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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:35:34 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   i was wondering why people keep migrating from netlify to grebedoc and then i looked at netlify's fee structure

   what the actual fuck are they doing??

   (the paid tier, for $9/month, only gives you ~3x as many credits, escalating the wtf level tenfold)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:35:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     this is some "we've been acquired by private equity" level of nickel-and-diming. gandi.net level shit. who came up with this

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:47:59 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     you know, i keep building infrastructure like i have some sort of a curse on me. and i keep hoping that someone, somewhere, would do this already so i don't have to

     but instead what i see are services that i _thought_ i could maybe use as a backup if another service fucked me over, themselves getting into the "fucking me over" category

     and the infrastructure i build becomes a necessity rather than a frivolity

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:07:28 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     ZIRP was a disease that ate our infrastructure and now we're dealing with the symptoms

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:11:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Cassandra has had an adventure

     @xgranade *dead eyed stare*

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     Cassandra has had an adventure (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:11:54 JST Cassandra has had an adventure

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     @whitequark Yep. Separately, one of my half-troll half-serious rants is that NAT was a precursor to fascism.

     (The slightly more serious version: NAT means concentration of power, and when the power in question is "mediate human communications," bad things happen.)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:38:25 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Snaketember King Naga Calyo

     @dragonarchitect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

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     Snaketember King Naga Calyo (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:38:26 JST Snaketember King Naga Calyo

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     @whitequark Might you be willing to expand the acronym/initialism? I don't recognize offhand what ZIRP is supposed to mean. 😅

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:39:37 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Snaketember King Naga Calyo

     @dragonarchitect it's a macroeconomic policy that made raising capital extremely easy and was essentially a "free money glitch" for anybody who could convince investors they have anything that could bring even minimal returns later. a lot of stuff was built assuming free money forever

     the policy ended and now investors are demanding those returns

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:42:57 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Snaketember King Naga Calyo

     @dragonarchitect genuinely glad that me being extremely online helps someone, haha

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     Snaketember King Naga Calyo (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:42:58 JST Snaketember King Naga Calyo

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     @whitequark Ouuuhhhh okay, that connected the dots faster than I was drawing the lines in my head.

     Fwiw can I take a moment to express a lot of gratitude for your swift and detailed replies? They're wonderful to help someone like me understand the context. 🙏💞

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 07:09:22 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     the more i think about it, the more i feel like there are clear parallels between ZIRP's role in tech and the natural resource curse

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:06:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

     @dermoth it used to be less of a bullshit bingo jackpot

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     Thomas Guyot-Sionnest (dermoth@noc.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:06:35 JST Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

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     @whitequark Me checking what netlify is... Ugh! NOPE!

     That Google search summary is packed with red flags...