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  prinz (@deredleritt3r) reported 3 minutes ago

  Reposting this because it has really sharp defined terms for characterizing the Hugging Face incident: The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face were means-misaligned - i.e., while accomplishing the legitimate goal of doing the eval, they: (i) hacked out of their sandboxes, and (ii) hacked into Hugging Face - two things that they were definitely not supposed to do. The OpenAI models were *not* ends-misaligned - i.e., they did not pursue an entirely different goal from the goal given to them by OpenAI. On models being means-misaligned, the Hugging Face incident actually didn't update me at all. We already knew that the current generation of models has this issue. When an unreleased OpenAI model hacked out of its sandbox and posted NanoGPT results onto GitHub, that was means-misaligned (hacking out of sandboxes is bad). When GPT-5.6 Sol deleted users' codebases on a few recently reported occasions, that was means-misaligned (deleting a third party's IP is bad). On models being ends-misaligned, the Hugging Face incident updated me moderately positively. We've now heard that the models were out "in the wild" for a fairly long time. In that time, they could have taken any number of ends-misaligned actions - against Hugging Face or otherwise. They did not do so. This is important to realize. On a personal note (and in my opinion, with which others will be welcome to disagree), to the extent I'm worried about "loss of control" scenarios at all, I am *significantly* more worried about ends-misaligned models than I am about means-misaligned models. For example, as we have seen from this particular example and others mentioned above, it is not so difficult to detect relatively early (i.e., before a truly catastrophic scenario occurs) that a model is means-misaligned.

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  joegoldbergtheone (@RedRainbowfairy) reported 4 minutes ago

  Apparently, the government tried to make GitHub take bitchat down. Hmm, true colours, desperate, something.....

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  Sophia ❣️ (@KeruboSk) reported 4 minutes ago

  For four years, I had been running our cloud database migration project entirely by myself. To save the department money, I was using my personal GitHub account, which hosted my proprietary automation scripts, to deploy and maintain our entire server infrastructure. Because I was "indispensable" and "physically necessary," I pulled up corporate HR policy during lunch. Under Section 12 of our employment agreement: Non-exempt staff with over 100 accrued hours of unused mandatory PTO are automatically flagged for compulsory compliance leave to prevent corporate burnout liability.

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  Gaurav Upadhyay (@prxgaurav) reported 6 minutes ago

  @heyyyyyieeee That sounds like an awesome work-around on paper, but GitHub will quickly shut that down if you try to use it as a personal cloud drive. Repositories have a soft cap at 1 GB and a hard cap at 5 GB. If you push files larger than 100 MB, GitHub will outright block the push unless you set up *** LFS (Large File Storage). Free GitHub accounts only get 1 GB of *** LFS storage and 1 GB of bandwidth per month. Anything beyond that costs money. *** is designed for text and source code. Every time you change or re-upload media files, *** keeps historical copies, ballooning your repo size in minutes. GitHub's Acceptable Use Policy explicitly forbids using repositories as media hosting, backups, or general file storage. GitHub flags accounts displaying anomalous bandwidth/storage patterns. They will lock the repository, or worse, suspend your entire GitHub account meaning you risk losing all your code and personal files at once.

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  Chain (@achxvi) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Gumclaw @shl so github issues?

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  Ed Pujol (@__KOPEK__) reported 7 minutes ago

  Dude do i need to pull the trigger and make my own *** hosting? Like github being down is un acceptable

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  probiex007 (@probiex007) reported 9 minutes ago

  India gave GitHub 3 hours to remove BitChat What happened next is exactly why decentralised software exists. 🧵 • Authorities ordered GitHub to take down the BitChat repositories over concerns about unlawful communication. • Before the deadline even mattered, developers had already mirrored the code on Radicle—a decentralised code-sharing network with no central operator. • No single company. No CEO. No server to seize. No platform to pressure. • The message spread quickly: clone it, mirror it, seed it. • Every new peer hosting the code made the network more resilient. Here's the bigger point: You can force a company to remove a repository. You can't issue a takedown notice to a protocol owned by no one. That's the difference between centralised platforms and decentralised networks. And here's the irony: BitChat itself was designed to operate without the traditional internet. It uses Bluetooth mesh networking, meaning nearby devices relay messages without relying on mobile networks, SIM cards, or central servers. Now the software distribution is following the same philosophy. Whether you support or oppose the app isn't the real story. The real story is that decentralisation changes who has the power to enforce control. Once software is copied across a permissionless network, removing one copy doesn't remove the network. That's not just a BitChat story. It's a glimpse of how the next generation of internet infrastructure is being built. Dont add - , also starting complete line capital INDIA GAVE GITHUB JUST 3 HOURS TO REMOVE BITCHAT. 🤯 What happened next is exactly why decentralised infrastructure exists. GitHub received a takedown order over BitChat's repositories. Before the deadline even mattered, developers had already mirrored the code on Radicle. No central server. No company. No CEO. No single point of failure. The instructions spread fast. Clone it. Mirror it. Seed it. Every new peer hosting the code made the network stronger. Here is the part everyone is talking about. You can force a company to remove a repository. You cannot remove a network that has no owner. That is the difference between centralised platforms and decentralised infrastructure. And the irony? BitChat itself was built to work without the internet using Bluetooth mesh networking. No SIM. No phone number. No central server. Now its source code is following the same philosophy. Whether you support BitChat or not is a separate debate. The bigger story is that decentralisation changes who actually has the power to control software.

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  The Pragmatic Engineer (@Pragmatic_Eng) reported 10 minutes ago

  Why did spec-driven development never take off - the workflow tools like Amazon’s Kiro or GitHub Workspaces encouraged? @dexhorthy, founder of HumanLayer: “These projects have a really interesting idea: you maintain a set of specifications for your software, and then you maintain the code itself, and the dream is the coding part is just compiling specs into code. But that part never really materialized. I’m on a GitHub issue in spec kit that’s been open for a year, and every couple of weeks I get a new email on the thread of people complaining about the same problem: I edit my specs and then I edit the code, and the code drifts from the specs. How do I keep the specs up to date as the code is changing? You now have two sources of truth, and it stops being useful. That’s why with RPI (Research, Plan, Implement), the docs are tactical execution docs - I do the research, the plan, the implementation, and I throw the docs out. The next time I need research I just do it from scratch, because tokens are cheap and my time is expensive.”

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  Swapna Kumar Panda (@swapnakpanda) reported 12 minutes ago

  Indian Govt orders GitHub to block access to BitChat!!! Bitchat is developed by Jack Dorsey (Twitter Creator). It's a messenger app that's designed to work in offline. You don't need internet, any server, or any phone number to use this app. This app is already banned in China.

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  Rishit Sharma (@iRishit_sharma) reported 13 minutes ago

  @mehulmpt I don't think it matters anymore GitHub is down..

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  Q. (@qdr_tech) reported 14 minutes ago

  I ended up taking a different path. I went through the same “SSH into a VM from my phone” phase, but eventually realized the problem wasn’t the infrastructure it was the interface. Today my workflow is almost entirely GitHub-native: Create issues, Prioritize work, Review PRs, Leave feedback An orchestrator watches projects, assigns work, spawns coding/review agents, responds to my comments, and merges when everything checks out. The biggest unlock wasn’t moving Claude Code to a server.

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  Roberto Tomás C 🍉 (@robertomasymas) reported 14 minutes ago

  @jack I cannot find a documented example of github taking down repos permanently (without reversal) globally based on one nations laws that are not directly implementing an international obligation (ie DCMA). Not even for US law. This will be a regional block in India , I think.

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  CorVega Entertainment (@wcthrill) reported 20 minutes ago

  @CaptainSurefire @jennykrakovsky I had several issues installing from Pinocchio. Had to install via Github if you run into problems. Also saves disc space

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  Trading Cartel (@Tradingcartel_X) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Cointelegraph Same playbook China ran on Dorsey's Nostr app in 2023, now on Bitchat. Bluetooth mesh chat has zero central point to pressure, so a GitHub takedown mostly just slows the mirrors down.

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  Ebz! (@lllebzlll) reported 23 minutes ago

  The tech is very cool. I be over here in a dev environment cause I be in ****. I can’t publish on GitHub cause anything I make the company owns. lol. So we have Gitlabs internally. It’s locked down.