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GitHub Actions lock-in is why developers won’t switch to Gitea or Forgejo despite record outages

GitHub Actions lock-in is why developers won’t switch to Gitea or Forgejo despite record outages

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In April 2026, Mitchell Hashimoto (co-founder of HashiCorp) moved his terminal project, Ghostty, off GitHub. He’d been on the platform for roughly eighteen years. His parting verdict was that GitHub had become “no longer a place for serious work.” He isn’t alone, and he isn’t a crank. A lot of people are mad at GitHub right now, for reasons we’ll get to in a moment. But, of all the services you could be locked into, GItHub should be one of the easiest to walk away from. Your code is just files, and as it happens, files that already live on your own computer. So with all that fury, and an open door, you’d expect an exodus. There isn’t one. People are furious, but they are staying. That contradiction has a one-word explanation. When you follow that word, it explains almost everything that’s strange about GitHub today — why it keeps breaking, why people can’t leave, and how it actually makes money. Related This is why free apps don’t exist anymore Free apps used to be …

Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims

Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims

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Apple was not able to narrow the scope of a UK lawsuit accusing it of locking 40 million UK consumers into iCloud, to the detriment of third-party cloud storage providers. British consumer group Which? first filed the lawsuit in late 2024, and is asking for £3 billion for UK Apple customers. Apple wanted to exclude non-paying ‌iCloud‌ users from the lawsuit, but the tribunal denied Apple’s request in a 2 to 1 majority. The lawsuit will go to trial, and will cover both paying and non-paying ‌iCloud‌ customers. Apple users get 5GB of free storage for photos, messages, and other content on the iPhone, but are encouraged to subscribe to Apple’s higher-tier ‌iCloud‌ storage options when the 5GB limit is exceeded. Which? claims that Apple favors its own cloud storage option, and makes it difficult for customers to use alternative cloud storage providers. Which? sued Apple on behalf of all Apple ‌iCloud‌ users in the UK, regardless of whether they pay for an ‌iCloud‌ subscription plan. Normally, a customer that has not lost anything would …

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

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Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks. Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises, already burdened with orchestrating an increasing number of agents, can now choose to embed the orchestration logic in the AI model layer. While this comes with some potential advantages, such as speed (Anthropic proposes its customers can deploy agents in days instead of weeks or months), it also, of course, then also turns more control over the enterprise’s AI agent deployments and operations to the model provider — in this case, Anthropic — potentially resulting in greater “lock in” for the enterprise customer, leaving them more subject to Anthropic’s terms, conditions, and any subsequent platform changes. But maybe that is worth it for your enterprise, as Anthropic further claims that its platform “handles the complexity” by letting users define agent tasks, tools and guardrails with a built-in orchestration harness, all without the need for sandboxing code …

I finally escaped my ISP’s DNS lock-in with this device-level trick

I finally escaped my ISP’s DNS lock-in with this device-level trick

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Your ISP is your gatekeeper to the internet. Everything you do online goes through your internet service provider, be that online gaming, streaming, AI, or otherwise. That gives your ISP serious control over what you do online, let alone the fact that it can see most of what you do online. But there is a better way: a custom DNS. The problem is that some ISPs send you a router and modem and lock it down, meaning you’re completely locked to its network settings, no matter what they are. However, there is a workaround — it takes a little time, but it’s well worth doing if you want faster internet speeds and better online privacy for all of your devices. There are “levels” to DNS on your devices and router Take back control When you type a website address into your browser, your device has to translate that name into an IP address using DNS. The process starts locally. First, your system checks the hosts file, a small list of manually defined domain-to-IP mappings. If …

DakaDaka, London W1: ‘Like a 2am lock-in on a Tbilisi back street’ – restaurant review | Food

DakaDaka, London W1: ‘Like a 2am lock-in on a Tbilisi back street’ – restaurant review | Food

Published by Sam Flores

DakaDaka, a rowdy paean to Georgian cuisine, has arrived on Heddon Street in the West End of London. Heddon Street has always been synonymous with rowdiness, regardless of the fact that the mature, semi-elegant likes of Sabor, Piccolino and Heddon Street Kitchen are quite the opposite. But anyone who ever found themselves staggering out of Strawberry Moons in the 1990s having lost a shoe and with a love bite or from the basement club at Momo will know that this little nook tucked away behind Regent Street is where a good time is meant to be had. And now there’s DakaDaka, which certainly does not market itself as a nightclub, because, well, virtually nowhere does any more. What DakaDaka does do, though, is play Georgian dance music very loudly and with endless enthusiasm right through your badrijani (grilled aubergines), imeruli (cheese-filled flatbread) and kababi (lamb skewers). Helpfully, the brick walls have been painted pitch-black to give these dark, candle-lit, metal-clad premises a real sense that you’ve somehow stumbled into a 2am lock-in on a back …