so where should people move to instead

GitLab. Everything GiHub wishes it could be, never given enough credit, going to be key to the future of AI software development in a practical sense.

I wonder if there's a place for something like matrix, but for repositories (or maybe matrix protocol can handle that?). A world where we have selfhosted, saas, etc, but all interlinked and searchable? Say I find a project on gitlab, I want to contribute to, I checkout to my personal server (or someone elses hosted), and raise a pr back to original repo. I know it doesn't answer your question, just thinking aloud really.

Some alternative forge are built with decentralization in mind:

- forgejo [1] is working on ForgeFed [2], an extension of ActivityPub (the protocol made popular by Mastodon)

- tangled is built on top of ATproto (the protocol behind Bluesky) [3]

- radicle is rolling their own protocol, more peer-to-peer than federated [4]

- fossil is a broader all-in-one solution: not only a new Version Control System (a replacement for git), but also a forge (has the features of a forge: issues (bug-tracking), PRs, comments, wikis, ...) [5]

The other self-hosted forges such as gitlab, sourcehut, gitea don't have such a high level of decentralization and resilience. It does not make them less good, they are solving different problems, mainly being a easy-to-use self-hosted alternative to proprietary forges. For instance Gitea has Gitea Actions, which is designed to be compatible with GitHub Actions [6], while I don't think running CI/CD workflow in a decentralized way will the priority of projects like tangled or radicle.

[1] https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo

[2] https://forgefed.org/

[3] https://tangled.org/

[4] https://radicle.dev/guides/protocol#federation-vs-peer-to-pe...

[5] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

[6] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview

https://tangled.org/ is close to what you are describing

tangled, forgejo, radicle, sourcehut - to name a few

Different places. Stop centralising the web. Embrace diversity.

This would be best, though it's a big ask, when everyone has gone from self hosting plus a sprinkling of cloud services, to only cloud services and no remembrance of how to self host.

I used to run a git server for all my main projects, and mirrored public ones on GitHub. Then the convenience of GitHub lured me in, to the point I shut down my private git server 5 years ago.

Now I kinda regret that decision.

As long as it's protected by Cloudflare, that is.

's been dead since microsoft acquired them in 2018

I feel like this could be expanded into a printable daily newspaper project with all the sections newspapers have, customize-able; and also just a digital version for people who don't wanna print. (I've been circling around creating a project like that for myself)

I've had this in my backlog for a while now. If you ever move forward with yours, let me know!

I'd consider them to be pretty dramatically different; meditation can be associated with deliberate focus and a kind of religious devotion, while just staring at a wall can be the absence of focusing or any kind of defined practice

> as an alternative to right-to-repair laws, consumers could simply buy repairable products and avoid unrepairable ones

The free market only works with a low barrier of entry. In many cases what you propose doesn't exist.

What about a line of wheels in the middle (however many you want, like 3x1 or 4x1) instead of another row of 2x2 wheels, for carrying more weight?

"No so I just eat more meat instead"

Personally I find it embarassing the U.K. is doing this but it's not surprising

Was pretty surprised to see the U.S. bump up smoking age to 21

These efforts seem like the opposite of progress and promote irresponsibility and dependence

Well, from the comments we see:

-possible disruption of gut microbiome

-possible trigger of migraines

as well as from other places:

-those with phenylketonuria (PKU) must avoid it

-there are concerns that aspartic acid which is produced "can act as an excitotoxin, overstimulating nerve cells and potentially leading to neuronal injury and cell death" with chronic exposure or high doses

-potentially carcinogenic

-no nutritional value (thus no "need" to consume it)

Fruit, honey, or maple syrup in contrast are natural without some of these concerns in the same way

AI chatbots could be making you smarter though tbh

It's so easy to learn at the same time

You're absolutely right!

The same way using a forklift makes you stronger!

Unironically, yes.

In a forklift, I can softly manipulate a lever to lift thousands of pounds, that will not make my arm muscles grow. It's my responsibility to still go to the gym: but even 16 hours a day at the gym: no one is ever going to lift a literal 'ton'. I don't take a forklift to the gym, but I would use it at work...

And this gym metaphor breaks down quickly if you think about it.

A forklift can lift far more than the average human. Just like a train can carry more, faster, than a couple people carrying those goods. Your comment seems to imply that a forklift replaces the need to be strong or physically fit, which is obvious nonsense, so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, here.

The usage of AI for everything is analogous to using a forklift to take your groceries home.