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Here's a youtube promo video for those of us in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umhPrOo47-A The link in the post redirects to the Google store that only shows a Chromecast. Oh well.
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outlook.com is excellent. I used the free version for years, now I have bought premium.
Their spam filter has been horrible lately. I've been on outlook.com ever since it was rebranded away from hotmail, and it was OK until recently. But the spam has gotten so horrible in the last few months, I'm trying to decide what to use next (given that I don't live in china anymore, I have choices). It is also missing a lot of features compared to gmail, while the web UI is a bit clunky. These aren't real breakers…
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Could you share your email transition strategy? Any tips? Do you still end up checking the account?
I forwarded email in Gmail, and move over forwarded emails as I can. Note that it's not been an easy process, it's still a massive undertaking changing all those emails. I did think about switching to my own domain for emails though. I have previously avoided it because it adds a new vector of attack - i.e. if an attacker gets my domain, they have my email. With that said however, I can still keep a handful of import…
>"I forwarded email in Gmail, and move over forwarded emails as I can."
I didn't understand what you meant by moving over forwarded emails. Once you forwarded them aren't they available on Fastmail's IMPAP server? Or is there some other cleaning process you go through? Thanks.
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Thanks for bringing that up. I suspect you and I are talking about two different things however. I'm using fraud as an ordinary layman would use it - that is - deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain. In this case, I think most people would agree that spawning up multiple dummy accounts (e.g. john001@gmail.com, john002@gmail.com, john003@gmail.com) and then using them to get around ordering restriction…
"I'm using fraud as an ordinary layman would use it" Fair enough, my point was more that I was so surprised you were willing to stick your neck out by officially speaking for Google here, especially regarding legal matters. No, I'm not a lawyer, but I do have nearly 20 years in law enforcement and LE-related work, enough to have a bit of an informed take on things like this. I do feel that Google was wrong to permane…
In terms of handling and deleting user data, I do know we have some pretty clear guidelines around this - user data is sacrosanct. You can read up in the ToS, or if you need specific guidance around your personal circumstances, I would always encourage you to consult a legal professional.
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> There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user This happened to me recently (though I think for security concerns, not TOS violations), and was quite distressing. What steps can be taken to avoid this?
Yes, this is usually the more common story - Google does a lot of things to protect users (from themselves, and from external attack). I suspect a lot of people who get locked out are for fairly pedestrian reasons like password reuse across sites, and they got hijacked. It sucks, but it's better than the alternative (e.g. somebody pilfers all your email and commits identity theft). Trust me, there are a lot of bad ac…
That’s what happened to me.
I had a Google account, abandoned since 2012, disabled. A few weeks ago I got an email telling me someone from russia was trying to log in, and this was prevented. The next day, another email – telling me that I successfully logged in from Russia, and had successfully changed the password.
Google offered no way to get the account back.
I had the creation date, a list of every email in the account, the used phone number (although it had since been shut down and recycled), the old password, and control over backup email.
This was not enough, Google left the account in control of the attacker.
I requested through a Google employee friend their internal form to handle this. Also, no success. Instead, they talked with the hijacker.
In the end, I managed to contact the new owner of the recycled phone number, and together with him, I managed to run the account reset procedure, and regain control.
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To speak about that third case the very real concern I would have there is that it appears he got access to his account back by being able to attract enough attention from Google management, as he was well connected and had a relatively high profile twitter account (> 100k followers) That kind of solution is unlikely to be of use to customers who don't have the ability to bypass the common process...
It wasn't necessarily the publicity. He reached out through normal channels, but these things normally take some time to process, since they normally have to be reviewed by humans. It's one of those things where you want to tread carefully. I mean, say my account got hijacked. I want to get back in. So does the hijacker. I would much rather prefer waiting an extra day or so, than risk having the hijacker purporting t…
Except, that’s not what happens.
Google lets the hijacker in, and locks you out. I live in Germany, and yet, as detailed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404541, Google let a hijacker from Russia with knowledge over nothing except my password in, and I had no way to reset it despite access to all reset questions and reset email (but no access to the reset phone number).
Not even a Google employee friend was able to help me, as their internal escalation team for this... contacted my hijacked account via Gmail.
Google’s system is useless, and if you honestly rely on it, you should stop right now.
Go into Gmail, IMAP settings, and write down the "POP3 activated since" date, that’s the only place you find your account creation date, it’s required for account recovery. Update your phone number, and choose an ISP that NEVER deactivates unused phone numbers.
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Fastmail is based in Australia. https://www.fastmail.com/about/company.html
Hmm, I'll have to do more research, but I thought they used some American hosting. Perhaps I'm mistaken! I'll make a note in the comment, ty! edit : I take that back, I'm not wrong, yay \o/. https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i... They are in the US, it's just that the company itself isn't. So depending on your level of distrust of the US, that may or may not be an issue for you.
I hate this trend of dumbing down product specifications. I don't know who started it (probably Apple?), but everyone does it now. Like what fucking i5 or i7 processor ? Is the storage soldered even for the nvme option ? It doesn't help that Intel keeps playing tricks with their naming either. i7 used to be quad core, then it became dual core for thin laptops. Now they are back to low freq quad core in some SKUs. For…
What really bothers me is I can't find the timings for the memory. I need to know that my CAS settings aren't going to hamper the performance of my cutting edge app transitions.
Kidding, we don't even know if this is using DDR3 or DDR4.
As a Chromebook user for almost a year now (since December 2016, using a pixel 2 LS) I can't be more excited about a computer like this. My only regret on my current computer has been not been able to use containers properly (i used rkt and not docker) because of kernel restrictions but now this should be solved with ChromeOS kvm support. Imagine the performance of being able to run Android apps thought for much less…
If it does end up resolved, I'll definitely pick one of these up.