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Google fined $60M for misleading Australian mobile users about location data(abc.net.au)
3 points by cube00 4y ago|0 comments
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by cube00 4y ago
Given the way Chromebooks are infecting education, I'm not sure the schools space is as safe for MS anymore.
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by cube00 4y ago
> I can login to with just a password You're logging in with a Google Account and when the account gets locked it's game over with no chance of appeal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070914
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by cube00 4y ago
It's interesting that a super key even exists. Normally the enrolment QR codes are one time use only.
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by cube00 4y ago
Office buildings near me have them, they try to make them appear as "infotainment" to quote Otis in the article. A news headline and then ads for everything from food to cars to podcasts. Another headline, more ads.
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by cube00 4y ago
But the gas station owners are less interested in providing music, and far more excited about the prospect of force-feeding me advertisements. Elevator owners are already there, the ones I use all have advertising screens in them just lik
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Possible SpaceX debris falls in Australia from Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft(space.com)
5 points by cube00 4y ago|4 comments
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by cube00 4y ago
At the time I remember the discussions seemed to be "this how the GNOME team have decided things will be, it's better, deal with it" There was no discussion I saw that they doing all this under the threat of legal action, alt
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by cube00 4y ago
Unlike other products, self hosting only gives you the same as their basic version. So even keeping it up to date will never match their premium offering. This is of course fine, just making people aware before they spend time setting it up
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by cube00 4y ago
Just before you fall into the same trap I did of setting a self hosted version be aware: The free self-hosted version you can download from https://languagetool.org/download/ lacks all the premium rules (several thous
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by cube00 4y ago
7 transactions a second won't cut it unfortunately[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
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by cube00 4y ago
Spare a thought for those on exercise desk bikes and using a computer.
853.
by cube00 4y ago
This is as great example of how you can test the market when you have an idea before you sink too much into the setup. Single launch page, a price, "contact us" just goes to a regular email.
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by cube00 4y ago
tl;dr If you're on Firefox you can temporarily disable mixed http/https protection using the padlock icon near the URL. Of course it goes without saying that you should never provide anything sensitive with this protection disable
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by cube00 4y ago
The current round is using DKIM verified messages from the gmail.com domain. DKIM: 'PASS' with domain gmail.com
856.
by cube00 4y ago
This will be twisted to mount an argument to get people back into open plan office hell.
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by cube00 4y ago
There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time Visit each site in your password manager and knock over a couple a day. You'll never get anything that fully automates this because every site does the change differently. Ev
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by cube00 4y ago
If you could still login to the Registrars user account that owned the domain and that email address had been changed I suspect you should still be able to change the domain contact information via the self service console. Worst case you&#
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by cube00 4y ago
Self hosted on a cloud provider (not AWS). Interestingly when I logged into Microsoft's Smart Network Data Services I could also see my VPS provider had claimed the IP block as well so they were clearly invested in making sure spam was
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by cube00 4y ago
Just for sending plain old spam because they know these notifications bypass a lot of the filtering. Removed the names in case they've come from hacked accounts. Google Drive > Random Name (randomcharactershere@gmail.com) has invit
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by cube00 4y ago
Arriving in the inbox is one thing, but the thing really throwing me is they're getting the "important according to Google magic" flag applied. How can mail that fails all the tests you've mentioned (I just ran through t
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by cube00 4y ago
I've done the lot. SPF, not blacklisted, DMARC signed and set to reject. From what I can tell it's just that small domains are guilty until proven innocent. However it seems at lower volumes you can never send enough email to get
863.
by cube00 4y ago
In terms of spam using website specific email addresses has solved it for me (eg. hackernews@mydomain.example) No spam filter required. Of course Google and Microsoft both punish me by sending my mail to spam (even years later) for using my
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by cube00 4y ago
The spam that's allowed to be sent through Google Docs @mentions has been horrendous lately. What's even worse is they only let you ban the individuals. You can't turn off the notification email messages. Thankfully I'm
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by cube00 4y ago
Google can't even spare humans to rescue their paying Google One customers from automated account bans. [1] There's no way a human is involved in this ban. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073302
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by cube00 4y ago
> I'm curious what triggered this. 80/20 incomplete machine learning model. One day people and institutions will get the message and stop using Google for important things. Sadly it won't even be the next generation as t
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Duplicated votes are being cleaned up(meta.stackexchange.com)
1 points by cube00 4y ago|0 comments
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by cube00 4y ago
I disabled the personalised advertising in my Google account and it's astounding how many ads that look to me like scams are permitted on YouTube/Google's ad network. All using the same old over dubbed Musk videos from years
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by cube00 4y ago
I can't imagine even the likes of Apple with their WeatherKit want to have to deal with installing and maintaining their own physical meteorological sensors in every country.
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by cube00 4y ago
Low level detail of HTTP connections is already abstracted away in any general REST API.

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