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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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So... I think it's high time to start planning an exodus.
Is there a good alternative to GitHub?
I have two types of repos, a few public open-source projects for which I require:
Plus private ones where I don't need any bells and whistles, just a git hoster for myself and no one else.
Is there something free that provides these things and doesn't suck? If I go to GitLab's page then it says:
so that's fucked too now, huh
Re the GitLab marketing: what does it mean, what toolchains are they referring to, and what is "native AI"? Does that even mean anything, or is it just marketing gibberish to impress executives?
*scrolls down*
[eternal screaming]
“beware, for I am a leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™” is exactly the kind of thing I’d expect an evil wizard to scream moments before I hit him in the head with a mace
oh GitLab is terrible on several levels and is definitely best avoided — for some reason, they think that competing with github involves making all of github’s mistakes, but with a much worse UI
so far I’ve had good luck with codeberg. of your requirements, the only missing feature seems to be vulnerability scanning. CI is available and pretty good, but you have to ask for it to be enabled for your account. I think you’re able to hook self-hosted runners into codeberg’s CI frontend, but the process to do so confused the hell out of me, so you may have to dig a bit to figure out how it works.
If I had my druther’s I’d make my own hosting and call it “UnaGit”, and pretend it’s unagi/eel themed, when it is actually teddy K themed
Codeberg is the closest that I could think of, not sure if it meets all of the features listed