@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@cdarwin@c.imPatrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as
$1.5 trillion for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm
after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company,
which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html
@stargazer@woof.tech
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialFor "reasons" I've been increasingly using ffplay to play music from the command line (e.g., formats that make mplayer & vlc glitch), so I wrote a script to make it play playlists:
while read p; do
ffplay -nodisp -autoexit $p
done < $1
3 LOC, no AI!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWorking on adding glitch mode to my “convert potato photos from Kodak DC59 and 120 to modern formats” library.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI cannot recommend these stickers enough
https://masto.hackers.town/@X00001/115888402678209209
@hynek@mastodon.socialWhatsApp for macOS had a broken reaction icon for several releases now and I wonder how much slop is piled on itself so they can't fix such an obvious visual glitch
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robot…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI'm seeing an odd rendering (?) glitch on mastodon at the moment - *sometimes* when I mouse over someones @example link the text in that toot 'jumps' slightly and then goes back just for a few frames; I'm not sure if it's mastodon version, firefox, or the phase of the moon.
(Firefox 152.0/Fedora/x86)
@yaya@jorts.horseso I used to sell themed magnetic poetry sets I made on my etsy but my shops been closed for a while, anyway I made a very basic internet version of my Glitch in the Matrix set that's live now.
doesn't work on mobile sry but ye
https://iantheonline.neocities.org/magnet…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeIs it #MusicWomenWednesday yet?
Glitch*
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHappy First Day of #Pride2026!!! Much joy to everyone, even with *gestures*
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialFrance's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@lukem@hachyderm.ioSome weird glitch in the Matrix happened that I was reaching for vanilla ice cream and I ended up with wildberry ice cream.
But that’s okay, I needed them for iced coffee.
