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i like cohost because i feel like enough people with enough varied experiences actually 1. read the cohost global feed tag/s, 2. are willing to reply to posts (esp in stuff they know about) that i can just post random things i'm curious about and might actually get a good answer

anyways last year there was some pretty bad flooding in my area and a lot of people's basements ended up with like, four feet of standing water and really sucked, Thankfully our home already has a sump pump so we just got a few puddles which i'm not going to complain about at all given other ppls situations, BUT

my question is......there's a sewer service access thing in my utility room with a cap i can remove to have an open pipe to the sewer, and i was wondering, in the situation where i had enough standing water in my basement for it to cover up to the sewer cap, would it be a completely awful idea to open it in the hopes that the water would drain out through the sewer?

like, i know next to nothing about plumbing so my guesses are either 1. good ending, it drains the water enough to keep it from building up any more, or 2. bad ending, the sewer backs up and now my filthy filthy floodwater is even nastier now

my instincts tell me not to mess with it but like, i also feel like if i took a bucket and started bailing water into a bathtub that would be fine, and that kind of feels like the same thing to me ? ?? ??

what do you think, plumbing-knowers of cohost

there's nothing actually that strange about it when you just take it as it is but thinking about the words people use for things, my discovery of my sexuality is very funny to me. like oh yeah i was always interested in women my whole life but didn't think i was because it didn't seem like an option at all. and then i was like oh wait i'm trans. so im like. man can't believe society was forcing homosexuality on me like that

there were concerns that we were meaningfully contributing to cloudflare's revenue, which is reasonable! it's not ideal to have your cohost plus subscription money indirectly going to a company whose values you very specifically do not like.

i alluded to this in the vaguest possible tones, for reasons that will soon become obvious, but we were not meaningfully contributing to their revenue. if anything, we were costing them money!

three-ish years ago, i complained on twitter about how cloudflare locked wildcard subdomain support behind their enterprise plan and we were looking for alternatives. a VP at cloudflare running their Startup Outreach program DM'd me offering to set us up with a free enterprise contract. this was supposed to last a year.

they completely forgot they did this and never followed up. we have paid cloudflare a grand total of $50 since then. i never said anything because it was a ticking time bomb; if they noticed and came calling, we'd be kind of boned. but they didn't, and now we're off them completely, so it doesn't fuckin matter! rest easy knowing your posting cost cloudflare money.

but also it doesn't fuckin matter anymore b/c we're off them. the migration means we actually have a CDN bill now, which is kind of a bummer, but it's fine because i'm genuinely happier with fastly.

thanks for using cohost!

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THAT'S WHAT I CALL ANTI-SOFTWARE SOFTWARE!

there were concerns that we were meaningfully contributing to cloudflare's revenue, which is reasonable! it's not ideal to have your cohost plus subscription money indirectly going to a company whose values you very specifically do not like.

i alluded to this in the vaguest possible tones, for reasons that will soon become obvious, but we were not meaningfully contributing to their revenue. if anything, we were costing them money!

three-ish years ago, i complained on twitter about how cloudflare locked wildcard subdomain support behind their enterprise plan and we were looking for alternatives. a VP at cloudflare running their Startup Outreach program DM'd me offering to set us up with a free enterprise contract. this was supposed to last a year.

they completely forgot they did this and never followed up. we have paid cloudflare a grand total of $50 since then. i never said anything because it was a ticking time bomb; if they noticed and came calling, we'd be kind of boned. but they didn't, and now we're off them completely, so it doesn't fuckin matter! rest easy knowing your posting cost cloudflare money.

but also it doesn't fuckin matter anymore b/c we're off them. the migration means we actually have a CDN bill now, which is kind of a bummer, but it's fine because i'm genuinely happier with fastly.

thanks for using cohost!