Not playing tricks. It was always like this since the “dumb fucks” comment, i.e. before it became available to everyone.

You mean the French who criticize their government all day long for the past hundred years?

open-source […] a bunch of binary files

Please explain.

There are a lot of industries where huge amount of data is moved all the time (health data, VMs, anything actually). Even small startups can do that and it’s cheaper than ever.

No backups as usual: https://www.worldbackupday.com/