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Joker: Folie à Deux - someone said it's a musical, but it's more like a giant smoking ad. I've rarely seen a movie where people - or just a single person - smoked more.

Well I guess at least those of us who have warned about the risks of entrusting your entire digital existence to big American companies can feel less like raving street preachers these days. Not so crazy now to advocate for retaining more control via small, local or federated solutions eh

The fact that employers publicly announce that they're laying off their "lowest performers" is shockingly cruel. Not only are you depriving someone of their livelihood, you're publicly branding them as a poor performer to harm their ability to get a new job.

That's not something you do simply to cut costs, that's targeted intentional cruelty to terrorize your existing employees into overwork and quell dissidents.

In 2005, devs might have worried about things in our careers like "Am I specialising too much?", "Do I really want to move into management?" or "Is this technology going to be in demand in the future?"

In 2025, "Am I working for fascists?" is a real thing.

For everyone who thought link shorteners were a good idea.

The lesson here is that if you don't own it, it will undergo enshittification. Even if it looks cool today.

Posting your blog articles on Substack? Telling people to use Bluesky or Threads? Enshittification is only a matter of time. I'm not sure why most people never learn the lesson.

Here’s what the assholes attacking Codeberg to try and make it unsuable don’t understand:

It doesn’t matter.

I can’t push to Codeberg right now? So fucking what?

You think I’m going to go running back to Github because you’ve temporarily inconvenienced me?

You think I give a couple of hundred euros to Codeberg every year to demand perfect service?

I support them by hosting my code there and by donating to them because I believe in what they do and because I want to see them succeed and to support alternatives to the likes of toxic trillion-dollar corporations like Microsoft.

So go ahead, take them off the web for as long as you can. When you’re bored, or out of money, or whatever, I’ll still be there, on Codeberg, happily supporting a local and ethical alternative to your US/Silicon Valley/Big Tech bullshit.