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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/115730529166857536

For a little bit of historical context: the GitHiub Actions Runner is a fork of the Azure Pipelines Agent. The back-end infrastructure is similar. Azure Pipelines had some nice features that GitHub lacks, such as the ability to trivially connect an Azure Scale Set to dynamically control runners, but it also charged you for self-hosted and hosted runners.

The simpler (and cheaper) pricing was a big part of the reason that even internal teams moved off Azure Pipelines and onto GitHub.

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@david_chisnall ah, good: further Github enshittification. Right on schedule. Bring on its demise - there're much better options for developers that're are actually open source. Microsoft continues to lead the industry at being shit.

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