Someone post this to the Best of Lemmy community. This is gold.

The maintenance part crushed me. Most of my other self hosted home setup, I fiddle with at most 2-3 times a year. Next cloud, I logging in at least once a month because something wasn’t working.

The 404 Media article is behind a paywall.

Here’s the nonpaywall version: https://archive.ph/29gJU

Hard to answer your question because it’s a mixed bag.

As tech gets cheaper, it gets easier and easier to do malicious things.

On the small scale: I used to host my tech blog on a rinky dink raspberry pi.

I was getting hundreds of funny bot visits a hour, as they try to pen test and find any vulnerabilities. And that was after I set up some tools to block weird IPs. Two years ago, I was getting thousands, and the numbers kept growing. It didn’t hit a point where user experience was taking a hit, but at some point it will.

I could get a beefier system (more expensive), or I can just sign up for cloudflare. And now the management of that layer is handled by Cloudflare, so I can focus on coding.

Now to talk About the enterprise level: same thing but hundreds of times more. We were actually getting DDos. We originally didn’t want to use Cloudflare, and instead use in-house solutions. But after a hefty trial and seeing our AWS expenses skyrocket, we swapped to Cloudflare.

Signed up, swapped over to Cloudflare, and instant uptake. We are also paying a fraction compared to our in-house solution.

It sounds like a freaking ad for cloudflare.

But one thing I don’t like is Cloudflare can easily monopolize the internet. As we all switch, Cloudflare now has a lot of power to tell sites to fuck off if they don’t like their content. Cloudflare hasn’t yet. They keep up White Power websites and racist shit. But they have taken down calls of violence and online gambling.

If you have your day ruined by Cloudflare, I’m going to either assume you run a bot network, you’re trying to do something incorrectly, or you are part of the dark web.

GPU, render my 4.2 MB json file!

What makes it suspicious? It’s a communication protocol.

Open-source?

More like open fire!

I used to make jokes to juniors/interns like the above. Then I watched a junior start typing my joke in terminal, and I freaked out and stopped.

Sometimes I forget these jokes go over the heads of people.

I read it four times and I still don’t understand what love-in means.

Doesn’t mean it’s ever the right thing to say.

Especially among professionals

It’s pretty funny that Gordon Ramsey is actually a sweet guy and plays up the angry cook guy on TV.

Photographic evidence

No one is arguing that Linus isnt a total jerk.

Just like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and even Ol Musky…

We can be better. We can both be a community that is extremely direct with our core values and code it well, but we can also treat people right.

It’s a reality in many places. And it’s thanks to the many many many assholes that I listed above that brought this change.

Movement… increases speed… that sounds right!

Boomer shooter is a moniker to try to be cute with language. Because these shooters go “Boom”.

Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.