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[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

It's always ridiculous to me when people call it "abuse" to use the service you paid for. Rate limit it or don't. But if you sell it as unlimited, how is making use of it's unlimitedness abuse? All kinds of tech stuff is like this, bandwidth etc. Don't sell it as unlimited and be transparent about the limits. Or maybe this user is offset by others and the business is fine with it :shrug-outta-hecks: but it's not abuse to use what they allow.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

Feels like the wire line and wireless carriers’ “unlimited” plans that decided to punish everyone for a minuscule number of power users. Obviously the reality is that they used the exceptions to push rate and data caps to extract more money from all users.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bandwidth is one that particularly annoys me because of how often it is falsely advertised as unlimited when it is not. I don't have a problem with limits, I understand unlimited is not cheap, just advertise it correctly. Don't do the whole, unlimited but subject to abuse policies. Just spell out for me what the limits are.

Like, if you advertise unlimited bandwidth mobile plan and I watch a ton of youtube, how is that abuse? How am I supposed to know how much "unlimited" means?

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

In your example, they would want the end user customer to pay for the extra bandwidth and the content provider to also pay more for interconnect and colocation fees.

Any bandwidth cap is effectively also a data cap but they get around it in the US because of regs that say they can do “normal” network management to maintain some level of service quality. So they can advertise one speed which end users experience as a lot slower but they can claim that it is part of network management.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

As a Chinese user myself, this is embarrassing.

lenin-dont-laugh

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As one of the good ones, I will surely never be put in a camp. smuglord

Or fake as hell.

[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

This is the kinda dude you want to go to a buffet with. Mf’er will be bringing his own crab claw cracker and showing you how it’s done.

[-] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

'tis a remorseless downloading machine, ARRRGGG

[-] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Are these the actions of a man who has had all he can download?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

Ehhh I was using several 50tb on an unlimited plan with inmotionhosting at one point. They did bring me up on it at one point and made sure I was actually using it for something the site actually serves and not as just a bottomless storage solution. When they saw it was actually legitimately being used by the app they were happy and fine with it. Probably caused them some problems and I was definitely a power user on the service but ehhh, if it's sold as unlimited then I don't see the problem.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

We found prompt Georg

data-laughing

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

build a hydroelectric dam that can't withstand an errant pebble in the intake

an errant pebble finds it's way into the intake

"This FUCKING pebble is the reason we won't have electricityrage-cry"

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I was going to say something about responsibility and restraint under socialism e.g. public resources. Then saw it’s about an AI company. Yeah fuck em.

[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

erm-this-you The grifter becomes the grifted (not even a grift though sicko-wistful ) .

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

CONSUUUUUMERS

He's essentially saying "Look at me! I'm the reason you all have slower service now!"

based

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Mr Chinese Man Chen Ing Ai is right, I can't believe a Chinese would do something so horrible, but in retrospect it all makes sense, I sure am glad I hate their government and not their people.

[-] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Waddya think they're doing with it lmao

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tell me if you know, does EZ have brsinworms, about China or anything else, or is he reliable? I used yo like his coverage on LLMs but haven't listened in a long time because it feels like it's 30% ads that break up my focus too much

[-] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Not really? I haven't seen any. I was very much inserting into the title of this post, that isn't his take, he was talking in the article I found this in about this just being a natural problem with current LLM architecture, that the operators have no real ability to control costs or limit user access.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Nice, glad to hear that! Thank you :) o7

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