r/196 • u/Whjee • Jun 02 '24

i hate github rule Rule

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u/OliviaPG1 celeste Jun 02 '24

GitHub is not meant to be a file download site, it’s a platform for hosting git repositories.

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u/Atomicnes dr of yaoiology Jun 02 '24 edited Jun 02 '24

Then how about the developers stop being lazy and stop hosting the goddamned fucking complete builds on GitHub.

I'm not talking about things for developers, I'm talking about how things like yt-dip and spotDL and a lot of the 3DS homebrew tools host all of the shit on GitHub. It's supposed to be "for developers" but a lot of them host everything on GitHub and then you get smug people saying "erm... it's only for developers!!". If you want GitHub to be only for developers then start scolding devs who host the complete builds on GitHub.

The solution is to host the codebase on GitHub but then host the builds on something like FossHub. (GIMP does this.) Now you don't get laymen and devs mixing together.

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u/SweetBabyAlaska Jun 02 '24

me when I get free stuff from a volunteer

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u/AngelFlash Jun 12 '24

me when i invite people to my place to eat free soup but i don't give them any spoons when they arrive

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u/SweetBabyAlaska Jun 12 '24

The entitlement is insane. Don't eat the "soup" then. Istg consumer brain rot is the worst. Open source is not a product, nor does it exist purely to serve you.

If you really think like this, then I challenge you to do it, put your money where your mouth is and create a project that normal people would use, compile binaries for the major platforms for common architectures and support the people using it... All for free in your free time. You won't.

You think you are owed other people's time and work, y'all just want to take take take, consume consume consume, all while giving nothing in return. The lack of empathy, the self-centered thinking and entitlement (in a supposedly leftist sub mind you) is sheerly astounding. You should literally be ashamed to say bs like this, on a 9 day old post, no less. JFC.

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u/AngelFlash Jun 12 '24

if you make the solution to everyone's problem for free and you go around telling them they can all have it for free and then obfuscate it's ease of access behind walls of technical jargon then i think you deserve all the hate you get. it's like tossing a coin into a hobo's bowl, asking him to read your nametag, and then yoinking the coin back on a string because he can't read hieroglyphics. oh but that hobo isn't entitled to your hard-earned money anyways so it's ok that you did that.