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Just received this email as well. I purchased a lifetime membership during Black Friday a couple years back. They're quoting the following terms as justification:

14.2 Termination. If you violate any provision of these Terms, then your authorization to access the Service and these Terms automatically terminate. In addition, Pluralsight may, at its sole discretion, terminate these Terms or your account on the Service, or suspend or terminate your access to the Service, at any time for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without any liability to you arising from such termination. In the event there is no Subscription Service in effect, you may terminate your account and these Terms at any time by contacting customer service at support@pluralsight.com.

The email directs you to their chat for support and questions, which is currently offline (email went out 1 hour ago).

https://www.splitwise.com/

+1 for fzf, never leave home without it

Apple doesn't have "way fewer CVEs for macOS/iOS". Apple ranks 5th overall, and 4th so far in 2023, by vendor. In 2015 they were #1. CVEs track closely with the number of users a platform has, and the incentives to comprise that platform.

https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-vendors.php

The New York Times maintains archives going back over a hundred years, there's no risk of loss of information over time, which is why the article leans into the "stealth edits" problem over the loss of information problem. The NYTs doesn't need the IA and has every right to block it.

Well, he just... did

At the height of bitcoin I wonder if the value of e-waste magnetic storage should have technically been higher due to the possibility of salvaging a lost wallet. Like ore mining, but for data.

Asked ChatGPT the following "I have a static HTML file I'd like to host in AWS S3 using a CloudFront distribution. I'd also like to manage the domain's DNS in Route 53. Can you write me the Terraform to do this?"

https://i.imgur.com/GW5rUpL.png

Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps:

https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto https://youtu.be/MFEHFsO-XSI https://youtu.be/7zrx-b2sLUs https://youtu.be/43XKfuptnik

This is an amazing tool, but I'd caution it's using IP lists for groups of specific organizations. One of the 2 IP lists provided by the author is just the US military: https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6eb800e58f2eb6f9231

The section "MOST ACTIVE ORGANIZATIONS" shouldn't be taken as a list of the most active organizations in the world editing Wikipedia, just the most active organizations that made an IP list the tool is using.

Anyone using the very large number of static IP addresses on these lists will be pooled as an edit by the organization that maintains that IP range. This means a seaman in the Navy editing a TV show article on their free time may be pooled into the "Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)". It doesn't necessary mean the NNIC has a special interest in editing 'Breaking Bad' episode synopses.

The problem with long term support for my Android phones has actually not been the fact that Android devices have incredibly short security update windows. That issue has been somewhat mitigated with the newer Google Pixel phones which have five years of security updates.

The problem with long term support for Android devices is absolutely short security update windows, i.e. short term support for Android devices. Pixel comprises a tiny fraction of Android devices sold in the US, and a miniscule fraction worldwide.

Post states that Google search is getting worse, "...the quality of search started to deteriorate", and links to this article to justify the claim:

https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

Big discussion here and on Reddit when that article was posted. It doesn't set out to say Google search is worse/getting worse, but that people don't trust its results as much as human generated content (thus appending 'Reddit' to queries).

The irony of an antitrust lawsuit hurting smaller competitors.

It's fascinating that the explanation of a countersteer is counterintuitive, but most people pick up on it without being taught. Kids learning to ride a bicycle will naturally add the countersteer before a turn.

Platinum ~10,000 metric tons, or a cube 7.7m on each side. [1,2,3]

Silver ~1,740,000 metric tons, or a cube 55m on each side. [3,4]

Link 3 has a neat visual of the silver, gold, and platinum cubes side-by-side (a tad bit out of date).

[1] https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1802N

[2] https://sdbullion.com/blog/how-much-platinum-is-in-the-world

[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-platinum-series-the-his...

[4] https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-silver-has-been-found-wor...

No idea what a good score is, got 431160 on my first go. My only rule was attempting to keep inflation at 1%, if it went over I raised, if it went under I lowered.

"...there'll be people who have bad experience, unfortunately". The bad experience is the frustration of a kafkaesque process that dead ends with an ID submission form without the personnel infrastructure to actually support it. It's there to shrink from saying what you just said. You shouldn't need to come to Hacker News to get the real answer.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220404132312/https://majenko.c...

Thanks for this. I was following along just fine until that last sentence, which caused me to think "nope, I guess I don't follow at all".

I worked in the Providence Place Mall as a retail employee when the secret apartment was discovered in the parking garage. The mall has an interesting network of back hallways. The facades of the public area ended when you entered one, replaced with concrete and exposed iron beams, with odd nooks and crannies.

When the apartment was discovered the police considered it a legitimate public safety threat, but in the following days Michael Townsend's statements around his intentions transformed the narrative. People were fascinated with the secret apartment, and Townsend spared no detail to quench their curiosity. He faced serious criminal trespassing charges, but I think his apologetic transparency, and the artsy culture of Providence, were influential in the lenient consequences he ultimately received.

Townsend is still an active artist in Providence[1], with his secret apartment now Providence folklore. He is still banned from entering the mall to this day.

99% Invisible did a great episode on it[2].

[1] https://tapeart.com/ [2] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/

They're modifying the current desktop image, adding a rectangle of black the size of the menu bar along the top. Menu bar transparency takes care of the rest.

https://www.theverge.com/22611236/epic-v-apple-emails-projec...

#71, from the Epic v. Apple anti-trust trial discovery.

Apple has through side channels leaked iCloud is the largest open host of CSAM among big tech. It's the only large provider that hosts images that doesn't automatically scan. The only difference is Apple wants to do it while leaving your photos in the cloud encrypted. This isn't rational, it's an anti-Apple culture war position.

You're right, Terraform is not "write once, deploy infrastructure anywhere" tool. It does however allow you to reuse many portions of your infrastructure descriptions between cloud providers by using module composition[1].

Terraform can also be used to put your infrastructure under version control, which is a pretty big deal.

[1] https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/modules/develop/compo...

Some additional context from the advertising agency behind this:

http://www.hunterfine.com/space-jam-recipe-2

While discussing applications that are advertised by Flatpak's application metadata as sandboxed: "Allowing access to the host file system does not give the application full reign over your system."

The Flatpak documentation he then links to contradicts his rather controversial idea that a sandboxed application have access to the host file system.

"With Flatpak, each application is built and run in an isolated environment, which is called the ‘sandbox’. Each sandbox contains an application and its runtime. By default, the application can only access the contents of its sandbox. Access to user files, network, graphics sockets, subsystems on the bus and devices have to be explicitly granted. Access to other things, such as other processes, is deliberately not possible."

I was with BofA during this time, around 2006. On top of posting highest to lowest, they had a hidden account allowance, called a "Matrix allowance", which was basically a hidden line of credit behind every checking account. It was the maximum amount of money the bank would allow the account to become overdrawn before denying transactions. The allowance amount increased if the account became overdrawn frequency and the overdraft fees were paid.

I'm in the US Monzo beta. The app is super solid, has envelope budgeting features, can automatically divvy up your paycheck like Expenses. Hoping they open up invites before Simple shuts.

App is amazing. I'm heartbroken I'm losing it.

I ordered my 13" touchbar MBP with the UK keyboard layout. Adds an extra key to the right of left shift (mapped to tilde), letting me remap the key that is normally tilde on a US keyboard to ESC.