Death Cab for Cutie is my favorite by far. I’ve seen them live 4 times.

I’ve also seen their frontman perform solo twice, and once more with his other project the Postal Service.

As I assume most of you are aware

I most certainly was not! After some searching, I found an article about Synology’s new restrictions on which hard drives can be used in Synology’s NASs.

A few important notes:

1. This is a completely bullshit decision on Synology’s part. Unacceptable, and a total overreach.
2. This only applies to new DiskStation/RackStation models, so if you already have yours, you should be fine — as far as I can tell.
3. The internet has responded with a “hack” already: https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db?utm_source=syndication&pubDate=20250505

A prediction: This is a scream test. Within a month, Synology will walk this back. They’ll make some excuse about it taking time to test other hard drive brands for compatibility. They’ll claim that they never intended to prevent you from using whatever hard drives you want, that they just needed to make 100% sure everything was perfect first, and that they always had your best interests at heart.

This will all be a lie, of course. The real plan is to measure how loud their biggest customers scream about this change. And then, maybe a year or two from now, they’ll quietly update a user agreement or a warranty document to reduce coverage for NASs that use third-party hard drives. Maybe they’ll add some extra “safety features” to DSM for third-party hard drives (of course with the intention of keeping you safe) that will cause a “minor” performance hit.

I’m sure that if you subscribe to DSM Premium for a reasonable monthly fee, all of your problems will be solved.

Each one is like a little dream I’m not willing to give up on yet.

Fair enough! Maybe if enough organizations follow suit, they’ll be forced to stop ignoring their service being used by spammers and scammers.

Right now they have no incentive to stop abuse on their platform, because they’re making money off of that abuse too. It’s bullshit.

SendGrid is a very popular platform for programmatic email, as is the original Twilio for programmatic SMS. They have a very solid API and integrations, so are often a go-to for developers who want to offload the work of sending emails (account registration, notifications, password reset, order confirmation) and SMS (verification codes, etc).

Unfortunately Twilio (and thus SendGrid) is also used heavily for “marketing”, which in turn means they’re great for spammers too.

Still, I would never recommend IP blocking one of the largest programmatic email senders in the world. Inevitably your end users are going to miss something important, and while you may have saved them from hundreds of spam messages for every one important thing that they end up missing, we both know what they’re going to remember at the end of the day.

Edit: Realized I never answered your actual question. Here is a list of companies Twilio claims to provide email services for: https://customers.twilio.com/en-us/sendgrid

I’ll follow you into battle any day.

I had to look it up, and after reading a lengthily Wikipedia page on Greek mercenaries, I tried the second result: an XKCD comic I’ve seen before but had forgotten. So today, I’m one of the lucky 10,000 again.

I mean, it’s pretty easy to see “JD Vance” and a word that looks strikingly similar to “Trump”, and infer the meaning of that word to be some sort of a joke version of “Trump”.

I didn’t get the reference, but I do have basic reading comprehension.

An “AI” company who doesn’t want their content scraped? Say it ain’t so! /s

I just used Shottr to take a scrolling screenshot and captured the whole policy. I could OCR it, but I have no idea what to do with it from there…

I think the best you could do would be to install a FOSS OS, a FOSS web server, and use a FOSS page builder or content manager.

Objective truth.

I hope that !fuck_ai@lemmy.world is an exception!

The fediverse just doesn’t have the audience nor ease of use to be the smart investment for most people, at least in the short term.

In the long term, I believe the fediverse would be the right move. However most people struggle to think long-term outside of their own fields, and scientists are not immune to this phenomenon.

.sucks

I maintain that this was made purely as an income stream for registrars. Every single company and brand should be rushing to buy companyname.sucks. Every town buying yourtown.sucks. Every political candidate getting into bidding wars over candidate.sucks or opponent.sucks.

Major appreciation for the contributor who got humidifiers working in VeSync!

Clearly the solution to all problems is executive orders and deportation.

It doesn’t even matter if the problems are real! Who cares? (If you care, please expect an executive order to be issued calling for your deportation.)

Yes it’s a bad thing. This legislation gives very broad power to the federal government to ban apps and platforms without any oversight. It might be TikTok today, but it could be Lemmy tomorrow.

You will shit.

Yes mommy. <3

First I laughed, but now I’m seeing the genius.

I run tech for a midsize business, and consult for several small businesses. Aside from one 4-person company, all of the businesses I oversee found it less expensive to host their own LLM in Azure than to pay for OpenAI’s subscriptions. I’m talking 10% of the cost of subscriptions for the same functionality.

The midsize business in particular has only seen measurable benefit from more specialized/global applications of “AI” tools, such as integrating machine learning into data analytics. There are a ton of people who use the LLM chat, but I think the mishaps caused by the LLM may have undone any efficiency gains. Either way, I’m sure glad they’re not paying hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for it.