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  FWIW, I switched to self-hosted GitLab in Docker when Microslop borged GitHub and found it to be resource hungry and slow. Seems like it's just a wrapper around their unoptimised, monolithic, warts-and-all enterprise product with a few flags changed. And it's entirely dependent on the ongoing goodwill (and competence) of GitLab, ie. subject to "we've altered the deal; pray we don't alter it any further". Migrated it to a Gitea container soon after, which is light and...

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  That's whataboutery, no? "X did a bad thing." "What about Y doing the same/similar things?" Both can be true at the same time. Whataboutery only serves to distract from the original point.

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  The article doesn't mention it, but I'm assuming this was older kit with a factory standard user/pass and "remote support" enabled without source IP control. Terrible idea then; worse idea now. Yet ISPs still do it and complain when you fix it at your end. 😬

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  Yet another example of "CEO said a thing".