Well no. A Global latency of 2.8 ms is just bullshit. As others pointed out, they did not beat the speed of light. I hate stuff like this. If you really have a worthy product just point out what it really can do, not what in a lab environment worked once.
Well remove cyclists from streets. Its as simple as that. Remove humans from streets. Also remove all cars from the streets that need a driver. It will happen sooner or later. Humans will eventually be the single point of failure.
What indeed is bad taste is your choice of Google Cloud over AWS. No I really like GCP, use it at core of many apps, but if people really want a decentralized web we need to use more than one provider. Don't "convert". Use booth, redundancy ffs.
Just stop pushing apps for iProducts. When all the major apps stop adding features for a while Apple will focus on getting developers back or customers switch to Android.
The use Bing ads and affiliate links to monetize. Nice, that "they" don't track me, but as soon as I click a link there I will be tracked. That argument is utter Bullshit. Only real plus point is, that even if they track it's not in Googles Data Silo.
Great to see support for all those important projects, but maybe DDG should use that money to hire someone who makes their Search Results better so we would not have to go back to Google on every other more sophisticated search.
You are completely right. There are reasons to oppose the cloud, but maybe they should focus on improving their systems before moving out of the cloud. At this point in time it is clear that GitLab lacks the talent to run everything themselves. I mean 5 backups worthless or lost? You can't let interns write your backups system. After all backup is a large portion of their product.