Every EU citizen should use International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT - https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/IDAHOBIT, which is TODAY, May the 17th, as the perfect reason to sign the "Ban on conversion practices in the European Union" citizens initiative.You have until the end of today to add your signature! If you have already done this — thank you!https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home - https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

What these companies then sell to *their* customers is network access through the devices/PCs that have an app with this SDK installed. They are proud to tell you how you can funnel your (AI) web scraping etc through millions of rotating, residential and mobile IP addresses. Exactly the pattern we see hitting our servers.https://infatica.io/pricing/ - https://infatica.io/pricing/2/5

The web is broken, IMHOSo there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library that sells users network bandwidth. Infatica [1] is just one example, there are many more.I am 99% sure that these companies cause what effectively are DDoS attacks that many webmasters have to deal with since months. This business model should simply not exist. Apple, Microsoft and Google should act.1/5[1] https://infatica.io/sdk-monetization/ - https://infatica.io/sdk-monetization/

Today I accepted an offer from Oracle. I will leave Red Hat and help Oracle with their Open Source program. After 15 years with Shadowman, it's now Iron Man time!