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legends2k
on Nov 4, 2023
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As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years o...
This is a problem only we'd to face. Kids these days use Git in some hosting hub or the other that it's a rarity that their code gets lots. Of course if these "free" services go down... it matters. Self-hosting has its uses.
valyagolev
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yeah when GitHub is sold to PE 15 years from now, and we get emails like "you have 2 days to backup all your repos", i hope I won't feel too lazy
pabs3
on Nov 5, 2023
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Luckily Software Heritage is backing up all of GitHub and more, so even the lazy ones won't lose code :)
https://www.softwareheritage.org/
nestorD
on Nov 4, 2023
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It is this exact realization, while looking for some of my old code, that first got me started using git and github.
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