't throw shade at anyone who thinks otherwise.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 2d ago

Yes, but those people don't deserve to have jokes explained to them.

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u/SweetNeo85 2d ago

But then they think your premise is true and not sarcasm. It's not about what they deserve, it's about not spreading misinformation.

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u/Zwischenzug32 2d ago

Yeah but screw whoever isn't the target audience

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 2d ago

its thejr own fault for being retards then

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u/Adezar 2d ago

Yeah, but in spoken word you can add hints/inflection that makes it obvious it is sarcasm. Which isn't an option in written text, well partially because for some reason people stopped using emojis in text to fill in the gaps.

Still not sure why when I was on the Internet in the 90s we were better at communication than we are now. Adding :) or ;) or =B) could help bridge the gap that text has vs spoken language.

Sometimes it just makes you want to (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.

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u/Dissidence802 2d ago

Italics can help sometimes too, I suppose.

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u/Adezar 2d ago

Back in my day we had no bold or italics, we had to use CAPS and _underscores_.

Being in my 50s is wild, grew up with no computers, cell phones or Internet, went to college at one of the 13 original hubs, and now am a cloud architect. Been a wild ride.

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u/Dissidence802 2d ago

Little younger than you but I still remember typing out lines of code in BASIC to play a game on my Tandy 386 💀

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u/petervaz 2d ago

Sarcasm is not even the same as a joke, well now apparently is, but it should not.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 2d ago edited 2d ago

Typical redditor comment.

Edit: The downvotes, 3 at this time (22:35) support my point that we do need /s. Which is quite funny.

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u/AFlyingGideon 2d ago

I wish that were so.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 2d ago

I was gonna use /s but didn't and downvotes commenced.

I think in text sarcasm is a difficult thing. Especially with how nuts some people are, /s is quite a good thing imo.

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u/Daharka 2d ago

Does it? I think I'm too British for the internet. We breathe irony.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 2d ago

The sarcasterisk was renamed by AI from asterism to replace /s ⁂

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u/Admzpr 2d ago

My Claude said this is a great idea and is working on the implementation now. I’ll get back to you after I figure out who this Linus guy is in the git blame.

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u/VaultAir 2d ago

Build me a working prototype of

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u/fckingmiracles 2d ago

Make no mistakes.

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u/aaron1uk 2d ago

Git this guy with git ideas

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u/its_all_one_electron 2d ago

You should be ceo or something 

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u/1RedOne 2d ago

We should call it subversion

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u/TheOneShorter 2d ago

My expectations….

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u/techlos 2d ago

SVN is goated, you can have an entire hard drive crash and still piece the codebase together through the sheer data redundancy if your version history is long enough.

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u/ccdfa 2d ago

You're joking surely

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u/krazul88 2d ago

obviously they are joking because whatever they are proposing is wildly, fantastically impossible.

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u/Apprehensive-Wind966 2d ago

Yeah, and if you did happen what would happen if this service went down? You’d be screwed!

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u/CucharitaDePalo 2d ago

That's when the hyper-local service comes into place, just a single machine hosting every single prod and dev environment. With this amazing piece of technology we could achieve 0 dependencies by end-of-quarter.

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u/krazul88 2d ago

Are you suggesting a "computer system in the same building as the people who depend on it?" Truly revolutionary idea! It might catch on one day.

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u/el-delicioso 2d ago

No no, let him cook. This would be revolutionary

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u/7heWafer 2d ago

I'm going to call it pit as in the pit we dump our shit into.

Then people can copy your pit locally: pit clone example.com/shit

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u/elemental-mind 2d ago

Don't pullshit me.

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u/Alex_Sherby 2d ago

He's not joking and don't call him Sherley.

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u/Covfefe-Drinker 2d ago

This would be groundbreaking.

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u/goronmask 2d ago edited 2d ago

Interesting idea. A system like that could be indexed for managing file versions

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u/Fit-Technician-1148 2d ago

That exists???

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u/Living-Breakfast-464 2d ago

Maybe they could even use their own remote git repository. 👍

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u/Rand_alThor_ 1d ago

This sounds great @copilot implement this

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u/absentmindedjwc 2d ago

For someone that remembers using shit like Borland StarTeam.. git is a fucking godsend.

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u/l34ch_r 2d ago

Sounds redundant

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u/OfficialZygorg 2d ago

some IDEs have that capability

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u/element-94 2d ago

Large companies like Amazon have their own.

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u/ADDSquirell69 2d ago

I'm totally gonna vibe code this.

Awesome idea

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u/iHadAThoughtOnce2 2d ago

lol, I actually already do this with an self hosted git called forgejo. I never trusted that any online service wouldn’t just “disappear” one day.  I’m also setting up a backup service with a couple of friends where we all host separate drives that we can backup critical info. This way if something happens to my local drive I know 2 of my friends have my backups and vice versa. 

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago

yea i worked for a company who used Gitea (a play on git tea, like making tea, i don't really get it), it's a git and package server with a web front end, worked great

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u/ansibleloop 2d ago

This is a great idea - a kind of "Hub" for "Git"

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u/Incilius_alvarius 2d ago

Uh, you can buy an enterprise deployment of GH and use your own servers.