GitHub now lets developers upload videos to their repositories

The code hosting company started testingthis feature last December, and now it’s available to everyone. You can upload .mp4 and .mov files to issues, pull requests, and discussion comments. Apart from easily showing what bugs the code is causing, videos can be great to demonstrate why you’re placing a pull request, or what functionality you aim to add to the project with your latest contribution. [Read more:This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips]...

2 min · 257 words · Katrina Bernard

GitHub shutters site ‘auctioning’ Muslim women for online abuse

Earlier this week, GitHub took down a hateful site that targeted Muslim women and put them on sale. The website, named Sulli Deals, is a derogatory term used for Muslim women. Somebody made an app of ‘Sulli Deals’ which has twitter handle of so many Muslim girls. You are one tap away from finding the girl as your deal.That app has our pictures and our names.The motto of the app says, ‘community driven, open source project’pic....

2 min · 371 words · Laura Wright

GitHub’s new AI tool doesn’t violate copyrights, says expert

Last week, GitHub launcheda new AI-powered tool called Copilotthat’s meant to help developers out by suggesting snippets of code automatically. The tool was developed in conjunction with OpenAI by training the system on publically available source code of different projects. On paper, this feels like any other AI project’s training method. But several people took to Twitter criticizing GitHub’s move and calling it a copyright violation. “I’m leaving GitHub because copilot uses my OpenSource code for training” is such an odd move....

3 min · 467 words · Jacob Jenkins

GitOps has been ‘controversial’ — but the truth is your organization needs it

GitOps has been ‘controversial’ — but the truth is your organization needs it GitOps allows your team to work faster with greater precision — what’s not to love? Speed, collaboration, and consistency Part of what makes GitOps so controversial is that it upends decades of accepted practice about how infrastructure should be managed. It takes tasks that would historically have been performed manually by someone with a job title like “systems architect” or “sysadmin,” and atomizes them into a single shell script within a Git repo....

5 min · 935 words · Michael Williams

Give a voice to animated cartoons on Anmish

Ox Animation, an animation studio, based in Jordan and Syria, founded in 2010 by Wasseym, Amer, and Nasser Abdulghani, has just launched a new interactive site,Anmish. Anmish gives you a chance to unleash the actor and director in you, adding voice-overs to the creative caricatures they provide, while switching between the available still images. The caricatures include Hilary Clinton, Hosni Mubarak, Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Muammar Gaddafi, as well as an Anmish original called Garo....

2 min · 426 words · Madeline Baker
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