I don’t see what’s unclear about that account deletion page to be honest. It reads clearly to me that the account has been deleted and if you want to use the same email again, you can create an entirely new account using the same email, but it doesn’t reactivate the account.
Why so agressive? You're making a conclusion from a tenuous correlation. I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. Judging by the other comments here a bunch of people are in the same boat. I've been complaining in my social circle about it and have partially switched to Android as a result.
> I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing.
That’s not what I said. Upvoting one post has nothing to do with upvoting the other. They’re two wholly separate posts, the one thing they have in common is (rightfully) criticising Apple for declining software quality. The point is that this submission isn’t special, as the person I replied to suggested. These types of posts are a dime a dozen (which I approve of, I think Apple should be getting criticised for what they do wrong) and they get traction on HN all the time.
I upvoted this submission too, it’s not wrong. But I agree with the comment up the chain that it makes its point as a pretty weak threat, and that doing so undermines the message.
> You don’t really need any bot detection: just linking to the garbage from your main website will do. Because each page links to five more garbage pages, the crawler’s queue will quickly fill up with an exponential amount of garbage until it has no time left to crawl your real site.
Thanks, I thought that these are prioritized, so while the garbage links might fill up the queue, they'd do so only after all real links are visited, so the server load is the same. But of course, not all/most bots might be configured this way.
> If a link is posted somewhere, the bots will know it exists,
It's not clear that they are doing that. Web logs I've seen from other writing on this topic show them re-crawling the same pages at high rates, in addition to crawling new pages
Actually I've been informed otherwise, they crawl known links first according to this person:
> Unfortunately, based on what I'm seeing in my logs, I do need the bot detection. The crawlers that visit me, have a list of URLs to crawl, they do not immediately visit newly discovered URLs, so it would take a very, very long time to fill their queue. I don't want to give them that much time.
If you buy the book on Amazon, then the author gets some money, but if you don’t buy it, then they don’t. And it’s not like you have zero alternatives, you could also just buy the physical copy in most cases. So when you say you’re unable to buy the book that’s not truthful. No one is forcing you to steal their work, you have the option to just not read their work if your distribution preferences are so specific. And the distribution terms of the book are likely set by the publisher for many authors, especially smaller ones. I doubt most authors even know what DRM is.
An alternative is to go a library, rent a book, scan it and read on a reader. You are getting the book for free without supporting greedy drm shops.
Btw, in Poland where I live, every ebook shop sells drm free books. Every single one.
Why? Amazon don't sell polish books, yet kindles for the long time were the only readers available, so people had to use a cable to transfer the books. And kindle can't read any other drm than their own. So shops had no choice and it stayed that way.
So maybe a third option (not really but maybe?) is to buy polish version and use Ai to translate it?
Greyhound is a really bad bus operator, and they are the only option for a lot of routes. But on more competitive routes like NYC to Maine or NYC to upstate cities you get much better operators. I’ve had very positive experiences riding on those corridors with OurBus and Concorde Coach Lines. Clean seats, quiet passengers and on time departure. So it’s not bad everywhere in the US.
