Yeri

Pure greed; and most people think it won't apply to them. It'll monitor "the others"

What's the "online calculator license" ?

"Online calculator included (four-year subscription) •($80 value)"

Gemini seems to have a lot as well (at least through Antigravity.Google -> constant errors, not enough capacity, super slow replies until it times out, etc)

4B over 5 years is still 4B. It's 0.8B/yr

I always thought the browser, coworking space (https://hub.kagi.com/), and mail (https://kagimail.com/) are a distraction.

I've been a paying customer since 04/2022, and have the early adopter badge. I was easily doing 600-800 searches/month, and now I do 400-300 searches. I think that's the reality. More and more people are asking ChatGPT or whatever for search.

Those domains have been around since forever (also https://orionfeedback.org). I guess it was easier to just set up a new platform instead of integrating it, or building something from scratch.

I haven't checked in a while, but I'm sure there's been conversations about this on discord as well (https://help.kagi.com/kagi/support-and-community/discord-ser...). I'm too busy to read up on every little thing, so I'm glad this happens elsewhere, off-site, and I just get the big changes through my RSS feed.

NextDNS is blocking it too (https://google.c1ic.link/lottery_qrdLCz_account_verification). The reason is that Google Safe Browsing considers that site as unsafe.

there's €1 and €2 VPS too: https://www.strato.nl/server/vps-linux/ (not sure what the quality is but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

wow. Blocked in Belgium.

Error HTTP 451 - Unavailable For Legal Reasons

https://lumendatabase.org/notices/71398835

100% — will never be automated :)

Because you'd have a ton of downtime and they'd rather hide it if they could. :)

I used to work at a very big cloud service provider, and as the initial comment mentioned, we'd get a ton of escalations/alerts in a day, but the majority didn't necessarily warrant a status page update (only affecting X% of users, or not 'major' enough, or not having any visible public impact).

I don't really agree with that, but that was how it was. A manger would decide whether or not to update the status page, the wording was reviewed before being posted, etc. All that takes a lot of time.

UXG definitely does DHCP and DNS.

https://www.dns0.eu/ is an option

I'm missing some information on how this works (a LLM? which? Do I need to bring an API key? Does this work offline?) and what I can expect in terms of performance/battery hit.

It doesn't require a WiFi device to work.

> If you’d like to prevent your pet’s movement from causing motion notifications, you can exclude pet motion in your WiFi Motion settings by turning on the Exclude Small Pets feature. > Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans.

From my understanding it tracks signal strength between two points (gateway and printer for example).

Putting your phone in airplane mode doesn't make it think you have left the house.

> If you’d like to prevent your pet’s movement from causing motion notifications, you can exclude pet motion in your WiFi Motion settings by turning on the Exclude Small Pets feature. > Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans.

Most maintenance doesn't require a full shutdown. C-checks are done every 2 years or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks

iMessage isn't really popular in Europe. Whatsapp is.

Fair enough, but it keeps working with your (old) sim. iMessage deregisters every time, and it stops working for me. And you have to head back in settings and register again.

I've found the process to be very buggy and rarely works.

SMS is definitely not free. You may have a bundle that includes X (or unlimited) amount of SMS, but there are plenty of subscriptions out there (maybe not in the US) that charge by the SMS, or come with bundles of only having, say, 50 free SMS per month.

In all fairness, no one uses SMS, and no one uses iMessage (outside of the US maybe?).

WhatsApp is omnipresent in Singapore. For example, every business, every support channel, every delivery company uses WhatsApp. WhatsApp QR codes are everywhere (similar to QQ/wechat in CN).

Most iPhone users I know in Singapore never even set up their iMessage (which is also only available on iOS and is a total pain to get to work if you're dabbling in various sim cards, as is very common in SEA). So yes, there's a very good reason WhatsApp is very popular in some parts of the world (similar to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) until quite recently in Indonesia). It's become too big to fail and took over a very very big portion of (private/business) communication in many parts of the world. And it 100% needs more regulation.

Sigh, I just moved a bunch of domains over, after The Jolly Teapot started using and recommended them.

- https://thejollyteapot.com/uses - https://thejollyteapot.com/2024/11/05/website-updates/

Well, I'm doing that, and in this case, Cloudflare 'protects' the website and blocks it (based on my Belgian IP). So no matter what DNS I use, it see "Unavailable For Legal Reasons".

a thousand times this.

Actually, Fastly and Akamai also provide exits. Cloudflare isn't the only provider.

While I definitely wouldn't trust this tech, we've also normalised phoning home with all western tech.

How many products keep sending all kind of unknown telemetry, have a ton of trackers, etc?

Can't really blame them doing the same.

Yes. It's not going to be hard 'traceable' cash, but it'll be favours and other permits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_Moscow

Still -- seems a lot ?

> However, some disgruntled proffesionals have suggested that the new policy is designed to reduce its current 1.5 million-plus headcount.

1.5 million people work at Amazon?!

100% and if I have issues it's an extension (like ublock or privacy badger)

Fastmail user here: you get a reminder a week or so ahead of time, and even if the payment doesn't go through, they don't shut down your account instantly. You get a few reminders. I even emailed support to ask for some time to settle my credit card and were okay with extending it.