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maxproon Who reads your email?

why do you think this is a coincidence? I thought there's nothing hidden that Google scans your conversations and targets you with ads. And YouTube is part of Google portfolio... so nothing strange here

maxproon ChatGPT generated a puzzle game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rohitpailw...

this comment thread started with this link, this is exactly the same game

maxproon Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account

Is there a customer service at Google? Had no luck with them... once I got an email after they charged me twice for Play Music, but this was canned response. It took them almost 7 months to figure this out and pay my money back.

maxproon Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account

This!

I wanted to switch from Google few times (always postponed it to a "next time"), but reading this today I realized how devastating it would be to get locked out. So in the next few days I will move away from Gmail.

maxproon An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

I was struggling with rails 6 and whole JS / webpack thing. But with rails 7 it feels like home again

maxproon Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session

But you can do the same with any password manager. If you don't lock your "vault" any of your passwords are exposed.

I think it would make sense to create a "regenerate" button or something like that.

maxproon A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director

Thanks for the mod_md hint, seems to be a perfect fit for me

maxproon A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director

I don't think this is an issue with LE or the implementation. Maybe we need different policies for such organizations, but this is for sure not a LE issue

maxproon Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

Antivirus: This is a virus!

MineCity: Exactly what a virus would say...

maxproon The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

You forgot that transistors may or may not be replaced by something completely different not yet invented... now everything is covered

maxproon After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses personal details of users

It is not the first case for Telegram. So, Durov will continue with his show... they claim that Telegram is e2e encrypted, but don't mention that needs to be activated per chat

maxproon FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client

That they are not able to target you and others with ads worries me. I'm asking myself what are they doing with all this data they gather on people?

Regarding your point working at google, I don't think the entirety of google is evil. There have to be good people somewhere. But some parts are just evil.

maxproon Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

Not really, as GDPR is not only about screwing up big companies. Certain kind of data must be saved by companies (like financial transactions). You can request the deletion, but they are still allowed to save some of the data.

maxproon Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)

This is only if you use it hierarchically. No one prevents you from having a tag projects and another tag newproject. Your emails just have both tags assigned and you are good to go

maxproon EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

As this would stop someone writing exploits from decompiling

maxproon How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

Still Google will use your AP for location services for other devices in the area

maxproon Emacs Love Tale by sdp

At the beginning I actually thought it was about emacs

maxproon Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

Why the need of new version? Just get rid of the "bad" stuff. I don't think is going to change much in this direction.

maxproon Why 11 days disappeared in 1752

That's crazy for us. But for them the year was from March to February (ok from March 25th to March 24th :D).

maxproon EMule 0.60a

Wow, I was sure all donkeys and mules died a decade ago. Or were full of malware. How is this still usable today? I mean you can find literally everything online for download or stream, without pirating over p2p.

maxproon VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment

same here. didn't know there are other DEs besides Emacs

maxproon In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

mine has it - ẞ the small one is ß

maxproon Factorio 1.0

I don't think you can really compare both of these games... both are about building factories, but that's it. Factorio is another world of complexity comparing to Satisfactory