Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.
This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind.
How appropriate, in 2001 I was trapped with both and then some (Oracle), and I'm so glad I can now choose to be in the presence of neither.
Back then I did devops for a moderately sized stocks platform with real time ticks and charting, the works. We had two large code bases, one in perl, one in Java.
They both were bad times.
Java, because the java coders didn't quite understand how threading worked, leaking all over the place. My job was to migrate the systems from AIX 64bit machines (that could deal with the memory leaks with only one restart per hour) to x86 Linux. It was kind of fun (because everything was pretty contained) until the stuff went into production, and the servlets died after 4-5 requests each under non synthetic load.
And Perl, because the perl coders thought it was of benefit to write code that nobody could read but the author, and that it was OK to have dependencies on very old and very new libraries at the same time.
I gotta admit, the Perl stuff ran more stable. But it was still hell to upgrade the machines or debug even the smallest issues.
It's not a coincidence, no, because Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.
This is also a factor for independent developers (who build airline reservation systems) who need to choose a RDBMS for their product - they'll choose oracle, because ... Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.
Which makes Oracle not a different class of product than Postgres, but a different class of support for the product. (which could be considered part of the product, so ... maybe you're right)