I am curious but I remember someone saying long time ago when someone else told a similar situation as to yours but with microsoft and people praised amazon.
They said that with the Ai chat bot, you can just say contact me with a human, and a human can/would then must be contacted.
I wonder if this could've been done by you. can anyone who uses amazon's services verify my claims?
> Why does the kettle's firmware need updating? What inhibits a future firmware update from controlling the kettle and collecting data? How would you or any other owner of this style of kettle know if it had shifted gears?
Notably, bug fixes to the same features that your drip coffee maker has (clock/scheduling stuff stuff), and the addition of new languages to the UI.
> What inhibits a future firmware update from controlling the kettle and collecting data? How would you or any other owner of this style of kettle know if it had shifted gears?
I assume these are somewhat rhetorical questions where we both know the answers - I'm not harbouring illusions here - as with any internet-connected software you have to trust the vendor.
If it were up to me, I'd prefer a Z-Wave-connected kettle that received its firmware updates via Home Assistant... but fancy pour-over kettles are niche enough that a market for a Z-Wave one simply doesn't exist.
As-is, I've got enough trust in Fellow that I'm leaving my kettle connected for firmware updates. Of course, that may change.
Either I'm stupid or this is a big red flag. AWS has a billing dashboard that exactly says where money goes (and predicts spending for next month). If they are wrong why not just post here the wrong line?
The whole thing of paying $1500 per month for "near zero usage" an ENTIRE year without complaining or checking billing is nuts but maybe I'm just poor.
A reliable source (WP:RS). The encyclopedia is about the citations; it's a travel atlas to the sources about a subject. Any conclusions the encyclopedia draws "itself" are secondary to the sources.
I agree. I just don't agree with misinformation not being protected as free speech. Surely having an INGSOC decide what is truthful enough to be shared is detrimental to free expression and thought. Heliocentrism was also misinformation at one point.
I'd start with doing a full chargeback for all months, and provide as much documentation.
Additionally, I'd reach out to folks like Ars Technica, after ensuring such an issue was not a result of my own error.
One big red flag with this story is that OP seemingly did not notice $1,500/mo coming out of his account. That is most certainly something that anyone would have noticed, even someone making a few million a year, and if you make that much money, you definitely are paying an accountant to manage your accounts.
Even with partners, their support is pure, absolute garbage. My partner login was closed after a month of emails and automated messages with "useful" instructions for recovering access to my account. I'm glad we are going to drop them as technology partners.
I think if you, from the US (i believe), cannot get them to help you, i (from a third world country) don't stand a chance.
> I thought was fully obvious from the context I gave it.
Lot of people think they have given the right instructions but in most cases people miss some crucial points and that leads the model in the wrong direction, then the same people complain AI is not good.
> if I were an AI and I requested some of those messages (instead of having them injected) into my stream of thought, I would not feel negatively.
Good point! I failed to consider the difference between actively requesting a message and simply having it appear without any warning. In that sense it would be akin to someone reaching for a book of motivational quotes - a plausible action for a healthy person.
> Every politician's or political figure's page on Wikipedia just goes "Bob is a politician. In 2025 <list of every controversial thing imaginable>".
Are we searching for the same political figures? I just punched in three random politicians on Wikipedia (Lavrov, Rubio, Sanders) and all of their introductory paragraphs are a list of their past and present political offices. Legacy and controversy is reserved for it's own heading, or pushed into the back of the summary.
For most public officials, that seems like a fair shake. The only outliers I can think of are obviously-reviled figures like Joe Kony, Cecil Rhodes or Adolph H., who should probably get condemned above the fold for the courtesy of the reader.
After watching a lot of Cy Porters work, I kind of suspect (maybe too negatively) that everything built in the last 5-10 years isn't even close to being compliant to code and the city and regional inspectors are asleep at the wheel (at least in Arizona, but probably everywhere).
AWS has so many internal gates, it quickly devolves into Kafkaesque hell if you get off the happy path. We had an account which was flagged as suspicious because we...signed up to use credits that AWS offered us, which apparently immediately triggers a bunch of limits and blocks. But many of them are invisible until we run into one, then file a ticket, and play the waiting game...
I don't think so, I think it's Stripe's version on an internal tooling team, what I found to be called DevEx/Core Engineering/Dev Productivity/EngProd/Engineering Excellence in companies I worked at.
This team seems to be called Leverage. I would've called it Fulcrum. Or Turbo. Or Spinach (like in Popeye).
this sounds wrong. billing is usage-based - what were you even paying for? it's very possible that you had some random metric somewhere which had crazy usage.
