Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by wtetzner on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:43PM (#12102229)

Why did changing the TLS cert break things? Were you pinning it in your client?

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by daveloyall on Friday July 15, 2016 @01:38PM (#12102602)

I don't remember. Oh, it was this: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.genera...

But what that doesn't show is that they then changed it back, and forth... for a while. It was just a UX issue that only affected computer literate people. THE BEST KIND. :(

I remember when some combination of Gmail features* enabled me to upload my old mbox with years of personal email into my GAFYD account... emails from before Gmail publicly existed. And now I could SEARCH them! The future was bright.

I certainly felt confident that I would be a gmail user for life. I certainly didn't consider the possibility that they'd one day just deny my access to the whole thing because I spoke ill of them in a HN comment. ;)

* access external pop3 account and auto-rewrite message headers so messages would be associated with my gmail address even though they were originally delivered to a different domain... Brilliant.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by coverband on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:37PM (#12102944)

>> "I certainly felt confident that I would be a gmail user for life. I certainly didn't consider the possibility that they'd one day just deny my access to the whole thing because I spoke ill of them in a HN comment. ;)"

Sorry I'm being a bit thick, but did this happen, or does the emoticon at the end mean it's hypothetical?

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by daveloyall on Friday July 15, 2016 @05:23PM (#12103946)

Did not happen. Hopefully it's even less than hypothetical.

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