[james412]

This is actively encouraging people to abuse a free service that many people depend on. It's incredibly irresponsible to see it posted here.

Stealing a worker for up to 6 hours likely running on real Apple hardware because that's how OS X is licensed, man, there are no words. Free CI is difficult enough to supply as it is without freeloaders tying up a limited pool of workers because they're too lazy to run something locally

[t0astbread]

It should be noted that we're talking about Microsoft's resources here, not some independent CI company or startup. While I don't wanna encourage anyone violating any ToS I think the moral situation is a bit different for a tech giant.

[derision]

It's not about Microsoft's resources, it's about holding up those resources from others

[xwdv]

The resources are effectively limitless, it’s not a big deal.

[ss3000]

It's a tragedy of the commons situation. Microsoft might be _able_ to provided effectively limitless funding to power these free workers, but if enough people choose to abuse this, Microsoft might no longer be _willing_ to provide that funding, so everybody would be deprived of a useful resource because of the bad actors.

[minot]

Yeah, Microsoft does some very strange things. Particularly, I'd like to draw attention to how skydrive/one drive used to have 25? GB and not only did Microsoft lower it to 7? But it said it would delete files over the limit. I have gone over the limit on Dropbox and it just stops you from uploading until you bring your storage within quota. Google Drive does the same iirc. Microsoft is just outright terrible.

[joshspankit]

I would even argue that rampant abuse might actually be threatening to GitHub the company.

MS may still be the type of company to change it’s mind about upholding the principles that GitHub runs on.

[ohyeshedid]

You mean MacStadium resources, since that's the 3rd party company that provides the actual backend service.

[divbzero]

I don’t mind the post because it’s a cool hack and could be useful for debugging workflows, but I do agree we should refrain from abusing it as a free shell.

[toyg]

> This is actively encouraging people to abuse a free service that many people depend on.

The internet was built by phreakers and pirates. This statement shows how far we've since fallen.

[james412]

There's nothing of the spirit of the early hacker days in this repo, it's following GH's documentation and cutpasting some tunnelling instructions. I think it says more about the common misunderstanding of what hacking originally meant that this comparison was attempted at all

(FWIW, spoken as someone who spent many months wardialling by hand and poking around as the rest of the household slept during his school days)

[jph00]

I didn't cut and paste any tunneling instructions, or indeed any instructions at all.

[rrss]

which phreakers and pirates built the internet?

[IshKebab]

I'm pretty sure it was built by the military and universities.