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As part of my plan to move from Digital Ocean to alternative hosting, I need to start picking away at some of the services hosted on my droplets.

I may as well start with the oldest first: I've got a droplet with an uptime of 1300 days. I named it Fridge. It's acting as a static site host for a couple of sites, including this blog. Mostly, though, it exists to be an "apex domain bouncer".

You see, lots of services let you host a Custom Domain on their platform. However, few of them properly handle the www. subdomain versus the "naked domain" or "apex domain".

If users want their site to be example.org, that's fine, but what happen if a browser tries to visit www.example.org? And what about the other way around, where the user wants their domain to be www.example.org and people type in the naked domain name - only to land on an error page?

That's what a bouncer does. It redirects all the lost patrons to the proper domain.

So for me to retire this ancient droplet (running Ubuntu 14.04! What???), I need to find a service that can take over both the Static Site hosting and the Bouncer duties.

And I have! With some creative configuration, I've been able to get codeberg/forgejo and git-pages to take over both roles for me.

No, seriously. What are you doing? I've been a happy customer thirteen years, but that ended today.

Donating 3 million dollars to a project operated by a Nazi? A confirmed nationalist bigot, who is actively campaigning for his vile views?

Your mothers should be ashamed of you. Your children will be.

I can somewhat understand offering the option to install it. Somewhat. Personally, I would not offer it, were I in your shoes. But crowing about it on your blog? How embarrassing for you.

I had been considering expanding my DigitalOcean usage now that there are Canadian-based server options, but that's done. I'll be moving to a domestic cloud provider.

I'm so very sick of this crap.

Addios, collaborazionisti.

I like 1Password. I trust their technology. I do wish they'd made some different tech decisions, and some different business structure decisions - but as companies go, and as corporate software goes, it hasn't been too bad.

This week, though, they decided to abuse that trust:

They announced a recurring contribution to the newly-formed Omacom Foundation, which manages the Omarchy linux distribution.

That sequence of words sounds pretty tame, doesn't it? A reasonable person would wonder what could possibly be bad about that.

The Foundation is reportedly meant to support the open-source ecosystem that makes Omarchy possible.

Again, that sounds perfectly tame. So you, the reader, a reasonable person, may be wondering why I feel that this was an abuse of my trust.

Well, it all has to do with one person. Actually, no, that's not quite right. It has to do with one idea. An idea so vile, so pernicious, and so destructive that tens of millions of humans have died from it - and that's just in the past 100 years.

The following is a verbatim copy-and-paste of an email I wrote to my Member of Parliament about the privacy-infringing Bill C-22, 'Lawful Access Act, 2026', that is being considered as a new law.

The email was sent approximately a day before the Toronto Star broke the story that the Canadian Government is cozying up to foreign plutocrat Peter Thiel's rather undeniably evil Palantir corporation, putting the data of all Canadians at extreme risk. I would suggest that such a deal also puts the sovereignty of our nation at risk.

I have not yet received a reply. I am considering sending a follow-up based on the new revelations.