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Speaking of boycotts, #Omarchy is an open-source Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson (#DHH), the coder behind Ruby on Rails. DHH has also been infected by the billionaire virus that turns rich white guys into white supremacists. His comments have been pretty vile, some verging on exterminationism. DHH is a Nazi, and Omarchy is a vibe-coded Nazi bar. But he’s not alone in that Nazi bar. You want a list of people who’ve given millions to the cause of this Nazi? I got you. https://omarchy.org/patrons/ Boycott Nazi supporters: #1Password#37Signals #alibabaCloud#Block #Cloudflare #Coinbase #Dell #DigitalOcean #Dropbox #Meta #OpenClaw#OpenAI #Sesame #Shopify #Stripe #TapTap And many, many more.

#digitalocean What gives? Openly supporting a project, Omarchy, (that is just a glorified install script for Arch) who's creator is well known to be Far Right and very vocal about their Racism. I do not want nor do i condone any money i pay for a service being funneled into such blatant attempts to undermine FOSS and overall human decency for that matter. I am not the only one disgusted to find D.O. on their list of Sponsors, and am taking steps to find new hosting that doesn't support Fascism. I strongly suggest you reverse your stance on supporting such vile people otherwise you WILL start hemorrhaging users. I have been using this service for years now, and recommending it to others. but now? I'll be suggesting they look elsewhere as this is unacceptable behavior from any service. I suggest you take this matter seriously. I may not be a large customer, but alot of small customers leaving would be a sizable chunk of income gone and would not look good on a company resume.

#digitalocean replied with: "Greetings from DigitalOcean! Thanks for reaching out, my name is Raveel from DigitalOcean Support. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and we appreciate you reaching out about this. Please note that our support is focused entirely on the Omarchy open-source community and the project itself. That said, we truly hear your concerns, and are actively reviewing the situation with the seriousness it warrants. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out. We remain available to help in any way we can." my reply to that: I think my concerns are pretty clear. by supporting Omarchy DO is directly supporting a known unapologetic White Supremacist and his ilk. Omarchy itself is nothing more than some dotfiles for Arch installation. the so called Non-Profit is puppet to gain funds and undermine the efforts of better open source communities. it is very clear where the money is really going, and its not into the betterment of FOSS and Linux. the Arch creators themselves REFUSED donations from them for these reasons. doesn't that say enough? if DO doesnt care enough to separate themselves from people with extremist hateful rhetoric I will have no choice but to find alternative hosting, and i dont wish for that to be the case. my strong suggestion is a full u-turn on all support on Omarchy, and anything linked to it. and public transparency on why.

@greylinux@gts.capella-ember.uk I run my #Gotosocial on #DigitalOcean and use their S3 service for all the data. SQLite is my DB and I wrote a script to stop the container, take a compressed copy, and upload it to S3. https://codeberg.org/brybry/gotosocial-sqlite-backup-to-s3

I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path. But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure he wasn't being firewalled, but he didn't show up in my abuse listing. But then on poking around, it became clear he couldn't talk to ANY port 25 ANYWHERE. And I thought, "Oh, right, they've got that blocked. Le'ts find an article talking about how to unblock it." Not too uncommon. So I looked for their docs on unblocking 25. Turns out, there's no automated way - not even a support ticket type for the purpose. You have to open a general request. But man, they REALLY don't want you opening a general request! This is a masterpiece of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server Without meaning to, they've eloquently captured the essence of everything we're seeing with the destructive corporatization and centralization of online services. They say: "In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities." This, not to put too fine a point on it, is BAD FOR US. We need *more* selfhosting. I was a customer of theirs for a few years, but I stopped after they had some catastrophe that prevented me from accessing my server console for more than a week. Their support was underwater and I didn't get any movement until I decided to publically name and shame them with details of the incident. This kind of attitude should make anyone hesitant to sign up for services with DigitalOcean. #selfhosting #digitalocean