I was reading this issue from LibreWolf project when I read that some of new GitLab users were asking to give credit card information.
I had no idea this was a thing. According to the forum it’s a measure to avoid bots to use free CI workers time to mine shitcoins.
This has nothing to do with mining (which isn’t worth doing in the first place, especially on CPUs but even on GPUs it’s crap now).
GitLab has a vendetta against their free users, they don’t want them. The last company I worked for went with GitLab and bought the bronze subscription ($4 per developer per month, had everything we needed). A year later GitLab discontinued the bronze tier, now it’s $20 per developer per month for zero more features we would actually use. So we went back to free tier. Half a year later they limited free tier to 5 people per project, which was a headache yet again.
The company moved to GitHub afterwards, $4 per user per month, same amount of features, no bullshit.
GitLab just tries to get you to pay and could give a shit about free users (or users that wanted a cheaper tier than $20 a month). Now they push you to set a credit card for your account, I’d bet with you in a year tops they’ll limit the free tier even further to either kick you off the platform or force you to the premium tier.
I know a few people working on similar products and crypto mining as absolutely a big problem. Yes CPUs aren’t that useful for mining generally but that only applies if you are paying for the costs.
This is informative, and unfortunate.™
Next time upvote then, imagine if all 32 people who upvoted him replied “informative” nstead
Chill, dude. The first thing I did was upvote that comment. And I guess you didn’t get the reference. 😶