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pinboard.in is a fantastic bookmarking service that will archive your bookmarked sites for you if you pay for the $39/year archival account: http://pinboard.in/tour/


There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/

As you said, it largely relies on reverse engineering and bruteforcing Twitter's ID generation.


Bot author here. That post was before twitter made changes on the id generation. Now it consists of four parts that you need to guess (the datacenterId, the workerId, a sequence and a timestamp). For more details, the bot repo is here: https://github.com/pomber/escher-bot


I share your complaints about 3rd party keyboards in iOS, but just a heads up in case you hadn't noticed: Google's Gboard recently added support for Dvorak and Colemak, and is by far the most stable/usable 3rd party keyboard I've used.



Note quite what you're asking for, but a couple years ago Adobe demoed some voice/speech editing tech that's pretty impressive: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...


Google Trips seems pretty close to me: https://get.google.com/trips/


And their standard search/mapping product returns lists of hotels/attractions on a map with star ratings, unique and syndicated reviews, photos, opening times and availability & price with booking link.


This isn't true. Just by entering in your information to check if you're affected, you'll be enrolled automatically if you were indeed affected.

Really scummy behavior.


This is not true. I checked, and it offered me the opportunity to sign up "on or after" a specific date. There is no automatic enrollment.


Sorry, I misspoke a bit there. What I was trying to point out was that

> If you choose to enroll, that is when you waive your right to join any class action lawsuit.

Isn't true. Just by using the site to check, you're waiving your right to participate in a lawsuit, as expressed in the site's Terms of Use linked at the bottom:

http://www.equifax.com/terms/

> THIS PRODUCT AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE ("AGREEMENT") CONTAINS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UPON WHICH YOU MAY PURCHASE AND USE OUR PRODUCTS THROUGH THE WWW.EQUIFAX.COM, WWW.IDENTITYPROTECTION.COM AND WWW.IDPROTECTION.COM WEBSITES AND ALL OTHER WEBSITES OWNED AND OPERATED BY EQUIFAX AND ITS AFFILIATES ("SITE").

> No Class or Representative Arbitrations. The arbitration will be conducted as an individual arbitration. Neither You nor We consent or agree to any arbitration on a class or representative basis, and the arbitrator shall have no authority to proceed with arbitration on a class or representative basis.

Further detail from an actual lawyer in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203185


It switches tabs in most recently used order in Opera, similar to OS alt/cmd-tab behavior


"Buzzing" here meaning vibrating -- the iPads don't have vibrating notifications at all, or the required vibrating mechanism.


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