a good reminder to back up your shit regardless of what service you’re using.
This seems relevant https://youtu.be/0gQbM5lUU_8
Historically, the only thing Oracle ever made which was good was their database, and even that is only worth it beyond a certain size of dataset and number of simultaneous requests being served.
Nice to know that they go above and beyond to uphold GDPR
We don’t move your data across borders… Because we don’t have it any more!
As someone who had that misfortune to work woth their products, this tracks just great. Honestly. I’ve used their Apex and SQL developer. Both of them are unintuitive to use, inconsistent, lacking features, and just a complete resource hogs in their own ways. Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.
I recall My company at the time was getting free rehosting pro serve and 6 months active credit. Heavy oracle rac shop. Now, 6 years on they are stuck. I offered to migrate them off oracle but the CEO likes oracle. Down with the ship, I guess.
Oh god, Apex. I was trying to enjoy my morning. Unintuitive isn’t even the right way to describe it. It has to be the most complicated way to build an application and that’s just sticking with the templates. Even knowing what I would need to change would require guess work and 5 minutes of hunting to find the action that may not even work
Ancient service contracts with companies who wouldn’t be able to afford migrating to a new ecosystem. That’s all that’s keeping most of these older tech companies afloat.
Something about eggs in one basket.
Two baskets of eggs? Have you seen how much they cost?
Not just oracle. Couple years ago Google nuked an Australian pension fund cloud environment with no way to restore. Just poof all data gone.
Pretty sure Google did restore it, no? It was Google’s fuckup, but there were backups.
No, the org had their own backups because of compliance reasons.
thank fuck! Guidelines are written in blood, and lost bytes
That was mistake on Google part if I remember correctly, it wasn’t intentional.
Oopsie, the photos of your dead wife/husband/father/mother/pet/children are all gone. Pleasure doing bussiness with you! 🤗
We’re sowwwie.
what’s oracle?
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
It’s the problem with their “always free” virtual machines. Use too much, and they delete it for abuse. Use just a little, and they delete it for inactivity.
Those aren’t free because Oracle is benevolent, but simply because probably they had a contract with Ampere to purchase millions of those arm server CPUs and they have vacancy
They’re “free” in the hope that they will catch a whale: someone gets used to their infrastructure with a test, then spin more paid virtual machines
If in a specific datacenter, suddenly a whale is asking more resources, the free ones are getting the cut
Ah but this guy said he was paying them, in this reply on Mastodon, and that in fact they didn’t even stop the charge for next month.
I’m kinda excited about my free tier. Gonna see what happens in the future.
My much brainier than me friend was telling me about the courses he was taking to apply to Oracle. I had to break it to him how far down they’ve fallen, and not to expect anything working for them. He’s smart, but not in the right social channels like the Fediverse to see what the real people are saying.
All of the tech people everywhere know about Oracle. You’d have to be actively avoiding the info, or be coming in from a completely different subculture at this point.
This is exactly why you don’t use anything from Oracle, especially free stuff like OCP. If you think you’re not going to regret it eventually, you’re fucking wrong.
I am moderately surprised that this didn’t have anything to do with Trump or Elon Musk. I was pretty curious what activist organization Erik Uden ran. But, the punchline wasn’t that, and was in the Mastodon replies.
Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle’s CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353
What a weird coincidence
I think the Oracle CEO was the original CEO asshole before the current batch became the new big thing. No that it means that he’s actually deleting accounts left and right, but he’s been a dick before it was cool.
Sounds about right for Oracle. I worked for a company that got bought by Oracle, and the support ticketing system we used was owned by Salesforce. Now, Larry Ellison hates Salesforce. So everyone was told to eliminate use of all Salesforce software.
Only problem was the Oracle software they wanted me to switch to - Service Center - was terrible. It was designed for massive call centers, not my team of five. It had almost zero automation, and the UX was circa 1985.
So I had a meeting with the Service Center team to go over my concerns. One feature I needed was an autocomplete field for ticket macros. This let us quickly process messages in our workflow. And it was just an autocomplete field, something I’d built myself dozens of times.
The Service Center folks acted like they’d never seen anything like that. They said it would take a year to add that feature to their product, but management still said I had to switch. So my boss, who had my back, got it thrown up the chain of command at Oracle. And then again. And again.
After a year and a half of this, averaging about a meeting a quarter, I finally got on the phone with an EVP who asked a very good question: “How much is this costing us per year?”
“$5,000” I said
“Why are you wasting my time with this?” she said
“Good question” I said.
I ended up getting to keep my ticketing software. I don’t know if Service Center has autocomplete fields yet.
What a weird coincidence
There’s a really good chance it IS coincidence. Oracle Cloud has a history of straight up deleting “always free” tier VMs and data in Oracle Cloud. This has been going on for years.
But he said he was paying: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930315726322526
I haven’t done any extensive looking at his situation specifically, but your link is more confusing than clarifying. He originally said his access was revoked and all his data deleted, but in your linked post it says his access to was revoked, but his server is still running. Is he saying that his VM still exists, the OS still running, but someone logged into the OS and specifically deleted all of his data leaving the server intact? That doesn’t sound likely, so I don’t understand what his situation is.
Does that include permabanning the users too?
What a weird coincidence
Those coincidences are going to keep happening unless you start Mario Brothering CEOs
Larry Ellison being a contentious, petty cunt? Must be a day ending in y.
Honestly it’s so annoying we just can’t natively crossposting from mastodon and we have to keep using screenshots.
Would be cool if there was a way to basically display a toot with mastadon-like formatting simply by linking it in Lemmy. Since it’s all in the Fediverse it could even display the live number of likes, boosts, etc. and provide an easy link to the toot author’s profile
You have my support. I don’t do twitter-like feeds (never got the appeal), but absolutely love the content on Mastodon. Having that content on my Lemmy feed would be golden.
Sounds like a fantastic feature to add in. Linking the feds together to promote useage.
Could someone reply with tagging the community?
Sadly no. Replies don’t open new posts
And even if they did, you can’t reply from Lemmy. You can’t even load the post from Lemmy. You’d need to use something that actually interface with Mastodon posts.
Would be cool if fediverse instances auto created a “Fediverse” topic/thread/etc that was only dedicated to federating ActivityPub things from other services.
Like I’d love to go to c/Fediverse or even something like c/Mastodon and c/Loops and whatnot to get some more content from within Lemmy
Edit: maybe f/Mastodon or ap/Mastodon for “Fediverse/ActivityPub” to differentiate them from the user made communities?
Could a mbin user?
Go ahead and submit a PR then.
ORACLE: One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison
