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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:02AM (#50148561)
Consider that the average person interacts with motor vehicles much more often than they would with a potential cure for cancer
Re:Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:41AM (#49463892)
Confirmed on my phone too. I left a 1-star review on the play store saying it crashes on every launch, uninstalled and will use the website from now on. (Luckily, I dont use contactless payments, ai just send and receive money from friends from time to time)
I cannot imagine installing amazon as an App as well. It's a website
What a pain reading this blog post. It's about them complying with recent regulations, but they never mention it once: they word it so it sounds like they are doing this out of the good of their hearts. The words "law," "regulation," or "compliance" do not appear once, despite being the entire reason the post exists.

Also on the "privacy-preserving tool", technically apps get a bracket ("16–17") instead of a birthdate. But who holds the actual data? Google. The privacy improvement is against the developer only.

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:54AM (#48640894)
Do you have an active VAC ban? If not, it may be worth contacting them to ask why, they're quite responsive
Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:20AM (#47788928)
Pirates get the best service, gabe newell was right.all along. Paying for youtube premium makes no sense, I'd rather donate that 15 bucks a month to my favorite creators, while using uBlock/sponsorblock/unhook and grayjay on mobile. No shorts in my homepage, no ads ever
Re:Breaking Free on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:09AM (#47180118)
You're replying to a likely bot account, check their comment history
Re:Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:48PM (#47130112)
This is a common mischaracterization of stop killing games. It does not propose publishers keep games online indefinitely, but to provide the bare minimum to the community to host them if they decide to shut the servers down for good. If the 16-year-old Unturned dev could do it, so can AAA studios
Re:I'm a developer for a major food delivery app on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:44AM (#46463154)
There are two datapoints in the text. One is the 2 weeks notice, the other is that they knew of this since 8 months ago. If this were me, I would give random made up information of this kind to throw off anyone trying to investigate this. Also, this is not that far from what we already know from whistleblowers of similar gig economy companies so my believability is not stretched at all.
Re:Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:44AM (#41380094)
What got us here is a capitalistic society where antitrust laws are not implemented in practice. Time to go back to square one and change that
Re:Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:29PM (#38739369)
As far as a quick google search got me, it seems pretty open with the only caveat being you can't sell or monetize it... how is that not open source?
Watch them slowly remove every RSS feed they operate, so when they come up with their own proprietary solution in 6 months nobody can lament their "sudden" removal of RSS.
I have the feeling they're currently in the final stages of development for an alternative and want to remove RSS from all their stuff right now to preemptively avoid people lamenting its sudden removal then.
It's literally the same as that one Futurama episode where they clone celebrities on the internet
Now try reading the post you replied to but with swapped genders. Would your reply be the same?
Re:Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:49PM (#37653716)
Unfortunately a lot of people keep buying them yearly
Re:Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:38AM (#37009875)
Pretty simple then. Just doing the exact opposite of what Google is doing. Makes sense
I think I have the right app for you then...
Except those were peaceful protests