Another Microsoft #GitHub outage, another reminder that over half of the projects I use / contribute to are hosted on and exclusively available on this proprietary forge.
It's time to factor this into decisions whether to use software, points-- for GitHub.
Stuff I tried accessing today: #NixOS nixpkgs repo (can't update my computer) #Flathub manifests #Niri wayland compositor #Tauon music player
Would love to see more migrations to free forges, and excited for #ForgeFed to make this easier!
I'd love to encourage these projects to jump ship, and I celebrate those that do. I am much more likely to provide quality contributions if you host on your own forge, or a free one, and I am sure I'm not alone in this.
GitHub is hostile to FOSS and, despite giving away lots of free-of-cost stuff I believe ultimately hurts us.
So I think I'll need to read up on it a bit. I understand that "Passkeys" try to do something similar as SSH pubkeys.
But do you know a good technical explainer of what's going on and how it works?
(Yes, I could search myself but I am looking for recommendations of articles you have read that you found helpful and clear.)
@tante The major problem with passkeys is that Google, Apple and Microsoft abuse(d) them as a method to enforce a vendor lock-in: "Here, have this nice convenient feature as long as you stick with our accounts and devices." Now, it looks like we will be able to export passkeys from their accounts but passkey management needs to become convenient for everyone to make them an attractive alternative.
And we still lack truly free options to manage them across all devices. #Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden can do it but there is no point in using KeePass if not all platforms have at least one #KeePass client supporting passkeys.
Kind of reminds me of PGP keys, which are still a pain in the ass to manage across multiple devices, even after all these years.
UPDATE: To everyone who suggested YUNO, thank you so much. This seems like it is about to make my journey much easier. It is basically almost exactly what I was looking for, but I was unaware that it existed. ...
MTZ Good luck! I'm looking forward to following your journey! I've been playing a lot with #selfhosting lately too, and feel quite happy with my current setup (
nextcloud for photos and docs,
gitea for code, dots and docs, and #snac by
grunfink to replace corporate social networks/media. I'd like to go further with #vaultwarden and who knows what else, so the advice you've gotten is really valuable to me as well. Like you I also had a terrible experience, only with Apple and my Iphone where it didn't accept my (correct) pincode, and I couldn't log in to Apple ID due to not having access to my phone. I ended up having to reset my phone after much banging my head against the wall. I decided then that I would not be reliant on that thing for access to everything else. I've ordered a #JollaC2 Community Phone by
jolla to replace my Iphone. No more #bigtech for me.
Hey! I know Proton is from the Europe. I already use thier services since many years. But I want to switch from them because of years full of disappointment. Empty Promises for me as a Linux user and also thier recent exit from the Fediverse and the CEOs Political View on Trump. ...
I am attempting to get into Selfhosting after a shockingly frightening experience, but I am very lost.
UPDATE: To everyone who suggested YUNO, thank you so much. This seems like it is about to make my journey much easier. It is basically almost exactly what I was looking for, but I was unaware that it existed. ...
Proton Alternative?
Hey! I know Proton is from the Europe. I already use thier services since many years. But I want to switch from them because of years full of disappointment. Empty Promises for me as a Linux user and also thier recent exit from the Fediverse and the CEOs Political View on Trump. ...