Proton won’t lock me out of my email because I accidentally sang a copyrighted song in a Youtube video. That’s why I use it, not because it’s the pirate bay for email.

> Proton won’t lock me out of my email because I accidentally sang a copyrighted song in a Youtube video.

Is there a specific story you’re referring to? Mind sharing a link? I have no intention of disputing it, I just haven’t heard of that particular case.

They updated YouTube rules so it no longer is the case.

But just the other week there were stories all over HN about Google banning accounts for accidental Gemini ToS violations

I’m aware Google bans accounts for wrong reasons, what I’m asking is about a case (as implied by OP) where they seemingly did so because someone sang a copyrighted song in a video. There are different degrees of bad, and that one would be up there.

You say it no longer is the case because they changed the rules. So does that mean it did happen? Could you share a link?

there are plenty of examples throughout history, although i haven’t heard much about it recently. tl;dr you don’t have a gmail account, you have a google account. if that account gets banned on one service, you may lose everything.

> tl;dr you don’t have a gmail account, you have a google account. if that account gets banned on one service, you may lose everything.

I’m perfectly aware.

> there are plenty of examples throughout history

I’m not asking about plenty of them, I’m asking about one. Has there been a case where, as you said, Google has banned an account because someone sang a copyrighted song in a video? That’s the one I want to read about.

I don’t have any sympathy for large corporations and I don’t use Google services, I just want to be informed about draconian tech decisions.

Did you make up that story? It’s OK if you did as a hyperbole, I just want to know.

i personally paid, to UPS and DHL iirc, tariffs. so maybe i wasn’t actually directly billed the tariff as the importer, but i 100% paid it.

Now,

was it a tariff you paid,

or a carrier fee related to the tariff?

Delivery companies act as tariff agents and collect tariffs for Customs and Border Protection, so, yes, if you were the importer of record on a delivery, it is quite likely that you paid the tariff via the delivery company.

These are likely to be refunded, because even if you were the purchaser of the product, you were the importer of record and paid the tariff, not a downstream buyer who paid an increased price because of the tariffs.

I’m one of the importers of record.

This should be interesting!

for me it's the comfort/ability to put the thing in my pocket.

I can relate. I actually used to be jealous of the ladies because they always have a convenient purse to put things in. These days I wear a light weight cross-body “sling” bag, and i’m happy as a peach.

Easy way to bring my phone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, etc with me. Pockets can be pretty annoying.

Maybe 2027 will be the year of the mini? :)

Market the thicclight pocketable without foldline "babysize" iPhone at the expense of ridiculing the fingertip unreachable "neanderthalsize" phablet.

Same. This would be an obvious upgrade for me, if the overall size was anywhere close to the Mini. Oddly enough, the announcement doesn't even list the screen size, but I'm sure it's 6" +

6.1" vs. 6.3" on the regular 17

It’s basically iPhone 14-sized.

Does this mean that the creator of OpenClaw qualifies for that free Claude Max trial?

No, Openai employees are banned by Anthropic from using Claude.

OpenAI employees are also banned from using Claude by Pete Hegseth, according to Pete Hegseth

  > For now, it is joining the company of Amazon, Google, and Meta in using “AI” as cover to sweep up the sins of unfettered, unchecked, unhinged expansion during the Covid years.

I don’t think Meta or Google has done this, yet.

See also the 60 Minutes interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who says that the only “official” communication on the matter was via “tweet” (unsure which platform that refers to).

I never would have guessed that in 2026, data centers would be measured in Watts and desktop PCs measured in liters.

The Omen was neigh.

OTOH it could amplify their base: “Big Tech refusing to work with us on National Security matters!” The base will never hear what/where the red line was drawn, just that Some Company in California (liberal/bad) is being Woke and Political.

Their base doesn't have any clue who Anthropic is, and never will. Their base is barely paying attention to what they do anymore.

I never daily drove a BlackBerry, but I have no idea how some people were so proficient typing on them. I was constantly smashing multiple keys with every press.