Notices by Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)

The bike shop I work at just told me that they are going ahead with their policy of installing cameras in the shop to monitor employees. They say these are not used to track productivity, but the CEO is a union busting ex-Amazon exec and he has given himself that power, so that's enough for me. My last day will be mid-May and I am now properly desperate to find a new job before I lose my house. Leads in the bicycle or software industry welcome in or around #Atlanta or #Remote.

#getfedihired

@xmpp tried calling to say hi but didn't get anyone; I hope you're all doing well over there. Say hi to everyone for me, I miss hanging out with you all!

On an unrelated note, if anyone wants to start an illegal open source project with a friend of mine who's definitely not me to patch Bosch's stupid executable to not require login and then distribute it illegally on the internet LMK and I'll put you in touch with someone who just wants to be able to update e-bikes.

You know, I always recommend Bosch e-bike systems to people, but I think I'm going to stop. Their newest system is so laden with DRM that I can't actually update anything even though I'm one of the certified technicians who's supposed to be able to do so even according to their evil DRM scheme. It's been literally months since I got certified and I still can't get access on my stupid DRM account. Seriously, just don't buy Bosch motors.

@aral we can easily loose by not considering it though. I'm with you that we need to keep things small, and limiting growth to prevent a bad user experience is probably a good idea, but no one being able to sign up for a better way is a valid concern too.

@aral this is something I've had trouble convincing a lot of small co-ops and self-hosted sort of things to do. Conventional wisdom is that all the things can be signed up for all of the time and that artificially limiting growth to something sustainable is bad. And I get it, it's annoying if you go to sign up and it says you can't, you're likely to just stick with GitHub instead because it's convenient in that case where you might have tried something else on a whim before, but still…

With Codeberg having severe growing pains, maybe it's time to ask again: anyone want to start a U.S. based code forge co-op? Keeping systems like this small is the way to scale, not just making Codeberg the new GitHub.