"Am I getting my value out of this subscription?"
If you want to pay for GamePass, Amazon Prime, Paramount, Peacock, Hulu, etc. then by all means do so.
But each renewal, you need to ask yourself, "Am I getting the value out of this subscription to warrant the price?"
Amazon Prime was a no starting two years ago.
Spotify premium was never valuable to me.
I do have a YNAB subscription but this is slowly moving towards a no as well.
I have Google One for drive/Gmail space but that's about it.
Gates has good PR.
The problem is that I don't want to only read news from one source. I also don't want to pay 15 different news subscriptions.
If the same organization that shut down this repo would spend the time and money coming out with a joint account that was reasonably priced, people wouldn't resort to piracy.
But nope. Each paper needs their own subscribers.
I've stopped buying TVs. It's difficult to find a dumb one nowadays. I watch on my phone or my computer monitor.
I'm an advocate for Firefox, but it is slowly, slowly entering enshittification.
The addition of AI, dark patterns to enable "sponsored bookmarks" upon reinstall, ads (albeit subtle) when using the address bar for search...
All of these can be disabled, some easily, some with feature flags.
Sure the enshittification isn't anywhere near the pace as Chrome but it's happening. And again, this is coming from a maybe 10 year financial donor to Mozilla.
Firefox is better than Chrome, no question but there is an opportunity for a new browser to challenge the field.
In the world of Site Reliability Engineering, it's better to fail than to be inconsistent.
So I suggest the opposite here. Start out by resolving the site 75% of the time. Then down to 20%, then 100%. Randomly make it not work with no predictably.
The great thing is if he uses his phone on a cellular network, he can't be sure whether it's because the site is working or because something hinky is going on in his network.
I don't think I explained it well.
I shop at 4, maybe 5, different grocery stores. Some products I have preferences whereas others I don't.
For example, say this is my grocery list for the week:
I want an AI to scrape every grocery store's weekly ad or their website along with any coupons that are available, and determine the best price and, based on patterns of sales, what I should wait on and what time of day I should shop.
There was a Twitter post about great uses for AI but it's not being developed. The one I aligned with was scraping grocery store ads and creating a shopping list based on the best prices and personal preferences.
AI is solving problems for the business class. They are trying to stop paying people. AI has use cases to actually make our lives better but are antithetical to the capitalistic companies and would likely try to stop any AI use that undermines their bottom line.
They don't. Companies regularly abuse DMCA notices because the law REQUIRES a hosting company to take down the information immediately.
It allows 14 days for the same information to be restored after receiving a counter notice.
Do they also suppress left/socialist content?
If they did, then yeah it's a shit service.
I am by no means defending Nazi content. But if they are allowing any speech, I'd say this is closer to being "free speech" than Twitter currently is.
"The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it."
I sort of get it. You don't want to allow the entire work of Shakespeare in the text field, even if your database can handle it.
16 characters is too low. I'd say a good upper limit would be 100, maybe 255 if you're feeling generous.