Notices by The Doctor (drwho@hackers.town), page 3

@brouhaha Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

@bytex64 That's a really cool idea.

@pndc @davidgerard Single handedly bringing back static linking of executables did improve things somewhat.

@cinja @mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard https://archlinuxarm.org/

@cinja @mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

@cinja @mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html

@cinja @mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard And, of course it runs NetBSD.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/aarch64/

@feonixrift @davidgerard That might work to their benefit.

Of the entire RasPi userbase, how many folks actually got upset, kicked up a fuss, and gave up on them? Not many. We're a pretty small fraction.

Of the entire userbase, how many folks probably irritated them to no end by abusing and repurposing their products, causing lots of support issues and possibly IP hassles internally? Again, not many.

By losing us pains-in-the-ass their business situation improved by suddenly getting simpler because that leaves everybody who doesn't give a fuck for whatever reason. They're much easier to get along with, and thus make money from (because they're a business).

The same thing applies with the Go ecosystem. Plus, so much infrastructure is written in Go that you can't just lift and shift away from it. Not having to put up with us who think their telemetry thing is bullshit simplifies things. We're a small group that's easy to ignore.

@mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard There are quite a few builds of Linux for ARM. They're not rare at all, nor are they CIY distros.

@cinja @mav @maddiefuzz @feonixrift @davidgerard I'm running it in production on some of my stuff for a few years and it's as stable and usable as any other Debian.

@jollyrogue @alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard Thompson retired?

That explains much, right there.

@tillianisafox I highly recommend it. Can answer any questions you may have.

Wow. I wound up on Knowyourmeme. I never thought anybody actually saw anything I posted.

@fencoul Dear UK: You don't need human sacrifice to keep going.

@georgetakei I think DeDantis knows what he's doing and timed it perfectly. I wouldn't put it past him for a moment.

@glyph @cgranade It just pushes the sellable data to a different company. It's almost like market warfare.

@silverwizard Thank you! I think that's what Jerry was talking about.

I heard that infosec.exchange is compiling a wiki document of best scaling practices for Mastodon. I had parts of me look for it but not really find anything. Does anybody have a link to it?

@thatonecalculator @siina Gee. Who would have expected that.

Open question, folks:

Digital Ocean is getting too expensive to host my servers there. I'm pricing out options for #vps providers to move my stuff to.

I'm considering moving everything to OVH, after speccing out servers and computing monthly prices. However, before I start planning out the migration I wanted to ask if anybody out there used their services. What do you think of them? Do they suck? If so, how much?

If you use their hosted database service, is it a hosted database server (where you can stand up however many databases (groups of tables) you want, and how many users thereof) or is a hosted /database/ (i.e., a group of tables) only?

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