I just want to say thank you for all your good work. We are very proud to have been a small part of your efforts at Cloud 66. Keep up the good work.

sometimes I feel we need to hire someone just to catch up with google breaking changes.

When you signup for Railway, they have uncommon way of making sure you have read and understood their T&C regarding abuse of their systems, including crypto mining, etc.

My guess is that many are abusing their free tier, causing them trouble with their service providers.

I take no joy in seeing Railway take a hit like this, even as a competitor, but free compute attracts all sorts of strange users. We've been there and decided early on to avoid free compute even it costs us our top of the funnel.

That is a good hypothesis but then you’d imagine they could combine it with registered clients to keep crawlers accountable.

‘Keeping crawlers accountable’ sounds like whack-a-mole.

At least to me because benign crawling is likely to be a tiny subset of all crawling activity that is not done by google, etc.

Overall, it's an interesting idea. Although it's Google and it's packed, it's going to be packed with Gemini and Google AI and whatnot. My problem is not the AI, nor is it that it's an undefined territory for what a laptop use case is. My problem is Google's attention span. Google is notoriously bad at paying attention to any product for more than 18 months. I'm not going to spend money on buying a piece of hardware where it's going to be totally irrelevant from a manufacturing point of view in 18 months and be left high and dry holding the bag.

It's turned into a bizarre place. Today I asked the same question on /r/meta and my question was immediately removed without explanation. I tried to message the mods and got bounced with a "you cannot send a message to that user"

It was much better years ago.

We certainly see a lot more automated security vulnerability reports coming our way that are clearly generated by AI and in bulk.

As a SOC 2 compliant company we have to record each one and respond to them as per our policies.

Our solution was to use AI to combat that as the first line of defence and filtering. Eventually we turned this system into a separate business (fortworx.com) because it seems a lot of other companies have the same problem.

Just woke up to this. Not sure if I’m reading this right. So this is the same company that puts up Captcha pages all over the internet?

I'm going to plug Cloud 66 here for you as well. You get a happy middle between a fully managed PaaS and running your own servers.