alt Hacker NewsThe project's primary site should not be GitHub, and I am serious. Playstation 5 is not some historical curiosity and Sony might strike the page down any hour now.
Those projects should default to hosts less geared toward corporate governancy; custom internet domain being the first requirement.
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I'm sure Sony has an opinion of the jailbreaks that enable this, but they really don't give a shit about anyone running llama.cpp. Why would they? They're just glad you're not pirating games.
That's exactly why you put it on GitHub, which is the most visible place so people will mirror, check it out locally etc.
There's no feasible way to avoid takedowns/DMCA in 2026 unless you do TOR shenanigans. Even with a custom domain, Sony could just DMCA the web host for the project.
I'm still waiting for people to figure out that Git needs no "hub" at all.
Maybe so, but the Github page isn't hosting or instructing anyone to jailbreak their PS5, which in any case would be a civil matter. They're just telling you what you can do with the hardware. I'm gonna guess you could just run it on a BC-250, although this wouldn't be as aesthetically pleasing to look at as the PS5.
> Those projects should default to hosts less geared toward corporate governancy; custom internet domain being the first requirement.
I struggle to think of anywhere on the entire open internet you could put something like this where it could not be taken down.
It is just a git repository. Sure, you may lost some issues if it is stuck down and no one made a backup, but the important part, the code is now spread all over the internet. Should they want to migrate, all they need is to ask those who used GitHub as the origin to do a "git remote origin set-url".
That's one of the best things with git (among with other DVCSs), it is incredibly resilient. I remember during an interview of Linus Torvalds about backups, he says he doesn't backup his work in the traditional sense, he has no real reason to when everything he does is copied millions of time.
The real point of GitHub for such a project is because GitHub is really popular, and it has a social network aspect to it. So yes, you are going to lose it if you get kicked out of GitHub, but by choosing a lesser known platform you won't get it in the first place. Also, their website is not on GitHub, so kicking them out of GitHub won't make them disappear completely.