7 Days notice with no details on alternatives. Nice one, twitter, I'm sure this won't drive anyone off the platform or anything.

Not even pricing information!

In my experience, some small businesses avoid Apple Pay/Google Pay because you can add American Express cards to them, and they want to not accept Amex cards in order to save on the fee, despite the service agreement of their payment processor obligating them to.

I don't think it's possible to have a PoS terminal that doesn't accept physical Amex cards but that does accept Amex cards via Apple/Google Pay.

A post-it note that says "American Express not accepted" is probably deterrent enough, rather than a technical solution.

Is this our version of the protomolecule? When do we send Joe Miller to investigate?

It can't possibly block all phone home attempts. How would the Netflix or YouTube apps work on those devices if network traffic to those respective third-parties were blocked?

This was the first algorithm I ever searched for on wikipedia, back when I first learned to code. Good memories.

And then there's that strange yet oddly persistent certainty that back then it was called the Levenshtain distance.

lucky you :) there was no wikipedia when I first ran into this algorithm. Foxpro for DOS & Novell Netware had an implementation of Levenshtein distance that I ended up using as part of a college project on database basics. I used it to detect typos in data entry by comparing entered names with all names already in the table. It was blazingly fast because we never exceeded 30 names (the size of our class) and my profs were super impressed because they thought I did something way more complicated than I had.

Sweet service. When will they start charging a subscription to cancel your other subscriptions?

It costs 3 dollars per month.

Can you auto-cancel this subscription?

There's no free trial, so auto-cancelling would mean you cancel on day zero. So...yes? Closing the signup form is equivalent to an auto-cancel for this service, so do that.

Ooh, another opportunity to push product.

So you gotta purchase optional insurance in additional to the 22% platform fees. Certainly makes the prospect of renting out my kit worth thousands of dollars for literal tens of dollars all the more attractive.

Pretty useless, as steam and other websites have already blacklisted the idbloc.co domain as disposable, preventing user sign ups.

Google's + and . trick on a dummy-proof, invisible, consumer level. Nice!