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I’m not, obviously. Just wondering that having all your data at theirs means no proper backups and someone else having access to it. Like, why would you want that then?

No guys, I meant the backups strategy for a company this scale. Those are millions of HDDs. Each server’s HDD has to be duplicated, isn’t it? You won’t simply use USB disk for those. Unless you’d juggle them all day long.

For millions of users, what would be the backup strategy? Basically you need just another data centre to backup the data, right?

‘Meddling with the US elections, eh?’ An imaginable question of the (bought and promoted by Russia) US president to Ukraine.

I really like the irony of it. If Ukraine wants to affect the elections in their favour, they should target the bot farms indeed.

Yeah, and you better hope the Russians are OK too then, since they’re the ones who pirate and steal in the first place. That’s their best skill, alongside rape and torture.

Ah, yes, it’s the same thing (or a similar one), but reversed. You’re a proprietary product, which is free if you’re willing to host it yourself.

Not sure I’ve got the idea properly, but if so, I agree. I think offering help with self-hosting may generate decent income for a developer. Plus, give them insight into their users.

E.g. I have this idea to develop a set of neat Immich servers for friends (for free, but they buy needed hardware, say, Mac mini or something similar). As an extension of this idea, sell pre-made Immich-ready servers for general public, with the initial setup and extra support being paid. Including the donation to the original project off the money, if their licence allows selling the support. I expect it is, but haven’t investigated that further. Treat this as an example of the idea.

Obviously, this model would work for your own software. Perhaps, that’s not the fuck-you-money you can get with this, but still that may be more than open source projects get via the shallow donations that they usually get.

I have some ideas for some for-me software, which can live on any computer. So I think of deploying a fleet of SBC (Raspberry / Orange Pi or alike) servers to gift to friends, with bunch of neat services there, like Pi-Hole, etc. Plus some of made by me software, if I think the particular friend may have a use for it. The extension of this idea might be the broader audience. Won’t likely to be millions of users, but still. And who knows, one day … perhaps.

Yep, a story of some Russian killing someone with his car is written as if he’s a maintainer of some incredibly popular and needed thing, and killing someone’s just a little inconvenience.

I don’t care if you’re even Linus fucking Torvalds (with all the respect) and you drive to kill someone, not realising that driving at 3 am may be dangerous. I highly doubt he was driving slowly otherwise he won’t kill someone on the spot.

What’s the value of your work then, if the result of it is that dramatic? Don’t overwork then, to have to drive at 3 am being that exhausted.

And what is core-js? Is it even remotely important?

Not an expert and never thought on this, before reading your comment.

But this at least signifies once again that the American president is but a Russian bitch, who works for Russia not for the US. I wonder what American citizens think about that. Them being basically ruled by Russia, a failed state, which is rather a terrorist state run by mafia. A wonderful place of 250 years of democracy. Well, partially ruled, at least. I have no idea what part of the congress is bought by Russia and serves their interests. I hope it’s a minority, otherwise that’s just quite a miserable state to find yourself in.