Wait few hours. Some CTO or PR guru will post a message here.

- We are totally revamping our processes. This never happened out of incompetence. Humans make mistakes. We are contacting the client for 1 year free renewal - waiving. Will mail a coupon code. We consider this issue closed.

There's Discworld bit [0] that often comes to mind for me, where the protagonist is reading a press-release by a fantasy version of a communications monopoly:

> The Grand Trunk’s problems were clearly the result of some mysterious spasm in the universe and had nothing to do with greed, arrogance, and willful stupidity. Oh, the Grand Trunk management had made mistakes—oops, “well-intentioned judgments which, with the benefit of hindsight, might regrettably have been, in some respects, in error”—but these had mostly occurred, it appeared, while correcting “fundamental systemic errors” committed by the previous management. No one was sorry for anything, because no living creature had done anything wrong; bad things had happened by spontaneous generation in some weird, chilly, geometric otherworld, and “were to be regretted.”

[0] Going Postal (2004) by Terry Pratchett

Have we ever got any response like than from GoDaddy ever in any of these issues over years?

Any direct followup from GoDaddy would be welcomed.

What even is "security" anyway? You don't know. I don't know. It's probably a made-up concept.

Or a very long "let me explain why this is ok actually" from a "random" account

HN is the only real support channel in tech. First level customer service is AI, second level is outsourced idiots who blindly follow a script, the third level is ”Issue has been closed”

The real escalation path is going viral. Things get moving once a grievance is trending.

100%

Those working in Google (AOSP) that write these code should be ashamed of themselves. Eventually they are doing a bad thing for the society.

Is this in AOSP? I was assuming the changes are to GMS. I should hope that no distributor of AOSP(-based) images include this code anyway so it's just on the google devices

The logic of putting roof over the head is a point that is too broadly used is not at all valid for things like tailscale as... eventually most businesses at that level (tailscale revenue in 2025 was $45.2M) are crushing the customers. Either entshittification or lock-in. There is a loss of trust. The trust on SV/software is as much as bankers (during Lehmann bros crisis). Some people in HN think oh, we are growing small farmers/engineers from grassroots etc Yes, maybe - but their thinking is to exploit customers sooner or later. These smaller ones (as compared to FAANG etc) think that common man thinks that FAANG are the exploitative ones. But no. The public is getting aware that every damn calendar app or pdf viewer or router is increasing prices or wants subscription or planned obsolescence.

A roof over the head is OK but the price increases are usually to put private Yachts. The income earned by majority of these founders is already good to have lots of roofs.

Maybe my local corner coffee shop is one fellow I would not mind having subscription with...

Out of all the businesses to rant against for overcharging you are really going to focus on Tailscale?

Am I supposed to care about the yachts?

> should the world not have yachts?

Maybe? Things like super yachts are just offensive.

Then ask all the billionares or people like you to give jobs/salaries/allowances/holidays at SV level to everyone in the world. Lets all build yachts. I am happy to get that level of pay.

So the perverse "logic" here is basically that since very successful products sometimes get enshittified, there is no point to seeking ANY success?

Do you realize how out-of-touch with reality this sounds? For every $45M Tailscale there's a hundred companies you likely never heard of making respectable but not-very-excessive money in niches here and there. For example, I have a high school friend who owns one: https://speedify.com Thing is, you can't have one without the other. Hell, that's the kind of success (as in "moderate") I'm actually targeting with my work. Which is why comments like this irritate me.

Go make something that other people want and then try to live off it. Offering all of it for free won't cut it, because we don't live in a communist dictatorship (not that any of them might approve you spending your time on your pie-in-the-sky "contributory idea" in the first place).

By the way, in working on the thing I want to sell, I've made a number of offshoot projects open source as a side effect. Check my github, it's never been more active.

All over Europe is generalisation. At least in France, Germany, Switzerland it is too much pain and paperwork to get any camera installed. If you are worried about chinese then seriously you cannot live.

In theory, in practice you can get a random one bought from Temu, and unless some neighbour calls in the authorities, no one will know.

You are technically correct but also very wrong. Yes, it is a lot of pain to get the paperwork done and you have a high chance of being rejected without a good reason. I know dozens of people who run cheap, chinese IP cams recording public spaces directly to dubious cloud services here in Switzerland. You just don't ask.

Work related: We sell solutions including CCTV and video-intercom and we have only recently started providing customers with stickers they can use to make those installations comply with regulations. Technically, it has been the responsibility of the customer installing the device, so us doing this is just nudging people towards compliance because nobody cares. I can guarantee you that there are tens of thousands of cameras here filming public ground and it is not prosecuted. In fact, someone at the office put one up a long time ago for a PTZ demo (not recording) that was not compliant and it took almost 10 years until we got ordered to take it down.

Most of these are not recording, only recording situationally or only locally. Still not legal technically. However, ever since cheap cloud-connected doorbells have become available, they have definitely been installed here. They do not comply with regulations whatsoever and next to nothing is done about it.

Once you do illegal then that is a different issue.

Even if your company does such stuff... the number of cameras per street is far fewer then one sees in the UK or USA.

> Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on.

Totally true. I have some some UX designers daily driving 4k monitors with 2k resolution to see things clearly!!

if you search

NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture

you see how often this feature gets broken and type some other flag or install 3rd party app.

I wish this executive (author of that post) https://xcancel.com/laparisa?lang=en will show their browser in REAL LIFE everyday use. Really do they use it?

Looks like they may be using it to write their tweets?

In other words... general people don't need it.

> people have access to old computers from ewaste imports at a reasonable price,

Are you joking?

One can get super good condition Dell latitudes with 8th gen Intel with 8GB RAM and 256GB NVMe with 1 year no-questions asked warranty (and original charger) for €100. Similar ones cost 2x or 3x in India. That is not reasonable.

> don't all live in straw mudhuts wearing loincloths

No. But not everyone is earning in Bengaluru campus. Look at the typical Rapido driver.

- How different is this from Fedora BlueFin or silverblue?

- it looks like they want to build a ChromeOS without Google.