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Re:Tell HN: Google Cloud Outage on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:48AM (#49523631)
They haven’t updated their external status page, but the incidents page in the GCP console reports that “Google Cloud multi-product customers are experiencing elevated packet loss and errors to/from us-centrall-b.”
It’s not even a government service. It’s a private business they have entrusted with authentication for the government.
Re:Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg on Sunday July 26, 2026 @08:04PM (#49063650)
Would be interested to see something like this to simulate VHS effects
What I think is crazy are the links at the top to summarize the article with your preferred AI provider. The prompt asks it to summarize the article along with an advertisement for their product. This is the prompt I got when clicking the Claude link:

> summarize+this+article+and+explain+how+scrapfly+helps+me+scrape+any+website+at+scale+and+bypass+anti-bot+systems+for+my+use+case:+https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/

You can still play with those outside your age groups, you just can’t communicate.
Re:RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:12PM (#46891845)
Please please try to read a post before commenting on it
Re:Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023) on Sunday June 08, 2025 @10:09PM (#44220899)
It’s not really obfuscation. It goes back to when Android OS’s used to be named after desserts. While in development they would be referred to just by the letter as the dessert name wasn’t usually finalized
Re:Digital Services Playbook on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:19PM (#43145227)
RIP to the USDS, an inspiring government department to someone like me.
Re:HP Acquires Humane's AI Software on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @07:49PM (#43097143)
I believe that was the joke.
Re:Making Castro's Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way on Monday October 21, 2024 @09:37AM (#41904030)
When I worked at a podcast host I was tasked to implement WebPubSub support to our podcast feeds. This introduced a “push” updates rather than requiring an indexer to constantly recheck the xml file. The idea seeems to not have caught on. At the time I think Google was the only indexer supporting the feature and I’m not sure if that has continued with the switch to YouTube for podcasts
Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars on Sunday October 06, 2024 @07:02PM (#41761115)
Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.
For the record, since I’m seeing it a lot in this thread:

Green names = new account

Re:Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:56AM (#40584833)
I have an actual question about the implementation of this. It currently seems like there is no way to maintain your location history if you switch device platforms. Your on device history seems to be synced to iCloud, but if you switch from iOS -> Android, it seems like your SOL?
Love that their logo is an homage to Yahooligans, Yahoo’s old kids web portal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010708042828/http://www.yahool...

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:47PM (#34166436)
Reminds me of this Onion headline: "Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don't Exist’"

https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-s...

Re:On the Future of 12ft on Sunday February 13, 2022 @09:20PM (#30327754)
But I could change my clients User Agent to match the Google Crawler?
Re:Wordle officially has been moved to nytimes.com on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:48PM (#30318326)
I wonder how that was done, assuming the original stats were stored in local storage?
The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge (and this may have changed with Edge being switched to Chromium)
How long was the Playststion Network down for in like 2011? Around a week?
Here's more information about the program: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

I believe YouTube has the same type of program.

Re:Goodbye, Fleets on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:03PM (#27838987)
Microsoft already did it, it was called Word Art
Re:Goodbye, Fleets on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:02PM (#27838981)
You can but they heavily limit the amount of access tokens your app can generate, artificially limiting the amount of users your app can have.
Re:Goodbye, Fleets on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:57PM (#27838934)
Facebooks edit history is also hidden in grey text next to the timestamp. I bet putting a "This tweet has been edited" notice actually inline with the content would be effective.
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:27AM (#27784667)
It sounds like HonorLock
Re:Stride Game Engine on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:22PM (#27555633)
Why is Roblox terrible?
You can still purchase software on Steam, although the selection isn't great.

Wouldn't you say the Mac App Store and Windows Store are the "steam for computer programs"?

Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:02PM (#25876839)
Just tested with my S9+ and could change my DNS settings
Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:11PM (#23978104)
If you didn't know, Discussions is already live for some repositories[1]

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions

I know how you feel bout that. I think you would like http://radio.garden/, it lets you spin a globe to pick a radio station from that area!
Re:App Clips for iOS on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:38PM (#23632069)
Instant Apps have been around 4 years now (just a guess) and I've only encountered them twice. When going to a Vimeo link or a CBC link.

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