Will they rebrand as codeX or Xcode? Trouble either way.

I work at Tucows Domains/Hover and we're digging in on what happened here. I've reached out to the OP already via email. tl;dr our support team didn't handle this well at all and we've already issued a full refund.

We are still looking into where the price mismatch found its way into the picture, but that domain is a tiered price domain but it is also "legacy" priced meaning it should renew at something very close to the standard price for a renewal but didn't.

For anyone reading the thread, they did do this! Had a nice call with James too, which I appreciate.

It looks like the situation is actually more complex and interesting than "The registry rug-pulled me". My .sexy domain price was increased by the owners of .sexy (to $3000) since I bought it 6 years ago BUT in Hover's system it was supposed to retain the legacy price of $38 as it had for the past few years. Something went wrong between Hover and the registry where the legacy price wasn't honoured and as such, it bumped to $3000 on renewal. Apparently support really flubbed this one and we both agreed that going the "post on HN" route for customer service isn't exactly a win on their part.

The money has been refunded and I've been assured they're looking into the bug. Will probably do a follow up blog post!

Sad news. He was the OG tech grouch. Went way off the deep end with conspiracy crap and right wing nonsense over the last decade, but I always assumed some of that was opportunistic performance. RIP.

Was a fairly big fan of his takes until then. RIP. He'll always have a place in computing history.

That is exactly how the Halton County Railway Museum near Toronto came to be. A bunch of dudes bought an old streetcar (tram) to save it from the scrappers and built a track on some property to have fun driving it around. https://hcry.org/

1Password also lets you pick where your data lives - US, Canada or EU. https://support.1password.com/regions/

So do lots of providers. But the US law says if an American has access they can snoop as much as they like wherever the data physically is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

Since 1Password is Canadian, does that apply?

It’s not if an American has access, it’s US based companies, no?

It's probably if an American employee can be subpoenaed to do it. So whether they have a US office probably.

Right up there with the Not Just Bikes guy on YouTube who used to talk about how transit-oriented cities are great or would show some positive stuff from somewhere. Now it's just endless videos about how cars suck, cities suck, even a lot of transit sucks. The constant negativity is such a put-off.

The difference is that the Not Just Bikes guy is actually doing what the parent commenter is claiming Louis (only) does and Louis in reality does a lot more than that like what's in TFA.

Not Just Bikes makes reddit posts for redditors in YouTube form, basically. Louis actually supports people and projects. There's no 'schtick', consumer repair is core to his business and his channel.

It’s like the best you can hope for your small hobby YouTube channel is to graduate to general outrage.

All hail the mighty algorithm.

Medium always is the message, eventually.

Reversion to the mean strikes again! Dangit!

With drive-bys like this is it any suprise he has a negative opinion on cars?

The original "Situation Room" concept with Wolf was pulling in all these live feeds from all over the place and reporting on them. Car chase in LA! Train crash in India! Protest in Paris! Let's go live!

They had a web subscription product around 2006 that gave you access to just watch all these raw feeds from CNN Affiliates all over the world. It was like Periscope but all "professional" feeds.

Same. I can identify with the subject matter, but the whole thing was just so off-putting. Trite, sound bites.

Yep. Similar to the other day. Uploads failing. Messages not delivering. Status is obviously hand-updated.

Kagi search.