Last Saturday Google Cloud / Firebase suspended my website’s API (metrics.chrisvogt.me) as a phishing site. I’m on a backup a week later with no explanation and no response to my appeal. Here’s what happened and what I’m doing next
Is anything ever truly “deleted” or just presented to users as such? I imagine once an image has been synced to the cloud, it’s stored somewhere forever, for reasons you hinted at.
I work for a large internet/tech company, and all images uploaded by users must be permanently retained somewhere per our legal policies, even if that means sending it to long-term storage after it’s been “deleted”. And if law enforcement submits a request asking for your files, we can pull it back up.
This reminds me of when I was working for an EdTech startup nearly a decade ago where the CEO invented his own “Mini Myers Briggs” test, and we developed a “feature” to reject any teachers applying who came back INTJ after filling out that stupid test. The CEO adamantly believed INTJs didn’t make good teachers.
Were small-town papers just as toxic, or is it just my community here in SF?
In the last month, on NextDoor, they doxxed and banded together to get the mentally-challenged skateboarder who’s been my neighborhood for years, and had him arrested because a user felt threatened by him standing around the neighborhood shouting obscenities during manic episodes. (He’s now in jail and this NextDoor thread is trying to make that permanent.)
And today there is a discussion and petition to end the Sanchez slow streets because they are “dangerous” to children and bikers due to cross-traffic and somehow “driving down property costs.”
I suppose all of that can be found on whatever social media site you choose - Twitter, Facebook, etc. But it seems extra pervasive on NextDoor, and I think the internet would be a little better off without the platform as a whole.
DoorDash doesn’t intend to be a “food delivery company”. Listen to their CEO in interviews. His catch phrase is that if you solve food delivery, you solve some of the most challenging aspects of last-mile logistics.
I expect they will transition away from food and into other verticals soon.
The real difference I've noticed with kids in this city is, compared to other places I've visited recently, the parents elsewhere acknowledge and/or comfort their kids if they are crying or signaling for attention. Here in SF it seems commonplace for parents to ignore their kids entirely and pretend they don't exist when they are screaming/crying on MUNI, running around at restaurants, or asking "hey mom, hey dad, hey mom, dad, hello?". Parents here either tune out or just don't care.