I also agree.

While I couldn’t care less (it’s their body and bodily autonomy is super important to me), I’d be a little hurt if they didn’t tell me about it.

In that case I’d be more interested in talking to my partner to try and understand why they felt that they couldn’t talk to me about it and needed to keep it a secret.

I had emergency cosmetic surgery after my accident and remember up to the anaesthesia counting down from ten to about four, and then waking up afterwards.

Oh goodness, why is this so funny? lol.

We have already begun moving, and this announcement was to warn our users about future downtime as we migrate more critical services like databases etc.

To be clear, $3k is an accurate, but unacceptable amount.

As in that’s what it’s actually costing us, but it’s not what it should be costing. I’d imagine more like $250 is what we should be paying if I wasn’t using AWS in the silly way I am.

I’m admitting up front that I’ve been more focused on developing rather than optimising operating costs because I could afford to be a little frivolous with the cost in exchange for not having to worry about doing server stuff.

Even when the Reddit thing happened I was wilfully ignoring it, trying to solve the scaling issues instead of focusing on the increased costs.

And so I didn’t notice when Lemmy was pushing a terabyte of data out of the ELB a day. And that’s what got me.

About half that $3k is just data transfer costs.

Anyhow the notice was just to let our users know what is going on and that there’ll be some maintenance windows in their future so it doesn’t surprise anyone.

We have a plan and it will all work out.

Don’t panic or have any kneejerk reactions, it’s just an FYI.

Just want to say, I don’t blame anyone else but myself.

I certainly don’t blame anyone at 196.

I hope I’m really clear about that. It’s one of the reasons I specifically didn’t name 196 in my announcement.

We’ve got a solution planned, we’ve already started to implement it and have the image transfer issue solved already.

We can afford to cover this ridiculous AWS bill, I just need to do some maintenance work so this doesn’t continue because I can’t continue to line Jeff Bezos’ pockets like this indefinitely.

You are actually a little bit correct.

Most uses of the misnomer “transphobia” are actually incorrect, because the people involved aren’t actually suffering from an irrational medical or psychological fear of transgender people.

What they actually are doing is more accurately called “transmisia”, because they are transmisic. This means they are heavily prejudiced against transgender women and believe that they shouldn’t be involved in the competitions.

Their reason for this are not because the transgender women don’t meet the beauty standards, or aren’t passing the judging categories, but because they just don’t want them there purely due to their trans-mysogynistic preconceptions.