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Beware of ent (entgo.io)

If you’re using Go, you’ve likely heard of ent. Some Ex-Facebook employee maintaining and developing an open source version of the public version of Meta’s entity framework for Go.

Well there’s a catch.
Migrations.

They sweet talk you in their documentation to use Atlas. Ariga’s Atlas, not the MongoDB one.
But Atlas is a proprietary cloud offering.
There might be a free tier, but who cares?
You have to give other parties access to your schema, if you want to containerize your binary or even if you’re not distributing your schema with your binary. Not just your schema, also your database.

To me that is a breach of trust.

That is “open source” software being used as bait for a lock-in cloud offering.

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Oracle are scammers and criminals

How to get free real people addresses and bank account data?

Offer something “for free” and require those people interested in the free offer to give their name, address, phone number and bank account data, then suspend their accounts for made up terms of service violations and refuse to delete the data after deletion has been requested.
That’s what Oracle does with their Oracle Cloud offering.

I have reported this practice with the German GDPR data protection person.

So you can create your account online, for free, no snail mail required, but you’re supposed to write a snail mail letter, and pay 7€+ for a registered letter, because if you don’t they’ll just say that they didn’t receive any letter.
So you have to waste time, paper and energy to have your data deleted, despite you having made a demand to an Oracle support employee.

This is fraud.