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scoopertrooper on Dec 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

Notes in the readme? How long are you expecting one of the biggest websites in the world to be down?

cloudhead on Dec 5, 2020 | [–]

A couple of hours[0]? One entire day[1]?

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/6/29/21306674/git...

[1]: https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

FpUser on Dec 5, 2020 | [–]

For some people like forever. Developers can be banned because their country/area happen to fall under US sanctions.

berkes on Dec 5, 2020 | [–]

Or because a German law firm (ab)uses a US copyright directive that Github, a US company has to follow?

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