<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: FireBeyond</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FireBeyond</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:55:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=FireBeyond" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FireBeyond in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meanwhile, because I've worked for several startups who have used Google Workspaces, if I (try to) open a new Google account, phone verification fails because my phone number "has been used too many times".<p>Some places suggest "try logging into Google with your phone number, and deleting the account that's associated, if you don't need", that just ... doesn't work.</p>
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<p>Yup. I need to figure that out with Microsoft too. Paid for a 365 subscription on an account using one of my secondary email addresses. Being charged every month. None of those secondary emails will let me login/act like there's an account there/forgot password doesn't work. Support has no way to see what email account is linked to a credit card (which, admittedly, I get, somewhat) and wouldn't disclose that information anyway. So even armed with a transaction ID...</p>
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<p>> will not use it in situations where it wouldn't work<p>Often "cannot". FSD will refuse to engage in those situations, often.<p>But Elon will trot out "so much safer", omitting "for some conditions, on some road, in some weather", versus "all drivers, all conditions, all road, all weather".<p>"You see, we win the vast majority of games when we just don't play the ones we thought we might lose!"</p>
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<p>Tesla has always had a weirdness with trains. A couple of years ago in Pennsylvania, I watched, bemused, as a train rolled by at a crossing (we were driving manually). It looked like an erratic convoy of trucks, depending on whether there was a container on the car or not.<p>Tesla stans will say "well, just because it doesn't visualize the train properly doesn't mean it doesn't know it's a train", but shit like this today just bolsters that that's garbage.<p>I still want to see how Tesla does in my town where there's a fun intersection, where four lanes coming west hit a T. Drivers can turn north or south, but there's only two lanes on the north south road, so there's a sequence where the left two lanes can turn north, or south, and then the right two lanes can do it (i.e. staggered so drivers in the left two lanes turning north don't hit drivers in the right two turning south, and also don't have to try to merge 4 lanes into 2 while turning).<p>I guarantee FSD would absolutely shit the bed (sorry, I mean, "disengage" to preserve Elon's stats, I mean "your safety") on this intersection.<p>It's not ready for primetime. And it's still not close.</p>
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<p>Not even remotely. Citizens may be granted <i>additional</i> protections from some things, but the Constitution applies to all <i>persons</i> inside the US.</p>
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<p>Interesting, I have used Fastmail for probably a decade plus at this point, and whether it's my obsessive rating of false negatives and positives, it is amazingly rare that I get spam slip into my inbox (maybe one message a week from ~100/day received, while my spam folder gets about 10/day).</p>
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<p>Administrative subpoenas are tenuous at best, but in the absence of an actual court order, words from ICE attorneys or officers saying "You are ordered not to disclose the details of this subpoena" have no actual weight in law.</p>
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<p>Which universities?<p>With such a small sample size, you have a whole lot of confidence saying "well, the Dems encouraged them".</p>
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<p>This saddens me. They were very comfortable apart from anything else, suited my wide feet. You could order in 1/4 sizes and could even order a different size for each foot, like a 9.25 on the L and 9.5 on the R.</p>
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<p>Hah, around the time of COVID, I was in SF renewing my Australian passport. Went into the Peak Design store, and was talking about my V1 Backpack, and the employee there was basically intimating that [my extremely trivial issue], if it <i>somehowwww</i> got just a little worse, would be covered by their lifetime warranty and also, just FYI, since we're out of stock on them, I'd get a V2 instead.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I went to work for a law firm when I was 22, and I bought myself a 3/4 length cashmere-wool overcoat, and it was $750, and my parents thought it was ridiculous to spend that.<p>I'm 48 and not only do I still have it, it still looks like new, with no real care taken of it - wear it, put it away. The only issue I had was the liner in one arm pit started to unstitch a couple of inches, and a tailor took care of it in 20 minutes for $10 a decade ago.</p>
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<p>Except under Flock's own contracts and their own website, Flock are the people who own Flock hardware. And this correlates with my understanding from when I was an employee.</p>
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<p>> In fact, there is a whole genre known as "street photography" that involves taking pictures in public without explicit consent of the subjects.<p>Try taking an upskirt photo of someone in public without their explicit consent. You'll find that there are limitations to that under both Federal and State laws.</p>
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<p>> If Flock's customers, using Flock's infrastructure or tooling, can share data with each other, that would be bad.<p>Ex-employee of Flock here, that's ABSOLUTELY what's happening.<p>And what's more Flock lets them do so even when they know the agencies are legally not permitted to do so. They turn a blind eye, say it's not their problem to enforce ("oh, doing so in state X is illegal? Well, even if your agency is in state X, we didn't disable that feature"), then happily provide training to do enable those agencies to do so (and it's a nudge nudge wink wink part of the sales process.)</p>
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<p>> Sigh, fine, I'll pay for NBA Leaguepass. I don't live in your country... great, random blackouts. Fine, I'll try and use a VPN (hell, I literally used tailscale to a friend's house for a bit).. but then those games are blacked out too, at random?<p>I live in an NBA "dead zone". I'm in the streaming blackout zone. But not in the TV zone (even if I did pay for TV, which I'd almost consider).[1] And then I VPNed to Canada for international LP, but that wasn't much better. Then Mexico. And then ...<p>Then I found a site that had an actual Roku app (at least) that took payment in Crypto or Amazon GC but was absolutely uninfested, no ads, no garbage, probably at times more reliable than even the NBA's app. But they got shut down.<p>Not to mention LP refused to refund me though my subscription was effectively useless because I "could still watch the games, and without commercial or timeout breaks, even!" - yeah, 24 to 72 hours after it was played. Yay. Lucky me.</p>
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<p>> I don’t seem to have nearly the same difficulty as you.<p>Wait til you hear of this concept called "Dead Zones". The NBA has them.<p>What's that? It's where you live in the streaming blackout zone and get a nice message saying "watch this on your regional sporting affiliate", but you don't live in the TV zone for that team, so "your regional sporting affiliate" doesn't cover the game. So you get to watch... national games... and you can watch your team's games, on 24 or 72 hour delay.<p>And the NBA will tell you they can't refund your League Pass subscription because of that - you can watch the game, just not when it's happening. You can watch it after you've almost certainly heard the results. "But you'll get to see it with no breaks because we clip the commercial breaks!" Yayyyyy.</p>
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<p>>Yep, for some reasons the recommendation engines seem to have become “oh you glanced at this post for 2 second or you watched a single video, this must be exclusively what you want”<p>Worse than that, at times my home page feed has been 5-10% "Here's a video <i>you've already watched all the way through</i>. Want to watch it <i>again</i>?" recommendations. Like YT can see I've watched the video - why are so many videos I've watched being "recommended" for me?</p>
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<p>> Continuing down below, their claim on "Trust Us" about how they employ machine learning would need some proper transparency into how can that be guaranteed.<p>Wait til you see their "Transparency Portal" which, if my County and neighboring can be used as a sample size, doesn't even name at least 30% of agencies using Flock.</p>
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<p>PM's performance on Mac has gone through the floor, to me. It shouldn't take 8 seconds to quit on a M2 Ultra. Raw rendering is slow too. I ended up moving to FastRawViewer.</p>
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<p>Perhaps, but I also don't see how a prompt cache miss or expiry should result in Claude stating affirmatively that it did something that it did not.</p>
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