Mastodawn

If your stated goal is to make computing into a “utility” (aka subscription) you can only obtain from Big Tech and if your entire industry is comprised of rentiers, it makes perfect sense to also make actually owning a general computing device as expensive as possible.

As far as Big Tech is concerned, this is a feature, not a bug.

It’s capitalists acquiring capital and pricing it out of the reach of those they want to make dependent on them.

Also: fuck these people. https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336 https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336

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Aral Balkan 2d ago

(It’s because of this shit that when we launch the Small Web this year, I’m not going to be able to price the servers as low as I would have wanted to (and could have done, say, last year). It’s not because of inflation but because of this shit raising the price of virtual private servers. Because fuck the small guy trying to make something that’s owned and controlled by people instead of owning and controlling people.)

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Niels Abildgaard 2d ago

@aral I might be able to hook you up with some cheap VPSes hosted in Denmark if interested... we are working with a publicly owned data center that is trying to break into the private sector and care about digital/data soverignty. Let me know if relevant...

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Aral Balkan 2d ago

@nielsa Thanks, Niels :) Always happy to look at alternatives. (It would need to have an API, though, and almost instant provisioning.)

Please feel free to DM details or ask for my Signal or email [email protected] – thanks again :)

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Niels Abildgaard 2d ago

@aral Yeahh we don't fit those criteria (yet), but could maybe build something that fits if you can share the requirements

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Aral Balkan 1d ago

@nielsa Once I have it working with Hetzner, maybe I can demo it for you and show you the code (it’s free software, of course). Would probably be easier :)

@aral deal

@nielsa 💕