What happens if MS decides that using competitors software is "shady" - they have previous form of unfair competition practices, so it's not unlikely.

Also, what happens if the US administration decides that MS software is only authorised if you have white skin and support Trump?

I think we've been enjoying a period of slow change as the oceans have been absorbing the extra heat energy over the last few decades, but we're now reaching the point where we're exhausting that heat sink and we're about to see dramatic climate change.

With cycles (including e-bikes), the rider is exposed and is likely to get hurt during a collision and this provides a feedback loop so that experienced riders are likely to take care and be very attentive. Cars don't have this feedback loop and are also orders of magnitude heavier, so it's really a different situation.

It's bizarre to require a slower speed limit for a much lighter vehicle, when logic dictates that cars should have the much slower speed limit.

> We should congratulate cyclist on becoming fully fledged (oppressed) road users.

As a matter of record, the first modern roads were built specifically for and by cyclists: https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/roads-built-cars

> I'm not blaming oracle for reducing the quota, I know they have been very generous on their free tier but It would have been nice if they had atleast sent a email about this

I do blame them as "always free" should mean something and if there's an existential reason to change their offering, then communication should be the very least of their efforts. They should have communicated it, then provided a grace period with a warning of what the charges would be, then finally make the change. Currently, I don't think they've even updated their billing/usage pages.

I think there's going to be a lot of disgruntled victims tomorrow, or when the bills come due.

I expect there's some weasel words in the contract, but I would expect consumer protection laws (e.g. in Europe) would ultimately favour Oracle's victim/customer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/comments/1u4emfv/end_of...

https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/comments/1u4lzkk/new_fr...

So, if you don't want to be charged, you'll need to reduce down to 2 vCPUs and 12GB RAM by the 15th.

I think this is criminal as Oracle seem to be not notifying users and their interpretation of "always free" has now changed to "sometimes free until we change our mind".

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Edit: never mind, I guessed the password as it was only five stars.

There's also the issue that it's usually a breach of the contract to allow someone else (i.e. not named in the contract) to use your card.

i.e.

> Now that Google is manufacturing answers using their own LLM

To be honest, I find it somewhat rude that you select a portion of what I wrote and then criticise it.