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by otterley 7mo ago
CloudFlare loves pirates so much that they disclose loss of DMCA safe harbor protections as a material business risk on all their SEC filings. Piracy friendliness is key to their business model. It’s a risky position that no other large-sca
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by otterley 7mo ago
I'm curious as to what these $10k MRR companies are.
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by otterley 7mo ago
A billion dollars is just an example. I could have said a million. When someone says "a high price" that's unspecified, you can use your imagination to hazard a guess at what that might be. Such a figure might seem unreasonab
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by otterley 7mo ago
Can you explain how your example supports your conclusion? I don't follow.
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by otterley 7mo ago
> why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA That hasn’t been established. There’s no evidence that they went to Anthropic and tried to negotiate one. > that Anthropic offers SLAs I didn’t. I said “they p
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by otterley 7mo ago
Again, many companies will do things they don’t ordinarily offer for the right price. I’ve seen it happen myself (on both the buyer and seller side) on many occasions. It goes to the extent of the company itself! Very few businesses publici
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by otterley 7mo ago
Not everything a business might be willing to do is listed on their public website.
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by otterley 7mo ago
"[W]ant[ing] companies to put some effort into avoiding ... failures" is not the same as "hold[ing] them to account". The former is "this sucks and I don't like it." The latter is "punish them or forc
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by otterley 7mo ago
I make no unqualified claims as to whether Anthropic offers an SLA. I never did. But I do know that it's unreasonable to claim they don't when you didn't even take the steps to conclusively determine it for yourself. As I s
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by otterley 7mo ago
You didn't merely call out their failure. You said it was "too easy," implying something more, like they owe you something. It's a pretty entitled point of view.
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by otterley 7mo ago
> It's too easy for companies to fail to provide their service as long as they never promise to provide their service. I don't even know what this means. You can't make anyone work for free, nor dictate the terms of what k
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by otterley 7mo ago
You might misunderstand what the law requires. The person making the complaint (demand) only has to declare under penalty of perjury that they represent the copyright holder . It does not require them, under penalty of perjury, to be corre
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by otterley 7mo ago
As both an attorney and SRE, I understand what an SLA is. And you can absolutely get an SLA when you buy cloud services from many vendors, including AWS. Some vendors provide it at all price points; others include it at higher service tiers
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by otterley 7mo ago
Did you talk to them about purchasing an SLA? If so, what did they say?
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by otterley 7mo ago
We're back to square one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741877
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by otterley 7mo ago
They can be held to account when they fail to deliver what they promise ! But what is promised for delivery is what's in the Terms of Service (i.e. the agreement). Nothing more. If it's not in there, you can't hold them to a
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by otterley 7mo ago
If they were, they wouldn't buy your product without an SLA. But they're not.
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by otterley 7mo ago
What truth do you believe you are not being told, exactly?
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by otterley 7mo ago
Not every customer, even a paying customer, demands reliability at a particular level. Market segmentation tends to address those situations: pay more, get more.
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by otterley 7mo ago
> Just because people pay for things doesn't mean they know or understand what they are paying for. I believe, respectfully, that’s precisely what is happening in this thread because you keep complaining about the absence of an SLA
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by otterley 7mo ago
I’m really confused. We were talking about SLAs, not other product features. Are you moving the goalposts?
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by otterley 7mo ago
At least the DMCA in the U.S. has guardrails: not just anyone can send a takedown demand for everything. The requester has identify the works and declare under penalty of perjury that they are operating on the behalf of the owner. I imagine
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by otterley 7mo ago
Then you should offer to pay them for one. I’m sure they’d love to hear from you, and they could probably deliver one to you for the right price. But it will be a high price.
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by otterley 7mo ago
What right as a consumer do you have that is pertinent here, other than to have the vendor adhere to the terms of the agreement you have with them? Anthropic has many customers despite the fact that they have occasional problems. They’re no
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by otterley 7mo ago
I know this is an unpopular opinion among freedom maximalists, but: It’s precisely because CloudFlare isn’t responding like other CDNs to reasonable demands to cut off pirate origin sites that this mess exists. If they reacted quickly to re
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by otterley 7mo ago
So use S3.
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by otterley 7mo ago
For ZFS, at least, `zfs send` is the backup solution. And it performs incremental backups with the `-i` argument.
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by otterley 7mo ago
ZFS is great! However, it's too complicated for most Linux server use cases (especially with just one block device attached); it's not the default (root filesystem); and it's not supported for at least one major enterprise Li
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by otterley 7mo ago
From the article: > [W]e shipped an optimization. Detect duplicate files by their content hash, use hardlinks instead of downloading each copy.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Another reason to use XFS -- it doesn't have per-inode hard link limits. (Some say ZFS as well, but it's not nearly as easy to use, and its license is still not GPL-friendly.)

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