Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you're relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.

Billing alarms go bing bing bing.

I'll be leaving Proton fucking immediately.

Rent comes before server. An outage is a wonderful motivator, turn that shit off.

Direct link to the PDF.

I mean, turning on Penis sounds pretty low-effort to me.

Listen. I escaped learning COBOL by being born in the 1980s. However, since I'm so fucking old now, I understand that you DO NOT FIRE THE WIZARD. The Wizard, the one who knows the incantations because they were there when the spells were written? Irreplaceable. Don't fuck with them. Pay them whatever they demand and do not ask questions.

If you want to depreciate the Wizard, you cannot use their spells. You must create your own, and you better do it in a language that people under 40 can comprehend. And they have to be as bulletproof as the Wizard's spells. Good luck getting an LLM to do that. Good luck getting a human to do that.

That's how you get a 10% active US Military discount.

We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando.

Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time.

The cool thing about distributed version control is that it's distributed. It sounds like GitHub will just be a public remote, rather than the place where active development happens.

They understand that git is a Distributed Version Control System, right?

Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.

1. Projects typically aren't "hosted" on code repositories like GitHub.
2. Because the underlying version control technology, git, is meant to be distributed - it's super weird to draw that line in the sand. It's like saying "show me TXT files written with SublimeText, I hate Notepad++!"
3. I get that you might want to, like, judge a developer for using github? But, like... features are features. Build minutes are build minutes. If you fork a repo and use GitLab to manage it, does that make the project better?

"Let's have the chatroom be the knowledgebase!" Fucking brilliant, no notes.

BlueSky Mastodon = Twitter
Loops = TikTok
PixelFed = Instagram
Sup = What's App
Lemmy = Reddit

Oh don't worry you'll get to experience one firsthand in [ checks watch ] about 20 minutes.

... A ... blog? Are you asking if it's possible to selfhost a blog?

Shout out to my fellow "None Backup Strategies" chaos goblins.

If we remove just 1 county from each state, Trump would have won.

Yeah, the more people you disenfranchise, the easier it is for fascists to gain power. That being said, this is sort of like saying, "The USA would be Republican if it weren't for New York and California!"

Nah, we're plumbers in an age where everyone has decided to DIY their septic system.

Please, by all means, keep it up.

Basically any 2-letter TLD should be avoided unless you live in that country.

If you want to be clever, use subdomains and pick one of the new TLDs. For instance, ban.anal.ink, is like $5.

The ... grocery store?