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You don't rent a goat, you lease that surly bastard

For what it's worth, I'm a google workspace administrator and we've had issues with legitimate business emails going to our spam folders. We used various tools in the workspace adm…

Lots of mail hosters, like gmail, have been proxying and caching image requests for a while now.

Native apps don't produce referer headers when opening a link in a browser.

Oh no, the user has to press a button. Let's completely destroy privacy and complicate EVERYTHING just to save them that one click. Worth it.

So you're saying that microsoft has more money to work with? Everything I know about the legal system shows that the more money you have, the easier it is to get your way.

Writing software isn't illegal. Timeline goes like this: 1. Developers write open source software 2. Open source software is deployed for money laundering purposes by other people …

Okay, how does that relate to open source contributors? Can you retroactively read their minds and determine their intent? Why does their intent even matter? What they were doing w…

Not sure, thoughtcrime is a thing now in modern America?

Nice, what's next? Jailing everyone who ever had an abortion? Why aren't y'all americans doing that yet, if it's apparently acceptable to punish people for things they did before t…

Turns out privacy now is illegal in the US of A.

> The argument probably is that they assisted a sanctioned entity by providing a contribution i.e. service to it. And what if they did so before the sanctions? Is the US so happy t…

So making a PR to some project the US government might decide to sanction means github is going to delete my account?

You clearly haven't been paying attention, then. It's easy to spend decades making crappy software.

Can't post a meme on facebook - oh no! Can't access facebook marketplace - legitimately annoying! Can't access your mail archive going back a decade - could be a huge problem for s…

So you don't believe in guilty until proven innocent? Or do you? How do you justify banning innocent users?

Go on, tell us more so we can do better.

how to sync access control rules between couchdb and the rest of the business logic? do you just not care about security/privacy, or do you duplicate all the logic?

Top left always seemed more intuitive to me, but I don't have any reasoning. When using photoshop, I usually also draw squares starting at their top left corner.

HN has a rich history of shadowbanning unwanted users. Everyone should turn on "showdead" on their profile, which, to be fair, is at least an option.

> Their legal dept (like their sales dept) is famously aggressive Just like their support, apparently!