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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Yeah these companies are notoriously hard to deal with. A lot of the time they’re also volunteer run. To be fair these are companies that deal with Spam providers every day bitching at them about how they can’t blast people with mail but they are less than friendly when you have to engage with them even from a professional standpoint. Even if you work with the company that has a large reputation and good professional behavior. These companies do not care.

    A CTO I worked for accidentally said something that insulted one of these guys by implying that we “accidentally” got on the spam list. They responded by leaving us on the spam list for the entirety of the refresh period ( these lists will automatically refresh themselves to see if you’re still breaking their policies every so often). Turns out depending on the block list you can get locked out of services like LinkedIn so we lost access to our LinkedIn for like 14 days while we waited for the refresh period to run out.

    In hindsight it’s pretty funny to be explained to the CTO that we accidentally insulted some dude in the Netherlands and now he’s punishing Us by making us stay on a block list


  • Until someone has a really good technical explanation of how this would be theoretically possible I remain highly skeptical of these types of claims.

    Not that it’s impossible for it to happen but in my own personal research or voting machines and how they work and the starlink connection. The internet is not used to send voting results anywhere. They’re loaded on the machine and have to be unloaded from the machine.

    As far as I’m aware the internet connection is only used to update the options on the machines and can’t be used to comprise these machines.






  • Just make sure whatever resources you spin up you’re spitting down. This stuff though tends to happen when people accidentally let a a script that creates and destroys instances run over the weekend and it didn’t appropriately clean up instances for you…

    Or you thought you would try your hand at training in llm and then realized you spent way too much money on the infrastructure and resources