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Gitlab doesn't offer free CI, is worse integrated into other tools with emphasis on AI agents.
They also don't contribute to societal improvements, like github does.
huh would you look at that
Gitlab CI/CD is free!
Gitlab CI/CD is also self-hostable!
My gitlab CI/CD has been running with zero AI for close to 6 years now!
Github contributes to monopolization, while Gitlab supports a more FOSS mindset!
Do you have unlimited CI?
Github's CI is also self hostable, but self hosting platform specific CI is not a good idea.
yes, guy
But you have to self host the runners. It's like saying LLMs are free, because you can self host them.
You get 400 free compute minutes per month on Gitlab hosted runners.
Nope. gitlab has publicly hosted runners available for free, try again
https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/
They're free, but not unlimited, like on github. This is my biggest issue with those.