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I'm sure a normal person would be in prison for running a scam like this. So will we see the CEO in the slammer?

$12m penalty, $48m payback to scammed customers.

That's getting of easy for running an industrialized scam.

Have the reject frames re-rendered by someone else to find out the truth. Ban abusers.

Better yet, make all abusers render each other frames.

I like this. I'd like it even more if it'd have some sort of a credit system. When I'm rendering for others I'd accumulate credits. When I need rendering I could use those credits for priority.

I seems fair but might be tricky to implement to prevent fraud/abuse?

People take your comment as as joke but you are 100% correct. This is pure unfiltered hypocrisy on Google's behalf.

I have to admit I've never heard a complaint about too frequent optional updates.

Sure, if you are forced to update. But if your Calibre ain't broken then just skip the update?

I can't find it?

I can think of quite a few entities that are very, very interested in this data.

Nice project though!

The feeling of entitlement people have around open source is unsustainable.

If someone releases code then that's it. You have it. Do what you want with it (within it's licence). Be thankful.

Unless that guy specifically says he's going to maintain it for free you are entitled to exactly absolutely nothing more you ungrateful little git.

If you add this code to your project, you should fix and share any problems you encounter as a token of gratitude.

"Would you do X for $Y?"

Most of the time you can increase Y to get the answer "yes".

In many cases Y can even be factored out by changing it to "Would you do X so you wouldn't get fired?"

Empirical answers differ a lot from people's theoretical principles.

I agree that most DB instances are grossly underutilized (or abused performance wise).

But an "entire company" is a tad crude unit of measure when talking about optimization.

Good point though. I've seen companies create a completely new replicated DB instance for every little pet project they start. Crazy. Nice if you're a cloud provider though.

My friend proposed with a ring he made over a weekend out of no fancy materials. She said yes.

> What was wrong with the old mail program?

Depends on who you ask. I guess "there were no ads on it" is an applicable answer from MS point of view.

I'm going to read this as an attempt at sarcasm.

That doesn't need to happen for the Charlatan Group to struggle. Most current hardware companies are dependent on the customer to renew their hardware every 5 years.

These specific niche users are the geeks that all relatives and friends ask what to get.

> We understand that this impacts a small percentage of users, ...

Wow, what a contemptuous statement.

I have news for you, Chamberlain Group. You are not only alienating, being hostile and losing a "Small percentage of users" (most companies would prefer to call them "valued customers", but I get it). You are causing an enormous permanent damage to your own brand.

btdig.com is different and more useful indexer.

> Business is booming

I can believe that. But it also has the equivalent of stage 1 or 2 cancer.

Google's search results have been poisoned by SEO.

A lot of the time when looking for information about X the search results are dominated either by someone trying to sell me X or they have very superficial information about X just so they can a bit further down try to sell me X.

(I'm talking about the unknown X, not Elon's failing project).

I can't imagine browsing the internet without uBlock installed. I honestly don't think I could.

I don't know why exacly, but there's a good general reason not to touch anything made by Oracle: lawsuits.

You just made it a whole lot harder to find the bug! :)

People might not be interested in P&T (I am though!) but this video involves Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie, which is highly relevant to the HN crowd.

It's broken on FF/Linux. I just flashing garbage that would probably trigger epilepsy if I had one.

Was is a pre-checked checkbox by any chance?

There's also a few dark patterns to confuse the user to check the box. Put it next to a "Accept T&C" and people think they have to check it.

Or word in a vague way. I doubt it said "We can sell your DNA to 3rd party who can then patent it".

Within the UK, you get a whole range of "randomness" (accents). Try listening to this without reading the subtitles for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQGwe2b18UA

It even causes funny problems within the UK. Even in high places like the parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4k8dR04TzA

I might click an "unsubscribe" link in an email from an org that I know. But I'm not going to interact with the page that comes up.

If I get another email from that org, I click "report spam".

NAL, but based on my armchair expertise it looks like an extremely hard case for Meta.

Any actual lawyers willing to chime in?

Website doesn't display correctly on FF on android. Text bleeds on left and right side.

The article mentions Development Experience, but doesn't mention what I think is an overlooked huge cost.

Bad Development Experience results in unhappy and/or frustrated developer. Unhappy and/or frustrated developer is usually performing considerably worse than his happier self would.

I don't think "Ads" is the right term. There's a lot of fraud, misinformation and and targeted political propaganda peddled by YT as "ads".

I do wonder what the right term for those videos are, but it ain't "ads".