Owen Jacobson @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

I feel like a lot of people tend to conflate "is a social construct" and "is not real" and I want to be really specific hear that social constructs are probably the only thing we're capable of experiencing _completely for themselves_. They're as real as it gets.

Unattended catboys will be given an espresso and a furry.

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idgi, why is this so widely-referenced?

I want smaller sites run by less profitable businesses that charge more and I'm not kidding

The OSI folks are shills for neoliberal capitalization of free labour.

It is perhaps worth noting that cloud CI services' pricing "makes sense" when priced against the cost of having a team whose job is build systems. This is business function bureaucratization and elimination at its finest, and I think _in that context_ outsourcing it works.

So, what’s my time worth?

- Pay the vendors,
- Set up my own CI infra, or
- Figure out how to do binary builds and installables for Python

Some of this stems from the decision to build a lot of Python versions, "on demand", which means that Python gets built from source three times in the test suite. That's where the huge majority of the testing time goes.

- There’s Github Actions, but the billing is similar to CircleCI’s. For enough minutes for a reasonable number of builds, that’s gonna be around $21/user/month (“Enterprise” plan).

- I couldn’t get the tests to run at all on Travis, because of kernel/libc compatibility issues mediated by Docker, so that’s out.

- Jenkins is notoriously fiddly to operate and requires Sysadmin Time, as well as some notion of users to fall back on, thus a surprising number of prerequisite systems as well. However, it can be run in a cheap AWS instance for about $8/mo, maybe less with reserved instances.

- CircleCI mostly Just Works, given a config that doesn’t require extensive knowledge of the CI infrastructure to read (although it did require that to write it). However, for my project, where tests require docker and run for 30+ minutes, it gets into a USD 70/month plan real quick.

turning the knob labelled “throw money at it”/“throw time at it” up and down while looking back at the audience for approval (a thread)