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Implications are on the treasury side. Without treasury buyers the US dollar collapses or hyperinflates or the US government is bankrupt or some other widespread system failure, in any case the entire US economy falls apart without treasury buyers. But these things move slowly.
Actually, the phone doesn't have play services if the vendor doesn't install play services. If the vendor installs play services then it has play services.
Reddit has been akin to Facebook since around 2022.
Google doesn't have complete discretion. On Samsung phones, Samsung's discretion overrides Google's. On Xiaomi phones, Xiaomi's discretion overrides Google's.
The simple workaround to most of these walls is to create an account with your email address and phone number.
How do you know what standard he is holding Apple to? This thread is about Google and Apple was not mentioned.
Put an APK file download on your website, but it won't help discoverability.
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:28AM (#49519083)
Why would they care about maintaining a reputation on a pseudonymous Hacker News account? They have tens of thousands of $, that's way better than not being known as a RWTer.
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:26AM (#49519070)
MUD1 is from 1978
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:25AM (#49519061)
I was wondering how tileman gimmick accounts seemed to be forcing their pathfinding to unlocked tiles. That would explain it.
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:24AM (#49519054)
Only if you're talking about the Gemstone Crab.

Which was added because people were already doing that on the normal crabs, but fighting over the spots. So they made a crab that any number of people can fight at the same time (combat is ordinarily one to one), and it always lives for ten minutes no matter how many people are fighting it or how hard.

Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:23AM (#49519046)
Short of hardware-enforced secure boot chain TPM anticheat there will always be a way around it. It's cat-and-mouse, not a single permanent solution.
Modern networks can transfer data more quickly than CPUs can process it. Starting at 100Gbps.
Re:Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:07PM (#49501776)
But it did crash. Did we read the same article? He shows the output it prints when it crashes.
Re:Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:36PM (#49495181)
He considers it safe if it's unlikely to crash? That's also true in C. Calling printf in a C signal handler is likely to work. So why does he consider it important in C but "not a practical consideration" in Python? It's more likely to crash in Python than in C because the signal handler takes longer to execute.
Re:Bug Blindness on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:32PM (#49495159)
If a website won't let you cancel, call your bank to force them to block the payment. This will cost the website $20 and a ding on their credit report. Be aware the website will ban you, so you'll need to make a new account.
Re:China is fueling America's data center rage on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:26PM (#49495132)
Agreed. The people with the 24/7 60dB hum or the black undrinkable tap water or the tripled electric bill or no electricity at all starting next year are surely just mad because China told them to be mad.