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Call me cynical (which is fair), but I would be very pleasantly surprised if Google's "report inappropriate results" links were actually logged and analyzed by an actual human instead of routed to /dev/null, because that seems like a whole lot of work for a company famous for not having reachable human support.

The message feels more like one to placate users into believing their concerns will be addressed, and hoping said users won't follow up on it to see if any action has been taken. I do hope I'm wrong.

Unfortunately, a lot of things are more troublesome when you follow the law.

> so they don't need to respect robots.txt

You mean they don't need to respect copyright law? So it would seem.

If a user wants a legal copy, they can choose File -> Save Page As. The copying isn't the problem, the reproduction without ads or paywalls or respect to the owner's copyright is.

This won't be a popular statement, but archivers don't have a legal right to reproduce websites, either. I imagine archive.today is on even shakier ground via bypassing newspaper paywalls. archive.org operates under an opt-out policy which is not how copyright works, and archive.today operates under a "f### you" policy. It's just that website operators haven't chosen to take legal action against this practice.

I understand the innate desire of people to have a "better to ask forgiveness than permission" view of saving old web content (because we all enjoy finding out the thing we thought we lost forever by not backing up ourselves was in fact recoverable), but either copyright law exists or it doesn't. If you want a secure future, make archivers opt-in via a meta tag on pages to indicate the content is under a permissible share-alike license.

> Who knows what kind of crazy performance differences/bugs there are between ARM and x86_64.

A lot of code for demanding applications is often enhanced with SSE/AVX and JIT recompilation techniques. Those are inherently unportable, and I'm not sure how many developers will be willing or able to port that code over to Neon and AArch64, especially for a small 2-4% of the market.

Even if they do, it's quite a cognitive burden to have master and maintain two separate SIMD and recompilation implementations for the same applications.

This will probably further drive high-end gaming away from Macs, on the heels of OpenGL deprecation and the Mac-only Metal API. Combined with Cocoa and Swift, I imagine we'll end up seeing less and less applications that run natively on both Macs and Windows/Linux after the move.

I hope the anti-trust investigation focuses on search. They have an obscene monopoly on search, built largely on the massive amounts of our personal data they have access to (through Chrome, Gmail, YouTube and so on), even though their product has been stagnating and returning worse and worse results for the better part of the past decade.

We need real competition there and it doesn't seem like Bing and its clones (Duckduckgo and so on) are going to get us there. They are at too big a disadvantage out the gate.

I am not trying to convince the author of this post, but I'd like to speak to other web developers here: yes, please offer a dark mode!

When I want to do some light reading in bed at night (I do have a blue light filter on for that), I will often abandon even trying to read pages with white backgrounds because it is quite uncomfortable.

I do not care if scientifically I read three words less per minute, this is about perception. A dark mode option on a site shows me the developer cares to cover my use case and makes me more likely to go back.

If you need to do a light theme only, then just the HN reddish-tint on the background helps me a lot.

Absolutely; native filtering support to exclude the domains of my choosing would be the killer feature for me that would make me switch to basically any search engine. I'll even sign up for an account there, and all the possible privacy/query logging that entails, to maintain the blacklist state. Browser userscript addons are just too clunky, screw up the number of results per page and don't work on image searches.

Let me block tabloids, hate sites and click farms natively and I'm sold.

Pretty much. They claim there's multiple sources, but the results are strikingly similar. And on image search, identical.

Fair point. That would definitely be a challenge.

Outside of DoS'ing (which is admittedly Cloudflare's wheelhouse, but a rare concern if you aren't posting anything controversial or in a highly competitive space), you can host a site on a $5/month VPS and very trivially withstand being the top post on HN, making Reddit r/all, etc. Not even 10% CPU utilization at peak. And that's without even going to the extreme of making your site static.

That does make sense. If I were using Cloudflare I suppose it would be a no-brainer, and if I were Cloudflare and didn't want people not routing their traffic through me on my registrar, that would be an excellent way to discourage it. If they're forced to offer to everyone as part of being a registrar, then the combination of all of the above is my answer. Thanks!

I'm curious how you feel about CloudFlare as a registrar not allowing GitBook to use an external root nameserver.

Being forcibly stuck on CloudFlare's own nameservers only sounds very nefarious, and isn't a limitation I've ever heard of with any other registrar. For instance, it would break my tooling that uses my host's APIs to control DNS records through their nameserver.

I'd be very appreciative if eastdakota or jgrahamc could elaborate on what possible reasoning there is for this restriction as well.

GoDaddy answers their phones with real people, but they are completely powerless to actually help you. You can escalate all the way to the office of the CEO (who doesn't answer their phones) and they won't lift a finger to help you. I had been a customer for over ten years with several domains, and they still wouldn't help me with a three-figure billing error. What kind of business fights a decade-long customer over an interest rounding error for them?

Democrats removed the requirement for lower court nominations. Republicans removed the supreme court requirement to appoint Brett Kavanaugh, which is a seat they stole from a sitting Democratic president, even though said president nominated a moderate Republican for said seat.

It is true that the Democrats opened this can of worms, but the Republicans then taking advantage of it instead of setting a better example does not exonerate them. They're all bad actors now.

I was meaning on 64-bit, but it's good to clarify that, thank you.

Truly, I don't know how one can look at Windows 10 and think Microsoft has in any way improved: the entire OS spies on you at every corner now, bloatware automatically installs in the background, updates are installed without your consent, and more.

And djb's implementations of Ed25519, Curve25519 use this exact radix 2^51 trick.

Sure thing, I really appreciate your site by the way! There actually are services that list good available domain names already but they all want to sell you the list before you can even know if their list is any good, so I've never bothered.

As for extra-small, I used Google Domains to check it, it certainly seems to be registered as of May 16th.

https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/extra-sm...

I did some more digging, it appears that namecheap (or another registrar/reseller) squatted it and is reselling it as a premium domain for $190.

I suppose in the most technical sense, it is available, but my assumption was that this was a list of unregistered domains rather than say an AfterNIC competitor. Would it be possible to note in your database which domains are unregistered and which are being scalped?

> Not sure what people are getting for paying twice as much as everywhere else.

Really, really, really bad customer support. Like they'll answer your phone calls, but they won't actually help you at all. Especially with billing issues.

Which was also registered eight days ago, it would seem.

This is exactly right. I had a blog for many months, shared it from my website and social media accounts, and it never showed up in Google search. After a couple months of speaking to an audience of 20 people, I decided it wasn't worth it. Meanwhile everything else I have tried shows up on the first page of results: Facebook page, Twitter account, Soundcloud, etc.

Google heavily biases their results to two things: the top 1000 sites on the internet, and clickbait (callout posts and threads slandering someone rank like you wouldn't believe; no backlinks required). Maybe if you keep at your blog for 2+ years, manage to land a few HN frontpage story links, it might eventually show up. But who is going to invest that time and effort instead of just setting up a Facebook page instead?

On Twitter just accidentally clicking down on the mouse anywhere, I have to move my mouse outside of the browser window before releasing it because anywhere else is likely to have side effects.

YouTube is pretty annoying when not logged it too. It constantly pops up a "you're signed out of YouTube" box that obscures part of the video until I close it. On every single video.

Maybe if viewing a single video of Anthony Hopkins (for example) didn't replace half of my feed with Anthony Hopkins videos, I might be more inclined to not open it in a private tab (logged out), but alas.

But hey, at least you can watch the video. That's more than I say for half the news and image sites out there anymore.

> In other words a bad user can share the links with others where as if they did this through patreon you'd have to log in to access the media. Of course bad users can still share the media they downloaded in other ways.

They do. There's a popular website I won't name (----.-----) that has users provide their Patreon logins, and it goes and auto-scrapes all post content from people that login supports and mirrors it for free. Almost every artist with more than 100 subscribers is illegally shared there. It's really quite sleazy when you consider most of the artists let you see their entire catalog for a $1 or even $5 tier. Cheating someone out of thousands of hours of labor for $1 is particularly low.

I know it's the internet and you can't really stop piracy, but I'd like to see Patreon being proactive against a service that hurts both itself and its creators like that.

Problem is, would that even help? What I want is what Gnome 2 already was. Their changes indicate they themselves don't want that anymore. Any attempts at voicing my concerns are met with disdain. What more can I even do as a developer?

I was so disappointed when Xfce, long my last bastion of consistent UI design, finally gave up the ghost and announced their move to client-side window decorations. It seems the days of the title bar + menubar + optional toolbar are numbered :(

If you post with your anonymous account, you're tweeting to ten followers, maybe. Few people in life have a platform that is completely detached from their professional lives. You build a reputation from your cumulative life's work, and that's what gives you the ability to signal boost your concerns to a wider audience (including, most importantly, the media) in the first place.

> “We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions,” a spokesperson said, “but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies.”

What a strange statement. "We support their right to criticize their working conditions, only actually we don't at all"

The one I tried that caused it was Zoloft. I assume the other SSRIs will also cause tinnitus by way of raising serotonin levels. But for the brief week before the tinnitus hit, it very much felt like a sea change for the better.