Crypto mining (running SHA2/Keccak/RandomX = evil)
Is it ok to crack passwords using Hashcat for the same?
What if the document is a password protected zip of the last picture of my grandad.
Fuck off with your virtue signaling.
Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212899 are particularly bad. Please don't do that on HN—it destroys this place for its intended purpose, which is simply to have an interesting forum on the internet that hopefully doesn't suck.
Look, I don’t know what’s so hard here. If you sell cloud compute it should be on the basis of usage. If that usage is 100% then charge aptly.
Just don’t market yourself as an open and non limited compute resource charged by usage.
Market yourself as a QOS’d, shaped sub service.
Or, I think more likely, is that the parent can't actually form a cohesive argument and is part of a group of people for whom the term "virtue signaling" has become synonymous with "bad" but is used to try carry more intellectual weight than it actually does.
This is bad for a single reason. It creates apartheid based on compute purpose.
If you can’t figure that out yourself that’s ok. I’m sure you’ll be ok. You seem to know some really big words already.
I’m not looking for crypto to be protected.
I’m looking for all compute classes to be treated equally.
Overriding this, a company should absolutely have the right to offload a customer.
That said, don’t then market yourself as general purpose computing in the cloud.
If I pay for xCPU @ xHz with yRAM I don’t want to have you then tell me what I can do with it. Just charge me aptly for my use.
Tbf I wouldn’t like to think they’d even know what I’m doing. Privacy should be ok.
Folks need to wake up to the fact that if we all end up relying on 3 cloud providers, we also end up having to live with their discretion regarding what is acceptable / moral use.
Also, this isn’t really the same as a DDOS, this is localised computation effectively. Running a hash function.
that would be my biggest concern. how are they deciding what i'm doing, and what happens when my usage pattern triggers their magical detection?
am i booted immediately? do i get a useful number of business days to say "nope, i'm actually doing something else entirely!" and they leave it at that? or do i have to somehow "prove" what computations i'm going to run before i do so?
it's well and good to let them have whatever ToS they want, and that's certainly the direction i lean in, but enforcement of some ToS can imply concerning things.
That said I think your view is short sighted.
“Crap” may turn out to be useful. Have you noticed the US debt ceiling?
The biggest reason it's banned is credit card fraud.