You just happened to stumble across the stupidest motherfucker alive. Probably alive. Those risky decisions don’t take themselves.
What’s the general plan of action when a company’s base region shits the bed?
Keep dormant mirrored resources in other regions?
I presumed the draw of us-east-1 was its lower cost, so if any solutions involve spending slightly more money, I’m not surprised high profile companies put all their eggs in one basket.
I didn’t mean to imply that smaller companies should have free reign oops
Or are you saying that those hosters are generally less predatory?
I’m shit at language, I’m shit at my job, I legit don’t know
Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.
What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:
(there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)
1:
A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth
2:
A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and nose poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.
I’ve been on an AWS project for about a month now
And, my god, there is so much to be infuriated by.
My first revelation was that there is no payment killswitch. E.g. if I spend more than X dollars, stop all my services and don’t charge me anymore. Nope sorry can’t do that
You can set “Budget alerts” but holy fuck, the emails do not arrive anywhere near reasonably on time
$0.40 per secret stored, billed monthly. Imagine the keys for every lock in your apartment showing up as charges on your rent invoice.
With every managed service, it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper, where if you don’t know any better, you might accidentally cost your organization $500 per hour and not know until the next day when the cost dashboard updates.
Maybe it’s just because I’m new to it, but apparently, this kind of shit is rampant among most cloud providers.
Biggest companies in the world still need to pickpocket their customers and that’s somehow okay
Call me cheap
homie that game is $70
You’re not cheap, you’re literally trying not to get robbed
You can buy a few dozen really good indie games for a fraction of that price
That urge to buy and play it ASAP is marketing doing its job.
Easier said than done, but if you really hate EA, your only choice is to eat the FOMO.
Otherwise, you’re feeding the beast.
Disclaimer: I’m high
i take this to mean “shit on the fingerprint scanner”
They should have gone through the official channels for this stuff
Arguments on the War Thunder forums
Kick me in the brain stem if I’m on the wrong track, but I feel like it’s by design
In general,
Everyone hates public officials taking bribes
Everyone hates streaming services raising their subscription fees
Everyone hates advertisements
Everyone hates big pharma charging $1000 for a cancer treatment pill that costs 0.1c to manufacture
The throughline is obvious, but I feel most people just take a neutral or dismissive (and sometimes aggressive) stance if you bring it up.
It’s that cognitive dissonance that feels engineered.
I don’t know how to fix that. Admittedly, I still need to do more reading.
Thank you!
That’s exactly what I wanted.
Lets say they don’t use private data for training
(Continue reading when you’re done laughing):
Eventually, victims eventually run out of “free” storage.
The humble corporation will do a bunch of psychologically unethical tricks to basically hypnotize users into forking over those three digits at the back of the family credit card.
Now the victim’s data is effectively held ransom. Keep paying or lose it.
But they won’t stop paying. They paid for a year’s plan at a discount and the peaceful megacorp conveniently hit autorenew for them at checkout.
12 months roll around and oopsie, they already have the money. They could go through the refund process, but they’ve got shit on their plate, might as well keep it for another year.
I could keep rambling, but on Lemmy, I’m probably preaching to the choir about the first verse of genesis.
Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me… twice
This is major boundary respect by Microsoft’s standards
“the pre-owned volvo of tourist@lemmy.word” is not as catchy as “The Ship of Theseus”
I burned a few CDs and put one of them in my car’s CD player
It worked but I got hit with “tray error” when I tried ejecting it.
It’s been stuck in there since april
Is there a difference between self censoring and “having a filter”?
Like, I usually don’t say the first thought that comes to mind.
I have to think, often unconsciously like you mentioned, will the next thing I say:
I guess self censorship is just that last one? If something I say can later be reprimanded by the law, my boss, or even a moderator, I’d rather just shut the fuck up.
getting into a car with a stranger who said he was 15 minutes away two hours ago
Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.
It’s ironic that the middlemen showed up anyway and busted all the security of those transfers
You want some bipcoin to buy weed drugs on the slip road? Don’t bother figuring out how to set up that wallet shit, come to our nifty token exchange where you can buy and sell all kinds of bipcoins
oh btw every government on the planet showed up and dug through our insecure records. hope you weren’t actually buying shroom drugs on the slip rod
also we got hacked, you lost all your bipcoins sorry
At least, that’s my recollection of events. I was getting my illegal narcotics the old fashioned way.
He didn’t
he mentioned India and Ireland too
I’m no historian, but I vaguely recall reading somewhere that British rule in those countries were uh… “somewhat controversial”
More likely that the director would get radicalised into installing Arch Linux
2024!?