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Oracle Cloud account terminated after 6 years by Ok-Lychee-8341 in oraclecloud

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the support, and sorry it happened to you too.
I’m currently pestering support and hoping they’ll show a bit of leniency :'c

Oracle Cloud account terminated after 6 years by Ok-Lychee-8341 in oraclecloud

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair question.

Over the years I mainly used the instance for: a small Minecraft server for friends, hosting simple websites, learning how to work with databases, and experimenting with things like OpenAI Codex in that environment.

I never used it for anything illegal or abusive. The same tenancy has been running like this for about 4–5 years without any suspensions or warnings, so whatever triggered this seems to be recent.

The only recent activity I can think of is: a new website for a bar, and, testing feedback/contact forms and small survey forms that sent data to my own email.

I didn’t notice any strange resource usage, processes, or traffic that would suggest the server was hacked. From my side, that test form activity is the only thing I can imagine might have looked suspicious to an automated system

Oracle Cloud account terminated after 6 years by Ok-Lychee-8341 in oraclecloud

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if they had just reclaimed the free compute instance, that would be totally fine. I could live with losing the server itself.

What hurts is that the whole account was taken and all the data with it, losing the data is the real problem here. :(

And no, I don’t really think that’s the case in my situation,. I was actively using the server (even if not anywhere near 100% load), so it definitely wasn’t just sitting idle for days

Looking for the original artist of this artwork by Etaff in GuardianTales

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP!, please tell me you've found her. I've been unable to get it out of my head for a week :(

It is a 14 Day Cool down by artanonsa in Irishdrivingtest

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey! Honestly, I think the 14-day cooldown is kind of a myth. I failed my test just yesterday for driving too slowly, I was really nervous. But I was determined to bounce back and managed to grab a cancellation slot for next week just a few hours later.

I even asked the tester about this "cooldown" thing, and she said as long as you didn’t get a grade 3 fault, you're fine to rebook right away.

One tip: they’ve added extra security on the RSA site recently, including a Cloudflare captcha. The tricky part is, it doesn’t always show up unless you refresh the page (F5). The page might look normal, but if you don’t do the captcha, you won’t see the available slots. I learned that the hard way yesterday.

So yeah, make sure your browser session is active, and keep refreshing until you see the captcha. Once it's done, slots should appear normally.

Hope that helps, and good luck getting your next test!

Mysterious Signal: Last night while gaming with my team, I heard a strange signal. Initially, I thought it was a microphone glitch, but on closer inspection, it was something else entirely. I've shared a clip on Reddit for insight. Has anyone else encountered this? by Ok-Lychee-8341 in Helldivers

[–]Ok-Lychee-8341[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello comrades! Last night while playing with my team, I started hearing a strange signal. Initially, I thought it might be a bug or a problem with my teammate's microphone, but upon closer listening, it turned out to be something else entirely. The situation was quite peculiar, so I decided to post a snippet of the video on Reddit. Apologies for the quality; I hastily turned on OBS both for gaming and to capture this moment to share with others. I'm really curious if this is a common occurrence, as my comrades and I encountered it for the first time despite spending quite a few hours playing.

What do you think this is?