The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.

GitHub just announced they're charging $0.002/minute for self-hosted runners starting March 2026. Let me make sure I understand this correctly. You bring your own hardware. You pay for your own compute. You maintain your own infrastructure. And GitHub wants to charge you... for the privilege of them not running your jobs? This is like your electric company billing you for the sunlight hitting your solar panels. (And yes, some utilities actually do this.) GitHub looked at their self-hosted runner users—people who literally solved GitHub's scaling problems for them—and asked, "How can we monetize this?" Give Microsoft a hammer and they'll find a way to hit themselves in the face with it. Then charge you for the bandages. Jared Palmer is out in force telling us "96% of customers are unimpacted and the median increase is just $13." Cool. I left my desktop at home running an AI training job—should I expect an invoice for that too, or does GitHub only charge for compute it's not providing when you're using Actions? Once GitHub establishes it can charge for compute it doesn't provide, what's stopping them from charging us extra to stop shoving Copilot down our throats? Actually, scratch that, I will pay you for this immediately. They could have fixed Actions reliability, which it desperately needs. They could have improved the developer experience, which after Universe was something I thought was squarely in their sights. Instead, they're taxing people for using their own hardware, which is the most Microsoft move imaginable. Merry Christmas, GitLab. 🎁 | 109 comments on LinkedIn

Bormann’s memo under a Jewish font – ordering a ban on Jewish fonts Most printing in early modern and 19th century Germany used two font families: _Antiqua_ and _Fraktur_. Both were ornate, old style typefaces that replicated calligraphic handwriting. _Antiqua_ was employed mainly for printing Latin texts, while _Fraktur_ was used more in German language documents. During the rising German nationalism of the 1800s, many came to see _Fraktur_ as a ‘German’ typeface and pressured the government and private printers to use it more. Otto von Bismarck refused to read books in ‘un-German fonts’ and Kaiser Wilhelm II also disliked them. When the Nazis emerged in the early 1920s they also opted for _Fraktur_ and its derivatives. The cover of Hitler’s _Mein Kampf_ used a hand-drawn _Fraktur_ font; official Nazi documents and letterheads also employed it. This continued until January 1941 when there was a remarkable shift in Nazi attitudes to typography. In an edict signed by Martin Bormann, the Nazis called for a ban on the future use of _Judenlettern_ (Jewish fonts) like _Fraktur_ : > “…I announce the following, by order of the Führer: > > It is false to regard the so-called Gothic typeface as a German typeface. In reality, the so-called Gothic typeface consists of Schwabacher-Jewish letters. Just as they later came to own the newspapers, the Jews living in Germany also owned the printing presses… and thus came about the common use in Germany of Schwabacher-Jewish letters. > > Today the Führer… decided that Antiqua type is to be regarded as the standard typeface. Over time, all printed matter should be converted to this standard typeface. This will occur as soon as possible in regard to school textbooks, only the standard script will be taught in village and primary schools. The use of Schwabacher-Jewish letters by authorities will in future cease. Certificates of appointment for officials, street signs and the like will in future only be produced in standard lettering… > > Signed, M. Bormann.” Ironically, Bormann’s memo went out under Nazi Party letterhead – which was itself printed in a _Fraktur_ font. The reason for the Nazi turnaround on typefaces has never been definitively explained. One theory is that Hitler had a personal dislike of more ornate Gothic fonts; his increased reading workload in 1939-40 may have tripped his fuse and prompted the ban on _Fraktur_ Source: NSDAP memo on _Judenlettern_ , signed by Martin Bormann, January 3rd 1941. Content on this page is © Alpha History 2019-25. Content may not be republished without our express permission. For more information please refer to our Terms of Use or contact Alpha History.