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By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal.

not normal at all! don't serve the website. that is normal. but ban anyone logging in seemingly from there, on sight? that's literally "shoot first, ask later" in tech! totally abnormal, if this is the reason

you can set up a repo mirror with forgejo

that's already a concern. what if someone just cloned your repo? there's also plenty of people that mirror public repos to their personal forgejo server. forgejo makes it very easy.

the only solution to mitigate such a mistake is to
1) invalidate the token
2) remove the commit

In that order.

git identification has nothing to do with authentication, as any sane person with git experience knows

naturally on the instance that hosts the repo

oh nice! I see this is a relatively new feature. thanks!

what happened in 1903 that made you say enough?

yes but they make it hard to access, and it has legal issues too so you maybe shouldn't use it in a business setting

then they can better protect your account, force regular password changes, force password complexity requirements..

if that was the goal, they wouldn't be saying on the password input screen to "choose the most simple password", and especially they wouldn't accept that field to be left blank

if you are not logged in, they can't setup onedrive to automatically steal all pictures and documents of the unsuspecting user, and they can't setup bitlocker with a cloud key that they could use to lock you out of all your data when they think so.

windows update has zero reasons to not work without an MS account, and actually it does work that way.

I guess this does not apply to Enterprise editions, but only to filthy peasants like us

Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

can't it, though?

macrium reflect's normal operation is to run when the ststem is running normally. it creates a volume shadowcopy of your filesystem, and backs that up. a BTRFS/ZFS snapshot is basically what a volume shadowcopy is on windows, but with a less fancy name. if you make a snapshot, you can back that up, either with zfs send, btrfs send, rsync, borg backup, whatever. the difference is that on linux it's not possible to notify programs that a snapshot will happen please sanitize your databases, while windows does that too, so if you restore on linux that's like if your computer crashed because power went off

sure, it can't be done with other filesystems, but OP said they have BTRFS. I think the boot partition can be safely imaged too: remount as read only and make a normal image.

limit?? WTF??? they were already basically immeasurable!!