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it’s mostly the ePrivacy directive, and it’s not dumb. It’s meant to protect your privacy if followed. Lots of companies however don’t actually follow it, and use dumb and misleading popups meant to trick you and cause you to agree out of fatigue and lazyness. If they don’t track you, there’s no need for popups of any kind. It’s entirely on them, not on the law.

edit: I didn’t downvote you, but thought it’s worth responding.

unfortuantely lots of messages are not marketing and in some cases companies have legal duties to send them. My German bank insists on notifying me that I have a message. They can’t send the actual message (for security reasons), and I can’t opt out because they have a duty to inform me. Infuriating but seems to fall within the legal framework :(

could you provide more info? how do you use it? what makes one method better/worse than the other?

always get those two confused!

that’s what I love about HN. Thank you! now that’s hilarious! Unfortunately it fell completely flat for me without knowing the backstory. Or perhaps the execution of the story was just lame, particularly trying to tie the other story arc felt artificial and forced.

honestly fwiw I only vaguely remember festivus and don’t remember serenity now at all.

I don’t think seinfeld was great for jokes as such. if anything, I feel like later episodes were a bit trying too hard to create jokes and over-the-top silly situations (e.g the episode where Kramer sells the real Peterman bus tour and Elaine trying to dump the stumps of the cupcakes)

> Similar to George learning to walk out on a high note, leading to outsized expectations. And that type of pressure is largely why David left the show.

I’m not sure I follow? do you mean that he was worried about the show going downhill as it became more popular, so he preferred to leave when it was still doing great?

yes, I watched some curb your enthusiasm. it was harder to get used to because of the improv style, but I enjoyed it a lot. Hope my wife will like it as next step after we finish seinfeld.

> Larry David left the show (as a writer) after season 7.

I’m rewatching with my wife, who never watched it before, and definitely the latest seasons feel worse. I didn’t remember it this way. Now I understand why.

how do you know which service to trust? honest question

a shoutout to https://yourdigitalrights.org/ which is a nonprofit which tries to tackle this.

I haven’t used it yet, and it feels rough around the edges. I donated however and talked to their founder and I think this model fits better than a commercial one. The way it’s built you don’t actually share any data with them. They essentially provide templates to make erasure requests and follow-ups easier.

that’s useful to know that others do postges better. We use their redis as well, so in some ways, breadth is useful for them and for us.

at the time we picked aiven, we couldn’t find any redis-specialized hosting with instances in GCP europe if I recall. so their breadth also plays in terms of locating near the customer servers (important for latency)

we’re using aiven.io and quite happy, although hard for me to compare. you can port across clouds, which is reassuring if we need to switch. Otherwise their support was helpful debugging a couple of db issues (in our own code). Wonder how they compare in this matrix if anyone knows?

no affiliation. just a customer.

I’m not against having the option to sign in, but for simple use-cases like mine so far, there was no need to sign in. forcing it adds unnecessary friction. Anyway I think Rally suits my needs better and I wish you all the best with kukkee

my users will be if I want to let them use it. I guess it’s not for me then and that’s fine.

it adds friction and doesn’t provide value. I prefer me and my users not to share private info unless it’s absolutely necessary. Take a look at products like excalidraw, hackmd and others like doodle and rally.co (no affiliation to any of those).

Having the option to use an account is fine, but forcing it is a mistake in my opinion.

Of course it’s your product and you can choose whatever makes sense to you.

p.s. creating an account wasn’t painless actually with strange password strength requirements (between 8-15 chars, special symbols etc), but that’s not the main point.

> and be ready to retire it and delete the code when it turns out to be useless

There lies the problem though. It's so much easier to add stuff, but so much harder to remove it. Because then you get shouted by the loudest 0.1% of your user base, who happen to use this useless feature. And nobody's going to fight for removing something. Well, not nearly as hard as people fight to add their brightest idea to the product.

I was looking for a doodle alternative, because the latest "improvement" made it far worse. The kukkee demo seems to require registration though? one of the best things about doodle for me was that I can just use it instantly without registration.

I use photosync to automatically push all photos and videos to my NAS over Samba.

Photosync has a ton of options, webdav, ftp you name it. Costs a few bucks one-off and worth every penny. Not affiliated in any way, but definitely feel gratitude and want to support the app creator by spreading the word, to make sure they keep maintaing it.

thanks for the link! I found your summary better than the programme itself. You picked the most important parts without the fluff.

There's already a law that covers it. IANAL but my here's my understanding of things:

When you buy something in the UK/Europe, anything really, it needs to meet 3 criteria[0]:

1. Fit for purpose: i.e. if it says "running shoes", then shoes should be suitable for running. If you use them to hammer nails, then it's on you.

2. As described: match the description, model number, etc

3. Satisfactory quality: this is the key ... and it depends on the product, but generally it relies on common sense. i.e. if you bought a washing machine for 2000EUR, you can expect it to last, let's say, 20 years of regular family use... If you bought a 2nd hand washing machine for 50EUR, probably can't expect it to last more than a year...

The problem is not with the law, but generally speaking, companies don't give a toss. Nobody's going to fine them... And worse, consumers are easily misled by warranty periods and just don't expect the protection. Even if they paid 2000EUR for a washing machine and it failed after 2 years, they are more likely to just get a new one. Even if legally they can require the retailer (not even the manufacturer) to replace or repair it because the product wasn't of sufficient quality. The burden of proof is usually on the consumer though, which kinda makes it harder though.

[0] https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/getting-help-and-advice/co...

With 12.5k stars this isn’t new, right? looks great! what’s the business model? any hosted plans?

looks great! I have a question about backing up my mac. Let’s say my mac is stolen/dropped from a bridge. Can I actually restore everything on a new mac, or still need to install and configure from scratch and “just” have a backup of documents, images etc?

we’re B2C and whilst I love helpscout, they seem to have stopped innovating or caring about solving some pain points (in our case multi-language support). I can kinda understand most of the time, but some things just feel a bit too tight fisted to me… They still seem to be better than zendesk and intercom, but I really wish they would push the envelope a bit more…

not sure why you were downvoted, even though SEPA offers a terrible UX in my opinion, and in no way close to using cards. (both for the merchant and payer in my limited experience).

yes exactly! in this case we cancelled, but because it was an already bad experience before even checking in. And we have no way of sharing the bad experience with others. Both the hotel and booking.com seemed completely disinterested resolving the issue.

Hotel websites aren't typically that great for good prices, nor for the ease of use. But talking to someone on the phone and quoting the booking.com (esp. genius) price can give you a good anchor, and many hotels will at least match it.

Or just pick up the phone and call? found it to be a better option in some cases. Got better prices than booking.com too.

The only problems we had with booking.com is that they give you no protection whatsoever. One case, the hotel clearly gamed the reviews and posted false info. It was so bad that we had to leave. But we were still charged the full amount, and booking.com just stood aside.

Just recently, my wife booked a hotel in Tel-Aviv. The hotel charged her card twice (booking.com seemed to have passed the card info to the hotel). We cancelled, and still waiting for the refund/release of the funds. Booking.com does nothing to help. We have to bounce between the unhelpful hotel and the slow-as-hell bank/credit card company.

OT: but are there any banks or credit card companies in Germany that actually help you when you're in this situation or need a chargeback? it seems like the low card fees in EU means much worse customer service compared to the US, or is it just my wishful thinking?

Slightly OT, but since you mention accidentally deleting it, how do I delete my G Suite?

The screen to delete says

> You have at least 1 active subscription. You need to cancel your subscriptions before you can delete this account.

and when I click to cancel my subscription it says

> All administrative controls available only with G Suite legacy (such as sharing policies, audit and reporting, and alerts) will be removed. To continue accessing these administrative controls, you'll need to purchase G Suite legacy again. > To use the Admin console free of charge to delete your organisation’s account, you agree to the Cloud Identity agreement. > You’ll lose access to your G Suite legacy service immediately You can’t undo this action

So I'm paranoid of locking myself out with no way to still access the admin console to delete it... and with no support obviously

I understand roughly what the gem does, but you still need to be aware of it with your app. For example, if every request updates some activity stat, or the last page the user was on (which happens with some apps), you instantly lose pretty much all the benefits, right?

What about redis / sidekiq btw? :)

It's an interesting idea to assume GETs will do no writes, as opposed to POST/PUT/DELETE and route them via middleware, but as an app developer, you need to be very mindful of any updates I suppose... replication delay can also create some weird scenarios I imagine...