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ssvsson “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

There are multiple ways for Google to know that NewPipe is installed in a device. Play Protect scanning is one way mentioned in the OP’s github link. Another method I can think is, when I download a mp3 file using newpipe, it adds the text “NewPipe” for the Album mp3 tag. and PlayMusic automatically uploads any new mp3 file downloaded to your device.

ssvsson Ubuntu installer now supports ZFS on the boot partition

Most DBAs working with async/directIO databases recommend XFS, https://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/

ssvsson Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

America waged war based on information provided by a Iraqi minister, who was later found to be working for Iranian interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi

IRGC had also announced the Syria as its 35th province.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2013/08/27/iran-s-unwavering-s...

IRGC and Russian bombing had driven out most of the Sunni's from Southern Syria towards north Syria, close to Turkish borders. and Iran is repopulating the land with Shias from allover from Afghanistan to Lebanon.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/13/irans-syria-pr...

IRGC has sort of created a contiguous Shia controlled land mass from Iran, Iraq, Syria to Lebanon. Some geopolitical observers I follow, expect the next will be in Afghanistan, with Afghani Shias against Pakistan controlled Sunni Talibans, as soon as US withdraws from Afghanistan.

ssvsson Ask HN: Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?

> this is why Europe is a better choice

Do you mean consulting in Europe. How hard/easy is it to find consulting gigs in Europe without knowing the language.

ssvsson Germany's Vanishing Monasteries

This Oneness is what the followers of Advaita(Non-dualism) call as Brahman or the Buddhists call as Nirvana(Nothingness). I have seen arguments that Plato was also influenced by Eastern philosophy, but I don't know much about it.

I was interested in Advaita for a long time, and used to read Upanishads which expound about it. but recently I have come across a different school of thought, which calls this Oneness/Brahman/Nirvana as Self/I. Ramana Maharishi who died 70 years back was a recent proponent of it. but I have seen references to it from different cultures too, like the hebrew word YHWH meaning Self, and the Persian word for God "Khuda" meaning Self in Old Persian.

I recently came across Bernadette Roberts, who is a Catholic Nun, who seems to have not heard of the concept of Self from Advaita/Hinduism, but have reached to similar opinions about Self from her own contemplation/Prayers in her monastery. and in this video she explains it from her perspective as a Christian Mystic. She also has some books, which I haven't read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb5496uQ3lk

ssvsson Measuring open DNS resolver use

Google doesn’t promote 8.8.x.x lately, so when there were some sites being blocked by Indian ISPs, I saw cloudflare DNS being recommended. Also I believe cloudflare doesn’t implement ban-lists provided by Indian courts. I have noticed sites blocked in google dns, working with cloudflare dns.

ssvsson 'A nightmarish mess': millions in Assam brace for loss of citizenship

> This is not a Hindu-Muslim issue

Yes, this is being done as per Assam accords signed by Govt of India in 1985, and the current Assamese Chief Justice Gogoi is the one who is implementing it by sidelining the current BJP state govt. Gogoi kickstarted this even when he was in the High Court.

ssvsson Ask HN: Windows Laptops with Good Keyboards?

I would suggest waiting for Icelake laptops. Recent Twitter thread from someone asking for a similar suggestion.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lemire/status/1156025690619146240

https://mobile.twitter.com/Wunkolo/status/115949643138157363...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/cnmail/10nm_ice_l...

ssvsson I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice

I found that the screen in the newer 2018 ipad pros get scratched easily compared to ipad 3. Haven't dropped the ipad pros yet, not sure whether the screen will survive, but have dropped the ipad 3 multiple times and the screen was much durable.

ssvsson How is it like to be a dev in Iran

That is just a minor point in my comment, may be it was just a racist soldier. The OP asked why US is targeting Iran, and the major point of the comment was that Iran is modern colonizer, who has sort of colonized 3 other countries. and waiting to do the same to Israel and Saudi. They are already lobbing rockets into Israel and Saudi. To compare this, the 1991 Iraq war was because Saddam overtly captured Kuwait and look at the flak Russia is getting for taking control of Crimea, and people normally justify the Sanctions on Russia because of its actions. But Iran has covertly taken over 3 other nations, and control most of their oil fields, and still people are wondering why Iran is being treated as such. The point of the video is, for close to a decade Iran has been exporting Shia Jihadis into Syria, and Assad is just a puppet.

ssvsson How is it like to be a dev in Iran

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/mike-pompeo-speech-12...

These were USA's 12 demands from Iran, and this is Iran's response[2]. Iran has sort of colonized Iraq and Syria, similar to how it has control over Lebanon using Hezbollah. IRGC even recently announced Syria as their 35th province. This video from 6 yrs back captured from a killed Iranian Journalist in Syria gives a clear picture of IRGC's actions in Syria.

https://youtu.be/ZI_88ChjQtU?t=868

I have linked the video at a timestamp where an IRGC soldier says how the Arabs who are living in that village aren't humans, but watch the whole video, it is good. So what is happening is Iran/IRGC is using the Shia identity to get poor and oppressed Shia people from Afghan/Pakistan with a promise of citizenship in Iran, to wage a war against Arabs and Israel. There is also a war going in Southern border of Saudi with the Houthi of Yemen, supported by Hezbollah/Iran[1]. So Saudi and Israel are concerned with this, and using their support from the current Trump administration, they are trying to get Iran to act.

[1] https://twitter.com/lcmporter/status/1152880775580258304

[2] https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1152647222586036224

ssvsson Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups

>My right shoulder was a piece of trash for over 5 years

I too faced this issue, moving my mouse to my left hand completely stopped the pain. Though it does return if I move the mouse to right hand usage.

ssvsson Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

Isn't dual apps a miui only feature ?

ssvsson Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

>I always liked the Foursquare approach of asking their users.

I have never used Foursquare, can you say a bit more on how they do it.

ssvsson The Truth About Tonkin (2008)

I found this argument on why Iran would attack, in r/geopolitics to be plausible. https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/c0gi8b/why_ira...

ssvsson Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?

https://druid.apache.org/

ssvsson Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance

I thought DDOS prevention was difficult with udp, compared to TCP. Is it not the case anymore. Does cloudflare provide DDOS prevention for QUIC/UDP.

ssvsson Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

Any article that you suggest for knowing more about JD's fulfillment tech?

ssvsson Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

I am not a Amazon Seller, so this might be incorrect. I remember reading that to avail the unique label/id with the Transparency program, the Seller must use the Amazon provided unique label/id also for the units sold outside of Amazon. So in effect handing over your overall sales data to Amazon.

ssvsson Amazon walks back vendor purge

Can you explain more on how having this Data would help with Amazon's advertising business.

ssvsson Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

I think they upload the hashes of emails they have, and facebook matches it with the hashes of the emails it has.

ssvsson $190M missing after crypto exchange Quadriga CEO dies

Death certificate is issued by local authorities, so easier to bribe. But valid Passport will be hard to get.

ssvsson Firefox 65.0 released

> I don't want to delete cookies by default

IIUC you want a container to be isolated to a single website, you have to create a container for that website, open the site in that container, and then click the multi-account container tab in the toolbar, and select to option to open this website in that container by default. From then on whenever you open the website, it gets opened in that container by default.

ssvsson Firefox 65.0 released

> I can't figure out how to turn off that built in one

I don't see the facebook container to be built-in. I have only the multi-account container extension installed, and I can make any website to open by default in the container I have created for facebook.

I think, you will have to uninstall/disable the facebook-container extension, and just have the multi-account container extension enabled.

FB container - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

Multi-account container - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

ssvsson Rational rendering and floating bar

I get reader mode in iPad, so the problem may be because of iPhone form factor, not mobile safari.

ssvsson Ask HN: What was your worst personal financial mistake?

Leaving around 20 btc in my silkroad account.

ssvsson Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

Does Google/Facebook have to pay an Apple cut for ads shown in youtube/fb app.

ssvsson Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

What is Apple's cut for apps like Wechat/Uber, is it 15-30% of each transaction ?

ssvsson How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

Incase if anyone is looking for the uber blog post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276

ssvsson Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization (2002)

Just raw honey helped for both me and my brother, after suffering for a decade with acne, came across this thread in reddit, and it helped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16t0n4/bad_acne_befor...