saul-paterson

FWIW, our self-hosted Gitea instance has not had a single second of unplanned downtime in five years we've been running it. And there wasn't much _planned_ downtime because it's really easy to upgrade (pull a new image and recreate the container — takes out the instance for maybe 15 seconds late at night), and full backups are handled live thanks to zfs.

Migration to a new host takes another 15 seconds thanks to both zfs and containers.

I don't know how many GitHub downtime reports I've seen during that time, we're probably into high dozens by now.

I prefer smaller channels (because they feel more "human" if you know what I mean), and their authors spend a lot of time engaging with the audience. Discussion is actually useful, you can learn something from YouTube comments. Yes, that YouTube.

Just step outside the highly commercialized part and you'll be surprised.

It's not wasted, it pays for the two out of three major web browsers we currently have, along with Go and many other things.

You should go and report that to whoever maintains your block list. The information on where to report ads is at the top of the file, and you can find the file itself in ublock origin's settings. Better yet, create a rule and submit it along with the issue, although people who maintain lists for long periods of time tend to be much better at it and might not find your attempt useful. I do it anyway to show some respect, they deserve it.

Steal from the users of the software, yes. It's not about developers, it was never really about developers if we're talking copyleft licenses.