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Comment · 6 months ago
Looks like another instance, I am dealing with a very similar issue. I didn't even notice any sort of tiers, as I had 17 grand in costs accumulate at a similar pace.

I (a hobbyist running a small side project for a dollar or two a month in normal usage, so my account is marked as "individual") got hit with a ~$17,000 bill from Google cloud because some combination of key got leaked or my homelab got compromised, and the attacker consumed tens of thousands in gemini usage in only a few hours. It wasn't even the same Google project as for my project, it was another that hasn't seen activity in a year+.

Google refuses to apply any adjustments, their billing specialist even mixed up my account with someone else, refuses to provide further information for why adjustments are being rejected, refuses any escalation, etc. I already filed a complaint with the FTC and NYS attorney General but the rep couldn't care any less.

My gripe is not that the key was potentially leaked or compromised or similar and then I have to pay as a very expensive "you messed up" mistake, it's that they let an api key rack up tens of thousands in maybe 4 hours or so with usage patterns (model selection, generating text vs image, volume of calls, likely different IP and user agent and whatnot). That's just predatory behavior on an account marked as individual/consumer (not a business).

Comment · 6 months ago
Be very careful about using googles apis as a consumer, they have poor rate limiting and ineffective anomoly protection.

I (a hobbyist running a small side project for a dollar or two a month in normal usage, so my account is marked as "individual") got hit with a ~$17,000 bill from Google cloud because some combination of key got leaked or my homelab got compromised, and the attacker consumed tens of thousands in gemini usage in only a few hours. It wasn't even the same Google project as for my project, it was another that hasn't seen activity in a year+.

Google refuses to apply any adjustments, their billing specialist even mixed up my account with someone else, refuses to provide further information for why adjustments are being rejected, refuses any escalation, etc. I already filed a complaint with the FTC and NYS attorney General but the rep couldn't care any less.

My gripe is not that the key was potentially leaked or compromised or similar and then I have to pay as a very expensive "you messed up" mistake, it's that they let an api key rack up tens of thousands in maybe 4 hours or so with usage patterns (model selection, generating text vs image, volume of calls, likely different IP and user agent and whatnot). That's just predatory behavior on an account marked as individual/consumer (not a business).

Comment · 7 months ago
And this is why I am immediately shifting to bunny from cloudflare at this point.

A week ago I (a hobbyist running a small side project for a dollar or two a month in normal usage, so my account is marked as "individual") got hit with a ~$17,000 bill from Google cloud because some combination of key got leaked or my homelab got compromised, and the attacker consumed tens of thousands in gemini usage in only a few hours.

Google denied a rate adjustment, and haven't reached back out to me for a good few days now. My credit card denied the charge because it was over my credit limit by a good few thousand dollars and they suspected fraud, but now I am terrified of being taken to collections and ruining my prospects of renting an apartment due to my credit score/history being ruined, or them just taking me to court.

I am never going to use "use now pay later" services, especially with cloud portals where it's so hard to put in a actual cap, and the cloud provider not having any sane rate limits. I am fine paying if it was negligence or a mistake on my part as a very expensive lesson in security, but 17k is brutal.

The fact they don't have an easy way to hard cap usage (especially for an individual account) and have ineffective rate limits (how on earth is an account that pays a few dollars a month able to run up tens of thousands in just a few hours), makes me never want to use their (or any use now pay later with no easy caps or rate limits) service ever again. Or even a phone number to call.

Comment · 11 months ago
I was curious what instruments this use, looks like a special form of radar? Does this mean it effectively gives us very accurate height maps regardless of cloud coverage, and is able to differentiate between what surface material it's seeing?

> Radar instruments can image Earth’s surface through clouds, precipitation, regardless of sunlight, making them particularly well suited for monitoring polar regions. The Sentinel-1C and -1D satellites also carry an Automatic Identification System (AIS) instrument – improving the mission capacity to detect ships and sea pollution. The Sentinel-1D AIS was also activated as the satellite passed over Antarctica capturing the presence of ships in these extreme areas.

Comment · 4 years ago
Mikrotik makes some very capable routers. The Rb4011 is incredibly powerful and very low power, and has an SFP+ port, so you can use a sfp+ to rj45 if needed, or straight modem -> sfp+ connection, to get faster than 1 gig speeds.

It has a steep learning curve though, albeit it's extremely rewarding and powerful once you gwr over that curve. It should handle routing 1 gig with zero issues, and is under $200. You can do bonding, vlans, esoteric ip rules, and tons of "misc" functionality.

Do not go with ubiquiti, their hardware is very poor and their UI is very buggy and simply poorly designed, it's focused on people who know a bit above an average person about networking, which I suspect is not the case for most people here.

Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you, I could not agree more. These companies exist because their services and products are being bought by someone else, and in the end the consumers are either actual consumers or governments (who consumers vote for). I place minimal blame on companies, because clearly consumers don't care, and instead want to buy the cheapest products possible.
Comment · 5 years ago
If it applies or not us irrelevant, what only matters is to what degree is it able to be enforced (and in practice) against companies that have no assets under EU jurisdiction. From what I gather, it's very little, so most smaller companies simply don't care.
Comment · 5 years ago
I switched all my home machines' shell to fish, and my work computer also to fish, and it has been an amazing productivity boost for myself. The extremely ergonomic way it represents history (old commands) is what does it for me.

If I need to script something, I always do it in bash (which is easy to transition to from bash). I don't use the fish language for any scripting because of incompatability, but as a command line interface to my systems it has been a massive boom to my quality of life. I could not reccomend it more.

Comment · 5 years ago
Can someone find this poster? I would utterly love to buy it and hang it somewhere, but I can't find it when googling.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ah sequel. I did a stint of ruby on Rails work many years back, and remember seeing sequel for the first time. It's documentation web page is honestly probably the best "what is this" and "getting started" page I have ever seen for any library.

I don't know if it's the library itself or the documentation contents or the documentation website theme, but it jives absurdly well for me. I also really like the simplicity+flexibility of the library itself, and have yet to find anything even close to it in the c# or c++ world.

Comment · 6 years ago
How does the number of packages in nixos compare to, say, arch's aur? Looking around, I see a decent selection, but I figured I would get more feedback from the community.

Also, what don't you like about nixos?

Comment · 6 years ago
This looks like a great command line alternative to git diff or diff, but I have to admit that I greatly prefer meld when I need a quick diff against non version controlled files, or sublime merge when using revision controlled files.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I wouldn't say "very tiny". For example, does it run (and can do something useful) on a 8 KB cortex M0 with 24 KB of flash?
Comment · 6 years ago
If you can point to one specific thing you are most interested in, or happy to check out, from vue 3, what would it be? And what's the closest another framework (or vanilla js) has to said feature?

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