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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by b112 »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #381
aniforprez wrote: post #369

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> Let’s say you had an old large code base in 100,000s of lines of code that just works I've migrated 200k LoC python 2.7 codebases to python 3. It certainly wasn't painless but tools like black, flake8, 2to3 and other stuff helped. It's not impossible and can be executed in 2-4 weeks > you expect there to be budget or time to rewrite it into python 3 for literally no reason other then “2.7 is deprecated” 2.7 is not…

To be clear, I am upgrading from Python 2.7, but while I do it I'm not building in a way that requires any code from Google and will make sure the app is platform agnostic. It doesn't really matter how many years of notice they gave me, I just haven't had time to do it.

Having any sort of code on python 2.7, means you don't give a rat's ass about security. It also immediately means your code should be assumed to have back doors, vulnerabilities, because python 2.7 almost certainly does!

This is what happens, when no one is maintaining software.

Security is more important that anything, certainly than having time or not to update your code.

You're 100% in the wrong here, and Google is 100% in the right, and I hate Google more than spammers, more than pretty much any other company there is.

They're not wrong here, and it hurts me to support their stance.

Fix your stuff. Stop blaming others. I doesn't matter why you're in the situation you're in, you're wrong to be there. No matter what.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by b112 »

monero-xmr wrote: post #351
Masema wrote: post #346

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8 figures of what, doll hairs? Seriously, 10s of millions wasn't worth switching?

It would have taken a solid year of work and all of my DevOps resources, for what? The customers won’t know or care. If I wanted to burn $5 million in salary and a year of feature development I’d rather figure out an on-prem solution, because at least someone might want that. The “pay to switch cloud” model doesn’t make sense.

If you have time, please hit me up on my email via my profile. I'd just like to ask a couple of questions.

Thanks

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by blooalien »

CydeWeys wrote: post #152
blooalien wrote: post #130

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Nice! So, not only no loss involved, but there's a bonus added? Guess Porkbun's gettin' another happy customer soon. Saw that they also offer a few other services I'd likely use as well, so win/win for them (and me) I suppose.

It's not a bonus, you're paying for that extra year. The way domain transfers work is, they're not free; you pay for a year of renewal as part of them.

Sorta a bonus, as I get that extra year at Porkbun's cheaper price while losing nothing I've already paid for. ;)

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by blooalien »

renewiltord wrote: post #187
blooalien wrote: post #127

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When you transfer a domain to Porkbun, do any pre-paid years of registration travel across with the domain transfer, or are you starting "from scratch" in that regard?

All registrar domain transfers work the same: you pay for one extra year and then you can transfer. This means if your domain is registered to max years you can't transfer. Or that was my experience anyway.

Works for me. Probably gonna move my domain over real soon.

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Post by spacebanana7 »

DLA wrote: post #204

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!

It also forecloses an entire set of DNS related cloud products that could exist in the future like Cloudflare style DNS proxies, AWS like aliases and DNS load balancing.

I guess those products could work just using hosted zones etc but the DevEx is much worse.

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Post by andybak »

ralfd wrote: post #409
pcurve wrote: post #292

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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

I didn't know Tilt Brush was from Google. From 2016 and It certainly feels like the older more whimsical Google.

Wasn’t developed in-house.

Open sourced 3 years ago. https://openbrush.app

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

Dalewyn wrote: post #400
dumpsterdiver wrote: post #393

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Oof, Winamp? Check this out: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-0065/

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.

Fair enough. If you're only playing local files that were obtained from a trustworthy source then you wouldn't be affected.

With a complete RCE like that though, I would definitely not advise playing music downloaded from peer-to-peer networks. While I'm not familiar with the exact requirements to exploit the vulnerability, I would err on the side of caution and assume that music files can be crafted that contain malicious metadata which can achieve similar results without actually being connected to the streaming service.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by saagarjha »

hnbad wrote: post #418
saagarjha wrote: post #379

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Exposure Notifications was designed to be deprecated, though? It was a pandemic thing.

The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous. We have however wound down most of the protective measures. Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.

I mean I agree but they're just following whatever everyone else is doing, unfortunately.

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Post by birdyrooster »

hackmehoff33 wrote: post #347
DLA wrote: post #204

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!

This! Google has a history and present strategy of making reactive moves to please shareholders. I’m shocked the masses trust them with email. When can we go back to decentralized self-hosted?

I saw the writing on the wall 5 years ago and switched to ProtonMail with a custom domain bc that lock-in is a real pain.
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