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You can no longer have a freebie compute tier on ANYTHING, because the cryptocriminals swoop in and abuse 100% of it. This is why we can't have nice things.
by knorker 6y ago
You can no longer have a freebie compute tier on ANYTHING, because the cryptocriminals swoop in and abuse 100% of it.
This is why we can't have nice things.
- williamstein 6y agoAs somebody who has been creating or supporting websites for mathematicians for two decades that support running arbitrary code (e.g., Pari/Magma calculator, Sage notebook, Sage Cell server, CoCalc), this is very much the case. In fact, https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ finally had to be locked down much more in the last few days due to abuse by cryptominers.
- sydd 6y agoYep, I know that at least 2 of large online CI providers are facing the same issue with their free tier.
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- sodality2 6y agoGoogle, AWS, oracle, etc all have free tiers
- knorker 6y agoAnd entire departments fighting it, and $100B in the bank to chalk it down to cost of doing business. But yes, it's not completely gone yet.