Maija Koivula ⌘
@maijakoivula.bsky.social
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A fantasy and historical video game #writer from #Finland 🎮🖋️ Arts and crafts type 🧶 🖌️ 🩰 She/them 🌈♠️ About my work: https://maijanlainen.neocities.org/ Arts and crafts!: https://pixelfed.social/maijanlainen
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I'm a video game writer for hire and I'm very slowly trying to get my stuff together and maybe even make a portfolio-ish thing soon

In the meantime, I have a calling card version right here
maijanlainen.neocities.org

#videogamewriter #gamewriter
Maija Koivula
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maijakoivula.bsky.social
And of course feeling completely alienated from everyone because mine is a rare and strange position, wanting to choose carefully what I do. Wrong personal philosophy buddy! This is the century of mindless non-stop content churn.
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Also there’s the question of is there at some point a truly moral threshold to cross where the world doesn’t need any more consumerism and stuff that misdirects thoughts and attention from what is going on. You love working at the circus but at what cost? (Bread.)
maijakoivula.bsky.social
Exhausted emotionally now all the time. It’s not just the GOP-stanning government in Finland and what that entails, it’s also watching my professional world crumble, and survivors write peppy motivational speeches about how great the scene is. (A lot of it depends on children’s gambling addiction.)
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Gay sex is getting too complicated...
maijakoivula.bsky.social
Tavallisena palkansaajana joka harrastuksenomaisesti tutustunut kirjaston kautta talousjärjestelmäämme sanoisin, että nimenomaan vaihtoehtoiset makrotalousteoriat ovat meille tärkein asia nykymenossa (Anni Marttisen Hattaratalous havainnollistaa, miksi.)
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guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps. Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to.
Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did.
If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much.
If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things.
Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours.
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anikangas.bsky.social
Päivän kuva, 14/20.
Tällä kertaa kaksikko Van Goghilta: Van Goghin tuoli ja Gauguinin tuoli.

Lucien Freudia lainaten: ”Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait, even if it is a chair.”
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birchlse.bsky.social
The Nobel committee is always playing 3D chess. Giving the prize to Obama in 2009 looked idiotic but 16 years later it's caused a US president to think about peace for almost an entire week.
maijakoivula.bsky.social
you keep on creating your creations my friend, rooting for you
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”En tappanut vauvaa, vaikka sanoinkin tappavani! Olen sankari! Antakaa tänne rajatonta ihailua poikkeuksellisesta rohkeudestani hengenpelastustyössä!”
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Jokainen oikeistopuolue lupaa, että mitä huonommaksi kokonaistilanteemme menee tällä linjalla, sitä paremmin asiat objektiivisesti ovat. Hupaisaa ja surulllista, miten moni uskoo tällaiseen.
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hmm this Art. it speaks to me
screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:
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iceflower2.bsky.social
Jakakaa!! Tämä on ihan älytöntä! Suomen journalismi on uhattuna.
maijakoivula.bsky.social
Ai kämppä vaan vai isompi tienoo? Mellunkylässä täällä Helsingin puolella me kulutamme sähköä kuin huomista ei olisi.
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Thank you for responding and sharing your experience. I hope you have a nice day!