Site Blocking Fallout Keeps GitHub Unusable for Some Indians * TorrentFreak
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GitHub remains partly blocked for some Indians even though an underlying court order was reversed many months ago.

Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked

  • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
    1603·
    1 年前

    When is it supposed to kick in? Because it sure hasn’t been done yet.

    Edit: Blatant misinformation

    While the underlying court order was reversed many months ago, some Indians continue to have trouble accessing parts of the website.

    • Moonrise2473OPEnglish
      761·
      1 年前

      the main problems of those blocking orders, worldwide, not only in india, is that while blocks are immediate and done with no supervision directly in the hands of the copyright trolls, unblocks are slow and need 100+ approvals

      • snownyte@kbin.social
        393·
        1 年前

        It’s exactly how reporting shithead users online is like.

        You report a stupid asshole, takes a long ass time to be dealt with.

        They report you - record time.

        • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          You can get someone banned on reddit easily if they say certain phrases. I banned a lot of conservative shitheels before they banned me, so I made another account.

          Reddit’s admins are super touchy on violence. If someone says a thing on Reddit that sounds like they want to do violence to a person, even if it’s not a real person or they’re obviously joking, just report threatening violence for a free ban.

          • snownyte@kbin.social
            12·
            1 年前

            I’m at odds about the whole violence thing. People should be allowed to express how they feel, even if it means that they express the most grotesque way in how they’d like to handle someone they don’t like. One cannot always assume someone will have the means and resources necessary to carry out the perfect murder on someone.

            If we are to glorify the concept of anonymity, why are we so afraid of these kinds of expressions? You won’t know who I am, you won’t know where I am and you won’t know much about me unless I give out details or hints to either of those things. I’ve long stopped making death threats to people online years ago because it sounded absolutely ridiculous, knowing that I’ll never be able to reach the person whom I hate. Much less, even go through with the threat at all.

            That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be allowed to express how nice it’d be if I held someone’s head down while riding an escalator as the feed of the steps gradually grates the skin off their face.

            I think this is really just a symptom of how social media of all walks on the internet don’t really do enough in the way of security and privacy so that these things are simply just that - expressions.

        • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
          18·
          1 年前

          If only there existed a button to make that person completly disapear from you life entirly. Maybe we can call this button a block button. Hmm in reality i realy like that because it means that other people get to decide if they see an opinion i dont like. Best if we give me ultimate control to make anyone online i disagree with disapear that way ill never have to be offended ever again.

          • snownyte@kbin.social
            1·
            1 年前

            Uh, that’s what the report button is for. Let me tell you something, you sound like the kind of person who go around calling people “soft” or “snowflake”. You believe there should not be any cyber bullying laws. You believe everyone should just shut up and take it. But I bet you, you’re the biggest snowflake of them all because as soon as someone dishes out what you give to others online, you’ll be squealing to the moderators before you know it.

            Don’t lie to yourself, I see trashy people like you pull this kind of act all of the time. You’re nothing special.

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      1 年前

      Its been like this for a long time. I still find it difficult to access raw.github. the reversal is not proper as far as I can say.

      Edit: checked now, still can’t.

    • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 年前

      Based on the other comments, they blocked the raw url.

    • sag@lemm.eeEnglish
      521·
      1 年前

      Its still blocked including newgrounds.com. I have to use VPN to play Geometry Dash because sound of custom level are hosted on newground.

      Here a List of site which I can’t access without VPN

      • VLC Website
      • Raw Github URL
      • Newground
      • t.me : Telegram Links (but I can access telegram.dog and telegram.me)
      • ApkPure
      • jomoo99@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        I’ve always thought that China’s complete disregard for IP is one of their greatest strengths tbh

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      1 年前

      The ONE thing I might have in common with the hexbear people is thinking China has the right ideas when it comes to copyright. Copyright and trademarks only serve to hinder innovation.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      15·
      1 年前

      Git really should be married with bittorrent for large files. At the moment it’s GFS which requires large central storage, which doesn’t really fit with git. Should be maglinks.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can’t combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates.

      • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        Git LFS exists, not sure how it works technically, but it’s what the AI people use for AI model VCS.

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It’s just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented.

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.todayEnglish
      231·
      1 年前

      Oh fun fact, Govt also issued an order stating that VPN providers who won’t log information of users, can’t function in India.

      • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        1 年前

        That statement just screams “I don’t understand how the internet works”

          • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 年前

            Oh, so they’re aware the stated actions would have no impact on VPN accessibility beyond potentially restricting India endpoints?

            Either that or they’re planning to play server whack-a-mole with overseas private companies whom themselves have no control over access from India

            Edit: or it’s just a non-statement to misdirect

      • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        1 年前

        Bet they love Tor then…

        Though maybe faster to have a VPS somewhere else. Maybe do a VPN from there.

        They aren’t going to block ssh.

        • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          31·
          1 年前

          Hey do you know of a good ssh client? I’d like to spoof SNI using one but I don’t know how it is done with ssh/ssl

          • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 年前

            Not sure exactly what you are after, but would stunnel4 do? You can use it to hide SSH with SSL and then use SNI so that a specific website name is SSH and others something else. You can probably do it with Apache or NGINX to if there is real websites too.

            Client wise, just normal ssh, but with a custom config for that host with:

            ProxyCommand openssl s_client -connect %h:%p

            Edit: NGINX : http://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module.html

            Edit: Apache : https://trofi.github.io/posts/295-ssh-over-https.html

            • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              1 年前

              umm, I got confused. Let tell you exactly about the use case. so on a site like this " https://sshocean.com/ssh-ssl " I create an account, and I get something like this: where do I insert this payload (what client for windows or Ubuntu)? and how do I insert the desired SNI that I want to be in front of my ISP? I know of http injector with whom the trick works on android, I mean ssh/ssl stunnel.

              • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
                2·
                1 年前

                In your .ssh/config you want something like:

                Host my-ssh-ssl Hostname us01.ssh0.net User sshocean-p1r4t2br Password myparrot2 Port 443 ProxyCommand ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh %h %p

                Then you have a ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh something like:

                #!/usr/bin/env bash { printf “GET /HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:$1\r\nUpgrade:websocket\r\n”; cat } | openssl s_client -connect $1:$2 -servername $1

                That last bit, -servername is the SNI bit, if you need it. BUT I think that payload might be for port 2083. I think 443 might be just the OpenSSL connect directly.

  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
    25·
    1 年前

    The main Github.com domain was still accessible but raw.githubusercontent.com, where code is typically stored, was blocked.

    Some days, like today, I regret commenting TorrentFreak out of my RSS feed reader.

    It’s kind of funny, but it’s also kind of scary that not having access to Github would probably significantly impact a lot of companies and services. It would definitely impact me.

    Oh well. We can always move to Sourcehut, right?

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    224·
    1 年前

    I read that Linux usage is much higher in India (I think ~13% vs 5% in the US, though the statistics are probably outdated). I am totally ignorant when it comes to India, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m wondering if the rise of Linux users has something to do with the government trying to limit access to Github.

    • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
      7·
      1 年前

      nahh we would rather use vpn. i have been using vpn for github ever since they have blocked raw github user content.

  • ⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    1 年前

    I would block even more services from Microsoft, why not. Go to other git sources.

  • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
    2754·
    1 年前

    Good news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft’s GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
      562·
      1 年前

      Based

      …but this will realistically just spawn some new mirrors and proxies because the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away.

      Anyway, I am doing my part! (With my irrelevant profile)

      • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
        203·
        1 年前

        the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away.

        That’s what they said about Sourceforge though.

        • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 年前

          Github probably won’t shoot themselves their userbase in the dick quite as spectacularly as Sourceforge did, though.

          • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
            61·
            1 年前

            Oh, come on. It wasn’t that bad! At least it granted (and still grants) the freedom of choosing which VCS shall make your day harder than necessary.

        • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 年前

          To be fair there are still oodles of projects there. I end up on source forge regular basis.

          • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
            3·
            1 年前

            One of the reasons might be that the number of SVN hosting facilities has decreased over the past two decades.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
          4·
          1 年前

          I guess. I haven’t lived through its golden age as a developer, but, seeing it now, anything would be better than Sourceforge IMO, so I would understand why people would move away even just for practical reasons

      • Aatube@kbin.social
        63·
        1 年前

        I wonder why people favor codeberg so much over things like gitlab. It has an ugly UI from ancient GitHub…

        • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
          5·
          1 年前

          Codeberg is supposedly located in the EU while not requiring self-hosting, maybe that’s why.

          • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
            6·
            1 年前

            Codeberg is a free/nonprofit hosted instance of Forgeo. Forgeo is a fork of Gitea created by Codeberg about a year ago when the governance of Gitea changed suddenly.

            You can selfhost either Forgeo or Gitea.

            There are other hosted instances of forgeo and gitea also available.

            Gitlab is a hosted instance if gitlab.

            You can also self host gitlab.

            I assume there are other hosted instances of gitlab tho i cant think of any off the top of my head.

              • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
                1·
                1 年前

                What’s the point of a local git server? If you’re after that why not just use a regular Git repo?

                • deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  1 年前

                  Easier ci/cd integration and viewing diffs from my phone on the toilet. Nothing I can’t do with regular git, it would just take more effort.

              • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
                1·
                1 年前

                Uh well idk you personally so hard to say.

                For me i like the remotely hosted ones.

                Lots of other people run gitea locally.

            • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
              11·
              1 年前

              I know, but most people are lazy these days (and self-hosting stuff in the EU has become a legal battle against every week’s new rules).

              • Aatube@kbin.social
                1·
                1 年前

                I don’t think you understand what I mean. It has its “main instance” which most people use. It’s just open source so you have the option of self hosting.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
          4·
          1 年前

          I was on GitLab for a time (and still keep the account for following stuff and maybe contributions), but felt it wasn’t as free and community focused as I would have liked to, so I decided to move away and went to Gitea (the hosted instance), shortly after I discovered Codeberg which aligns with my ideals even more, so I went to try it and it stuck.
          The UI isn’t that bad in my opinion and it’s more responsive than GitLab’s, so I appreciate it.
          Not to say that it’s the perfect platform of course, at least not yet, I miss GitLab for the easy actions/CI and deployment of pages, but I’m hoping that Forgejo actions will land soon enough and make things better.

          Note: recently I found out a userstyle that tries to modernize the UI by following a Material You-like interface called Gitea Modern, don’t know if it’s still holding up since it’s been archived

          • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 年前

            Really gitlab went down the niche client path and no longer is a non Microsoft alternative? Sadge, at least I know about codeberg now.

            • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
              2·
              1 年前

              No no, don’t get me wrong, it very much still is, it’s really great for what it is, but for my own purposes it’s a bit too much maybe, and I never thought to come back also because I was, and still am, anticipating federation on Gitea/Forgejo, I didn’t expect that GitLab would add that in as well, so now that’ll be a moot point when the relevant merge requests do land

          • Aatube@kbin.social
            1·
            1 年前

            It’s not bad per se, but it leaves a lot to be desired and I think it’s about as responsive as GitLab.