Having worked in the hosting business, this is a very normal interaction when the provider believes the account was used for fraud or something illegal or strongly against the ToS. Support personnel are literally not allowed to say why the account was closed because that would be giving potential fraudsters information on how to stay hidden in the future.
OCI likely sees TONS of fraud every day due to the generous free tier offering. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if MOST new accounts created are for attempted shadiness.
I'm definitely not accusing the author of doing anything shady, but clearly Oracle believes they did, for one reason or another. It could be their usage patterns triggered some flag, or maybe one of their instances got compromised and started spamming the government.
Still, OCI definitely could have handled it better.
There are a bunch of these little Linux game emulation consoles and they are pretty neat. Each of my kids has a Miyoo Mini. Lots of fun and a bunch of community add-ons and support. Almost got one for myself but the D-Pad and buttons are a bit too cramped for my average adult-sized hands.
Probably the clickbaitiest title I'll see all day on HN...
...but everything here is the truth. The books in particular aren't vapid self-help tomes, they're literally how to live in a society that's actively trying to make you miserable so that you buy more stuff.
I'm trying to work out how the author came to the presumption that contact names would ever be private. As in, what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature?
The closest I can come to is _maybe_ SMS where names never transit the system, only the phone numbers. So whatever name you associate to a number in your phone stays in your phone.
> what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature?
In WhatsApp I can give a contact name to a number but I don't believe anyone else sees it. Even if I tag them using @ in a group chat - I suspect that everyone just sees the name that they've set for that contact.
> The shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work up to six days a week and 10 hours a day.
It always amazes me that when you take a cross-section of workers who have life-or-death jobs (nurses, police, air traffic controllers), you find out that most of them are chronically overworked and underpaid. We should be taking better care of the people who make our lives safer.
Dogs can absolutely learn sign language for basic commands. There are books about it. We had some success with ours. The main difficulty is you do have to use some kind of sound to get their attention if they're not looking at you. (Perhaps a clap would do.)
Perhaps off-topic, but we had a dog that knew swearing when she heard it.
Most dogs are well-attuned to both positive and negative emotions. In particular, when a human starts yelling and throwing things, they get the hell out of dodge. So it's obviously not a surprise that a dog would beat a hasty exit when their human emits a flurry of exasperated expletives.
However, our dog took it a bit further. Before kids, my wife and I had a habit of swearing in our normal, neutral conversations. It took a while before I noticed the pattern but eventually I found that even a light and airy "well, fuck" essentially inaudibly under my breath would quite reliably cause our dog to sigh heavily, get up, and saunter out of the room with considerably more than a whiff of indignation.
I was an LLM skeptic for a long time. I still have a hard time trusting it to the same extent that most HN'ers appear to. (I would never use an LLM as a substitute for my own "voice" when writing, or put any AI-generated code into production.) But I think I have reached a middle ground: I basically use it as a first approximation when I am exploring something entirely new to me. For example, if I'm learning a programming language, I might ask it for ways to unpack an array into separate variables. Or if I'm reading an ingredients list, I'll ask what psyllium husk is. Basically anything that's moderately easy to verify if I get any suspicion that the LLM is hallucinating again.
These are things that I _used_ to simply ask a search engine, before Google results became 99% SEO-optimized blogspam and therefore useless for actual knowledge-seeking.
I think an important part of overcoming AI skepticism is to understand (at a very high level) how it all works so that you understand its limitations and know when you can and cannot trust it.
OCI likely sees TONS of fraud every day due to the generous free tier offering. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if MOST new accounts created are for attempted shadiness.
I'm definitely not accusing the author of doing anything shady, but clearly Oracle believes they did, for one reason or another. It could be their usage patterns triggered some flag, or maybe one of their instances got compromised and started spamming the government.
Still, OCI definitely could have handled it better.
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