Fun fact: libgit2, a library made by Github, uses TLS 1.1 on Windows versions earlier than 10. Which means that attempting to access Github via libgit2 on Windows 7 is now broken. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5066 …
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Replying to @sgrif
Windows 7 was released 10 years ago and Microsoft’s support for it ended 3 years ago, so it seems weird to expect Github to support its use...
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Replying to @hdevalence
Windows 7 is not EOL until 2020. Depending on where you get your stats, it accounts for somewhere between 45% and 25% of desktop marketshare today. It's the most widely used desktop OS. This also affects Windows 8 and 8.1 AFAIK
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Replying to @sgrif
The fact that 40% of desktops are running an unsupported OS doesn’t mean it’s Github’s problem that those desktops are unable to make TLS connections, though...
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Stop saying it's an unsupported OS. That is a false statement. Even if it were true, breaking 40% of users is not ok.
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