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Paze (https://www.paze.com/) feels to me like the collective banks’ attempt to wrestle back control here. You could imagine a world where it’s a separate side channel for payment for the same credit card accounts but without the rent-seeking intermediaries.


After looking at it, the “uses a different number” would seem to imply that the side-channel thing is right. Pace-participating entities load your cards to their system, you get access via your email address, Paze acts as an interface whereby issuers associate a new unique ID with your account while still showing you your “Visa” account number or whatever and “validating possession” with CVC.

That said, my level of trust in Early Warning Systems, who runs it, is pretty low-Zelle looks like a hot mess with EWS/banks ignoring Reg E as much as they can get away with:

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/zelle-scam-reimbursement-we...


Probably the first step would be a good, non-regular-expression (IIRC, URLs are not regular) based link parser that's ported to every possible language on the planet.


You can somewhat work around this using Karabiner Elements. I map caps lock to esc (when tapped) and ctrl (when held) with a 'complex modification' rule that looks like:

    {
      "description": "caps_lock to left_control or escape",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "from": {
            "key_code": "caps_lock",
            "modifiers": {
              "optional": ["any"]
            }
          },
          "to": [
            {
              "key_code": "left_control"
            }
          ],
          "to_if_alone": [
            {
              "key_code": "escape"
            }
          ],
          "type": "basic"
        }
      ]
    }


"Communications of the ACM" (https://cacm.acm.org/) is a great source for a variety of topics. It recently went digital-only and is included in an ACM membership.


https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

> ACM will become fully Open Access by the end of 2025, but we have already begun that process in phases and large parts of the ACM Digital Library are already Open Access today, including the first 50 years of ACM's archive - all articles published between 1951 and 2000 have been placed in front of the ACM Digital Library subscription paywall.



I love SirusXM. They are a truly unique offer in the modern music landscape of algorithm-driven music listening experiences. The human curation of shows and stations is why I listen. That said, they have a lot of problems: I have to complain yearly to keep my $8/mo rate, and they seem to be slowly moving toward wanting more algorithmic content with their Pandora merger.

I wish they'd focus more on growing their technology (e.g. a macOS app). They just did a big rewrite on all the platforms, seemingly toward this goal; I hope they keep going down that path.

If the government forces them to adopt more modern subscription practices, I think _more_ people would use their platform, not less.


This is coming from a person who has a SiriusXM membership and who actually likes it, but is the human curation really that much better? I frequent SiriusXMU to listen to more obscure stuff, but I feel like I get pretty fairly comparable performance with YouTube Music's "Start Radio" on an Imogen Heap or Secret Machines album or something.


Yah, the merger between Sirius and XM was a dramatic difference in programming content. XM had spent most of their time getting quality PM and on air talent, Sirius was basically a glorified Winamp playlist. As the channels merged, you found yourself going from a base of 5000 songs a channel to a few hundred. The folks who used to have XMPCR's (computer connected receivers) published a comparison of songs at one point but my google fu can't find it right now.


I agree some of the stations are somewhat repetitive, especially those stuck intentionally in an older genre like Lithium or one of the decades channels. I think the mix tends to still be less than surface level in those. They also have DJ-hosted segments; I think Tom Morello has a lot more flexibility in what he's playing, for example. It's still their superpower compared to the algorithmic track selections.


An episode of Effectively Wild did an interview with the author: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-2004-ho... (54:51).



.zip feels like it might get annoying for auto-linking in text messages, but this is a great set of actually-generic ones.


Nawh, it's an NFT-based Zip drive that attaches to a parallel port and is powered by hot coffee.


I wonder what other cryptographic ceremonies are out there. I really enjoyed the operational separation in the overview here and seeing the technical details reminded me a lot of how many hardware security keys I have in my life now.


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