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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 5h

Departmen of Gwar

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder who the Fascists of the 1930s called the "puppet masters." Might be relevant.

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Holy fuck, der insider hat bis Sekunden vor Trumps Zollankündigung Shorts gekauft. 😂

Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Wie ich dachte, dass ich jetzt vielleicht schlafen gehe und dann droppt ein voidzilla-video

Insider trading bei Crypto 😂
Ganz verpasst, dass BTC gestern einfach mal 20k an Wert verloren hat 😂

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Wie ich dachte, dass ich jetzt vielleicht schlafen gehe und dann droppt ein voidzilla-video

Insider trading bei Crypto 😂
Ganz verpasst, dass BTC gestern einfach mal 20k an Wert verloren hat 😂

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

nacht du, schlaf gut

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Ich hab den Song jetzt schon 2 Tage als Backgroundmusik im Kopf, Hilfe :D

Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Every community needs rituals
Would prefer community theater though

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Bluesky not allowing file attachments in DMs is probably fridge genius

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6h

as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

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

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
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.

tom_watts • 3d
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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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

probably thinking about bringing back indentured servitude

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

scrolling by your spooky nickname just gave me an inadvertant jumpscare :D

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

*collapsing roadside shrine noises*

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 6h

Goodnight from Edgar Bord, looking forward to committing some serious sin ahead of tomorrow’s tide-washing mass. Goodnight from those squatting Coreham’s derelict Roxy Cinema, unaware in sleep of the tuts and swooping torch beam of its phantom usherette. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

Not disagreeing with you, just saying they also have their fingers in the current situation.

Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 6h

it's Soylent Green

*runs*

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Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 7h

how long until it proliferates to one or more parties involved in Russia's attack on Ukraine?

Night's Border @terminusnoctis.info · 7h

Eh, it's kinda both. Russia uses rightwing political parties and organisations to destabilize nations in the West.
And the US rightwingers take any support they can to establish a theocracy.

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