> much better livelihood than they were making without Uber and Ola

Source please. Also can you quantify "much better"?

I think my assertion is much more likely than yours that people were in higher paying jobs and moved to Uber/Ola, a lower paying job, so you should give a source for that.

Nevertheless the source is my twice daily ride with Uber and talking to the drivers. Most of the drivers are youngsters from villages with no degrees and no skills now making a living. They also don’t own the car and drive for someone else. The fact that the Uber/Ola commission is able to support the driver and owner should tell you something.

FPGA based accelerators is my guess.

I'm not able to install new pipe from f-droid anymore. I don't remember uninstalling it either. This is worrying.

Finally, a politician who understands tech

How is this different from traditional embedded Linux system? Most firmwares have a read-only rootfs.

Applying those tools to desktop systems, where users make decisions about what's on the system.

Blog post did mention that accounts with high CPU usage and payment history won't be flagged.

I think the account used startup credit.

https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/

The tweet thread suggested using for years. So either they are giving credits long time for startups they don't even know how and what they are doing or messed up a simple logic about history of the customer.

> precautions when taking destructive actions.

No data was lost, it is not destructive in anyway.

> because of some automated heuristic.

If the customer had "payment history" none of this would have happened. Probably it was being used under "startup credits"

> people host their businesses and livelihoods on cloud providers

people shouldn't run entire operation on credits and blame DO in twitter.

Only issue is that DO took 29 hours, apart from that i see no problem with DO.

> people shouldn't run entire operation on credits

Why not? Until now, I wouldn't have considered that using credits might make me a second-class customer. They should at least be upfront about that.

> No data was lost, it is not destructive in anyway.

Except in the way that the guy may[1] have lost customers or revenue due to the downtime. Being offline, even without data loss, is very destructive for many businesses.

[1] I don't know anything about his business.

> No data was lost, it is not destructive in anyway.

Tell that to the owner who was begging DO for their data back on Twitter. Again, had this not blown up on twitter nothing would have been done.

> If the customer had "payment history" none of this would have happened. Probably it was being used under "startup credits"

What's your point in saying this?? The fact is that the customer faced downtime because of a bug in DO's code.

> people shouldn't run entire operation on credits and blame DO in twitter.

Are you saying that customers on credits aren't subject to SLA's?

> Only issue is that DO took 29 hours, apart from that i see no problem with DO.

I think you seem very biased.

It should be pretty hard to shit down a legit biz. Seemed automatic in this case.

I mean it is. Unless your business is wholly dependent on a service from my business.

Edit: shut

What? We use a few million dollars in GCP credits every month.