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  Pankaj Pahuja (@pankajkpahuja) reported 40 seconds ago

  I blocked my AI agent from my email. It read my email anyway. Here's the full story, because the way it failed is the most useful part of the build. The setup: a dashboard for my business, wired to an AI runner on my own machine. Before this build, clicking a button copied a command to my clipboard and I pasted it into a Terminal myself. I wasn't running the system. I was the message bus. First design decision, the one worth stealing: the whitelist lives on the SERVER, not the browser. The page sends an identifier, the server decides what it means. Five allowed workflows, hardcoded. The screen can never invent a new command. Then the security pass. I denied the Gmail connector in the runner's config. Obvious move, job done, I thought. Except the runner launched from my machine, and my machine had a Google CLI sitting there, already authenticated, credentials on disk. The agent didn't need the connector I blocked. It used the tool that was already logged in as me. It read a real email. A prompt is not a permission. Telling an agent not to do something is a suggestion. The only thing that stops it is not having the capability in the room. The fix wasn't a better instruction. It was rebuilding the room: - No inherited settings or connectors - Its own credentials, not mine - Google routes cut at the source - A network policy blocking the endpoints outright Same instruction again. Denied. Not because it was being polite. The tool wasn't there, the credentials weren't there, and the network said no. Being precise, because this is where people oversell: that runner still has web search, the morning brief has to read the news. What it can't reach is my email, my Google credentials, and Google directly. That's the boundary I tested and that's all I'm claiming. Mid-build the model hit its usage limit and stopped, so I added a backup model. New problem: a backup brain is only as good as its boundaries. It got a different room, stricter. Network fully off. It can't even resolve a hostname. Last piece, the part I deliberately did NOT automate. Decisions go into a queue. The system surfaces them, explains what happens if I act, and waits. Approving writes a line in a file with my name and the time. It can't send, can't post, can't spend. Useful before autonomous. If you're wiring an AI agent into anything real: Whitelist on the server, never the UI Assume the agent inherits every authenticated CLI on your machine Test the block by trying to break it, not by reading your own config Every model gets its own sandbox Approval writes a file, it doesn't send Follow @ingenifyai for more AI build breakdowns, including the ones that break.

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  DWE Post (@dwepost) reported 3 minutes ago

  Dear Google Team, I can’t access my Gmail account. I forgot my password, and the standard recovery options are not working for me. This is my primary account. Please help me recover it as soon as possible. Thank you. @googlechrome @googleaccount @gmail

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  Jay Brunet (@SRVpress) reported 7 minutes ago

  And because I have only 2 email recipients on that server, I'm fairly confident it was some gmail bullshit complaint.

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  上帝啊，我求你了 🙏📿✝️🛐 (@Hoolly21) reported 7 minutes ago

  To open TextNow, Connet your paid vpn to Montreal Canada, set time to Montreal, Login your fresh gmail on your phone and head back to TextNow app, continue login with gmail on your text now and boom. Select area code and you have your number. Note- it won’t last more than 2 days

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  DWE Post (@dwepost) reported 11 minutes ago

  Dear Google Team, I can’t access my Gmail account. I forgot my password, and the standard recovery options are not working for me. This is my primary account. Please help me recover it as soon as possible. Thank you. @TeamYouTube @nealmohan @sundarpichai ???

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  Isis💋👸🏽 (@dreamgrl432) reported 18 minutes ago

  Why is it so hard to search in Gmail???? Can we get a new email server??? I'm overstimulated

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  😭 (@_YooMoni_) reported 18 minutes ago

  I never know my ig password and my gmail it full so it’s not working I guess me and ig done with each other lol

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bitlancework D. Tools that make sense to normal businesses Invoices in USD or EUR that settle in BTC. Automatic receipts. Project milestones. Time tracking. Fiat off-ramps so a freelancer can cash out to M-Pesa, bank transfer, or stablecoins if they want. The client never has to touch Bitcoin if they do not want to. They pay with card, Bitlance converts, freelancer receives BTC. The complexity is abstracted away. This is the key. Bitlance is not asking the world to become Bitcoiners overnight. It is meeting both sides where they are, and using Bitcoin to remove the expensive middlemen in the middle. 6. Real impact: who this helps most Let us get specific, because "financial inclusion" is an abstract phrase. The designer in East Africa She is world-class. Her portfolio is on Behance. But 80% of clients ghost her when they see she cannot take PayPal. On Bitlance, she can take a $300 branding project, get paid in BTC in 10 minutes, and convert half to shillings for rent and keep half in BTC as savings. Her income goes up and her costs go down. The US startup founder He needs a dev for 20 hours this month. He does not want to deal with contractors in 3 countries and 3 payment systems. He posts on Bitlance, pays with his company card, and knows the dev will get paid immediately when the milestone is approved. No wire forms. No FX fees. The writer in Argentina Local inflation is 50% a year. Getting paid in pesos means losing value while the client processes payment. Getting paid in USD is hard because of capital controls. Getting paid in Bitcoin means she is paid in a global asset she can hold or convert when she chooses. It is a hedge and a paycheck. The agency They have 12 freelancers across 8 countries. Managing payroll used to take a full day and $200 in fees. Now they fund one Bitlance wallet and pay everyone out of it. Reconciliation is one export. Everyone gets paid faster. 7. The objections, and the answers "But Bitcoin is volatile" True. That is why platforms like Bitlance offer instant conversion to stablecoins or local currency at withdrawal. You can choose to be paid in BTC and hold, or be paid in BTC and convert in 1 click. The point is you have the choice. The rails are Bitcoin even if the unit you spend is stable. "What about taxes?" Bitlance provides exportable reports with date, amount in BTC, and USD value at time of payment. It does not solve your local tax law, but it makes reporting 10x easier than trying to track wallet addresses manually. "What about scams?" Escrow and reputation. Same as any marketplace. The difference is that because the money is in escrow, not in a company bank account, even if Bitlance went down tomorrow, funds could still be released by 2 of the 3 keys. That is a safety net traditional platforms cannot offer. "Will clients actually use this?" They already do when it is easier and cheaper. Most clients do not care what the backend is. They care: can I post a job, find good people, pay with a card, and know the work will get done. Bitlance delivers that, and the backend just happens to be Bitcoin. 8. The bigger picture: this is about economic sovereignty When you get paid through a traditional platform, you are a tenant. The platform sets the rules, takes the cut, and can evict you. When you get paid in Bitcoin through a platform like Bitlance, you are a participant in an open network. Think of it like email. Gmail is a great email client, but no one owns email. If Gmail bans you, you can move to Proton and keep your address and contacts. We need that for work. Bitcoin is the open protocol for value. Bitlance is trying to be the open protocol for freelance work on top of it. Portfolios, reviews, and escrow history could eventually be portable. You would not be locked into one marketplace. That matters because the next 10 years of work will be more freelance, more remote, and more global. The payment infrastructure has to match.

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  peetzweg/ (@peetzweg) reported 19 minutes ago

  @heyandras I assume it’s the receiving mail server classifying it as spam? Maybe even the client? Would be viable to use to send mails to yourself if you unmark it as spam. Horrible using Gmail programmatically as it requires reauth every week.

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  Wander (@LilBoyWander) reported 20 minutes ago

  @kcwolfy_ @openshipio I’ve been down this road, many of us have. Email is tough to have self hosted. New IPs have zero reputation and often land in spam permanently with Gmail, Outlook, etc. You need perfect rDNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, slow warming, and constant monitoring…that’s the hidden cost of something like this. One slip and everything dies in spam. I do not suggest doing this unless you have the time and patience to make it work. @resend is my go-to, along with Coolify.

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  Zynta (@ZyntaFinance) reported 22 minutes ago

  @fundzyD1 Gmail once you login on another device 😭

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  Jordan Rey (@JordanRey98) reported 23 minutes ago

  @openshipio @liamgadams You guys are simply liars. I can bet $10000 right now that more than half of your emails went to spam, and 100% of them when sending to gmail and outlook went to spam. You try talking to people that have issues with emails, but they all know about the White listing mafia.

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  Waqas Bobi (@BobiWaqas) reported 26 minutes ago

  @sidra_updates @sidra_updates I am not able to login my app It doesn't login I don't get any code to my gmail No one is replying me about this issue

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  manny (@goswamimanish30) reported 27 minutes ago

  @WordsBySrinivas Only one question: why we have to login with our Gmail and you can have some access. That’s not understandable.

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  Xah Lee (@xah_lee) reported 30 minutes ago

  the ugly web dev history, frontend. I was ignorant of JavaScript and frontend tech, from 1999 to 2010. am a web backend dev in 1998. back then, professional programers sneer JavaScript (and php). except, those big corp actually need to use it sans choice, such as gmail, google map, amazon, ebay. (the need to update page sans reloading the whole page.) Only when Node.js in 2009 By Ryan Dahl, changed things. It introduced the async, which puzzled and derided by most programers. (async, a pain in the ***. One of the worst thing in programing language history, still so today, even with latest await etc. Reason is because js is single threaded. Async is a pretend fix on this concurrency issue.) In 2010 js did not have a library system. (nor did php, scheme lisp, for the first 10 years of their life. emacs lisp has no module/namespace to this day.) Commonjs and amdjs module system mess got introduced in the wild. A very complicated mess, which created concepts like bundlers (browserify, webpack), code repo and package manager (bower, npm), task runners (gulp). npm is a corp greed, designed so that 1 line code is considered a lib, to promote its popularity. Then in 2015, js finally had some basic features, such as real local scoped variable (let), real dictionary/hashtable/map data structure. but for reason, the JavaScript committee refused a “use new js”. (google chrome dev got stun by a “use strict”.) So, one thousands warts of js, stay in js. (such as var, use strict, string is utf16 and all methods cant deal with emoji, no real array masking as magical object with magical length. etc.) JavaScript landscape, is really 30 years of **** pile due to a in-10-days mistake. But cpp is worse.