Readit Newsa254613e commented on Reasons to not use your own domain for email bautista.dev/reasons-to-n... · Posted by u/EduardoBautista
I strongly disagree.
- Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can't do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail?
- If I die I don't care if someone else reads my mail, I'm dead. Also you can add a dead man's switch and you should provide your family with access to your passwords etc. in case something does happen.
- if you are worried about expiration, didn't one registrar just offer 100 year registration? Also the process is usually (for. com at least): domain expires, registrar removes DNS until you pay, usually 30 days, then the domain goes to retention where you can pay the +250 fee to get it back which I believe is another 60 days or something that you have to pay and get it back. I have had customers that I would remind over and over only to have them fall into retention and then complain about the fee but they got their domain back.
Even if there is no option for 100 year registration, 10 years is pretty common[0]. Google deactivates an account and deletes all data after 2 years of inactivity[1]. So even if someone stops using the domain, all data would be deleted after 2 years, emails sent to it would bounce for ~8 years, and only then could someone take ownership of the domain. Even if you're using another paid service, your payments would fail, and your account would also be deleted before your domain expires.
0: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/renew-domain-name-2018...
a254613e commented on Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start printing on their own themessenger.com/tech/bam... · Posted by u/rcarmo
Does this mean remote anywhere within US? or anywhere in world?
I was wondering the same, and saw that this was asked in previous Who is hiring threads, but a clear answer on what "Remote" means was never provided, so until that happens here's what I found:
Seems like Europe is a "maybe" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428210 and Canada is a "yes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427290
I also looked it up on LinkedIn. Out of 148 employees marked as working in engineering on LinkedIn, only 14 are based outside the US - and all 14 are in Canada.
Some older comments in Who is hiring? Threads say "continental US preferred", and "US timezone preferred", but these comments are a few years old - although the data on LinkedIn seems to imply that this is still the case.
Besides being sick of subscriptions for every small thing, I'm not sure I understand the premise here:
"Pay to download or for other services: Not worth it; users can find the software somewhere else and they don't need your other services."
So users won't pay a one-time fee, but instead they will pay a subscription to get that one software they need? They won't "find the software somewhere else" if it's behind a subscription, but will do so if it's behind a single payment?
a254613e commented on CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team netlify.com/blog/ceo-anno... · Posted by u/joshmanders
> From 2020 to 2023 we grew our team substantially and added layers of management. We now need to simplify Netlify to be more nimble
While management layers certainly do add overhead to varying degrees, simply getting rid of it and trying to be move faster and be more nimble, in my experience, leads to one of two things:
1. The existing management layer work gets offloaded to multiple people who have no interest in those topics, usually without any extra pay for them as well.
2. The management layers get removed without any replacement, which usually leads to long-term overhead across all departments that's often hard to quantify.
Combined with the wish to expand and evolve, especially within the enterprise sector, neither of the above options is a good choice. The only thing such change is good for is cutting expenses in the short term to inflate company value on paper.
This might be Germany specific, I don't know. People seem to order stuff, use it, then send it back, and Amazon sells it as new (which it isn't - just like cars, you buy it and drive it, it's a used car).
Used items: Electronics, DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, lenses (especially bad, has someone dropped them?), latest (this week) was a Gardena water splitter. I mostly by somewhere else if possible today (Bauhaus for garden stuff, Mediamarkt for electronics, cameras from my local store).
It doesn't help that too many manufacturers don't seal their packaging.
I have around 180 orders from Amazon in 2022 in Germany, I've ordered multiple DSLRs/Mirrorless cameras, lenses, all my Gardena stuff, and a ton of more things - never had one single item arrive that showed any signs of use, neither on the package nor on the item itself, and I've never heard anyone else say that they got used items.
It's very weird that you've had so many used items delivered, but it's definitely not a common thing in Germany.
So cringy. Should we also add badges for doing it without autocomplete, syntax highlighting. Hell, why even bother with text, if you didn't develop it by punching cards then you're not a real developer.
a254613e commented on ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword jameswillia.ms/posts/chat... · Posted by u/jamespwilliams
ChatGPT feels like the sequel of IBM Watson. Super intriguing first impressions, but I doubt it will solve any real problems.
Not sure what you consider "real problems".
I already use it instead of google to look up stuff, as well as to learn additional things.
Is it some sort of magical AI that will always produce 100% accurate answers no matter what the question is? Absolutely not.
Is it better than giving me a list of links where some of them contain inaccurate privacy invading outdated garbage written than humans? To me personally, yes - it's much better.
I do have to say that I'm not attempting to solve cryptic crosswords or similar, but rather I use it for things that interest me or that I don't understand. Or even to go through some code I've written, to find bugs, improve it, and so on. And at least for my use case it has been more reliable than a lot of people I know.
> Our customers rely on us to make access simple without sacrificing quality and reliability. Unauthorized app integrations, stemming from only 0.2% of myQ users, previously accounted for more than half of the traffic to and from the myQ system, and at times constituted a substantial DDOS event that consumed high quantities of resources.
Yeah, that sounds plausible, because:
- Home Assistant users are power users, thus more likely to actually use the devices in question;
- Official IoT software and integrations are uniformly shit, designed to discourage effective use (while maximizing data collection).
Thus, I read this statement as: "We're not happy that some of our customers decided to actually use the 'smart'/'connected' aspects of our product; our service-providing part was not ready to provide the service, and unlike the data collection part, it was never intended to."