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Re:The Day the Telnet Died on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:54PM (#46970598)
SMTP has and is almost blocked everywhere to dissuade spam.
Re:ReMarkable Paper Pro Move on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:34PM (#45122030)
Partner had remarkable. I bought a scribe. Tried both side by side for a month.

Scribe lets you read your kindle books, draw on them, and write notes. Hard to get the notes off the device.

RM lets you sync automatically. The rest of their software is total junk (see App Store ratings). It was more glitchy. Marginally better writing. Monthly fee.

Both make exporting notes more difficult than it should be.

My current go to - paper and pen with chatgpt app on phone - snap a photo to extract my writing.

I kept the scribe for reading books - rarely use it over the kindle app on my phone.

Hope it works for you though- love the idea.

Someone needs to make a website for Google suspensions. Let people post these stories. I have mine.
Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:10PM (#24844414)
The comment implies ads are unethical. I disagree.
Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:14AM (#24837505)
If you are banned from AdWords, it affects your ranking in search.
Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:06AM (#24837420)
If, on a whim, google blocks your name or business, what do you do? I found out by accident, and I think they have too much control.

Earlier this year, Google suspended my ad words account. I don't know why but think it was their mistake. The sites and ads were ethical and well within their terms. Still, I’ve sent emails and letters without progress.

It's frustrating not having an avenue to resolve the issue. Even more so because I'm in tech and though I understood these things. More so because I worked at google for a long time.

In the suspension dialog they warn all accounts under my name or the domain names linked to the ad words account will be blocked.

I don't depend on ad words. If I did, I would be completely out of luck. I'm not aware of an alternative ads network or search engine.

Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:49PM (#20415100)
It's summer time and everyone who knows how stuff works is halfway through a drink right now. Probably with their families. Is it a trend year over year for 7/4 +/- a week?
Re:Why Three Prongs? (1996) on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:13PM (#20388192)
Why is the metal chassis wired at all?