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Ask HN: Gmail Bouncing Google Calendar?

WCityMike — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 04:04:03 +0000

Quite simply, I have Google Calendar set to send me e-mail notifications, and some of them are being outright bounced by Gmail, which then, ironically, has Google's Mailer-Daemon e-mail me about the bounced message, giving me a notification of sorts.

Any idea what the heck is going on with Google?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30885772

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by WCityMike in "Ask HN: How to see the top HN stories ranked without flags?"

WCityMike — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:58:03 +0000

Worth noting it's no longer available on Google Play. Not sure why.

New comment by WCityMike in "Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?"

WCityMike — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:49:07 +0000

If you are not talking about only tech project creations, then certainly many of the great books might fall under this category, especially those which birthed new mindsets as part of their creation.

New comment by WCityMike in "Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?"

WCityMike — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:35:59 +0000

To me, they absolutely shunned their core audience -- people who wanted greater flexibility and configurability than existing browsers could give them. As a power user who used to have Firefox humming along exactly how I wanted it (thanks to things like Keyconfig, etc.), I now really perceive next to no difference between Firefox and Chrome. Yes, there's philosophical reasons that make them differ. But in terms of what they offer to the end user? There's no difference. They neutered themselves.

New comment by WCityMike in "Amazon's making ComiXology much worse with its latest update"

WCityMike — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:07:13 +0000

I think it might be of interest here just because it's a fascinating moment in UI suicide. They took a very functional, even ideal UI and cut out huge swaths of functionality purely for the purpose of subsuming it into an existing yet ill-fitting structure.

Amazon's making ComiXology much worse with its latest update

WCityMike — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:02:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidpolice.com/amazons-making-comixology-much-worse-with-its-latest-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30380523

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by WCityMike in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

WCityMike — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:11:35 +0000

Wi-fi enabled hot sauce. I did not know so much satire could be packed into four words. That's satire-rich semantics, right there. SatiricWeb3.

New comment by WCityMike in "COVIDtests.gov – Free at-home Covid-19 tests"

WCityMike — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:20:52 +0000

Gaming it out in my head, I would assume that this increases access to testing for those who are either uninsured or those who could not afford the turnaround time for their insurance to reimburse them for purchase of at-home testing.

As such, in this alternate world without the intervention, a chunk of the populace cannot afford to test. If one wanted to make slightly rasher assumptions, this segment might include those who are in jobs (Walmart, food preparation and service) that expose them to a large part of the population.

New comment by WCityMike in "I Miss RSS"

WCityMike — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:28:34 +0000

I'm saying this without any connection to the service aside from being a customer, but I think Inoreader is doing innovative work in the RSS space.

New comment by WCityMike in "Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures"

WCityMike — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:32:48 +0000

Wish the site had RSS.

New comment by WCityMike in "My House"

WCityMike — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:04:31 +0000

(site appears down)

New comment by WCityMike in "Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster"

WCityMike — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 05:46:58 +0000

> I honestly don't see a good reason.

I presume you're one of the fortunate majority who've never had domestic abusers injure (temporarily or permanently) or kill someone loved.

New comment by WCityMike in "Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?"

WCityMike — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:32:13 +0000

Can I ask, purely in the spirit of potential solutions (as opposed to the meta question of whether you should have to do this) -- there's a link there for "Claim this Knowledge Panel". One would presume that it would give you the ability to control what's listed there. Have you tried that?

New comment by WCityMike in "Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name"

WCityMike — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 23:25:15 +0000

I'm reminded of a paragraph in the Buzzfeed News investigation that brought this to light, indicating that Mikkelson in early days of Usenet was particularly known for trolling. That response to your inquiry seems particularly trollish.

New comment by WCityMike in "Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle"

WCityMike — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 03:18:00 +0000

From Krebs on Security (linked to from Jason Scott's Twitter thread):

> Unable to disengage a lock on his back fence, Herring was instructed to somehow climb over the fence with his hands up.

> “He was starting to get more upset,” Billings recalled. “He said, ‘I’m a 60-year-old fat man and I can’t do that.'”

> Billings said Mr. Herring then offered to crawl under a gap in the fence, but when he did so and stood up, he collapsed of a heart attack. Herring died at a nearby hospital soon after.

New comment by WCityMike in "Open Insulin Foundation"

WCityMike — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:49:47 +0000

FWIW: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health...

New comment by WCityMike in "The Well-Tempered Traveler"

WCityMike — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:48:07 +0000

If this was treated as a linked-to-Google property, it would have been Google Travel - Weather Trends and would've been canceled along with the rest of Google Travel like 87% of their projects.

New comment by WCityMike in "I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff"

WCityMike — Sat, 15 May 2021 20:51:49 +0000

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210515030713/https://p.haavard...

New comment by WCityMike in "Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released"

WCityMike — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 01:53:01 +0000

"It is durable due to its incorporation of pozzolanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading."

Third sentence in the Wikipedia article. Later:

"The strength and longevity of Roman marine concrete is understood to benefit from a reaction of seawater with a mixture of volcanic ash and quicklime to create a rare crystal called tobermorite, which may resist fracturing. As seawater percolated within the tiny cracks in the Roman concrete, it reacted with phillipsite naturally found in the volcanic rock and created aluminous tobermorite crystals."

Neither seems to have been 'lost data'.

New comment by WCityMike in "Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public"

WCityMike — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:04:38 +0000

I don't know for sure this happened, but the adjective "properly" in "properly redacted" makes me wonder if they did black highlight, or drew black boxes over the text, instead of using a PDF editor's redaction feature. Only the latter truly works.