“Free”, but with a paywall back door .

It still is, depending on the context.

You obviously did. “OK means White Power” was a practical joke established at 4chan (well, where else could it be?). Unsurprisingly, many people can’t tell the difference between troll jokes and reality these days.

But please continue spreading the joke.

edit: Editing your comment after someone has replied. Classic. I’ll end this discussion here.

The ok sign is " just" a common hand sign

You fell for a joke here, pal.

You mean, by not setting them?

Yes

Good to know!

I did not know the internals of said stack. The ML thread is amusing though:

I’m even tired that whenever people add new repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic GitHub clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that happens in these repositories.

I genuinely wonder why the Gentoo dev team even uses Microsoft GitHub for managing its infrastructure. Well, I wonder what will happen after the shutdown.

Darcs would not solve the problem in question, Portage does not support it either.

Technically true, but has that ever been a problem you actually had? I strongly believe that most people won’t ever need most features offered by many contemporary VCSs.

SVN certainly has its charm. However, I don’t need branches for a few ebuilds, and I generally tend to use the most efficient tool for a task, not necessarily the most popular one.

I didn’t feel like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut (or using a VCS optimised for millions of users rather than four files).

In my defence: the documentation states I’m allowed to use CVS. :-(

The con beats all pros.

I wonder if it will run on the Hurd.

Also, Honk.

It’s quite possible these days, actually. But never change a running system!

I see. Is self-hosting an option for you?

Why did you choose that provider?

In my tests over the years, it has always been annoyingly slow with random GUI issues, GnuPG crashed a lot, and mail server communication left room for improvement. It might have a sufficient number of features, that’s granted, but honestly, after my experiences with it, I’d usually recommend Sylpheed instead (if free software is mandatory).