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Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by dzhiurgis »

heavyset_go wrote: post #144
swiley wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphone app development is a poor investment. Just build a good website.

Unfortunately, Apple refuses to implement basic features into Safari that Chrome and Firefox have supported for a while, and they refuse to allow developers to use browser engines other than the embedded Safari on iOS. This forces developers to release iOS apps if they want to target iOS users. What we need is some anti-trust litigation with teeth.

> What we need is some anti-trust litigation with teeth.

Indeed. We need big tech to divest some of their eye watering profits into actual user support. With so much depending on tech, kicking out users at a whimsical ML bit flip can be super damaging.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by igitur »

igitur wrote: post #230
jimmydorry wrote: post #220

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I think you are missing the most important part. Even after Apartheid, the existing utilities provided for the entire population. However, there has not been any new generation capacity since 1994. Instead, the maximum generation capacity has shrunk year on year as boilers and other key parts of the power plants fail and aren't replaced.

> However, there has not been any new generation capacity since 1994. That's not true. Majuba Power Station was commissioned between 1006 and 2001, although planning started in the Apartheid era. Gourikwa Power Station and Newcastle Cogeneration Plant were commissioned in 2007. There are a few wind farms built after 2001: Hopefield, Coega, Darling, Klipheuwel, Dassiesklip Wind Energy Facility and Jeffreys Bay. And so…

Majuba Power Station was commissioned between 1996* and 2001

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by signal11 »

marcusverus wrote: post #187
signal11 wrote: post #119

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I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government that’s beholden to certain vested interests in the garb of “free markets”. This is a state that has fetishized “light touch regulation” so much that it, for most of the state, has its own grid to avoid dealing with Federal authorities. And repeatedly failed to take action to get power companies to winterize…

> I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government... This is an absurd comparison. South Africa owns and runs its power utility. The result is that they struggle to provide electricity on an ongoing basis. According to Wikipedia, small business owners in South Africa said that load shedding was the number one challenge that they faced in Q1 of 2019.[0] Te…

Yes, Texas in the realm of power distribution is probably a paradise by comparison with South Africa, but compared to its peers (other US states), Texas has a very non-resilient, or fragile, power distribution system that we know will "crash" when faced with a cold snap. Given that they have known this since at least 1989, I think it's not unfair to use the word "inept".

The giant power bills are just icing on the cake of bad policy-making.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by brmgb »

tremon wrote: post #135
jonathanlydall wrote: post #32

For those not from South Africa, this app is primarily for people to be able to get notifications or look up when their area will be affected by a "planned power outage", or as Eskom (our state owned power utility) refers to it, "load shedding". "Load shedding" is enacted whenever they have a power production capacity issue where different areas take turns without power so as to not let the power grid collapse. This…

Load shedding is the correct technical term for it. It's not just a South African thing either, industrial consumers in Europe have the same stipulation in their power contracts: in case of emergency, the power company (network operator) may choose to suspend power delivery to protect the grid. However, in the EU this 1) isn't a regular occurrence, and 2) the grid has a tiered system for load shedding. I can't find a…

> industrial consumers in Europe have the same stipulation in their power contracts: in case of emergency, the power company (network operator) may choose to suspend power delivery to protect the grid.

You can't really compare.

Industries can chose in their contract to be part of the load shedding system. It's done with their agreement and the system is purely based on the grid frequency. The disconnection is done on site in an orderly fashion. In a way, it's probably more correct to view it as industries electing to temporary disconnect rather than the provider stopping supplying them.

> I don't recall any grid-wide emergency events.

The European electrical grid is extremely resilient. It was accidently split in two a couple months ago and that was barely noticeable for the customers of either half.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by house9-2 »

ryan29 wrote: post #211
house9-2 wrote: post #126

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Same thing happened to me yesterday, I had to switch my MX records over to fastmail as that was easier than trying to figure out how to resolve the issue with Google directly. I had been forwarding all of my email from my domain to my personal Gmail (the irony) so haven't lost anything except a Sundays worth of incoming emails which bounced. In my case I was still using a free account for my custom domain, grandfathe…

Was it your admin account that got locked? That's a big fear of mine. If so, did you have any of the account recovery options set up? Ex: 2FA, phone number, recovery email, etc.? IMHO a lot of account "security" is intentionally made to be overly aggressive so tech companies can lock your account and verify your ID / get your phone number. If you're using anything for business the only option is to diligently set up…

Yeah, locked my primary account and the admin account. There was no option to use any recovery options that I could see.

And today I get an email saying my accounts are now enabled?

The computers are definitely in control.

Glad I was forced to move away at this point, locking accounts is one thing, but bouncing emails not cool.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by dang »

elastolin wrote: post #69
unityByFreedom wrote: post #51

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I'm fine with banning apps that permit organizing violent insurrection in response to independently certified elections. That isn't the case here however and I expect some resolution will come.

> I'm okay with deplatforming, but only when it suits me Jesus, just shut the fuck up.

We've banned this account. You can't break the site guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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