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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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The company I work for is on GCP and I live in fear of seeing the “Google to shut down GCP by $now + ~2 years” headline.

I'm living that now. I will no longer be able to push changes to my Python 2.7 apps as of January. Instead of porting to Python 3, I'm porting away from Google.

You seem to be confusing AppEngine with Google Cloud. Former is a tiny part of the latter.

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Any recommendations on registrars? I may have to move a couple of domains off Google Domains / Squarespace. Edit: I am located in the US.

Namecheap is great.

I would recommend reading this thread before choosing them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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I was disturbed by learning squatters no longer just sell domains for big bucks, some of them started to offer them for rent.

That's awful. So someone pays them them, builds a website on their property and they still have you by the balls. I guess you'd only rent to add a redirect over to a new domain. I've just tried negotiating with a squatter. I'm trying to resurrect a web game with a few thousand players which the original dev neglected. I've rebuilt it on another domain but the community have game data stored in the browser localStorag…

Write an app to extract the data client side.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

#554

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What does this mean?

Absolutely nothing, but it's provocative. Gets the people going.

It means business decisions are based on who is most skillful at the corporate game, not what is best for users or the business.

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What did you pick?

Different poster here, but I focus on a file based notes system (mine is on iCloud but any DropBox, Drive, etc would work fine), right no Obsidian and Ai Writer share a folder of my “notes” in an iCloud folder. Keep is good for grocery lists and ephemeral data, but too easy to delete a note and no way to backup — well maybe takeout works for backup.

Same here - after Keep clobbered a meticulous but long note, I imported everything to markdown files that are synced between my devices.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!

They've killed off almost 300. They have ~100 left. https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/ What do you think will go next? I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year. 1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings

Google Lens is a godsend traveling.

It works much faster than the Google Translate app for translating text and it also helps identify any plants or landmarks that catch the eye.

I hope that technology never gets killed.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Why dafuq would I care about a bug related to a streaming service I've never even heard of when all I do is play locally stored music files? Incidentally, I still have not come across a suitable replacement for Winamp all these years later. They all have crappy UIs or bring features that I do not want and get in my way.

The best replacement for Winamp is… also Winamp! https://getwacup.com/

weird.. why isn't this copyright infringing? wacup seems to be using 'fair use'..

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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What are the top recommendations to migrate to these days?

I have heard great things about porkbun, but I personally use namecheap and am quite happy with that.

Porkbun has better prices and better UI. Namecheap ruined their UI a few years ago. I also have issues with their autorenew.
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