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Re:GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027 on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:26PM (#49566806)
Can anybody tell if this announcement affects a personal gmail account's ability to send as a workspace-hosted custom domain email?
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:57PM (#35267619)
briefsky is what I switched to. I found the Open-Meteo feels-like numbers to be way off in NYC but Pirate Weather has been fine.
Re:I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:09PM (#30444254)
I use SES for sending + a forwarding service for receiving and the combination works well. Usually my SES bill is a few cents and AWS just waives the bill.
Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:07PM (#28608609)
An ethernet card is in the works: https://twitter.com/frameworkputer/status/139594629558862233.... It looks like full-sized SD was popular in that poll too.
Re:Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel on Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:36PM (#27329860)
As of a few years ago there's a similar FDA approved ingredient available in the US as BioMin. It works well for me and is cheaper than importing NovaMin.
Re:Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:23PM (#27143991)
Any idea when reviewers will get their hands on it? It'd be nice to have some reviews prior to pre-orders going out.
There's a similar formula available in the US called Biomin that's FDA approved and distributed by Dr Collins. Their fluoridated version isn't FDA approved yet, but it works well for me used 50/50 with an OTC stannous fluoride toothpaste.
Re:GitHub Has a Permission Problem on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:43PM (#26485898)
Hah, I ran into this guy on the support forum thread about this issue: https://github.community/t/why-does-this-forum-need-permissi...

I'm on his side - I think the copy is bad - but he was pretty unhelpful in the thread and ended up getting it locked.

Re:Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:02PM (#26096961)
Interestingly, Google later wrote their own relational db in javascript called lovefield, which was motivated primarily by the deprecation of WebSQL: https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/dd/00_i...
Oh, I just recently started using envwarden for managing dev secrets. I have some customizations for that use case on a fork, in case it's helpful to anyone: https://github.com/envwarden/envwarden/compare/master...simo...
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:29PM (#24550305)
I noticed the issue in May 2018, so getting my data in February was just in time for 2019 reporting (I had mixed up the timestamps when I originally wrote I got the data in April).
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:23PM (#24549990)
On a recommendation from a friend I filed a complaint online at https://ag.ny.gov/internet/online-forms. I wrote up the situation and attached a pdf copy of the support interaction I'd had with Google.

It wasn't quick, but it did seem to work. Here's the timeline:

- May 2018: I contact Google about being unable to export my accounting data from last month

- November 2018: after nothing but "thank you for your patience" emails, I complain to the AG

- early February 2019: I get a letter in the mail from the AG saying they'd forwarded the complaint to Google

- late February 2019: Google finally gives me my data [edit: I'd had April originally, but that was a separate request].

Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:57PM (#24549628)
If I'm understanding the timeline correctly, it's not just recent signups but anybody who has wanted to monetize an extension from March until now, who paid under the expectation that the temporary ban would be lifted.
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:37PM (#24549524)
Haha, this is so ridiculous and completely on-brand for Google at this point. I've run a Google Music extension for a few years now and would have absolutely no migration path since I don't have a backend -- but it doesn't matter since they're shutting down Google Music anyway!

A related fun fact: accounting data exports for extensions have been broken for me (and I think all extension merchants?) since April 2018. I had to get the NY attorney general to write them a letter before they would actually respond to my support requests so that I could properly file my taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588493. I'm sure that will be fun this year!

Re:Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why? on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:02PM (#22400745)
I've moved everything to https://buyvm.net after trying a bunch of cheaper providers. They've been good to me for the ~two years I've been using them: no outages and quick support.

If you end up liking them, here's my affiliate link: https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3397

Re:Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why? on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:52PM (#22398716)
https://repominder.com sends release reminders for your open source projects. It works by monitoring the diff between your development branch and how you release (eg tags or another branch).

It works well for me and one other power user, but hasn't grown beyond that. My guess is it's just a failure of marketing -- I make lots of these projects that scratch an itch and then just hope people will find them.

At least it's cheap to run ($2/month for the vps plus <$10/year for the domain).

Ugh. I settled on Mailgun for this use case recently and now I'll have to switch.

I used to use https://medium.com/@ashan.fernando/forwarding-emails-to-your... to do this cheaply via SES, but it was a pain to set up for new domains and had some odd behavior at times.

https://improvmx.com was something else I came across, but I don't feel great trusting an unknown service with all my incoming mail.

Zoho works and is free for one user but the webapp is pretty rough to use.

https://forwardemail.net is an open source option but I wasn't sure about how reliable it would be.

Re:Brave launches 1.0 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:44AM (#21526123)
I used Brave for a while on Android and found it to work well. However, in the last month or so something changed and it started freezing constantly.

I've since switched to Firefox, which is much better on Android than when I last tried it.

Re:Kleroterion on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:48PM (#20891341)
It is! I should make it clearer that the published email is just an example of what's sent out. There's been about a post a week since it's started.

edit: updated; thanks for the feedback!

Re:Kleroterion on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:47PM (#20891338)
Thanks!

There's around 1k members right now. I stole the 10k catchphrase from The Listserve. Consider it aspirational!

Yes, people can be selected multiple times, but they must submit a post before they can be selected again.

No, I don't currently plan to release the posts. I might change that at some point but I'd want authors to opt in -- even though the license allows it without their consent I doubt everyone understands that.

Re:Kleroterion on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:30PM (#20889979)
I named a project after these! https://www.kleroteria.org
Google's Web Store payments system is terrible in my experience. I haven't been able to export accounting data for https://autoplaylists.simon.codes since April 2018: I spent almost a year badgering support so I could properly file my taxes.

A letter from the New York AG got them to respond, but I still need to email them every time I need my data (they get an engineer to run a db query manually, from what I can tell).

I did get an email today that they're migrating to a new system, so maybe it'll work in the future, but I wouldn't trust them based on what I've seen.

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