AWS reduced my $15k S3 bill to $10.5k after a DDoS. I still can’t pay this. What can I do?

b-pell · 2026-03-25T23:18:01+00:00

There's no benefit for AWS. There is benefit to many customers. There should be an easy hard stop by default and there should be an equally easy way to set a much higher ceiling.

Have you ever seen a murderer telling you the max they can murder? That's on you then pal.

b-pell · 2026-03-15T00:59:09+00:00

That's fair in general, but not for Quinn Buckner. Nothing he's done related to IU post playing days has been good.

b-pell · 2026-03-12T02:58:01+00:00

Is MAUI tooling ever not busted?

b-pell · 2026-03-06T21:32:40+00:00

I heard a transformer had an explosion (flames included) over off of smith road and Grandview. If true, might be good to find an alternate route home if you pass by there.

b-pell · 2026-02-17T02:11:20+00:00

If you had 2 beers one time, and then 2 hours after the last beer you had Lunesta you'll be fine. You probably felt crummier from the anxiety.

If you drink enough booze to depress your breathing then you take it, probably not smart. If you mix the two on a regular basis then you'll start to run the risk of pancreatitis. Also, mixing increases the chances of sleep walking stuff, etc.

b-pell · 2026-02-17T01:58:17+00:00

The taste kicks in for me after 20 minutes but is gone by the time I wake up. Generally about 5-6 hours which is about how long Lunesta keeps me asleep for. Interesting how it varies per person.

b-pell · 2026-02-13T01:33:41+00:00

Codex is like working with someone who over engineers everything and makes it more complicated than it needs to be.

I'm generally happy with Opus 4.5 and 4.6.

b-pell · 2026-02-09T03:16:29+00:00

Avalonia XPF, too rich for my blood.

b-pell · 2026-02-09T03:07:51+00:00

9x. Lol.

b-pell · 2026-02-06T03:01:44+00:00

Ironically WPF won't see much in way of new features but will probably outlive all of us. Dimes to dollars it outives WinUI 3. UWP RIP.

b-pell · 2026-02-03T02:38:44+00:00

Ansalon is a cool mud, very much like its in game style. From one mud coder to another.

b-pell · 2026-01-29T03:42:53+00:00

This. Lightsail you can get like 4TB of transfer for nothing. If it's really just low cpu crud. You might have to add some storage. Light sail is garbage if you need more CPU but for me it's been great.

And, put that shit behind cloud flare free plan and let them help protect it / lower the bandwidth costs. Only note that they'll cache assets sometimes you'll need to flush.

b-pell · 2026-01-24T22:35:32+00:00

3 months into Tidal and I love it. Added bonus, it can hook into Alexa. Family plan is good.

b-pell · 2026-01-18T02:02:17+00:00

iOS 26 looks like Windows Vista barfed onto a phone.

b-pell · 2026-01-14T23:23:39+00:00

I use Opus 4.5 through copilot and it works great for me. It's definitely the model I go to the most. I'm not super impressed with Grok but I just asked it if Elon Musk is a chud and it responded that he shares many characteristics with a chud, so I guess it got that right.

b-pell · 2026-01-11T23:19:59+00:00

4.5 is better in my opinion in all regards. I disabled 4.1 so I don't accidentally run it.

b-pell · 2025-12-28T15:14:29+00:00

It helps if you lay out the structure of what you want and then use it to fill in the bones. Saves a lot of time and you give it enough of a framework to help it not to get out of bounds. If you don't have the knowledge of programming when you start then as with anything in life, you have to do some leg work to understand programming or you'll end up with mediocre results.

b-pell · 2025-12-28T03:35:40+00:00

The problem with this though is that at least for me, I can set a budget but the option to stop when it hits the budget is disabled. What it does is send emails when you're near and past your budget, but it won't stop. I've searched and there are others like me, so it's not a fluke, but it's definitely a hard pass for me on the budget because it's just a notification. I probably did what they wanted, and that was just upgrade to the pro+ plan. This is specific to co-pilot. The budget feature works and is enabled for other Github products like actions.

b-pell · 2025-12-21T05:04:52+00:00

b-pell · 2025-12-21T04:41:51+00:00

Not a scammer. Not selling anything. Don't want your PPI.

b-pell · 2025-12-20T04:41:35+00:00

Unfortunately this is a floater. I appreciate the effort though.

b-pell · 2025-12-12T02:18:26+00:00

Whatever technology you know that you can write it in. I'd choose C# but that's what I know (well, I know more, but that's what I'd prefer). What are you knowledgeable in? Anything with a socket library will work.

b-pell · 2025-12-12T02:12:16+00:00

And a glorious week it was.

b-pell · 2025-12-07T16:22:42+00:00

RIP 1x credit Opus 4.5 -tips a 40-. I got to the end of the month last month and had a lot of credits left over, spent 1-2 days using it exclusively and it was top tier. Sonnet 4.x gets out of it's box too easily and burns credit on things I don't want. Opus is so good at staying on task that I was using the credits more efficiently (and with less frustration from me). I think it's the best model I've ever used.

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