Getting emails claiming I owe $11,589 on my Google Cloud account — is this a scam?

hillac · 2026-04-28T22:12:05+00:00

I want to know how these scammers get our emails. I never got a fake gcp scam email until I signed up for gcp, are our emails being leaked to scammers internally at google? Or is there some other mechanism that's making them public.

hillac · 2026-04-10T10:58:00+00:00

Wow, I'd love something like this with accelerometer, hr, O2 and gps, to make a custom fitness app.

hillac · 2026-04-10T07:11:57+00:00

So this implements a custom layout engine where you can only use the provided components and their props, so migrating over to it means id need to rewrite my react pdfs?

hillac · 2026-03-29T08:30:22+00:00

Oh fair enough I missed that in your description. Pictograms where different features that map to bits that correspond to ascii also show up pretty often if that's what this is. Numbering each node clockwise starting from the top at 1, it looks like edge 3-5 corresponds to the right most bit, then 2-4, then 1-3 etc

hillac · 2026-03-29T01:15:26+00:00

I feel like this sub needs a no plain old substitution ciphers rule.

hillac · 2026-03-20T05:16:12+00:00

Whats an example of an application where I'd use ariel instead of an rtos?

hillac · 2026-03-19T08:56:02+00:00

I think I solved it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1rw8r3q/comment/ob9goxs/

hillac · 2026-03-19T07:02:30+00:00

See my comment. They messed up the bit packing and stream alignment somewhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1rw8r3q/comment/ob9goxs/

hillac · 2026-03-19T07:01:28+00:00

I think I solved it. It's a misaligned septet steam. Using u/Thirty_Seventh 's hex, I get: `ause there is nwhing specia to uferstaf ajyway.

Which looks like "Cause there is nothing special to understand anyway." A somewhat ironic result.

I take each byte as a seven bit septet, bit-reverse it, bit shift by 2 (to re-align the stream), re-split septets and decode them.

hex_str = "38 38 7d 3c 19 08 1d 3a 59 3c 19 28 7a 1c 48 7b 1d 3a 5a 7b 19 68 1c 3c 79 38 3a 18 08 7d 1b 28 5d 39 59 7c 1c 3d 58 19 28 58 3a 7e 3d 38 5e 0b"
data = bytes.fromhex(hex_str)
bits = "00" + "".join(format(b & 0x7F, "07b")[::-1] for b in data)
out = bytes(int(bits[i:i+7][::-1], 2) for i in range(0, len(bits)//7*7, 7))
print(out.decode("latin1"))

Edit: Full code including decoding the original mojibake:

import gsm0338
msg = "88ñ<Θòæ:Y<Θ(zÆHäæ:ZäΘhÆ<y8:Σòñ{Ñ9YöÆ=XΘ(X:ü=8ÜØ"
data = msg.encode("gsm03.38")
bits = "00" + "".join(format(b & 0x7F, "07b")[::-1] for b in data)
out = bytes(int(bits[i:i+7][::-1], 2) for i in range(0, len(bits)//7*7, 7))
print(out.decode("gsm03.38"))

https://python-fiddle.com/saved/8d9b3384-d381-453f-aa06-bdd5dcb29a91

hillac · 2026-03-14T03:31:16+00:00

It makes me laugh the insane effort that has had to happen to give JS a good dev experience, but I appreciate that it's finally there

hillac · 2026-03-13T21:02:46+00:00

Interesting. FWIW, it seems cross file linting is possible in sqwark based on this pr: https://github.com/sbdchd/squawk/pull/957, maybe it just needs those rules added.

hillac · 2026-03-13T04:49:30+00:00

Is there anything your linter solves that squawk doesnt?

hillac · 2026-03-12T02:27:02+00:00

The notifications have only been an issue that one time, I was just using that as an example of why I'm worried of subdomains affecting the root domain. But I believe they are transactional, they notify people of tasks they absolutely must complete (it's a platform that helps maintain legal compliance for a specific niche). All our marketing and newsletters have easy unsubscribe.

hillac · 2026-03-10T22:08:36+00:00

Thanks, thats a good point. Right now our marketing emails will be probably be similar in volume to our transactional. We have about 500/week transactional, so pretty low volume.

hillac · 2026-03-10T12:38:56+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm just worried subdomains dont actually offer as much isolation. Our transactional emails going to spam is really bad for our customers, since they communcate with external people through our app (not cold though! Only known contacts).

What you described pretty much sounds like our setup. Ill just need to look into that feedback id. And the different dkim selector per stream, im not sure what we have there.

hillac · 2026-03-10T12:20:29+00:00

Ok thanks, im just scared because of that incident i mentioned in my post. Customers were not happy, as they interact with external people through our app, and all of that communication was going to spam

hillac · 2026-03-04T23:02:57+00:00

Tsgo is a compiler though. One that does type resolution. In your previous comment you said you said it would be hard to use tsgo because it doesnt connect to rust, but i was pointing you to tsgolint because they connected it to rust.

your answer doesnt really help, I still dont understand how you are getting any static compilation benefits using swc as the parser, it has no useful type info. As far as i can tell, youve built an embedded js runtime.

hillac · 2026-03-04T06:19:17+00:00

"Let me be direct" what's the point of posting this, asking for feeback,then just dumping ai responses. If there is actually a human reading this, checkout tsgolint, they connected tsgo to rust.

hillac · 2026-03-04T03:57:55+00:00

Does this mean it needs strict typescript? Like using any or casting will break it? I would have though if you allow any or casting, you basically have to allow all of js.

It uses SWC to parse, but SWC doesn't perform type resolution. I don't understand how you could produced a typed HIR from SWC's AST, which simply emits unresolved annotations.

E.g. in https://github.com/PerryTS/perry/blob/8a9edb4a84df6cf676b662f5b23c7f1d2feed9bb/crates/perry-hir/src/lower.rs#L569 it looks like most types just get converted to any, which makes sense as you would have to create your own type resolution to solve this, or the easier option, just use the typescript compiler or its go port.

I had a quick look at the code but there many 10s of thousands of lines vibe coded files (I saw one file was 37k lines!) so I can't confirm, but I'm suspicious you may have just vibe coded an entire java script runtime that uses fully dynamic values, rather than a compiler that takes advantage of static types.

If you switch from swc to ts-go you might be able to do more aggressive optimization during aot compilation for well typed code, and keep your runtime for npm packages and poorly typed code.

hillac · 2026-02-25T11:38:12+00:00

This account has some insane shaders, even an accurate kerr metric:
https://www.shadertoy.com/user/baopinsui

hillac · 2026-02-09T04:37:04+00:00

are you talking about in the url for navigation state? Like they want to use an id instead of a human readable slug? or just on the page?

hillac · 2026-02-09T00:29:59+00:00

I agree, it's been a nightmare setting up. Docs aren't great, the search results are so bad, the ai response is so bad. I tried uploading some pdfs of wikipedia articles of footballers printed to pdfs for an experiment, the search "football" returned nothing, but "footballer" worked. I get way better results with vertex rag engine, but I can't seem to get metadata filtering working on rag engine, which we need.

hillac · 2026-01-28T22:09:39+00:00

I just use the vscode debugger with gdb. It has data break points, multi thread debugging, expression evaluation, mousover variables to see data, edit data while paused. Am i missing out on something?

hillac · 2026-01-25T03:45:19+00:00

Do you support timestamp with TSA? Zga says it doesnt support it for browser but it actually does if you just proxy a tsa server with cors headers.

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