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  1. 🎭 Ah, the bygone era of #SourceForge and #Bitbucket, where Armin was the king of his own nerdy #fiefdom 👑. But alas, #GitHub swooped in like the cool kid at school, and everyone had to abandon their Trac-tastic past for the land of Octocats 🐙. Who knew #nostalgia could be so... riveting? 😂
    lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/bef #Transition #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🎭 Ah, the bygone era of #SourceForge and #Bitbucket, where Armin was the king of his own nerdy #fiefdom 👑. But alas, #GitHub swooped in like the cool kid at school, and everyone had to abandon their Trac-tastic past for the land of Octocats 🐙. Who knew #nostalgia could be so... riveting? 😂
    lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/bef #Transition #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🎭 Ah, the bygone era of #SourceForge and #Bitbucket, where Armin was the king of his own nerdy #fiefdom 👑. But alas, #GitHub swooped in like the cool kid at school, and everyone had to abandon their Trac-tastic past for the land of Octocats 🐙. Who knew #nostalgia could be so... riveting? 😂
    lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/bef #Transition #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🎭 Ah, the bygone era of #SourceForge and #Bitbucket, where Armin was the king of his own nerdy #fiefdom 👑. But alas, #GitHub swooped in like the cool kid at school, and everyone had to abandon their Trac-tastic past for the land of Octocats 🐙. Who knew #nostalgia could be so... riveting? 😂
    lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/bef #Transition #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎭 Ah, the bygone era of #SourceForge and #Bitbucket, where Armin was the king of his own nerdy #fiefdom 👑. But alas, #GitHub swooped in like the cool kid at school, and everyone had to abandon their Trac-tastic past for the land of Octocats 🐙. Who knew #nostalgia could be so... riveting? 😂
    lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/bef #Transition #HackerNews #ngated

  6. アッ、 #SourceForge で長らく更新されてなかった時代にもアイダ シンラニキの名前がある #Canna

    Canna web.archive.org/web/2023081014?

  7. アッ、 #SourceForge で長らく更新されてなかった時代にもアイダ シンラニキの名前がある #Canna

    Canna web.archive.org/web/2023081014?

  8. Not too long ago, we discovered there was a fake "mirror" of #Tenacity to #SourceForge. As of today, it looks like SourceForge took it down, along with the account impersonating @gperson.

    For now, we have no plans regarding SourceForge, except for the possibility of creating a legitimate redirect to prevent this from ever happening again. We are still debating that, however.

  9. Not too long ago, we discovered there was a fake "mirror" of #Tenacity to #SourceForge. As of today, it looks like SourceForge took it down, along with the account impersonating @gperson.

    For now, we have no plans regarding SourceForge, except for the possibility of creating a legitimate redirect to prevent this from ever happening again. We are still debating that, however.

  10. Not too long ago, we discovered there was a fake "mirror" of #Tenacity to #SourceForge. As of today, it looks like SourceForge took it down, along with the account impersonating @gperson.

    For now, we have no plans regarding SourceForge, except for the possibility of creating a legitimate redirect to prevent this from ever happening again. We are still debating that, however.

  11. Not too long ago, we discovered there was a fake "mirror" of #Tenacity to #SourceForge. As of today, it looks like SourceForge took it down, along with the account impersonating @gperson.

    For now, we have no plans regarding SourceForge, except for the possibility of creating a legitimate redirect to prevent this from ever happening again. We are still debating that, however.

  12. Not too long ago, we discovered there was a fake "mirror" of #Tenacity to #SourceForge. As of today, it looks like SourceForge took it down, along with the account impersonating @gperson.

    For now, we have no plans regarding SourceForge, except for the possibility of creating a legitimate redirect to prevent this from ever happening again. We are still debating that, however.

  13. IMPORTANT: There appears to be an unofficial mirror on #SourceForge that attempts to be legitimate. THIS IS FAKE.

    What's more concerning is the fact that there appears to be an impersonator of @gperson. This is NOT them as they are NOT on SourceForge. The fake project also distributes both the 64-bit version and a fake macOS Universal 2 binary also well. The latter is almost certainly fake; we do not plan on distributing a universal binary (more on that later).

  14. Hach ja, Micro$chrott…

    «Microsoft sperrt Konto von VeraCrypt-Entwickler — Windows-Version hängt in der Luft:
    @veracrypt Nutzer schauen gerade etwas in die Röhre. Mounir Idrassi, der Hauptentwickler hinter der #Software (die echt noch bei #Sourceforge rumhängt), meldet sich nach längerer Funkstille zurück und hat schlechte Nachrichten im Gepäck. #Microsoft hat sein Konto gesperrt, das er seit Jahren zum Signieren von #Windows-Treibern und dem #Bootloader genutzt hat.»

    🤔 stadt-bremerhaven.de/microsoft

  15. winetricks has an `allfonts` action. Unfortunately, it loads some of the files from #SourceForge, and SourceForge has gone user-hostile. You can't link directly to a download anymore; they serve a web page instead, so they can show ads, with a timestamp in a meta-refresh URL which your browser then downloads from. But the winetricks script doesn't know how to do that, so it downloads the web page and tries to extract the font, and fails.

    It would be more elegant to script this, but I just did it by hand. Run `winetricks allfonts` and it will install some stuff and then stop with a warning about a hash value not matching, and ask if you want to continue. Say "Y", then it will error out. The hash mismatch is because the file is the webpage, not the font file.

    In the downloaded file - the full path to it will be in the error message winetricks prints right before exiting - look for the `meta` tag with a refresh property. That will be a URL with a timestamp in it. Copy that URL, and download the file (browser, wget/curl, whatever). Then move the downloaded file on top of the web page it downloaded, which will be in the wine environment.

    Run `winetricks allfonts` again and repeat the cycle above for each failure. I think it was about 5 files I had to do it for.

    Once it finishes without an error, you're ready. Run Ufile:

    wine .wine_ufile/drive_c/"Program Files (x86)"/"UFile 2025"/ufile.exe

    Voila, it runs.

    3/x

  16. I think a self-hosted gitea (or similar) instance on a sub-domain of the project's official website is way more legit than SourceForge... or GitHub, for that matter.

    #OpenSource #SourceForge #GitHub

    RT: https://toot.cat/users/plexus/statuses/116239689140063230
  17. Jedes mal dieses Gefühl man läd sich einen fetten Pack an Viren herunter, wenn Software über #SourceForge zu laden ist.

    Danke #Gwyddion für dieses Erlebnis.

  18. A cliché, yes, but true as ever. The only good thing about #GitHub is its massive trove of open-source code. None of it, however, can bury the fact that the GitHub brass has anti-FOSS elements. #SourceForge has long been a joke, and #GitLab is far from perfect, but at least acceptable enough for me to mirror my projects on. Meanwhile, #Codeberg looks like the ultimate destination for anything #FOSS. It's so good, it deserves a link in this post.

    codeberg.org/

  19. Why do devs still use this incredibly slow #SourceForge to host their #OpenSource software downloads?

  20. @thejpster Linus forged #git to free Linux from greedy Lary.

    Git went mainstream.

    #GitHub appeared soon before #GitLab and most people started to host their projects there. It was almost like blessing. But both hosted on US soil.

    Not many noticed #Assembla before, but it dropped open source.

    #SourceForge was spamming, so not cool. There were other less popular forges, from Novell for example.

    Then #Microsoft took over GitHub...

    There are open-source European forges, but not mixture ones.

  21. So I was gonna try the latest edition of a Distro this morning, and I decided to do a different one because why are the Sourceforge servers so slow?

    It was taking longer to DL a 3 gig ISO than it takes me to download Baldur's Gate 3, and that's just baffling. It's also not hyperbole. It was literally going to take 17 minutes extra to download something less than ⅒ the size.

    #distroHopping #linux #SourceForge

  22. After zero-ing out my email inboxes a couple weeks ago, I'm finding it, almost, a bit heartening and nostalgic that I am still getting updates sourceforge.net from software packages that I had subscribed to ages ago.

    I guess they had been lost amidst the noise previously.
    Shoutout to the net-snmp package! Yo!

    #SourceForge #FOSS

  23. Habe mir #omarchy #Linux heruntergeladen. Mit 6,2 GB die bislang dickste Distro. Danach sollte noch #MXLinux als #Debian Alternative aufs Notebook wandern, doch brach der Download wegen "Datenträger voll" ab. WAS?!!!? Nicht mit meinen Daten. Das können nur temporäre Dateien von #pacman #pikaur oder sonstwas sein. Damit war mein Geduldsfaden gerissen … "ein Mann sieht rot".

    Bin dann Einkaufen gefahren. Sonnenschein und kalte Luft kühlten das Gemüt wieder runter 😎

    Nach Aufräumen der Festplatte tröpfelte MXLinux langsam rein. Abgebrochen! Habe noch andere versucht, aber mal ehrlich: ihr könnt euch eure #sourceforge Downloads sonstwo hinstecken 🤬 🤯

  24. Man hat nun also schon bei der Installation mehrere potentielle Malwarequellen: Man mag zum Beispiel die Homepage des Herstellers nicht als solche erkennen, bei ehemals seriösen Quellen wie #Sourceforge oder #Chip gebündelte Quatschsoftware einfangen oder einfach so aus Unaufmerksamkeit Module mitinstallieren, die man gar nicht will.

    3/x

  25. I just got an email notification of a new comment on a bug report I filed against a FOSS project. It was a maintainer of the project asking which CPU architecture the machine I was using was when I experienced the bug.

    I filed the report in 2016.

    😆

    And, oh yeah, this is on SourceForge. I'd forgotten that still existed! But my account still works.

    #BugReport #SourceForge #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

  26. @AnachronistJohn

    What I did today was simple I went on the clonezilla site, checked the alternative download servers then went to one of the FTP servers, listed over there.

    wget worked flawlessly, of course

    #Clonezilla #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #Disk #imaging #SourceForge #wget #mirror

  27. Regretfully, when I attempted the download of clonezilla again, the browser also got a time-out at the 420MB mark, bringing my total waste of bandwidth to a whopping 50% of my monthly allotted 2GB **

    :(

    I am fascinated to learn what is going wrong though, because I've never had these problems with sourceforge. I downloaded programs from there for decades. When I have some bandwidth again I will use another mirror, this is probably a mirror-induced error

    **(along with other off topic failures)

    #Clonezilla #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #Disk #imaging #SourceForge #wget #mirror

  28. @alter_kaker @mhoye this maintainer finds that the vast majority of contributions come from users. Having a where users and devs can talk to each other is really useful. That's one thing got right and I wish would implement it.

  29. On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;

    "SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."

    web.archive.org/web/2017040906

    (1/2)

    #CodeForges #GitHub #SourceForge #Allura

  30. On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;

    "SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."

    web.archive.org/web/2017040906

    (1/2)

    #CodeForges #GitHub #SourceForge #Allura

  31. On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;

    "SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."

    web.archive.org/web/2017040906

    (1/2)

    #CodeForges #GitHub #SourceForge #Allura

  32. On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;

    "SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."

    web.archive.org/web/2017040906

    (1/2)

    #CodeForges #GitHub #SourceForge #Allura

  33. @gordoooo_z @PhenomX6 @futurebird @ink8 Whatever Eugen decides at this point it’s irrelevant. He’s pretty much lost his grip over holding the Fediverse brand as secondary to the notion of a fantasy “mastodon network” when he gave that Time Magazine interview two months ago in which the word “Fediverse” appeared not one single time - that caused enormous, untold damages including confusion that remains in the news media and disenfranchisement of large swaths of developers and users alike on not just other platforms, but mastodon instances themselves.

    There’s really no such thing as toots anymore, Eugen himself refers to “Posts” and “Quote Posts”, and the submit button in mastodon now says “publish”. The reason #Misskey calls them “notes” is because that’s what they are actually called in #ActivityPub - there are also other types, that other platforms use as well, including “article”, although, instances like #qoto have set the character count for notes at 65535 🙂

    It’s been covered in this thread already that Quote Posts are simply beyond the control of mastodon devs, Eugen’s edicts, or local mastodon users or admins, because most other platforms support it and there isn’t anything #mastopub can do about it. In Misskey, users can disallow it, but that only affects other local users, so it’s s moot point (except for silo instances).

    There are very few Fediverse platforms that aren’t taking advantage of most things that are possible, for example, #Soapbox now has federated events, and introduced custom emoji reactions like Misskey has, and live chat - Misskey’s traditionally led the way with these federating features with #Calckey going even further.

    Some platforms however, intentionally incorporate a leaner set of features; #Smithereen is one example, it doesn’t even sccomodate boosts, which harkens back to #Myspace, #VKontakte (aka, “VK” - not sure I spelled that right), and very early #Faceplant days. #Epicyon has anti-silo capabilities baked in.

    #Mitra has #Substack style subscriptions at it’s core. Anyone can subscribe remotely from any Fediverse server instance where the user can receive DMs - and in congruence with privacy concerns that are typically expected for Fediverse implementations, it’s based on #Monero (XMR).

    Most platforms also support #Markdown, with Cakckey being perhaps supporting the greatest superset IIRC, including #LaTEX, and #Friendica, being much older than msstodon, has continued to evolve over the past decade and still has support for #BBCode too, and direct links for uploading images for those who prefer to.

    I didn’t see any mention of Markdown support when I bothered to look at the mastopub roadmap, yet even on that platform, Quote Posts are all throughout the stream and people boost and reply to them as the time - and, as mentioned earlier, anyone can create a post, simply pasting the link from someone else’s post, and then boost that… Voila! Local #Quote_Post.

    mastodon was successful in its arrogance of leveraging some pretty graphics and welcoming verbiage into a brand that Eugen weaponized against virtually all other Fediverse platforms, and now, with all of the fine forks like #Hometown and several newcomers, we’ll soon be seeing hardforking as a result of that hostility.

    But not just forks, funding and ambitious development as evidenced by existing and emerging platforms like #Cloudflare’s #Wildebeest, Tumbler, and the very unique, #Django based Takahē Fediverse server that I wrote about here:

    https://tallship.writeas.com/takahe-a-new-fediverse-paradigm

    Average people are already migrating in larger numbers everyday away from the archaic mastodonian resource hog to other, more capable and promising (and friendlier) platforms elsewhere in the Fediverse that have integrated and fully support #masto_migration, and even ones that don’t (yet) haver that feature.

    Unlike other dinosaurs and the eponymous mammal for which Eugen chose the namesake of his #TootSuite product, we shouldn’t expect extinction for his platform, but the apathy and indifference levels are rising, as is the enmity in many sectors of the community for what others perceive as a betrayal (or sellout), and that kind of self-inflicted damage is often difficult to mitigate, with waves of disenchantment reverberating get into the future… Just look at what happened to #SourceForge - it still technically exists, but never recovered after the community betrayal it committed years ago.

    And finally, there’s a irony so obvious that’s it’s not even plausible to deny… Eugen subverted the very rudimentary principal that the Fediverse network is ideologically predicated upon - #DeSoc… There’s no question that his goals shifted to that if building a silo for himself, at least to some great degree. Very sad.

    An interesting thing about condescending others, you find yourself alone and isolated in an otherwise vibrant, busy world.

    #tallship #Takahe #ActivityPub #privacy #community_values #FOSS

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