Kissaki
Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale
Wth is that headline?
GitLab is a software developer?
GitLab, which has a market value of about $8 billion, is working with investment bankers on a sale process that has attracted interest from peers, including cloud monitoring firm Datadog, opens new tab, the sources said.
I’m surprised. They’ve always had visions, and paid plans, and pushed a specific vision of their product.
I don’t see how it solves the mentioned issues. Instead, federation introduces new issues of complexity, multi-layered moderation, and potential for distributed inefficiency, confusion, or more malicious attacks.
I think we can see on Lemmy some of the problems it introduces. But for an Encyclopedia, which is supposed to be a source of truth, I think it’s much worse.
If you depend on instance admins as curators, it’s not that different from Wikipedia roles, which at least has open governance and elections.
They say other projects didn’t reach critical mass. I don’t think spreading your contributors thin - even while connecting them to some dynamic degree - is how you reach critical mass.
Has features ✅
Is it because c++ devs need half their day for recovering from the trauma of reading and writing c++? /s
The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.
Yes, it’s satire.
The page is run by one author https://www.theolognion.com/about and no description or goal described
Runs on “substack” platform (standard software)
The story reads like a story, and the mentioned company does not exist
no no no, this is the wrong way around
because sales and marketing sell it before it even exists
CrowdStrike ToS, section 8.6 Disclaimer
[…] THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. […]
It’s about safety, but truly ironic how it mentions aircraft-related twice, and communication systems (very broad).
It certainly doesn’t impose confidence in the overall stability. But it’s also general ToS-speak, and may only be noteworthy now, after the fact.
DuckDuckGo
Turned into a skeleton in 10 minutes
