It's true that sometimes a link to github proves to be workable and rewarding. But in my experience the more usual result is frustration, just as Garth & BDD reported. Dunno why the odds are so poor. I guess it must in some way be the result of habits and assumptions of the git folk (most of them, at least).

-- Jeff

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I am with you on all of the above, except Github. Although it does have a 'star' feature, it is hardly a social platform - less of one than 6502.org, anyway. The only way to communicate is by reporting an issue.

Git is a pretty powerful tool (although my knowledge of it is limited to making commits and maybe using a couple of branches). Being able to push to a remote, managed storage like Github is a great backup mechanism. Over the years I lost more hard drives than I want to admit, and have boxes of them in the basement.

Since the Microsoft acquisition I've been looking for a way out, and gitlab is probably it. Just don't have the energy to deal with the move. But I don't enjoy being the product traded by billionaires.

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All true.

What kind of tape backup do you use? I thought I was done with tape, but the quality of both spinning and solid state drives is plummeting...

The said proponents' argument almost makes sense: if Amazon cloud is down, chances are that we have bigger problems to deal with than getting our 6502 code. Most of them have not lived through a real economic crisis, however. Or even a decade of stocks not doubling every couple of years.

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Thanks for the drive info. Backing up to tape seems like a wise thing to do, considering I've witnessed a situation where a client lost a RAID array and a backup drive. I kind of miss the old floppies.

I mentioned Amazon because a ridiculously large chunk of the Internet is now at Amazon, not likely to go belly up anytime soon. As a paranoid old coot I don't trust any third party, and completely agree with your points. And anyone storing sensitive unencrypted data in the cloud is a fool.

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