This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle
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This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden has this just happened to you or someone you know?
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden sure, but that's in the terms of almost all online products.
If you don't agree to them, you can probably not post online.
And by the way, where *are* e.g. mastodon.social's TOS? Not the moderation rules, the actual TOS?
Because mastodon.social/terms gives me a 404...
Hmmm where are those for mastodon.de Mr. Vertretungsberechtigter?
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replied to bmaxv last edited by
@bmaxv @ErikUden there's this for mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy
And for mastodon.de: https://mastodon.de/privacy-policy
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
After realizing that my servers were offline since the 25th of January 2025, I've been in contact with Oracle support in a multitude of ways trying to figure out why this happened and how we can recover both the account and data.
I wasn't told that my account was disabled. I didn't receive an E-Mail or anything. When logging in, I was simply told that my username or password was incorrect. After (successfully) resetting my password twice, I realized it wasn't about the password. Oracle had just deleted my account without any notice.
Both through calls and text, always with the same service request (SR) number, I contacted support. Initially, support told me that my account was flagged “Inactive” and hence disabled. They also verified that they saw me login almost daily and that I never missed a payment or anything. Even if an account was inactive, that's never a reason to disable it, especially without any warning E-Mail or an E-Mail letting me know that my account was disabled in the first place.
This chat was the result of all of that, where the highest team I've yet been elevated to told me that there's nothing they can do about it, there's no reason they can tell me for why this happened, and there's no one else I could ask.
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
I also love how I ask “Is there anything I can do to avoid this happening in the future?” and they respond with “Oh, don't worry. You don't have a future at Oracle. This will not happen to you again, as we don't allow for you to make another account.”
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replied to Dolls Against Gravity last edited by
@ilookloud this just happened to me. Quite shocked, though I am not surprised.
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden What the hell? Not even an explanation? I mean, I've worked with Oracle for a couple of clients before and know that they are utterly incompetent as a company but this is the worst treatment I've ever heard of. I'm so sorry!
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
The tech person at Oracle at least lets me know that they'd feel similarly betrayed and dislike this handling of user data too 🥲
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
Don't worry: I have backups of all of this. It's just kafkaesque what is happening here.
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
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.
Erik Uden 🍑 (@[email protected])
Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: **Project Stargate** will be a $500.000.000.000 (*500 billion USD*) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you. Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said: > “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.” — Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [[Source: Business Insider](https://archive.ph/2Ck66)] This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.
MastodonDE (mastodon.de)
What a weird coincidence.
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Kind of a wtf moment, what is that even supposed to mean?
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden
Oh. Teh. Lulz.Edit: found the GDPR thread below.
Also, isn't GDPR applicable here? (I had also a account deleted with the reason of “we can't tell you” (and it happened while I was asking for help with the registration) and the help desk ignored my questions for data. But I had other problems and did not get very far.)
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden oh. I was already wondering whether you had annoyed NSA, Trump or someone of his friends. ...
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replied to Dźwiedziu last edited by
@dzwiedziu You're absolutely right. I've sent a GDPR request immediately. The EU stands against kafkaesque practices.
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replied to Ch M[ae][iy]e?r 🖤🤍 last edited by
@chbmeyer a post I recently made was reposted and only through a friend of mine seeing it I realized it had 3.8 million views on Reddit. To this day I'm being sent Instagram posts by other accounts reposting that daily through friends or because these accounts tag me.
It's easy (and even appreciated by me) when my posts leave this platform. I don't think I've angered anyone, I'm way too irrelevant. However, when arbitration is the norm, a small act like this can easily be pushed under the rug.
I guess the problem rather is that it may as well be true. Since we're given no explanation, or rather a refusal to explain what happened here by Oracle, we must come up with what sounds like a conspiracy.
Do I believe there's really a connection here? 99.9% sure there isn't. Is it possible for any AI to scan the internet for criticics and make their life harder? Sure is. Is it most likely Oracle's arbitrary practices? Yeah.
This could've happened to anyone, a critic, fan, or someone who's indifferent to Oracle. That's almost worse than it only happening to someone critical of their CEO.
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replied to Dolls Against Gravity last edited by
@ilookloud I paid them money. I still do. I also won't make any efforts to stop them from taking my money (additionally, I currently can't even do that, since I can't login to my account as it was deleted, although I'm seeing a charge for the next month).
So... I don't know what this is supposed to mean. It seems as if my account was deleted, but my server wasn't. I'm still paying for the server, but I will never be allowed to create an account to access that server.
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replied to indyradio last edited by
@indyradio Hyperbole of course but not far from.
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replied to Erik Uden 🍑 last edited by
@ErikUden Oracle are truly the Vogons of the tech world.
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