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GPS relies on very very accurate timing. I would wager that the timing side of GPS is used more than the positioning side - but I have no way of confirming that.

Accurate timing is needed for banks accepting/sending payments (not just £5 for the window cleaner - more billions flowing every day).

I hate posting downdetector links, but when companies don't post actual outages on their status page this is all I can do.

I can only assume acknowledging a service being down may hurt them financially so the service monitors are manually changed.

No. Posts are only editable for a small window of time.

Via nitter: https://xcancel.com/JustinGorya/status/2097287080128708930

Looks like the new model can be used if summoned via the API but the API won't list it.

I swear I put that at the start of the post. Must've managed to miss it when copy and pasting!

Honestly. This with Paperless-NGX might be game changing if both pointed to the same folder.

That's cool. Yours comes up as stars (*). Must be a HN thing.

Microsoft's new spam filtering is affecting mail deliverability from a number of email service providers. MX Route is recommended here often enough that these issues may crop up for people here

Hot Take: the proactive action of the registrar here is probably more beneficial than the number of false positives captured. If the registrar is aware that Google is hot on blocking potentially harmful sites, it's right that they take action expeditiously.

The bigger problem is the unbanning - for which there should be a better system, probably that should take the form of the registrar having a short grace period to aid in the Google stuff (DNS verification etc.) with additional checks by the registrar to make sure it's not being used for spam/malicious content.

The other point being why was Google banning you so quickly? This is the opaque part. Was the site reported? Was there some URL hijinks? That's the thing you'll probably never find out.

This popped up on my Watch Again part of YT. I figured it may have been a few years since folk seen it and a little but if humour is never s bad thing for a Monday morning.

Think you've inadvertently found a way to provide extra tests for mobile devices.

The Crime and Punishment one consistently crashes Brave mobile for me. I assume it's the length of the URL - and seen another commentator say the same for chrome mobile (sure they both use the same codebase so likely an upstream issue).

They didn't block it. The site owners have chosen to not show the site to UK users for Legal Reasons.

Fully understand the reasons for the site - and the title on HN is shutdowns and site blocks - but the site itself displays self-enforcinging sites and shows them as potential government blocks.

There are blocked sites but you have to look for them in different sections of the site.

One site shown at the start of the other pages, adult friend finder is showing as blocked, however I can access it from my UK provider so honestly not sure what value this site brings (yet) apart from highlighting those that have a self-enforced blackout due to "451 Legal Reasons".

I'm on mobile so difficult to copy and paste - but that site was the top of an alphabetical list after I made my way past a few VPNs.

I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned mxroute[1]. Thier pricing normally is pretty decent, but they keep the BF deals going pretty much all year [2].

I've been using them for 6 years with no issues. I use it now with all my domains and never have any deliverability issues.

The owner (Jar - one person shop again) is passionate about their email reputation for deliverability and is active on both lowendtalk and the dedicated sub Reddit.

I ended up comparing purleymail and mxroute - tested mxroute and stayed with them.

[1] https://mxroute.com/ [2] https://mxroute.blackfriday/

The lyrics are so culturally appropriate to that time that anyone listening now wouldn't probably get it.

The same with Futuristic Sex Robotz with the Hotel Coral Essex album - some of those songs on there are so pinpointed in time that they just remind me of the computers and using them.

I run a small online store for decal’s for the geek market. When I say small - I mean I regularly only have 4 items listed. Think HANKA Robotics, TARS and the like.

I keep my costs to the bare minimum. I started it because I wanted decals no one else was making. I cannot justify feee shipping.

In the UK I eat the cost as it is about £1 to ship UK wide. Posting to the US is now around £7. I need to send tracked thanks to the selling platform.

It honestly pains me to have to charge shipping - but I could’t do it any other way. I can only imagine the costs that are associated with this for bigger outfits. Heck. Even Amazon has a logistics company now (but I suppose that’s where the Prime premium comes in!)

The hate came from it being pre installed on massively underpowered computers. The majority of users came to vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.

I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and it took half a day just because of the performance on this new PC.

I think that as the author notes, we have gone. And I think it’s because we grew up. We don’t have the spare time like we used to, which, inevitably means we don’t access same sites, depriving them of visitors and relevant revenue.

We’ve gone.

*reported collisions. There will no doubt be a lot more minor bumps that haven’t been reported to one of the relevant agencies.

It’s comments like this where I wish I wasn’t so much of a lurker to get the karma required to downvote you.

These are age appropriate books being sent to families of all incomes to promote good education. Let people have nice things.

I’m curious as a hobby programmer - how would these issues be rectified? Hope that the source code is available to add in new defines for 64bit time? Patch existing libraries after stracing existing programs without source code? Might need to take a deep dive into C for 2038!

It seems unsafe to me to be passing your username and password over the open every second day. Especially one that links to Google - which for the majority of people is their life.

As a side note - will the recent announcement by Google about unsafe logins being denied affect you?

Actual headline: Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones

Title is sensationalised and is addressed by both Apple and Visa.

You know. I deal with laws on an almost daily basis in the UK and never noticed or payed attention to this. Current legislation has the Calder year, but also a “Chapter” Marker, i.e. Road Traffic Act 1988, has under this title 1988 CHAPTER 52.

Reading [1] I’ve learned that “Until 1963, Sessions of Parliament were numbered according to the year of the monarch's reign. In each Session, the Acts passed were given chapter numbers. For example, the Universities Act 1825 was Chapter 97 for the year 1825, which was the 6th year of George IV's reign. You may therefore see it referred to as: 6 Geo. 4 c. 97 (year - monarch - chapter). … Since 1963 a much simpler system has operated. Acts are now referred to simply by their calendar year and chapter number. For example, the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 is 1969 c. 54.”

The more you know!

[1] http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/acts/index.html

I self host a couple of services via VPS’s from different providers. I’ve had one that every now and then just drops offline and I’ve never been able to figure out why. Checking old logs never revealed anything out of the ordinary. It just drops packets and then rights itself after some indeterminate length of time. I never once thought about looking for a resource monitoring tool that recorded data - even though I use the logs every time it happened.

Thanks for the heads up about this tool!

A podcast I listened to recently about clock synchronisation if you’re interested from Signals and Threads [1].

[1] https://overcast.fm/+hrS5e2XoU

(One word more) relevant XKCD [1].

Also, a generator for the above [2].

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/ [2] https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/

Isn’t this the YouTube way now however? Most videos are around 10 minutes or longer because that’s what YT thinks drives engagement, and therefore adverts? I’m sure there was something about videos over 10 minutes getting preferential placements in search results etc..

Posted on April 1st.

They already confirmed they’re not and it was an April Fools - but - they have an NFT for charity[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/teletubbieshq/status/1377940924605546496...