Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.

I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.

This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work).

I'm not currently running anything and have no plans to at the moment. I've always had a mild dread that I'll suddenly get a bill for more than $0.00.

If AWS can goof in a way that causes obviously massive bills (like today), what's to say they can't goof in more subtle ways and start charging small additional amounts that many people may not notice and just pay it.

Excellent point!

I remember seeing a story shared by AMS RDS on linked-in that basically said... "Now with predictable pricing"

Huh?

What would your damages be? They’re not actually going to charge your credit card for 34 billion.

I could see someone sadly taking their own life over this.

I mean, emotional damages are a thing right?

Not really in the way the media would have you believe.

Like “I was scared for a couple minutes on a Friday morning until I saw the vendor status page” is orders of magnitude away from the bar here.

I wonder how many people died of heart attack when they saw this.

Puerto Rico is always left out of these analyses. AFAIK we are included in the same data sources (like dol.gov), so I'm always disappointing to see the exclusion.

I've been having a lot of fun building https://vgstack.app

It's yet another video game backlog tracking service but I'm building this one to automate as much as I can about the actual game logging process. So for example, I'm auto-forwarding all my Nintendo and PlayStation purchase emails to a custom inbox. That email gets parsed, the game(s) and date(s) are extracted, and I get a new queue item I can approve or deny easily on my phone. It also has a documented CRUD API for easy integration for other services (like Zapier).

Yes, it also has a chatbot... I've been toying with a natural language interface for quick actions like "just beat TOTK" to mark Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as "beaten". It's a bring-your-own-Gemini-key approach... So far, its working pretty well for me. It also supports basic questions about your game library and history that would be tricky to represent without a lot of filtering options. Like for example, "How many Switch games did I beat between March and July of 2024?". Fun stuff like that.

Tech stack is Django/HTMX/Alpine/DaisyUI/Postgres/self-hosted.

If you decide to try it out, I'd love your feedback! There's a quick in-product feedback widget on the bottom-left which sends me an email :)

"btw OP, the link doesn't work in your blog - there's some markup issues"

Whoops, thanks for catching that! Just fixed it, here is the link just in case: https://github.com/rnegron/WiiNewsPR/blob/11df0e242bb1f4134e...

"Does the Wii just accept any "signed" content? If so, wow, 2007 was a crazy time..."

Yup! I suppose they assumed that hard-coding the URL was enough of a safeguard!

For me, it's just such a nostalgic and pleasant to use interface. I still keep the Wii up and running to play some retro games every now and then (it's a great emulation system as well). Being able to learn more about how these "old-school" Nintendo web apps work was something I had been curious about for awhile!

Author here, thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions or discuss it with folks.

Dude, this is awesome. El Nuevo Dia on the Wii is peak bori brain. :)

Thanks, Sergio! Appreciate it. Was definitely fun getting it all working and seeing that familiar logo pop up on the Wii of all places!

Such a fun project! ACNH's font is so pleasing to look at. Also, thanks for linking to the source code.