I was briefly involved in a GitHub discussion that happened before the fork but I think I got the reason why. People (well, me in that case) were asking for more fine grained options like per project instructions, and the Cline author's response was basically "not interested in the added complexity but feel free to fork". So somebody did.
Although I think Cline did eventually add some of the requested options.
as a user, cant say much about the hardware side - but on the software side they aren't the most developer friendly IMO.
APIs are locked behind "contact us" button and is only reserved for enterprise users with seemingly arbitrary criteria on what/who they want to work with
do they ever publish an actual number on this? given the size of HTML documents v.s. images, I imagine its something thats something that can be exceeded very easily without knowing..
e.g. is running a personal photography website OK?
Hah, yeah I think it may have. I've noticed an increase in comments over the last few days, which usually suggests the algo is showing it to new people again, and it got featured on the Adafruit blog this morning which probably reinforced it further, but no idea why the recent resurgence.
They hire a lot from Southeast Asia - I know a couple of people who went there to find work. Some were deceived with promise of "customer service" work, some went there willingly knowing whats going on due to lack of economic opportunities back home.
The operation varies from online gambling operation to investment scams, mostly targeting chinese citizens. I know many that operates from Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, etc due to ease of "getting around" local law enforcement as well (and apparently, Dubai), and some even have "internal transfers" between these countries.
with soundcloud, i just got a generic 403 from cloudfront
combine that with country-level internet filter, the internet is getting harder and harder to use :(