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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 260 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.

[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was very surprised to learn that .NET has an entire team in North Korea

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I heard they got upgraded to DSL

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Not according to that thread - it looks like they don't yet know what caused it:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

GAFAM is all one hydra.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sanctioned region

What's that?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A country the USA doesn't like

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)