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You could fit all of them in a cube with edge length 400 meters (1312 feet)

I highly recommend the book Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems

Would this be something Starlink could offer?

Original audit thread:

https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1528808759027331072

Qwant is also using Microsoft's Bing Search API.

"Qwant uses different programming interfaces such as those of Microsoft Bing, Twitter, YouTube, or iTunes" -- https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/classement/

Come on Gabriel! Yes people search for weather, lyrics, sport scores and local results, but you do not have a web search engine without being able to search the web. Saying "Of course, we have more traditional links in our search results too, which we do largely source from Bing, but that's just part of the page" is disingenuous.

Another famous example of how in the darkest hours there's longing for peace and friendship is the Christmas Truce during the first world war [1].

British soldiers heard German troops in the trenches singing carols and patriotic songs. They started shouting messages to each other. The next day, soldiers from both sides met, exchanged gifts, took photographs and played football.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

The RStudio equivalent for Python. Last used this so many years ago, and from the screenshots little seems to have changed.

Congrats to the team. I am sure it must have been a stressful one.

Some remaining issues:

The desktop app on first message in any conversation says: "Partially sent, click for details". When retried, the message goes through, but is not synced with the mobile client (never appears there).

PS: Happy Signal exists. It's easy to let inconvenience make you forget it sometimes.

While this may very well be the simplest piece of software that makes money, I have a conceptual bone to pick:

If you spend money to make a point, the recipient does mean something.

> Funny (amusing) to hear that lichess' competitors would pay professionals not to pay on lichess

That is true, nevertheless, many of the same Grandmasters still play using anonymous accounts. For obvious reasons, we should not point out which accounts these are.

How much would you be willing to pay for search as a premium service?

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her book: The Friends of Voltaire. The quote is an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.

At some point they did flirt with the idea, even invested in a search company, but then they changed their mind [0]

[0] https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-11/the-pivot-that-excited-...

API keys for Bing expired? Happened to me as well this week, unexpectedly.

Having multiple great other projects with little recognition (or much less public awareness) than Wikipedia must be challenging, and for all of us, readers, unfortunate. Projects like Wikidata (basis for all knowledge graphs powering search engines), Wikinews (what could potentially be fact checked news in an age of misinformation), etc could all benefit from some raised awareness for all Wikimedia projects. Even raising money from donations, is usually targeted at Wikipedia. I do not how the governance structure of Wikimedia influences the distribution of donations, or whether renaming is meant to influence this. Overall, I see a sincere struggle to get traction around more Wikimedia projects - and I find that commendable.

Modals are basically the fancy clone of old school javascript's alert(), and while everyone would rightfully be annoyed being "alerted" needlessly, designers have convinced themselves that it's fine to show modals frequently?

Edit: Claiming it's only designers' fault, or generalizing that all designers do that, is obviously wrong. I did not mean that. What I meant to convey (partially failed) is that examples propagate, and somehow design choices are the beginning of this propagation chain.

Here: https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-interactive-journalism