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Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by thebytefairy »

monero-xmr wrote: post #295
jay_kyburz wrote: post #241

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Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days. When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem. It's not that anymore.

They still offer startups money to switch. Last year they offered my company 8 figures to go from AWS to GCP. Of course I said no because… that’s insane and useless. You have to wonder how many companies they are paying to use their subpar tech.

Hackernews loves to hate google, but I find gcp way more user friendly and simpler to understand and just get things running than on aws.

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Post by _smfg »

qodeninja wrote: post #526
_smfg wrote: post #100

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I've been so nervous about this that I've been preemptively moving my emails over to domains I control (and using Fastmail).

protonmail is better, plus their plans have VPN and file storage.

Protonmail is very expensive for what it is. I don't care about their privacy (it's email) and I don't need anything but an email service that can support 3+ domains.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by orbz »

orbz wrote: post #75

The thing I take biggest offense to is the fact that I hear about this from Bloomberg before Google making any outreach. Also no mention of if Google Cloud Domains is impacted.

Update Google Cloud Domains likely impacted: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1669726481130434563

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by orbz »

paulgb wrote: post #492
CydeWeys wrote: post #490

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Cloud Domains is being killed along with Google Domains, TLDs are OK for now.

Thanks! Where did you find that info? I can't find it anywhere.

Secondhand account of internal e-mail: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1669726481130434563

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Post by mschuster91 »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #583
mschuster91 wrote: post #576

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> by making using certificates without it a nightmare You can still have "classic" certificates - if exchanging certificates is enough of a nightmare that you can't even do it once a year, it's a clear indicator your tech stack is brittle beyond belief and should be updated anyway. Meanwhile if you're using a modern cloud-based stack the provider (e.g. AWS ACM) does the work for you, and acme.sh makes it a breeze on…

Exchanging certificates once a year is... kinda ridiculous in almost every scenario except the one Google envisions when it dictates the Internet, yes. ACME support is making it into enterprise technology, but it'll probably be another five to seven years until it's common. Literally all businesses just have to suffer bull---- processes to cave to "Google felt like doing this, and Google is a monopoly". And of course…

> Exchanging certificates once a year is... kinda ridiculous in almost every scenario except the one Google envisions when it dictates the Internet, yes.

The thing is, if you're doing it right it should not take longer than 5 minutes. It forces people to actually invest in good infrastructure practices rather than build brittle shit that collapses at the first blow. And most of the "enterprise" stuff you're talking squarely fits into that category.

As said I'm happy for anything that aims to prevent ossification, simply because how often I have heard the lines "why invest into something proper when a thrown-together hack lasts us just the same" or "why replace that old Cisco firewall box if it ain't broken yet".

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Post by mavhc »

Infernal wrote: post #498
nytesky wrote: post #491

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Except meet is a passive teleconf service; duo allowed you to make Video CALLS, like FaceTime. Google Voice seems to have been added to Enterprise, so I cross my fingers it will prevail.

Lol, so this is the reason I could “call” someone on MS Teams, but in my new org on google chat when I choose to “meet” with someone it just pops a link into their DMs. Bizarre.

If I'm in a 1:1 chat with someone on GChat then the phone/video button just starts a call

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Post by ssnistfajen »

SSLy wrote: post #439
dreamer7 wrote: post #410

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I already migrated from Keep just for this reason. It's ok to make temporary notes there but for long lasting organisation I prefer a different solution

What did you pick?

I'm trying to get familiar with Obsidian using a folder synced to a private GitHub repo. The flow and type of notes are kind of different from Keep though, so I may actually just detach temporary knowledge types like grocery lists or activity reminders back into physical notes again.

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Post by jmoak3 »

015a wrote: post #324
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 don't think Keep will go away; its one of only 14 of Google's products that they classify as "Workspace/Enterprise"; alongside Gmail, Meet, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, AppsScript, CloudSearch, and Jamboard.

I would sob if keep is gone. It’s my second brain.
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