It’s been two months sir

Don’t give them ideas

They kinda don’t! It’d be trending videos near your IP locations + your watch history for this browser session

But that is like a giant difference in what they usually measure

IMDb is user generated, and he stars in “The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick” (?) from 1990.

SI also does meter instead of cm, so it overall checks out.

I meant that the Japanese use the Chinese word for Pomelo to call the Yuzu

And in Chinese

TIL The Japanese call Yuzu what we (the Chinese) call the Pomelo

To be more concrete, we have to see if nearly all of the released games on the list have been subject to “abnormal review activity”, which steam automatically excludes from the percentage

Credit: DALL-E 3 / Microsoft Designer

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Dunno about you, but “Starknet” sounds like that comic arc where Iron Man gets a venomous suit and enshittifies life.

centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system

Too close to centigrade, plus centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system.

Basically, it was a giant uptick in use that was likely made by human beings instead of a DDoS botnet, and they’re still investigating where it came from

“After looking into this, it seems you have a hit song on your site,” the email from Netlify customer support reads. “Maan Bou Jan Sang Lou by Teresa Tang. I was not aware of her, but she seems to be a popular Taiwanese singer. This song is 99% of your bandwidth usage over the past 30 days.”

The letter further explained that a lot of bandwidth was generated from user agents that “are quite ancient using Google Cloud addresses”.

“This would include devices such as circa 2010 iPads, Windows 98 & Windows 6 computers. So either you have a fanbase with a passion for older technology, or this was likely a DDoS attack. To me, this seems to be the latter,” the email continued and suggested hosting such files on third-party platforms, such as YouTube or SoundCloud.

After explaining the standard practice of reducing the bill to 20% after such attacks, which would be $20,900 in this case, the Netlify support team offered a better deal.

“I’ve currently reduced it to about 5%, which is $5,225. I know this is still a lot of money, and I apologize for the inconvenience. If you like, I can raise this internally to see what else can be done.”

The user wasn’t happy with that and decided not to pay but post their story on Reddit and Hacker News instead.

One user on Hacker News with the alias ‘bobfunk’ introduced himself as the Netlify CEO and assured users that the bill would be forgiven. Cybernews was unable to verify the CEO’s identity independently. However, many previous posts from the same user and his bio support the claim of him being Matt Biilmann, the founder of Netlify.

In another twist, the DDoS attack version of the story is being ruled out

“Since the user opened a ticket with us this past Sunday, we’ve been actively researching this situation. Initially, we thought it might have resulted from a DDoS attack, which we stated in our first response. After some investigating, it looks as though the spike in traffic was not caused by a DDoS after all,” Dorian Kendal, CMO at Netlify, told Cybernews.

Instead, now they believe that this was a sustained download event of an mp3 file over a stretch of multiple days.

“We’re working directly with the user to better understand what’s happening on their end, so we can uncover what caused the dramatic increase in downloads,” Kendal said.

“We’ve confirmed that the user was notified multiple times about the additional bandwidth that was being consumed on their site, but given their lack of response to these notifications, we believe that we should revisit and improve the messaging and urgency that’s being communicated.”

“After looking into this, it seems you have a hit song on your site,” the email from Netlify customer support reads. “Maan Bou Jan Sang Lou by Teresa Tang. I was not aware of her, but she seems to be a popular Taiwanese singer. This song is 99% of your bandwidth usage over the past 30 days.”

The letter further explained that a lot of bandwidth was generated from user agents that “are quite ancient using Google Cloud addresses”.

“This would include devices such as circa 2010 iPads, Windows 98 & Windows 6 computers. So either you have a fanbase with a passion for older technology, or this was likely a DDoS attack. To me, this seems to be the latter,” the email continued and suggested hosting such files on third-party platforms, such as YouTube or SoundCloud.

After explaining the standard practice of reducing the bill to 20% after such attacks, which would be $20,900 in this case, the Netlify support team offered a better deal.

“I’ve currently reduced it to about 5%, which is $5,225. I know this is still a lot of money, and I apologize for the inconvenience. If you like, I can raise this internally to see what else can be done.”

The user wasn’t happy with that and decided not to pay but post their story on Reddit and Hacker News instead.

To combine the comments would probably require a revision to the lemmy protocol, plus an even bigger one to the backend software to keep backwards compatibility

…is that seriously your reason? Do you know about how Codeberg displayed something about a javascript error on top of that website for months? Mistakes happen, and as long as they have backup plans I don’t see how that is an issue.