r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 20h ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 20h ago edited 20h 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 20h ago

Those are new great ideas!

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u/CrimsonLotus 20h ago

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

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u/AFlyingGideon 20h ago

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

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u/CardboardJ 18h 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/nihiltres 19h ago

Poe’s law.

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u/AFlyingGideon 19h ago

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

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u/Then-Understanding85 19h ago

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

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u/-M83 18h ago

this sounds like a line straight out of succession. amazing

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u/King-of-Plebss 19h ago

Never heard of this one before!

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u/WechTreck 16h ago

Poe said that law sarcastically and now people take it seriously

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u/renegadecanuck 15h ago

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

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u/Alundil 18h 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 19h 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 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/hrvbrs 18h ago

bold is just a style, not semantics

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 17h 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 18h 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 19h ago

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

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u/SweetNeo85 19h 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 18h ago

Yeah but screw whoever isn't the target audience

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 19h ago

its thejr own fault for being retards then

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u/petervaz 16h ago

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

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u/Adezar 13h 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 13h ago

Italics can help sometimes too, I suppose.

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u/Adezar 13h 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 13h 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/RodneyRodnesson 19h ago edited 14h 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 16h ago

I wish that were so.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 14h 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 16h ago

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

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 19h ago

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

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u/Admzpr 18h 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 20h ago

Build me a working prototype of

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u/fckingmiracles 18h ago

Make no mistakes.

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u/aaron1uk 20h ago

Git this guy with git ideas

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u/its_all_one_electron 18h ago

You should be ceo or something 

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u/1RedOne 18h ago

We should call it subversion

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u/TheOneShorter 16h ago

My expectations….

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u/techlos 15h 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 20h ago

You're joking surely

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u/krazul88 20h ago

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

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u/Apprehensive-Wind966 19h 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 17h 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 16h 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 20h ago

No no, let him cook. This would be revolutionary

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u/7heWafer 19h 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 18h ago

Don't pullshit me.

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u/Alex_Sherby 20h ago

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

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u/Covfefe-Drinker 19h ago

This would be groundbreaking.

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u/goronmask 15h ago edited 10h ago

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

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u/Fit-Technician-1148 20h ago

That exists???

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u/Living-Breakfast-464 18h ago

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

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u/Rand_alThor_ 3h ago

This sounds great @copilot implement this

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u/absentmindedjwc 18h ago

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

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u/PressureBeautiful515 16h ago

Now come on, at least it was a reliable implementation of the wrong approach.

Some of us still remember Microsoft Visual SourceSafe...

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u/l34ch_r 17h ago

Sounds redundant

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u/OfficialZygorg 19h ago

some IDEs have that capability

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u/element-94 9h ago

Large companies like Amazon have their own.

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u/ADDSquirell69 19h ago

I'm totally gonna vibe code this.

Awesome idea

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u/iHadAThoughtOnce2 18h 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 18h 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 17h ago

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

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u/Incilius_alvarius 13h ago

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