Interesting choice to go with Prometheus directly, especially when other TSDBs have "native" support for OTLP ingestion support.

At least, in Japan, they're generally as advertised.

Depends on the country. In Japan, you could be considered a "public nusicance" and be tossed behind bars for a bit.

I'll get asked where I identify as "from" since I've moved around a lot as a kid, and without fail I'll respond 'Detroit'.

There's so much history and culture to explore; along with tons of huge parks.

If I had to leave Tokyo, would definitely be up there.

If I read the fine print correctly, you could receive 15k relocation assistance!

I would wonder if this could also be used as a kind of tripwire, where legitimate users won't present CAPCHA tokens, etc. But fake connections will.

I have no clue if this worked at all, but in college I made a site that had a checkbox that said “check this box if you’re human” and then hid it with bizarre CSS. If they checked the box, we errored out. I didn’t really do telemetry at all, so no clue if that worked at all, but yeah, I’ve had the same thought!

AKA: the fast track to setting disbarred and sanctioned.

As someone with a bank account in the US, they absolutely do ask you for your SSN now-days.

Hell, even my Japan Post Bank account asked my for my SSN.

Generally, this disclaimer is required for products that are released under the "Google" name but without any kind of support guarantees for enterprise customers.

That or it's a personal project that IARC decided could live in the workspace project.

Disc: Former Googler

> but without any kind of support guarantees for enterprise customers

Also known as every single Google product

OpenClaw or a bunch of agents.

Whic run on computers somewhere. So Google has a record of the source of the fraudulent calls.

It's interesting that they're choosing to do this broadcast in Japanese considering that everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English, and they could help more people by broadcasting that those languages.

Glad to know my tax dollars are doing something better than just harassing people to pay fees.

While the idea is noble, the press release states:

"This measure is based on NHK’s mission as an international public service media to provide essential information to Japanese nationals residing in or traveling in the region."

Broadcasting in English or Arabic isn't going to be of much use to Japanese nationals.

In general, Japanese are not very comfortable in using English. Thus for safety and critical information, broadcasting in their native language would feel much more trustworthy, reassuring and connected than any other language.

That’s what they were talking about:

> everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English

And I think I agree, how many Japanese citizens are going to be in the area that don’t speak English?

Living in that region, probably, but that's far from certain for Japanese people merely traveling in that region.

the point is, some.