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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate, but the sheer level of degrading quality is not OK. This is just one example of how services are completely barreling towards the shitter at 100+ MPH with no brakes or airbags. I feel some guilt for using content blockers, but that guilt is being wittled away every single day because of websites like this.

    That’s only partially true. “Simple” pages like a wiki are stupidly cheap in comparison of operational costs. This is not some online image editor, some huge social media outlet or whatever. From a content perspective, the traffic to be served is an absolute joke.

    What drives costs for operations up is stupid design decisions (e.g. Cora) and bloating your own page using several ad providers, trackers and a metric fuck ton of additional services like disqus and whatever all of this idiotic shit is called.

    And what drives “cost of operations” up the most is pure greed, because for most parts there is no longer an internet community, where someone wants to contribute something cool. Maybe that’s where they started, but seeing their page hits climb obviously makes them think about monetizing them. Just add some non intrusive ads, page views still climb, and you see the money coming in - in the case of Fandom with mostly zero effort, since the content is brought by the editors, who even also generate ad views, while generating content. Add one more ad, income doubled. Add a potentially more intrusive ad bringing more money per view - maybe your income triples. It’s all just a pump and dump until it becomes the ad-riddled trash, but you don’t really need to care, since it’s still high ranking in Google results and still brings in visitors.

    Obviously this does not apply to all, but to a fucking lot if not most pages, and it’s getting even worse with gen-AI content and “features”.




  • Einige Dinge stehen noch nicht fest, wie: […]

    • technische Betreuung (deren Admins und unsere?), […] Lasst euch von den 1200€ Kosten pro Monat, die von der Foundation angegeben werden, nicht erschrecken, wir erwarten Kosten im niedrigen 3-stelligen Bereich, zumal ihre Technik die Größe eines kleinen Rechenzentrums hat. Sie lassen ihre Instanzen auf Kubernetes-Clustern laufen, die nicht proportional zum Traffic kosten, dafür aber nicht ausgelastet sind und so höhere Kosten als nötig haben. […] Was haltet ihr von alldem?

    Disclaimer: Ich habe keine Ahnung wie eure Absprachen konkret aussehen, und wer konkret mit welchem Skillset beteiligt ist. Ich arbeite selbst seit ~10 Jahren in der IT, und habe auch diverse Erfahrungen mit Kubernetes. Seht folgendes daher bitte nicht als Angriff, “Akchually” oder Klugscheißerei, sondern nur als food for thought. Wenn ihr diese Dinge bedacht habt, ist alles super.

    Die technische Betreuung solltet ihr auf jeden Fall klären, bevor ihr dort startet. Was ich so mitbekommen habe ist lemmy zu hosten nicht gerade trivial, mit der potentiellen Komplexität von Kubernetes könnt ihr euch schnell noch zusätzliche Probleme einhandeln - hier sollte auf jeden Fall jemand parat sein der zumindest den Cluster voll im Griff hat - gerade wenn man im Plural von mehreren Clustern und einem eigenen Rechenzentrum spricht.

    Auch beim Thema Kosten und eure Erwartung dazu, würde ich stark zur Vorsicht raten. Ressource Management ist eine der Komplexitäten von Kubernetes, und ist schon sehr vielen anderen zur Kostenfalle geworden. Hier wurde ich auch vor allem hellhörig das man 1.2k für nicht ausgelastete Cluster bezahlt, da hier auch die Stärke davon liegt, und ein pay-as-you-go Modell gut möglich und oft genutzt wird. Klar, das das auf einem eigenen Rechenzentrum nicht geht - klingt für mich aber dennoch ziemlich wild.

    Falls euch das bewusst ist, und ihr diese Risiken tragen könnt - coole Sache.

    Ansonsten Glückwunsch das es hier zu einer Kooperation und scheinbar einer deutlichen “Professionalisierung” kommt, und ich ziehe meinen Hut vor den Beteiligten die das alles aufgebaut haben.


  • Theoretisch sind diese pauschalen Klauseln unwirksam. Artikel von verbraucherzentrale.de

    Ich würde mit der Praxis sprechen, nochmals erklären das du den Termin ja nicht verschlafen hast, sondern aus in deinem Fall gesundheitlichen Gründen versäumt hast, dich dafür entschuldigen, und sagen das daher die Rechnung nicht bezahlst. Falls die Praxis darauf besteht, wären Krankenkasse, Verbraucherschutz oder Anwalt die nächsten Anlauf- bzw. Eskalationsstellen.

    Richtig und wichtig ist auf jeden Fall das nicht zu unterschreiben und auf jeden Fall zu widersprechen das der Termin geführt wurde oder das Leistung erbracht wurde. Falls du dazu auf welche Art auch immer genötigt wirst, kannst du das deiner Krankenkasse melden, die mögen das nämlich gar nicht das nicht erbrachte Leistungen in Rechnung gestellt werden.

    Hängt am Ende alles davon ab wie verbohrt die Praxis ist, und wie viel Ärger du dir antun möchtest.



  • "We listened to our accounting, and the massive wave of refunds and unbought mtx is hurting our numbers. PR isn’t happy about the reviews either. We’ll keep you updated on future plans for fucking you over!

    Do you really think that Sony will actually back down? They are calming down the shitstorm that is going over all media, socials and steam. They’ll reorganize and will move on with their plans. Arrowhead and Helldivers is just one of many assets.



  • And so be mad at Sony specifically? But they are okay with Steam having their data and selling it? Do they also not use a smart phone? Do they drive a car made in the last 4 years? Do they use credit cards? Loyalty cards? The outrage over their data use by Sony specifically is ridiculous when everything else is also siphoning the same information for no benefit to them.

    Damn, you only missed the chance for the if you got nothing to hide argument.

    If I buy a smartphone, and choose to use Android and Google, I get the benefit of all the stuff Google provides me, by my choice. I can cancel my account, and buy an iPhone next. That’s fine for me, because I chose to do that to use the benefits. If I use a credit card for all my purchases comfortably in one place, then it’s my choice. I can swap to another payment method or bank anytime. That’s fine for me, because I chose to do that to use the benefits.

    If I’m forced to create an account that does absolutely nothing for me, then I’d be pissed. Not to speak about people in countries without PSN. Where’s that written, and why did they happily sell the game to people they knew they’ll lock out? Where’s the announcement that a refund policy will be implemented for such cases?

    There’s a HUGE fucking difference between your Sony bootlicking arguments you post in every thread about this, and the actual impact of Sonys actions.



  • If you use a dockerized environment, that will only work better on Linux. .NET8 is AFAIK natively supported on Linux, so there shouldn’t be too much of an issue apart from the usual clunkyness. Visual Studio will probably be more of a problem. The “easiest” way would probably be to switch to jet brains or vscode. If you are hardstuck on VS for whatever reasons, you probably should be able to do some voodoo with running it in docker and using the container as a remote desktop, but this will be PITA to setup and maintain.



  • The Hamas-led murderous rampage into southern Israel was the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history, killing at least 1,200 people and abducting more than 250 others. Israeli attacks on Gaza have since killed at least 33,634 Palestinians and injured another 76,214 people, according to the Ministry of Health there.

    Jesus fuck, Germany is paying symbolic money to roughly as many genocide survivors in Israel as people have been murdered and injured by Israel committing genocide.

    The current German government is an absolute fucking joke, and they are doing everything to actually show it.




  • Again, you may quote the FSF, but there are too many users of open source, as well as developers, who got into it for the reasons I stated. I can assure you that they are not doing it so that corporations can profit off their software without giving back.

    If you are developing open source, you are not necessarily developing FOSS. If you are developing FOSS, you are also developing open source.

    FOSS is well defined by the FSF, and it has been for ages, and to be frank, therefore no one cares for anyone’s personal definition of it.

    What I am against is having the cake and eating it, as it’s being proposed with this licensing. Either you do FOSS, or you don’t. Either you do open source, or you don’t. Either you do proprietary software, or you don’t. It’s really that simple, because depending on your project, you take the terms that you see fitting and live with the consequences. The whole goal of this proposal was to be taken more serious as open source developers and projects, and to ensure funding for further development. Cherry picking the best parts of every model, and making irrational demands does not achieve that.

    As I said, I’m absolutely on board that open source licensing and open source development being taken for profit by corpos absolutely sucks, and the usual licensing models have not aged well with the much wider adoption and usage of open source, and there is a need for change - as it’s being done e.g. by elastic, redis and others with their dual licensing.