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I think now the Google One AI Pro subscription directly works for raising limits on the CLI? But otherwise, there is an Individual subscription. The problem is it doesn’t work out of the box. You have to create a whole Google Cloud project and attach the API to it to get it to work. Otherwise the CLI would stop logging you in, which it did when the account was free. The worst part is if that cloud project had any code in it, CLI will use it as context on every prompt.

Get a Digitalocean droplet, and host your own Outline instance. Their manager app makes this a 1-click process.

No, these bans (as I understand it) usually happen under IT Act that apply to service providers and ISPs, not citizens. For example, TikTok is blocked by ISPs and taken off from app stores, and TikTok might itself be fined if they continue to provide service but it’s is not illegal for a citizen to use it. There are very few cases where it’s illegal for a citizen to access some things, but those things are illegal just about everywhere.

You're right. Main political opposition in India was affected with Pegasus and it is part of this program. I think this has more to do with the level of Apple's presence in a country/jurisdiction and their ability to retrieve the device back in case of misuse.

They mention abuse as one of the reasons to kill all 3 free products. Wouldn't just turning off free dynos, and making $7 as the new $0, have solved that? Why kill all three and take the minimum to $31 and make sure next generation will see you as rackspace? It appears the decision is taken by people who don't really understand the product beyond what they see in Excel.

One way to cancel is to chat with them and say that you now have an enterprise subscription via your company. They cancel without fee in that case.

A lot (all?) has been cleared out in Monterey. I can’t find smtpd or xattr’s scripts that required the previous version. I think whatever remained before 12.3 were Automator’s py scripts. But I don’t know what scripts those were.

Also the land distribution is vastly different. 60% is agriculture, 24% is forest cover. Compare that to US where most of the land is cow pastures.

Is there a study on comparing number of people actually selecting cookies on the pop ups vs. number of users who already had Adblock? Because unless you have that info, GDPR cannot be claimed to protect any privacy. How many people who never had Adblock are selecting which cookies they want on these pop ups?

And it’s not only the US websites, the website OP mentioned is one of the three largest medicine websites in India. There is no reason for them to comply. And EU laws are incredibly confusing. Follow GDPR and respect privacy, while saving customer IP address for years when EU needs VAT.

It’s possible to do via extensions now. Hyperweb is an extension that allows for adding atmos search engines.

Yes the string split is a very odd. I agree with you there. Very confused that Google can't catch this. It's adding to the same string it should look same in the heap anyway? Simple college plagiarism programs like MOSS will catch this.

For Google Pay, what Google is doing is actually not legal. Government wanted each third party (non bank) app to be restricted to 25%. Google will get in trouble when government actually starts cracking down (and when they get close to the 25% mark). We don't know how government is looking at them, because they're under threshold anyway. The legal way for GPay to handle over 25% of total transactions is to register at least as a Payment Bank.

I'm not sure if Google will start flagging the IP addresses of the users because of each request having a different agent. That would render normal Translate unworkable for them too!

My guess would be (given the size of that array) that this is done to prevent rate limits rather than cost. It could be that this was advised by Google themselves because they could not provision the correct rate limits due to end of year. It's hard to imagine a client of this size isn't in direct contact with Google Cloud engineers. Pretty sure they're paying for it too. Also, this may have been done just for the open source commit of the project to prevent leaking token? Can't jump to conclusions here.

Google does the same thing in Google Pay Indian version. Government mandated that no one app can have more than 25% transaction volume of the country for UPI. So Google partnered with 4 banks, essentially having 4 UPI apps in the eyes of government.

I always wonder why Google doesn’t do an Apple and turn off all advertising on Google phones. Selling hardware and subscriptions has proved to be more yielding than advertising. With Fuchsia on horizon, Google can literally own the entire ecosystem from desktop to mobile.

Use a middleware like Chargebee. Your subscriptions will be saved and there will be no change in UX when you are forced to change the underlying payment processor. Even before launch (assuming you’re a US business) you can have a backup in form of PayPal Payflow Pro, which integrates fine with chargebee.

One of App Store's biggest draw for any developer is that they are compliant with VAT/GST of multiple countries. With Europe's MOSS now gone, I can't imagine individual app developers hiring an EU rep just so they can comply with EU VAT legally. And that's just EU. You can't even easily comply with Indian GST without incorporating a subsidiary there. Now Canada is also in the mix. And those are just 3 regions. US Sales Tax is another money pit, with proper compliance costing hundreds of dollars per month for each state you develop nexus in.

Add to that the fact that App Store purchases are riddled with fake cards and usually draw a much higher MDR from merchant accounts. If people are rejoicing that they can just hook up their Stripe and world will be rainbows, they are in for a shut down email pretty soon.

I my mind, YouTube did not prematurely optimize.

1. They took full advantage of DMCA and pirated videos made easy home there until copyright notice came in. No technology to try and do it before upload, no pre publish human intervention.

2. YouTube player was just better, especially with most of the globe on dial up. It would let videos buffer for hours until 100%, even if you had a disconnection it would just restart downloading as it should. Won’t just stop after some time to preserve bandwidth. Once downloaded, videos won’t restream and you could easily move on timeline so long as you kept the browser window open. None of their competitors did this as I recall and were preserving bandwidth they would never get to use.

The weird thing about LinkedIn is that it’s dependence for jobs is reducing (I can’t remember the last time an employer asked for LinkedIn) but it’s needed in the most unexpected scenarios. Recently a bank asked for my LinkedIn to open a company account. When I offered to send in a CV as I don’t have my employment history on LinkedIn, they stopped replying.

Didn’t apple also announce a feature for iOS 15 where iMessage photos are somehow automatically collected and shown in iCloud? A way to reduced hassle of creating shared albums. So with that, I think all users of iCloud photos are under risk here.

I’m very concerned that a bunch of false positives will send people’s nudes to Apple for manual review. I don’t trust apple’s on device ML for something this sensitive. I also can’t imagine that Apple will now not be forced to implement government forced filtering and reporting on iMessage. And this will likely affect others like WhatsApp because now governments know that there is a way to do this on E2E.

What are some other fully encrypted photo options out there?

I've been learning Russian for a year (currently at around B1-B2). None of these new age language learning apps are actually useful, even to get your feet wet. The old is still gold when it comes to language learning. You think you're learning with these apps, but in my experience you're not. They just don't seem to put anything in long term memory well. There is spaced repetition in some of them, but not enough repetition.

Good old audio course Pimsleur is better than all of them combined. Cortina Method is best resource to learn grammar and the book is so old it looks like a smudged typewriter print. All old methods are based on learning and repeating sentences after sentences rather than learning individual words. You really end up learning like a child. Pattern recognition is where it's at.

I can't recall anything I studied on Duolingo for Russian. I can't forget anything I learned on Pimsleur. And I finished the last module in January.

Yes, last moth. Bubble is such a nightmare to use and learn that it’s simply easier to learn something like Vue with Firebase. Just to get a basic value from JavaScript code to display in UI, you need to put together this weird pipeline sort of logic. The back end requests aren’t really back end, the logic is still front end regardless of where the code is executed. The result is there is no way to implement a queue. Using an API that rate limits, can’t use it in Bubble. For API calls things have to map into their weird data types and in their world, a phone number is an integer.

But the biggest issue is that learning curve is even higher than tools like react. And the steps to do basic things are so tiresome it’s just easier to write code. UI prototyping is fast, sure. But not much faster than tailwind.

This. Besides most vaccines were to reach Africa from India. And the reason they didn’t is the devastating second wave in the country. Had India not had their wave, Africa would be much further along. US approval has no bearing here.

The reality is every country preferred and promoted shots made in their own country/region. One can write a similar article that India not approving US vaccines and not signing indemnity in favour of AZ shots made at home signals that US vaccines are inferior because of heart inflammation concerns.

Yes, but since there is no way to charge this thing in a setup with only MagSafe chargers, I’ll have to bring wire back in my life. The phone will only charge this when plugged in, this will only charge the phone when plugged in, and it can only be independently charged when plugged in. There should have been a charging coil at the back so the power bank itself could be charged via MagSafe charger.

So as I understand it, I'd have to choose between this and MagSafe charging setup I've invested in? This does not seem to have magnets/coil on the outside so I can't keep my phone with this attached on the MagSafe charger it seems. I wonder if I detach them can I keep the isolated pack on MagSafe to charge?

This is more confusing than it needs to be. At least there is reverse charging so I don't have to choose between charging and CarPlay.

Apple makes good money from MFi program, of which lightning connector seems to be a vital cog. The day they shift to USB-C manufacturers will stop paying them for lightning accessories.

For your concern, Zoho is a great option. Very reliable support. I got locked out once and they were able to help me get back my account really fast.

One reason it may be region locked for Spotify is that they offer services at throwaway price in certain regions and those regions probably won’t subscribe to a much more expensive variant at enough volume to warrant delivery capacity. They offer Spotify premium for under $2 in Russia and India, for example. Apple offers at similar price point, but they are able to sell expensive phones and earphones that Spotify does not.

The author mentions CLRS. It’s an introductory level algorithms book and is used in Junior/Senior years of undergrad. Expecting a senior engineer to be well versed in undergrad level algorithms is not a monoculture problem.

This might be the first music product from Apple that I would be skipping. Spatial audio needs to come to Apple TV and the MacBooks before these become worthy of price. And major services need to implement it.

Netflix on Mac with Spatial audio with nothing inside my ear would be worth $549 to me.