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This will be an interesting passkey test. Much has been spilled about the complexity of passkeys for normal users but in many cases you can just not use them or they’re just tied to your personal smartphone for your personal Gmail/icloud

Amazon is an account that is shared by many between household. Will this cause user confusion

It sounds off because “increase” can be a verb or a noun and “spend” can also be used as a verb or a noun (but is more often used as a verb) so you’re brain is trying to parse the sentence with dual meaning terms

Parent comment said "Well I was thinking about making a competitor...."

Response said "Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice"

Child comment asked what Sherlocked meant. I explained.

Apple purchasing Swift Package Index is great. The Sherlocking above comment was in response to the suggesting that theyd create a project apple has already made first party

It means Apple (or big tech) has adopted/cloned your product basically killing your products ability to succeed

In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson

yes notably it is also not a civil case being brought by google for breaking the NDA

I think your reading of SDNY jurisdiction is a misreading. The SDNY is the venue for where the DOJ is charging them, which is fairly common for financial crime cases.

So, after doing some light Googling and AI research, this doesn’t seem to be strictly an “insider trading” charge from the SEC.

It looks more like a broader fraud case. The charges are commodities fraud / Commodity Exchange Act violation, wire fraud, and money laundering, and the case is being brought by the DOJ.

So, lawyers, please correct me if I’m wrong, but this feels more like prosecutors found a legal framework to charge him for conduct that resembles insider trading. By contrast, if he had sold Google stock based on insider knowledge, that would have more directly implicated SEC insider trading rules.

So, functionally, it feels like an insider trading case, but technically, it isn’t one.

Yes, but having worked on the date picker at Airbnb I can assure you almost every custom implementation (probably ours too!) messes up date picking in some region in an important way

I think a lot of ink has been spilled on the problems with the proposed California Wealth tax, the main points being:

1- Is this in fact a 1-time tax or is that a dishonest narrative to make the proposal easier to swallow?

2- How do you prevent capital flight to other states?

3- How do those with paper money or more voting shares than equity shares cover their tax bill?

That being said, I think more creative energy needs to be spent on the problem itself.

What do we do about individuals with $100M+ of unrealized capital gains that through various methods will never have to realize those gains to live an extraordinary lavish lifestyle, and their children will inherit the money with a step-up in basis? For those who make all their money from W2s, they pay very high tax burdens, while those who strictly have capital gains generally pay at most around ~20% for LTCG.

To those criticizing the California Wealth Tax, how do we solve this? How do we make billionaires pay more and lawyers/doctors/software engineers pay less?

Nice response to read

While these are great, isn’t the problem that malicious actors will create systems that do not use synthID

I’m not sure I understand the customer use case for this.

1- Chromebooks have made huge inroads in schools because they’re easy to maintain, share, upgrade, and they’re very cheap.

2- Obviously, running desktop software is a huge new piece of the ecosystem, but isn’t this customer already opting for Windows/Mac, who have extremely robust 30-year ecosystems and suites like Office, iLife, Adobe, etc that will obviously never build for this platform

There’s no way Google OS ever hits any kind of parity of exclusive software that is unavailable on Windows/Mac. Best they can do is run Android apps. This also introduces a high new threat vector to their existing customers who might not want it.

Lastly, what will this do to Chromebook buyers who are now wondering which OS will be actively developed in 5 years?

This seems like a good guess. Seems like it was deployed Thursday based on the app reviews

Looks like something was deployed Thursday evening. My bet is it’s some kind of test configuration for the App Store itself that just happened to pick headspace and it’s rolled into prod by accident

I’ll add another piece of feedback.

It’s easier to narrow the domain of your market as specific as possible so as to maximize transactions and matching early on.

For instance, Uber launched in one city. This is so that all the growth efforts on both sides go to helping the markets meet. Twitch had to win with gamers before it could win in other categories. Pick a narrow domain for your business, perfect that user experience, then, as other have stated, prop up one side of the market yourself (probably the one least likely to churn forever) until the market can support itself organically.

If I can make a product suggestion, Backboard has a part of the interface that shows excluded folders. This should explicitly call out the Dropbox folder as being excluded. The software update that removed support for this should’ve included a pop-up that said “Dropbox is no longer being backed up” (though candidly if this pop-up existed on my dad’s machine and he didn’t see it, my mistake).

My frustration stems from paying hundreds of dollars over several years to pay for backup and then silently learning Dropbox was no longer supported when we went to look for it in our backup. We could’ve made other choices about how to store/bavkup our own files with better communication.

Hey Jim,

Appreciate the thoughtful response. I recognize the challenge that cloud-synced folders introduce into the file storage ecosystem and the challenges with online/offline files + storage loopholes that could take a cause an engineering challenge.

That being said, we’ve been nearly 6+ years backblaze users and we probably can’t rely on backblaze if it can’t support these tools that are now pretty standard services to have installed. As I mentioned above, the promise for us was “pay for backblazd and never worry about whether our files are backed up”. We’ll be looking for an announcement if you can bring back Dropbox support.

Julian

There is another product I use that has a freemium model. They hope to monetize a paid tier for users who use the product a lot.

In order to build trust, they open source their product. I forked it, removed the blocks from the freemium feature in 15 minutes using Claude Code. Never published the code to anyone else, just used it myself

Unfortunately, I think it isn’t going to be tenable for systems to be fully open sourced going forward.

Most people have recommended Arq to me. I will try it next time I visit my parents https://www.arqbackup.com/

I have some feedback for Dropbox as well for losing the file, but we don’t pay for that so my expectations aren’t the same.

My dad had a file untouched in Dropbox for 2 years. He overwrote it 2 days prior to me trying to recover it from Dropbox/Backblaze. They said he couldn't access the version that was just overwritten because that was over 30 days old, which is not what the definition of 30-day history is....

Well this wasn’t the promise backblaze made a decade ago when we started using their products.

Now I need a new solution that will work for my parents

Also taking recommendations for a simple services I can install on my dads windows machine and my moms Mac that will just automatically backup the main drive to the cloud just in case

We are going to drop blackblaze over this

We discovered this change recently because my dad was looking for a file that Dropbox accidentally overwrote which at first we said “no problem. This is why we pay for backblaze”

We had learned that this policy had changed a few months ago, and we were never notified. File was unrecoverable

If anyone at backblaze is reading this, I pay for your product so I can install you on my parents machine and never worry about it again. You decided saving on cloud storage was worth breaking this promise. Bad bad call

I wonder if this is just selection bias

People who are bad with money are bad with money

Does Apple support multiple iCloud accounts on a device yet?

Seems like a really cool thing to have hooked up to openclaw

Same. I was using Gemini and firebase for a work project and I was stunned how hard it was for me to use

Damn, so it won’t have the legendary Google promise of reliability and maintenance.

I just do a lot of remote work and I rely on my phone which drains its battery and I’d love if I could just open my laptop and work