In addition to all the creepiness, the email had a link to stripe to pay them $500? I wonder if the email is hiding a prompt injection somewhere to trick a bot into paying?
I’ve been working as a full stack developer with a focus on education for more than 13 years. Increasingly my focus has shifted from just the technology towards the product. I believe that technology should empower people and create a healthy society that we all want to be a part off. This requires deliberate effort and attention to achieve and maintain. I'm looking to build a product I believe in, for profit, while learning new things and forming meaningful professional relationships.
I recently had to do google takeout on an old google apps account. The account didn't have 2 factor auth and while enabling it I got stuck in a loop scanning the QR and getting a code via text message. I can't remember how I eventually broke out of the loop?
I wonder if there is a single engineer at Google who actually understands the whole registration/verification flow and all the edge cases?
1. software doesn't only have tech maintenance - there is also user support and it increases as software grows.
2. I'm not convinced maintenance costs scale linearly. And even if it scales linearly, you will eventually get to a point where maintenance takes up all your time.
Yes, apparently you're not allowed to not allow the "unclassified" category. Apparently it was really hard to classify "ads.twitter" as marketing, so it remains unclassified and therefore you can't opt-out.
Except you can, because there's a greyed out but functional "necessary cookies only" button, but only after clicking customise.
At some point there needs to be a reckoning for companies that take the piss like this.
I was contemplating building a "Scan this QR to verify you're human" for April fools, but then got busy with other things. Wild to see this being built as part of Google reCAPTCHA. I guess we should at least be thankful that we don't have to get our retinas scanned!
A few months back I was building a product and wanted to add domains. My first choice would have been to use Cloudflare as the registrar, but they didn't support buying domains via the API.
I wonder if this means I can now also buy a domain via the API?
In addition to all the creepiness, the email had a link to stripe to pay them $500? I wonder if the email is hiding a prompt injection somewhere to trick a bot into paying?
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