markjgsmith

Github support are still ghosting me. It’s been over two weeks since my account started being blocked. How dare me for trying to buy a few extra build minutes.

I’m not able to run any Actions workflows, which means I can’t publish content to any of my websites. I've openned up two support cases now. The original one, where eventually it seemed they had fixed the issue, and had given me 1000 free Actions minutes as an appology for the troubles, and a second support case oppened when the account got completely blocked again when I literally did exactly what they told me to do. They have stopped replying on both support case threads. Actually the second one they haven’t even replied at all yet. I have been very polite throughout in my correspondences, and I have given them lots of time, haven’t swamped them.

As I explained today to them, it’s starting to feel very much like they are trying to extort money from me. But it’s actually weirder than that, because they won’t let me pay them. It’s very very bizare. #

Micha Kaufman [37:40]: “I was asked in another conversation how is it to be a CEO right now, and I said you know it's like you asking the captain of a ship in the middle of a storm, how is it to be a captain? And the answer is it's wet, it's dark, and you can't see a mile ahead”. #

Micha Kaufman [44:48]: “I never use the term speed. I always use the term velocity. Speed is just the speed of movement, velocity is speed plus direction. Speed is not enough. You need energy in a certain direction. If you are unable to push the code that you generate, it means you didn't solve your infrastructure, to be able to do this, so it means that your priority is incorrect because you didn’t solve the bottlenecks that are keeping you from moving fast.” #

I’m more and more convinced that the entirety of the tech industry is a scam. It’s unbelievable how often it happens that you spend ages building something only for one of the pieces you rely on screwing you in some way, and so you eventually rebuild replacing that piece with something you built yourself, only for the next piece you rely on doing the exact same thing again to you. This has happened to me so often over the past 2 decades that I have lost count.

It’s truely ridiculous now. I'm literally at the point where I have refactored all my stuff so much that everything is powered by git, the most well used most well tested software development tool ever to have existed, it's all files, the simplest most well understood primitive in all of computing. And wouldn’t you know it, Github the most bulletproof company in the space, owned by one of the wealthiest tech companies of all time, now has decided to block me.

You couldn’t make this shit up. The tech industry is never happy with anything. If I refactored myself into a perfect beam of consciously directional light, it would still be unhappy. I’m only partly kidding. #

Leo Laporte [56:11]: “You know a month or two ago, there was a whistle-blower at the veterans administration who said that when DOGE got access to the databases at the veterans administration, they turned off all logging, first thing they did, and then exfilarated 10gigabytes of data to some place we don't know and then within minutes, Russian accounts were logging in using DOGE credentials, into the veterans administration. The whistle-blower was a sysadmin, it got a lot of attention, NPR covered it. He was interviewed by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. He was threatened. There was a note taped to his door with a picture of him walking his dog from a drone shot, saying you might want to shut up about this. And then, btw, was it CSA? One of the federal agencies said yeah we're not going to investigate this. And I haven't heard a word about it since”. #