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That sucks, but honestly, this is why I did not jump on the Oracle cloud offering with all its free resources. It's Oracle, it's a trap. I assume they saw an activity spike they did not like and thus blocked you. Of course they don't feel bound to their TOS, again, it's Oracle... Maybe someone here knows a fitting alternative? 1GB is not much data, but it might be over the limit for free tiers.
OCI it's pretty confusing. They have two free tiers, the expanded initial time based and the always free tier. As far as I can tell, when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade. They deny a lot of credit cards they should accept. I have been unable to upgrade on any of my cards. Since provisioning always free tier a…
> when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade yes, this is exactly it! nailed it
Very annoying for you. Is it correctly understood that Oracle offer a free tier instance with 24 gigs memory? That sounds too good to be true comparing to other vendors.
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It will get fixed just as soon as the socialists and neo-marxists obtain power, and then ... create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime, just like everywhere else they gain power? Like, seriously, what are you talking about? The US is designed that way as compared to what other society? In every society under the sun, money translates to power, and people with more money tend to have more pow…
If they "create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime", then they were never socialists to begin with, contrary to what a considerable number of people have been conditioned to believe such that they may continue to be endlessly exploited.
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Gosh those brainwashed, exploited masses! If only they let people like you brainwash and exploit them instead. I suggest you watch this presentation from someone who fled a socialist country in their youth and now spends their time warning America of what could happen should it fall to socialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyR6QK0igN0
Right, it's totally the fault of "socialism" for the shitshow that is the Venezuelan political and socioeconomic climate and not, you know, the neverending merry-go-round of military dictatorships, corruption, and civil unrest going on for more than a century and counting - i.e. long predating Venezuelan "socialism" (more like social democracy at best). I suggest you base your understanding of geopolitics on somethin…
I remembered I had a similar experience with IBM cloud last year. I created an account, created several VMs and deleted them. Then after half an hour, boom, my account was banned, telling me something like "violated our policy". Interestingly, I just tried to log into my IBM cloud account and it was successful. I don't know how and when I was un-banned. I received the email about the ban but not the unban.
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If they "create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime", then they were never socialists to begin with, contrary to what a considerable number of people have been conditioned to believe such that they may continue to be endlessly exploited.
Sounds like No True Scotsman to me. Can we name a single time they've taken power and not created an even more oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime than the one they wanted to replace? But sure, this time it'll be different because we'll have the Right People in charge.
When someone claims to be a Scotsman despite having never set foot in Scotland, having nothing so much as even acquaintances (let alone ancestors) who've ever set foot in Scotland, and having open disdain for anything pertaining to Scotland, it's worth questioning whether that someone is indeed a Scotsman.
> Can we name a single time they've taken power and not created an even more oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime than the one they wanted to replace?
Rojava and the EZLN come to mind as contemporary examples. Not to mention, you know, the very existence of credit unions, cooperatives, labor unions, and other forms of economic democracy (i.e. literally the definition of socialism, right here in capitalist economies).
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Right, it's totally the fault of "socialism" for the shitshow that is the Venezuelan political and socioeconomic climate and not, you know, the neverending merry-go-round of military dictatorships, corruption, and civil unrest going on for more than a century and counting - i.e. long predating Venezuelan "socialism" (more like social democracy at best). I suggest you base your understanding of geopolitics on somethin…
It totally is, you're right. Dictatorship and corruption is the socialism and there never existed and never will exist any other.
It's interesting to see that they also adopted the current industry standard of automatically banning people at random, not telling them why and not giving them any way to rectify it. But then, well, I mean, it's Oracle. What did you expect? Normally something like this would put them on my "will never use any of their products nor work with them" shitlist, but it's Oracle, so they were already there since, like, eve…
I think if you're making a list of big tech companies that will sometimes randomly shut-out customers due to automated monitoring, then that's all of them isn't it? I've seen a story about every one of them I'm sure. It's not a problem with individual companies, it's a general societal problem.
If a big ban list is what’s needed to remind people that cloud isn’t the only way to do things, then I’m all for it.
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Most dead comments are rubbish. Some are only unpopular. 1 dead comment is enough to shadow ban a new account apparently.
> 1 dead comment is enough to shadow ban a new account apparently. That's definitely not so.