alyxw

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   by alyxw 4y ago

   Hey! I'm one of the remaining Fosshost volunteers, and I'm trying to keep the "EOL" site updated with orgs who've offered some sort of solution, like this, for impacted projects. Would you mind if we mentioned the G
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   by alyxw 4y ago

   Pray for the goodwill of DCs and donations, mostly. Ampere had provided a very generous amount of hardware. Actually putting that hardware into places was a lot of finding DCs willing to support the project.
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   by alyxw 4y ago

   Fosshost served a niche that Github did not cover. The general audience was people who needed raw compute — e.g. for testing service deployment, or for conducting builds without needing to change how their builds worked. They also did thing
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   by alyxw 4y ago

   [former fosshost member] We did not (as far as I'm aware) have a treasurer, but did have a volunteer as the CFO. After appointing them, the CEO never fully gave them access to finances and after many requests, eventually just started t
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   by alyxw 5y ago

   no
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   by alyxw 5y ago

   You.. you've heard about the whole Libera thing, right? The thing where literally all of existing staff went "We're being legally forced to do the thing. freenode is bad now. we have an alternative available"?
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   by alyxw 5y ago

   Slight change, at least in that case the __people__ would have wanted him. It's more like if Joe Biden somehow appeared with a trillion dollars, bought the Presidency from the former President (Can the President even do that? Probably