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Thanks for the feedback! I've fixed this display bug on mobile devices.

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Maybe they invested a lot of personal money in BTC, tweeted, and hoped for a large short-term gain from the increased value of BTC?

Sure, but in this analogy, if other students cheat off your test, you're punished for it.

Setting aside all of the other absurdities that Google has been throwing out here, the one thing that really gets to me is the concept that "ad fraud" is even a type of punishment for Google. I run an site with Google Ads, and users of my site have, in the past, realized this and purposefully ran autoclickers on my ads in order to get me banned from AdSense.

I don't understand how they can blame the publisher for this type of action. I understand they obviously can't pay out for the fraudulent clicks, but instead of banning the account, simply don't count the fraudulent clicks! What's so difficult about that?

Haha yep, he's still teaching. My semester of instruction from Prof Hillfinger was cut in half thanks to the pandemic though :(

We have a project at UC Berkeley for CS 61B (undergrad data structures) called "Gitlet", where we need to make a git implementation in Java. Was super fun!

If you're curious: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/sp20/materials/proj/pr...

I noticed this before but didn't really give it much thought like "worst comes to worst they delete all my repos, so what?" but I realize now that someone could literally rewrite the commit history and inject a virus into a popular repo without anyone noticing. This is terrifying and definitely needs to be addressed.

I bought my first DigitalOcean VPS for $5/month in high school. The same one is still running today, around 4 years later. One of the best investments I've ever made, allowing me to self-host a ton of my side projects, Discord bots, and anything else I might want.

I've barely used half of my storage and my CPU/RAM is consistently sitting at 30-40% usage. Incredibly affordable for students like me. Plus, their interaction with students is fantastic (they throw free credits at us all the time).

I do the same thing as OP - I have multiple separate containers, each has its own set of cookies, and its own Google account that it is logged into. I just change my window when I want to use a different account.

From what I understand, you're asking how you can just "temporarily" log into an account — can't you just add that account as a new user on Chrome?

If not, you can always open an incognito window or a guest window, do your business, and close it. I do that often when I'm logging into an account that I don't want to persist.

You should probably read about the Prohibition[0] and the disadvantages of prohibiting addictive substances like alcohol.

[0]: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition

High school ruined this book for me. It would've been easier to read if I hadn't been forced to tear apart every single sentence for analysis. Hearing "Great Gatsby" triggers my gag reflex now, along with most other books I analyzed in high school.

If this is truly a shift in ideology at the leadership level, it's long overdue, but a welcome change; Facebook has depended on privacy-breaching practices for far too long. There will have to be some serious innovation and effort from their end in order to come up with a different business model and undo the damage that they've done thus far.

This could just be a big sham that the leadership is trying to make a big deal about, but I'm hopeful that they've finally realized that the path they're going down isn't sustainable.

Waymo seems like it's nearing its final stages. I have high hopes!

People often make fun of Google/Alphabet for their graveyard of failed initiatives/products. While some of it might be warranted, projects like this—that strive to solve a large, global issue through somewhat charitable actions—are generous and have only increased my respect for the Google/Alphabet/X team. I hope they don't get flamed for this, and hopefully some of their research and donation funds can live on and solve the issue that Loon originally intended to one day.

Perhaps they have countermeasures for this? Maybe a unique identifier for each meeting that alters the audio signature.

I'm excited about everything mentioned in the rumors, except for the "flat edge design similar to the iPhone 12". One of my favorite parts of the MacBook design is how easy it is to pick up off of a flat surface with one hand. The tapers help me slide my fingers underneath the computer to hold on. I feel like if there is a flat edge, it'll be hard to grip on the side unless you're using 2 hands.

I would've thought Google remembers what you search while logged in and sells it off. Maybe they do it in a different way - never really thought about that. I'm logged into Google when I search but my profile fails to load at the top right.

It's super interesting that all Google services that I've tried are down _except_ for Google Search. What would isolate Search from the rest of Google's products such that it wouldn't be affected by a mass outage like this?

If you haven't heard the rumors surrounding AirPods Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXYxqL-dB8

Perhaps part of the reason was the ease of access for minors. I'm now over 18, but when PayPal got popular, my friends and I were under 18 so we weren't allowed to purchase stuff (like video games) online since we didn't have our own credit/debit cards. PayPal used to not verify your age so it was perfect for this type of stuff.

Banning the app from the app stores should pretty much kill it from the consumer point of view, which is what Trump is trying to mitigate. I don't see how that won't be effective.

Technically speaking, this is a super awesome product.

But is it really needed? I could see this opening up issues with security if multiple people have access — and if only one person has access, then why not simply forward the finalized changes to someone who can commit and push instead of sending it to someone on the marketing team?

I currently use Caprine [1], which is an open-source Messenger client for Mac. It's great for stuff like privacy (I can block the "seen" indicator, "typing" indicator, and the "delivered" indicator, but its performace is pretty bad, especially for large group conversations.

I'm trying out the new Messenger app now, and it seems to have better performance, but I still notice quite a bit of delay when interacting with the UI. Also, the right-hand sidebar isn't present and there's no way to enable it.

Not sure which one I'll use, going to keep testing it out.

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine

Just wanted to see if HN had any recommendations. Is it known to be good?

Is Facebook targeting Whoisguard directly? I am incredibly thankful for Whoisguard — back when I purchased my first domain, I didn't know about it, and to this day, I get 5-10 spam emails per day regarding my domain. It's so bad that I've had to change my primary email to something else.

There definitely should be a mechanism by which large companies like Facebook can approach Whoisguard and ask for a site to be taken down, though.

Google I/O webpage has been updated with a message: https://events.google.com/io/

I have absolutely no faith that Google will be able to fix this. I run a small site that gets ~5K views per day, and a few weeks ago we had a heavy traffic day (~15K views in one day) due to a retweet on Twitter. Google marked it as fraud, and my account was "temporarily" banned. The ban never got lifted, so I did some research and finally got it resolved (if anyone's curious, I made a video detailing how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCoBoK1hEM)

If Google marked organic traffic as fraudulent, their algorithm has a long way to go before they can start distinguishing between sabotage and actually fraudulent traffic.

Are you immune to the TOS if you're paying for G Suite?

Ah, thought it was some reference to the old Blogger design. facepalm

What "strange orange website" are you talking about? I thought Google customer service was a myth — would love to know where I can go if I have an issue in the future.