Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota here and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Fucking Hetzner:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112161019007879382
i am deeply disappointed and annoyed
also billing cycle is 1 April lolollllllll
also where does one find a webhost thatās any better? hetzner are great otherwise (a proper company, not a personal project), I used to strongly recommend them.
also they hate crypto
AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
Azure: youāre running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as ācustomer serviceā or āfunctions that donāt get deprecated in three yearsā
Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
OVH: wot is dis āuptimeā ov which u speek
Oracle: lol
Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle
I guess thereās still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.
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Iāve been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and Iāve had no complaints. Not sure how well theyād scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.
this is one part of the problem, yeah - pretty much all the VPS offerings are extremely painful cost-wise if you need chonky hosts
rootservers (or things off the serverbidding market) are way better bang for buck (i.e. my all-the-things gremlin box is dual-4TB 64GB i7-something, at ~38eur/mo)
I really, really hope they sort this shit out
Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (itās not just CloudFlareont!)
Off the cuff I think (and would have to doublecheck) Akamai is probably bigger by a fair deal, theyāre just not nearly as loud
OVH is Some Guy LLC At Scale
and Google Cloud is Some Guy LLC At Scale At Scale
Azure is great and doesnāt require you to use Windows. I will not stand for such slander.
Also I love how literally no one can remember that IBM also has a cloud.
what kind of enterprise hell is your daily life, for you to enjoy such curses as azure? :D
I hosted a single Linux VM on the free studentās subscription and didnāt hate it.
AWS was a nightmare on the other hand. At least a VM on Azure is called an Azure VM and not Elastic Rubber Evolution 2: Blue Artemis Service.
fuck sakes this is aggravatingly disappointing to see from them
Iād been a bit sour already because of the power and IP pricing pushes, but I know the former is bc putin. the latter fucking sucks, itās aggressive and feels like trying to get additional revenue for nothing (although I havenāt compared RIPE pricing to see if this feeling bears out (and even then, fucking hello? fucking RIPE going on continual price ballooning is some other fucking shit too. but I digressā¦))
but what the fuck at this. Iāve had hetzner boxes with other peopleās shitty php getting content injected and growing coinminers and shit, and none of that has ever had a response like āyou need to get rid of that domain/customerā. itās had the usual temp-IP-blackhole crap (which I get)
note that this instance is also on hetzner (cause I was also fairly happy with them til now, other than a bit of missing functionality), so suggestions of reasonably-priced alternatives that donāt suck and will let us run NixOS are appreciated
though I might need a bit of convincing if those alternatives take the form of āOVH doesnāt suck nowā or āgo ahead and put your human flesh near Larry Ellisonā
i really really hope Hetzner can get their shit together here because this is a fucking pain to even think about. I got shit to do ya know.
every BOFH thinks they could do their own AWS with gaffer tape and paperclips. i actually thought āoh i could justā and then had to whack myself on the head with a newspaper and say NO
i have not the time any more for Some Guy LLC and especially not for being Some Guy LLC, there is good reason to go with the inhuman corporate behemoth and itās because iām tiiiiired
you will always need your bofh skills in good order and a bugout bag of last nightās fresh backups to hand, but given that one can camp out on Inhuman Corporate Behemoth for years
thereās comp sci experiments and then thereās services, but services are work and if i wanted to work iād get a job
@dgerard @froztbyte I always tell people that the reason so many systems nerds (I donāt use BOFH any more as thatāsā¦ not really an attitude I like identifying with, it hasnāt aged well) use Macs. Itās because once you get back from work, frankly, the LAST thing you want to do is system administration on your home machine and OS X is just *nix enough.
Update: Hetzner gives a non-apology that does not address the actual systemic issue
https://woem.men/notes/9rdj6cc1ku7g05xy
holy fuck hetzner what in the fuck are you doing. please stop having the lowest tier of the abuse team try to trick the woem.men admin into accepting the shit non-apology legal drafted as a way to try and head off a lawsuit. nobody cares that your PR department got inconvenienced by the strong public response to this (in fact, itās a good thing)
go and very publicly commit to making policy changes thatāll protect LGBTQ+ folks or fuck off. shit in a way thatāll be legally expensive and embarrassing if you donāt follow through or get off the fucking pot. having your low-level IT staff pretend youāre Some Guy LLC is a bad fucking look. we all know the guy whose only job is to send threatening emails and press the āclose accountā button doesnāt have any power to do anything of substance. why in fuck is that guy still in the woem.men adminās inbox making demands?