Now that it’s free, are its users the product?

A hosting provider always has the ability to change what’s on their infrastructure. The Kindle store is no different.

As it happens, they’ve been doing this for years. For example, the price you set as an author is not fixed nor is how it turns up on the page or how and when it’s promoted.

The standard ebook format is essentially a zipped up series of text files.

Source: I sell my “Foundations of Amateur Radio” ebooks on the Kindle store

The radio station I worked in put the next item at the end of the shelf with a label containing the next sequential number and added the metadata to the music library database.

In essence the sort order was age.

Yes, this predates the prevalence of digital audio from an era of vinyl, CD and DAT.

That said, cool article, but it bears keeping in mind that one solution does not fit all cases.

In my experience the last accessed account within a streaming service is what shows.

Source: I’ve been using Apple TV for years.

The email address?

Plot twist. It never even made it to the dump. His former partner saw the drive and took it before they split up.

This site provides absolutely no evidence of any of its claims and even includes the following little gem in the FAQ section on that page:

Is PayPal Safe?

Yes, all Paypal transactions are encrypted. Plus, it has two-factor authentication and fraud protection.

Safe for its customers, or safe for PayPal?

And here I thought that the energy consumption was in the training.

Seems like natural selection in progress.

Buy a Cybertruck, fuck around, see what happens.

It also handily preselects for douche.

Comparing Assumed Intelligence with an average Redditor is like asking: Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Hint: Nope.

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025. The decision to end this service is the result of the following factors:

• Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal.

• Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records. As an organization that values privacy, removing this requirement is important to us.

• Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure.

• Providing expiration notifications adds complexity to our infrastructure, which takes time and attention to manage and increases the likelihood of mistakes being made. Over the long term, particularly as we add support for new service components, we need to manage overall complexity by phasing out system components that can no longer be justified.

That’s what it feels like when you steal other people’s personal information …

Rule 34 wants a word …

In contrast, abandoned open source software can be picked up and updated by whomever gets paid to, where abandoned closed source software needs to be reimplemented from scratch at great expense to the tax payer.

Not only that, open source software can be adopted by the community (who already paid for the development through their taxes) for their own purposes. Consider for example the productivity impact on business that starts using tools that it cannot afford to develop itself.

Office things like document management, workflow management, accounting, but also tools used in the science community, transport and logistics, anything that government does is represented in some other way in society.

This is a big deal and I hope that it will reverberate across the globe and become the new normal.

Whilst we’re at it, consider the impact of open data, where government datasets are available to the community.