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I feel the same way. I like Orion, and I use it on some of my devices. But if I could choose I’d rather the company focus on Kagi development. There are a good number of bugs and feature requests that have been “planned” for months/years that I would be very happy to finally get fixed.

TFA says the mobile app works (so presumably the backend accepts long passwords fine). Looks like it's just a frontend issue. I wonder if deleting the maxlength attribute before submitting the form works fine?

Mac Minis used to have soldered on SSDs, but the 2024 model is upgradable. A lot of people purchased a cheaper Mac Mini and upgraded the storage themselves. Most people would argue this is a good thing, even if some of those Mac Minis were resold. This is no different.

My ticket still hasn’t received any response in 17 days. At what point should I just contact my bank for a chargeback? If this is how billing issues are handled how can anyone feel comfortable sending any money to OpenRouter?

My ticket number is #107156 (opened 9 days ago). The point is that the Discord is full of people not getting responses, and I'm not even the one waiting the longest. The only help they get is from the AI assistant in the server saying don't bump the ticket or you'll be punished by getting moved to the back of the queue. So there's nothing anybody can do but wait who knows how long.

What are your plans to improve a substantial lack of customer support? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577159

Is the inside of a jail cell a public space?

How much did IA spend on legal fees, employee time, etc in their defense of the COVID emergency library that most people thought was a lost cause? I need to know where my donation dollars are going.

I emailed them a few days ago and the automated reply says to expect a week for a response. That wouldn’t be concerning except on Discord there are people begging for help after waiting multiple weeks.

I signed up for OpenRouter, loaded it up with $25, and after running a test prompt immediately had my account suspended. There’s no way to talk to support, emails go nowhere, and their Discord is swarmed with people who also are getting no responses to anything.

I would recommend staying away from OpenRouter. No matter how good the service is, if anything does go wrong, you have no recourse and you lose every credit in your account. Ironically some of the few responses I actually saw in the Discord were doubling down on their “no refunds no matter what” policy.

Assuming this story is true, is it normal that some rich guy can just ask to see police documents over dinner without any FOIA request or anything?

For TV or movies the benefits of a private tracker are minimal. You can definitely get by with only a public tracker.

The slight advantages are:

- On average I find the download speeds faster and the seeders more reliable. Say for example a torrent has 2 seeders 0 leechers -- on a public tracker I might not even attempt it, but on a private tracker that has a good chance of being a very fast download.

- A bit more selection if you're picky about formats, size, etc. If you're trying to download The Godfather Pt. 1 for instance, you can find that anywhere. But if you want a specific file format of a specific size to quality ratio, you're more likely to find that on a private tracker.

- Private trackers usually have some sort of request system if you really can't find something anywhere. Presumably someone will eventually satisfy that request. This can be hit or miss though since not every tracker has appropriate incentives to request fulfillers.

I mostly only torrent ebooks/audiobooks, and I use MAM. I haven't run into anything on MAM that I couldn't find on Anna's Archive or a public tracker like AudiobookBay. But I still use MAM since it has a higher chance of having the specific file format I prefer (m4b), and being a very fast download.

Yep, I saw that too -- about a week after I set it up for myself. Thankfully the default settings are aligned with the rules so I was not affected. I guess it just demonstrates that if you are using automation and you're not using the default settings you better completely understand what you're doing.

For MAM specifically, FTA:

> Also they give you credit for seeding as long as you keep the file available, which is very generous. (Most other places count seeding the standard way, which means your upload number only goes up when someone else actually grabs file pieces from you. This can make it difficult to maintain "ratio" - for your uploads to be equivalent or higher than your downloads.)

In practice, my "real" ratio (the actual uploaded bytes / downloaded bytes) is 0.2, but after my credits it is 7.0 (far above the recommended 2.0). It's basically impossible to not meet the ratio requirement for MAM if you're putting a small amount of thought into it.

Other trackers have different rules. On TorrentLeech for instance, every torrent above 10 GB in size is "FreeLeech" (doesn't count as a download). Since that site is intended for movies, TV, and games (which are usually always above 10 GB in size anyway) it basically means you never have to worry about ratio.

I am not on RED but I imagine most people use automation software like autobrr to "race" (to download a new torrent as quickly as possible after creation so everyone else has to download from you).

From Chapter 1 of Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird":

> The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You’ll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them. There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.

When AWS suspects malicious usage in my experience they usually ask before shutting you down.

The company I work at got one of these emails from AWS. We had a bug which caused us to hit a 3rd party API much more than we should have, and the service provider reported us to AWS for attempted DDoS. AWS just asked us to give our side of the story. I'm sure that being a large (but not enterprise) customer gives us some leeway, but I've also heard similar things from hobbyists.

There are exceptions if you are a fairly new account, or if you operate in certain low reputation regions. Specifically I have heard regions in Africa tend to get the "shoot first ask questions later" treatment from AWS Support.

However, all of this was before 2026 (when AWS Support seems to have 100% turned over to AI). For all I know their actions might look completely different now.

Do you mean like what the BBC does?

> However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Maga, Sars, Aids, Nasa, Opec, Apec).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/all/

It’s a matter of style, not something someone “should know better.”

You clearly have an opinion you want to share, otherwise you wouldn't have written anything. Instead of just outright saying what you think, you are being vague. Why? It's true that Meta laid off a lot of people, and blamed refocusing on AI as the reason, but I still don't see how that somehow contradicts GP's quote above.

Any particular quote you want to share?

I’m struggling to see how this wasn’t intentional by Godier, but I can’t understand what he was hoping to get out of it. Surely the truth would have come out eventually. Was one day of fame worth it?

Where is the proof of any of this? There are too many conspiracy theories about gig work. There was a similar post on HN a few months back[1] based on some anonymous vagueposter on Reddit, again without evidence. Would I be surprised if this is true? Of course not. Should we just start believing random things without any critical thinking? No.

^1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563

Only for Opus etc. For “Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models on Bedrock with similar or higher capability levels,” your usage data is retained for 30 days and shared with Anthropic which you can’t opt out of.

Gabe Newell (president, not CEO) comes to mind

So the big bad "significant security vulnerability" Adafruit just had to let everyone know is a public Firebase API Key without realizing these are more often than not intended to be public and didn't bother taking 10 seconds to Google it. They also claim Flux's "6.4 million projects" number is "substantially inflated" when the only thing they know is that the number hasn't changed in a few months. Maybe it's true they haven't updated it because it has shrunk, but where is the evidence it is "substantially" wrong? Adafruit points to the number's static HTML as the smoking gun that it is knowingly falsified without understanding the site uses Next.js and server-side rendering.

Obviously sending a cease and desist letter about making a dumb security vulnerability disclosure is wrong, and their counsel is stupid for making CFAA claims about this. At the same time, Adafruit can't clutch their pearls about an ignorant lawyer when they are also guilty of being ignorant here.

Both sides are jerks here, which seems to be typical of the stupid spats ptorrone starts with others online, threatening Adafruit's good reputation for the benefit of their ego.

Let’s put that to the test. Here’s an entire article accusing her of not being Albertan. Where’s the corresponding outrage about xenophobia against this person?

GoPro has had two years of falling revenue. While I’m sure the memory shortage isn’t helping their profits I’m not sure it is entirely to blame for continued falling revenue.

WMF has over 600 staff, and 6 were recently laid off from a specific team. The criticism isn’t that no one is doing work at WMF but instead

a) The team affected by the layoff was responsible for implementing ideas from the community, and this historically has not had much traction. This decision sends a signal that WMF does not care about community input.

b) Most of the people laid off were prominent in a union, and the community thinks this is unfair retaliation that a mission focused non profit shouldn’t stoop to.

> Not AI-generated. Not everyone is born writing flawless English. If it sounds like an LLM, maybe it is because people like me had to learn how to write clearly from LLMs because English is not our first language.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774474

TFA outright states that they don’t want to sell the Lifetime option anymore but don’t want to rug pull customers that want it, so they’re increasing the cost substantially to a price they’d be happy with

I’m curious how they determined $750 is fair. Is it just N * Annual_Price and if so why is this value of N fair? But they likely won’t say

At my job I was asked to help integrate our Google Workspace account with an AI notetaking tool another team purchased. The vendor instructed us to set up Domain-wide Delegation for reading/writing emails and Google Drive files. Essentially this would automatically opt in every user in my organization and there would be no way to opt out.

I had to contact the vendor to set up a "less recommended" way of requiring users to actually log into the tool and accept the OAuth permissions prompt. The entire time, everybody (the vendor and my organization) acted like it was a waste of my time.

I can't control what everyone else does, if they want to grant some tool these broad permissions, feel free. But I find it unethical to just enable it for all users with no ability to opt out if this isn't actually a critical tool. Not to mention the security concerns with this.

What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI. The people making this request to me are smart people who 5 years ago would have never asked to do this. Now suddenly they don't care - everyone else is doing it, why not?