shnizmuffin

Selfh.st is a great directory and newsletter.

You can also interpret it as, “Read their fucking manuals.”

Tell me you don’t read the manual without saying you don’t read the manual.

I can recall a few! Mastodon. Lemmy. PiHole. Penpot. Mealie. Uptime Kuma.

They all mention required steps to upgrade between releases, including what to do to your docker installations and environment variables.

RTFM

Just like putting the second condom on your balls.

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Now imagine it’s not a magic box. Imagine it is a computer program, written with intent, that was intentionally fed copyrighted material so it could make those things people asked for.

Giant companies operating outside the law at “the cost of doing business” built plagiarism machines off the life’s work of thousands of people so that horny weirdos could jerk it to Pikachu with tits.

I run my own instance that has [a few] users

Same.

I subscribe to low drama instances like startrek.website

Maybe not the best example! There was a ton of beef following the Reddit APIcalypse. There was a mod schism. I’m pretty sure if you’re too critical of a certain series, you’ll get banned by a certain user with an extremely delicate ego.

Fast and cheap it is.

If you want it done Fast and Good, it will not be done Cheap.

If you want it done Fast and Cheap, it will not be done Good.

If you want it done Good and Cheap, it will not be done Fast.

There you go! Have at it, champ!

This isn’t nearly enough to change my opinion of DHH, an out-and-proud piece of shit.