Re: Call to NOT move to github or gitlab

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 09-06-2022 om 09:38 schreef Tomasz Kłoczko:
> So you are not using pages where JS is used??? Really?🤔😱

I didn't say that I don't visit pages that use Javascript, I said
that I don't allow my browser to execute it (except for a few
trusted sites).  Many pages are perfectly usable without Javascript
(as they should, if they want to be standards compliant).

> If you need to find something all you need is click on the search input
> line and enter what you are looking for.

"All you need to do is click..."  I /don't want to click/!  I want
stuff to be local, where I can use my keyboard to access things.

> Maybe it is not clear how github/gitlab works [...]

Christ.  I /know/ how Gitlab works, I'm using Freedesktop's instance,
and it is annoying.  Push a branch, click on the offered link, wait
for the page to load (nearly ten seconds here), wait, wait, click
"Reviewer", type type, enter, scroll, click "Create merge request",
again wait for the page to load, wait, wait...  Oh dang, some words
between angle brackets disappeared, click "Edit", wait, wait, add
backticks around the words, scroll, scroll, click "Save changes"...
Pfff...  /Tiring/.

Anyway, anyone can send an email to the mailing list, but in order
to interact with Github or Gitlab one has to make an account.  And
I... refuse to solve captchas, /and/ the terms of service of Github
are unacceptable to me (making me liable for certain things), /and/
Github is closed source, /and/ they scrape all your code as if it
is theirs...

(For Freedesktop.org I did not need to make an account, as I had
contributed before and the account was created automatically when
they moved to Gitlab.)

Benno

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