Government official is getting extorted by [a path to the actual plot], but they own a vineyard and have the power to levy taxes. They tax beer to drive demand for wine.
Purely selfish self-preservation.
Now imagine it's not a magic box. Imagine it is a computer program, written with intent, that was intentionally fed copyrighted material so it could make those things people asked for.
Giant companies operating outside the law at "the cost of doing business" built plagiarism machines off the life's work of thousands of people so that horny weirdos could jerk it to Pikachu with tits.
"Let's have the chatroom be the knowledgebase!" Fucking brilliant, no notes.
Counterpoint: If you think you said something stupid, you're entitled to delete it. Don't feel obligated to hang your ass out there and take a beating for a cold take.
We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando.
Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time.
The cool thing about distributed version control is that it's distributed. It sounds like GitHub will just be a public remote, rather than the place where active development happens.
I mean, turning on Penis sounds pretty low-effort to me.
Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you're relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.
Billing alarms go bing bing bing.
They understand that git is a Distributed Version Control System, right?
Nothing ever changes.