The Fourth Rule: No AWS

Self-hosting enthusiasts watching cloud providers rain down their "enshittification" on the masses. Meanwhile, Arduino—the beloved open-source hardware platform that powered countless DIY projects—just updated their ToS to prohibit reverse engineering. You know, the exact thing their entire ecosystem was built on. Nothing says "we're getting acquired by a massive corporation" quite like suddenly caring about IP protection after years of encouraging hackers to tinker with your stuff. Qualcomm's lawyers must've had a field day drafting that one. The self-hosted crowd is sitting pretty smug right now, and honestly? Can't blame them. When your Arduino board starts requiring a subscription service, at least you'll know where to find them—in their basement server room, running everything on a Raspberry Pi.

Content Glenn F. Henriksen henriksen When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. 6:45 AM 2022-10-15 from Stavanger, Norway Twitter for Android 11.6K Retweets 480 Quote Tweets 68.6K Likes

Causing mass cardiac events in the developer community with a single email. Pure evil. The beauty is in the timing - 11PM Friday when everyone's either drunk or asleep, ensuring maximum panic when they finally see it Saturday morning with a hangover. The $30,000 figure is just specific enough to be believable. Somewhere, an AWS engineer just felt a disturbance in the force.

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Ah yes, the tech stack of reality. The entire digital world balances precariously on the backs of DNS and some sleep-deprived open source devs who maintain critical libraries for pizza and GitHub stars. Meanwhile, AWS charges you if you breathe near their servers, AI is just getting started with world domination, and Microsoft is off in the corner doing... whatever Microsoft does. Probably restarting for updates.

So that's what's holding up the internet - a precarious tower of technology balanced on Linus Torvalds' shoulders with a random shark at the DNS level. Turns out those underwater cables aren't the most concerning part of our infrastructure. The real MVP is that shark guarding the DNS servers while C developers write dynamic arrays, Rust devs do their thing, and some web dev quietly sabotages himself in the corner. Meanwhile, unpaid open source developers and "whatever Microsoft is doing" somehow keep this Jenga tower from collapsing. Sleep well tonight knowing your entire digital existence depends on this absurd tech stack and one very dedicated fish.