Depends. But this is why businesses love Microsoft and AWS. Support in perpetuity.

NixOS is like that every day for no reason

Microsoft Azure already leaks secrets and nobody cares. As long as it has all required certifications it’ll be fine.

If you use something often you learn to handle the bugs and “it just works”. If you use a product rarely then it’s not gonna work as well

That’s illegal, unfortunately. Only qccredited investors can invest into private companies. There should be a lower limit on that rule, say $100 or something, so naive investors could invest play sums in potentially shady stuff. But there isn’t, so you can’t.

I think it theoretically can’t be done. The protocol allows anyone to query for posts, and it has to work that way unless you want to move ActivityPub federation to an invite-only system. On most servers I think browsing while being logged out is sufficient, just like on pre-Musk Twitter.

Mastodon also doesn’t let you prevent people from reading your posts.

Mounting solar panels on roofs - like all roof work - is dangerous.

Unfortunately not. For me the main problem is discoverability. There’s no recommendation algorithm except for boosts. I’m not suggesting Mastodon integrate some kind of machine learning or other advanced stuff, but number of likes from followed accounts and a threshold would be nice for a start. As it is, Mastodon is just bad for entertainment purposes. Maybe it works for other purposes, but for entertainment I’d rather have the algorithm-fuelled quote-tweet dunking on Twitter.

MySQL sucks, and almost everyone who willingly use it also sucks.

Funding issues, according to the article

No, the way it’s often used is closer to “posh guest worker”.

It’s more that the bureaucracy is so complex and fragmented that it’s incredibly hard to digitalize. Lots of small fiefdoms that are entitled to make IT purchasing decisions themselves means paper is the only universal interchange format. In addition there is an unwillingness to change how things have always been done, or to simplify procedures. So there you have it: The German bureaucracy is too fat to move.

Not sure how well this has worked in practice. Lots of bad cancellation proceedures last time I had to do it

Hope they didn’t instead pick the security shitshow over at Azure.