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- The repository now appears to be disabled.
- Things like this are the reason why companies like GitHub then put everything under a paid tier.by orliesaurus
- The multiple levels of abuse here are astounding. That grown adults can think projects like this are acceptable, let alone promote them, is hard to believe. I am 90% sure this is yet another vibecoded project. Has vibecoding really corrupted people?
First, I am fairly certain this violates Github's ToS. Second, it effectively amounts to a denial of service. Third, are people seriously using the .charity TLD to host something this frivolos? Have people got no sense of propriety anymore?
by ctrlmeta - this is exactly what a bad actor would do to temp the greedy. If they are providing free ssh access, why not just use an ssh client instead of curl|sh? That's crazy! And free compute is even crazier. I guess they could make money based off training or selling whatever you put on there.by fhn
- Looks like the Github repo has already been nuked, I'm guessing for violating ToS on Github actions?by kitchi
- So that's why we will see GitHub Actions continuing to go down so frequently every day of the week. From their "terms of service" [0]
> Ghostbox is software for launching short-lived development machines using third-party infrastructure such as GitHub Actions, tunnels, shells, agents, and related developer tools.
So this will go down, just like GitHub Actions since it abuses the subsidised free tier of GitHub Actions to run a service like this and it is likely against the GitHub TOS.
by rvz - This idea is great in concept, and I think it's important to state that, but the GitHub Actions stuff is against TOS iirc + they will need to address that pretty quickly.
- Weird to have a .charity TLD but promote abusing Github Actions as free compute.