Also: if you are not paying the service provider for the service, you are not their customer - you are their product.

If you do pay for a subscription, how can you be sure you're still not the product? What stops them from double dipping here?

If you're paying for a subscription, the company might sell your data. If you're using a commercial service for free, they are certainly selling your data.

Having said that, you're right to be suspicious of commercial services, even that you pay for. Someone can found a startup with a strong commitment to customer privacy and the best of intentions, but a few acquisitions or near bankruptcies later, those commitments will go out the window.

Relevant to this case, since they have a free version and premium one, they would probably just sell data from both sets of customers. It would be leaving money on the table otherwise, right?

The small chance that they might go out of their way to not sell premium users data doesn't seem worth much.

Flo isn't free though, you have to pay a weekly/yearly subscription to use it.

Get this through your head: I. do. not. want. to. be. in. a. relationship. with. you. Using your product or service one time is not consent. Finding partners is hard, but that is no reason to propose marriage on the first date, and that strategy will not work well. No means no.

Amazing bit of history, thank you!

…now imagine a list of instruments, some of which have durations specified in days/weeks/months (problems already with the latter) and some in workdays, and the user just told your app to display it sorted by duration.

Meta bought a RISC-V startup six months ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=meta+rivos

Guess at the end of the day, no-one ever got fired for building ARM.

Rivos is about making GPUs. It will be interesting to see how this all nets out.

It is going to be a huge 24 months for RISC-V. My biggest concern is that everybody will have already placed their bets before then.

Idk, it seems to me like the Rivos people are still doing their RISC-V CPU work.

Prior art: https://github.com/sorat0mo/wtfpl/blob/master/WTFPL2.txt

More like the UK fining US porn publishers for not stopping British kids searching through the hedges in their street

Hedge-porn, I remember hedge-porn ...

> Where is the line between a spelling/grammar/tone checker like Grammarly

For me, the line is precisely at the point where a human has something they want to say. IMO - use the tools you need to say the thing you want to say; it's fine. The thing I, and many others here, object to is being asked to read reams of text that no-one could be bothered to write.

Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about a teapot.

What is a teapot?

I cannot make one of those.

Refrigerator.

vital robust teapot

delve into noteworthy realm

leverage tapestry