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Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

I'm sure there not being one is the feature. Trapping people into the free tier and getting them on overages.

Of course for a hobby site that will never manage to pay this is not a good business model but I can see how this works for more moderate corporate use.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

Is there a customer involved here?

After all if it's for a customer it might be better to just give them the choice since the bill is on them.

Zworf , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

Hm yes and no. The user might have angered someone with their website and it might well have been targeted to them instead of Netlify as a whole? I can imagine them using that point in a court if that was the case.

If I were to host on such a service I'd probably put cloudflare in front. Especially as it seems to be static content. But I wouldn't host on a service with unlimited pricing anyway. I'd much rather see my hobby site go down than to have world-class uptime and pay 100k :P

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

Good to hear but it sounds like if the person hadn't gathered so much traction on HN they might still have been screwed.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

Yeah this is why I pay only for services with fixed fees (or that allow me to set a hard limit). Wow, 100k would bankrupt me completely.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch

Wow I'm surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.

I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.

But then they moved to this algorithmic "feed" crap which hid some of my friends' updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn't worth it anymore. If they'd only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO

Of course we hate it. It will trigger a whole new phase of enshittification.

I still use reddit because for some things it's still a valuable resource that Lemmy isn't yet for lack of users. Hopefully more redditors will find lemmy as this proceeds.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public

They forgot to include the Nigerian prince in the story! Now nobody will believe it.

Zworf , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in The EU’s tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet.

It's mostly actual people. I know some of them at different platforms (for some reason this city has become a bit of a moderation hub). Most of these companies take moderation very seriously and if AI is involved it's so far just in an advisory capacity. Twitter being the exception because.. well, Elon.

But their work is strictly internally regulated based on a myriad of policies (most of which are not made public especially to prevent bad actors from working around them). There usually isn't much to discuss with a user nor could it really go anywhere. Before a ban gets issued the case has already been reviewed by at least 2 people and their 'accuracy' is constantly monitored by QA people.

Most are also very strict to their employees. No remote work, no phones on the workfloor, strong oversight etc.. To make sure cases are handled personally and employees don't share screenshots of private data.

And most of them have a psychologist on site 24/7. It's not much fun watching the stuff these people get to deal with on a daily basis. I don't envy them.

Zworf , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

Unfortunately there's another problem with archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today . Their owner has some beef with Cloudflare DNS and returns bogus results to them so anyone using 1.1.1.1 as DNS can't visit them.

The Cloudflare side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
The archive side: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680

Note that that discussion was from 2019 but the situation was never resolved and the issue persists to this day.

Zworf , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

Yet these companies do allow Google et al to index their stuff, otherwise the paywall bypass addons, archive.ph etc wouldn't work. They want their cake and eat it. It's super annoying to find something on Google and then be hit with a paywall. Totally bait and switch.

If there weren't such great paywall-bypassing plugins I'd want a plugin that removes paywall sites from Google results, Lemmy submissions etc.

Also you really can't expect a user to subscribe to a full subscription to read a handful articles a month.

At least offer a once off small payment but almost nobody does that.

And I'll bet you use adblock too (I sure do) making it even more impossible.

Yes though the tracking is the most important reason there. If they just used untargeted ads it wouldn't be such a problem.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt's case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.

Just no.

If you can't guarantee it's accurate then don't offer it.

I as a customer don't want to have to deal with lying chatbots and then having to figure out whether it's true or not.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

Of course Elon is free to close twitter like this, as sad as it is. It's his company (which already halved in value since he bought it...)

BUT, governments and officials really must stop using twitter for official communication at this point. It's not OK to require people to make an account just to view their communication.

Our Dutch government actually set up their own Mastodon instance, but many politicians still continue to use twitter.

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

And they were built in Ireland where rain is not exactly rare. During a time when acid rain was a thing (unlike some people claim these days, acid rain was not a hoax, it was just pretty easy to solve with things like cat converters and regulations on industry and it was solved pretty quickly)

Zworf , 5 months ago to Technology in This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

there's a reason modern vehicles have rounded edges

Rounded edges and soft panels that crumple easily yes.

I'm glad these things aren't permitted here in Europe.