ChatGPT is just fancy autocomplete, so it probably got the notation from somewhere else; it’s not really capable of inventing new stuff on its own (unless it hallucinates). It would be interesting to ask it where it saw that notation in the past if you didn’t support it before, but in a way, you could say it’s a standard form of notation (from a different service).

Starting them up isn’t particularly difficult. Keeping them alive is.

Without enough users (and old content), it can be hard to keep a community afloat

That’s already a thing in Mexico (with a 3rd party reseller)

https://www.ishopmixup.com/iphoneforlife

In close collaboration with Valve

Sounds to me like they will open it to other manufacturers, but this could mean that they are releasing it publicly also. I’m excited!

I’m all in favour of prosecuting Google for it’s search monopoly, but Trump only cares about using the monopoly in his own favour

I’m sure they understand the problems, and they understand that solving them would eat into their profits

The real problem is they didn’t play the “think of the children” card. Then the government would leave them alone

Accidents happen, and people panic. Maybe she thought she was pressing the breaks and made the problem worse. I highly doubt anyone would do it intentionally.

A special deal? Doesn’t the message basically say “give us your data so you maybe have a chance at buying stock at full price, and be thankful we’re not marking it up”?

Many of the inactive instances are probably from people who tried self hosting and then gave up. Just my theory.

This was a series of decisions with good intentions that went poorly in the long run.

Our customer wanted us to setup a system so their users could track their products from their site from a variety of carriers; but their backend was very old and difficult to work with, and their network very locked down.

We were struggling to setup a single carrier, so we eventually decided to setup a new server with modern tooling on our own network so we could develop this and other “complicated” features with less pain, and they would only have to make a single exception to their firewall.

Fast forward a year and:

• They didn’t request any more “difficult” features, so the server was serving a single API
• One of our carrier’s API keys had expired and nobody noticed because they weren’t using it, and they didn’t request support for additional carriers either
• Somebody on their security team noticed the strange calls to our servers and demanded we moved the API to their infrastructure anyway

He’s like Trump, he panics if he isn’t in the news for two minutes