You’re right, and same for me, but what if you’d never considered any of this before and are new to the idea of privacy? I expect it would then give you pause for thought.
Sure, it’s a gimmick site. But it serves a useful purpose for those who don’t know about the topic. Which is probably the majority of users.
Despite my own experience: TIL the tilt angle of my phone is available to websites.
A battery-powered electric knife (itself not a bad evolution of an existing technology) that provides the manufacturers with the options of remote bricking, subscription and forced obsolescence. The future suuuuucks.
I’m not familiar with what’s been said or done regarding bots, but I’d be surprised if they were planning to shutdown the self-hosting part? But I can see how they might shutdown the free cloud auth aspect.
As RD consists of the server/client software and the authentication software, the latter is also made available online to all with no reliability promises. But there’s nothing stopping people from hosting both parts locally, and is how I implemented it. No traffic to third parties, etc.
Can’t advise on domain-based setup, as I’ve not tried it, but depending on how you’re planning to use it, there may be no need for a domain. I only used mine locally (or via WireGuard when outside), with hbbr and hbbs hosted in Docker on my NAS, and it worked fine with my mobile devices and PCs.
Surprised it took them this long.
Next will app only on mobile or, as with Xitter, only allow logged out users to see the OP but none of the comments. Or both!
Won’t it be fun waiting to see how and when they do it? 😒
FWIW, I switched to self-hosted GitLab in Docker when Microslop borged GitHub and found it to be resource hungry and slow. Seems like it’s just a wrapper around their unoptimised, monolithic, warts-and-all enterprise product with a few flags changed.
And it’s entirely dependent on the ongoing goodwill (and competence) of GitLab, ie. subject to “we’ve altered the deal; pray we don’t alter it any further”.
Migrated it to a Gitea container soon after, which is light and fast. If I was making the same decision today, I’d switch to Forgejo, but that’s more of an ideological position than technical or UX one versus Gitea.
It’s almost like people see “don’t comply in advance” and think that it means “except for me!” or it will somehow benefit them if they do it anyway.
The latter, presumably, being the reason people love licking boots, boosting wealth hoarders, voting against their interests, etc. They’ll get some crumbs from the table if they do it hard enough, surely.
If Allbirds (referenced in the article) is an example of a PE-led company being made to pivot from a product manufacturer to data goldrush bandwagoneering, this has to be the home-baked budget version.
It’s so… 1980s electronic tat for kids by comparison. As if the Amazon Alexa inventor and Fisher Price had a baby while they were both unemployed. So bizarre.
The words are from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but aren’t the images stills from The Neverending Story?
Is this one of those ‘“Use the Force, Luke” -Gandalf, with an image of Harry Potter’ type memes?
Or am I going mad? 😄
Found this to be an interesting read, and well written. Thanks for sharing it.
Oh no, yet another slop marketeer (CxO, whatever) is unhappy that we’re treating their cash cow with derision. How awful for you.
Pipe down and go back to your clankwanking.