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  • Yeah these companies are notoriously hard to deal with. A lot of the time they’re also volunteer run. To be fair these are companies that deal with Spam providers every day bitching at them about how they can’t blast people with mail but they are less than friendly when you have to engage with them even from a professional standpoint. Even if you work with the company that has a large reputation and good professional behavior. These companies do not care.

    A CTO I worked for accidentally said something that insulted one of these guys by implying that we “accidentally” got on the spam list. They responded by leaving us on the spam list for the entirety of the refresh period ( these lists will automatically refresh themselves to see if you’re still breaking their policies every so often). Turns out depending on the block list you can get locked out of services like LinkedIn so we lost access to our LinkedIn for like 14 days while we waited for the refresh period to run out.

    In hindsight it’s pretty funny to be explained to the CTO that we accidentally insulted some dude in the Netherlands and now he’s punishing Us by making us stay on a block list




  • Just make sure whatever resources you spin up you’re spitting down. This stuff though tends to happen when people accidentally let a a script that creates and destroys instances run over the weekend and it didn’t appropriately clean up instances for you…

    Or you thought you would try your hand at training in llm and then realized you spent way too much money on the infrastructure and resources







  • Do people not remember that they didn’t have cars until like 1920? Do people not understand that most roads weren’t paved until like the 50s? It’s foolish to think we’re the only generation living through lifetime events. Motherfuckers they were people that went through World War I and World War II. They were veterans of World War 1 that enlisted in World War II. There are people born in the fifties that lived through the computer Revolution. Do people not understand that the internet is only 30 years old?






  • Right I forgot about that. That’s also a thing with Mastodon. I think in decentralized Services need to push that there are each other so it doesn’t matter which one that you end up going with. That’s at least what drove me to get on let me in the first place cuz I know that whatever instance I would get on would allow me to participate with everybody else the same way you and me are on different instances right now.


  • I mean a large problem with services like Lemmy Mastodon and peer tube is that they’re complicated. There’s a learning curve require that I don’t have to have if I go to a place like YouTube or any other video site. Peertube requires me to learn about servers and other things in order to fully utilize their service and that’s a massive barrier to the public. Currently it’s preventing me because I just frankly don’t have time to go learn about more technological Concepts to best use a service.

    Don’t get me wrong it’s not a dig at the services. They are excellent and I’m glad they’re here and one day I will figure out peertube but until these sites are as easy to use as going to a link and just doing whatever the person wants to do if they’re just not going to take off. Places like limmy and Mastodon and even peertube need a centralized portal so that is just super easy to start.




  • It’s going to be a grind. This is causing blue screen of death on Windows machines which can only be rectified if you have physical/console access.

    In the cloud space if this is happening to you I think you’re screwed. I mean theoretically there’s a way to do it by installing Windows unmounting the disc from the virtual machine to another working virtual machine but it’s a freaking bear.

    Basically everyone’s going to have to grind this whole thing out to fix this problem. There’s not going to be an easy way to use automation unless they have a way to destroy and recreate all their computers.

    I live in linuxland and it’s been really fun watching this from the side. I really feel for this admins having to deal with this right now because it’s going to just suck.