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If you're in the UK, EU, New Zealand, Australia, or Singapore, I found out yesterday that Wise (TransferWise) customers get 3 virtual cards free of charge [1][2].

I'd be interested to hear about any other UK/EU firms offering similar.

[1] https://wise.com/gb/blog/shop-safely-virtually-anywhere

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006326

Link to the European Commission's press release (2019) for anyone interested: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_...

Aaron posted an update. As of an hour ago they "consider the matter closed": https://twitter.com/AaronToponce/status/1388828107407245312

Could you or the parent commenter define "submarine" in this context? I searched and didn't find anything relevant.

> All consumer and business customers in the UK, EEA, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore are eligible.

This is a very interesting move for the UK market. Dominant challenger bank Monzo has positioned virtual cards as a key feature of its paid accounts [1] with a cap of 5 cards per customer.

Edit: Per the post, looks like there's a cap of 3 virtual cards per Wise account.

[1] https://monzo.com/help/monzo-plus/virtual-cards-how

Seen today in a "Trending Moment" [1] pushed by Twitter on the Explore tab. The posts shared the same hashtag but didn't otherwise seem to be curated.

This search query brings up a handful of examples [2]:

  site:https://twitter.com/i/events/ intext:"by an algorithm"

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-moments

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter...

I got stung by this a while back and got Adobe to waive the cancellation fee and close my account over live chat.

You can bring up the chat widget from the chat bubble icon on https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/what-contact-options.html. You may need to whitelist the page in your adblocker for the widget to load.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786563

No announcement that I'm aware of, but I've used https://nip.io in a pinch before and haven't encountered any issues. Like xip.io, it supports IPv4 only and uses PowerDNS.

I couldn't find a site like that but did come across Terence Eden's post from 2019, "Why Bother With What Three Words?", that covers some of those problems [1][2].

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511917

App Store Guidelines [1] wouldn't apply here since this is for web apps opened in Safari. If anything, it'd be language in the Developer License Agreement that might cover this.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> Amazon Monitron includes sensors to capture vibration and temperature data from equipment, a gateway device to securely transfer data to AWS, the Monitron service that analyzes the data [...] and a companion mobile app to set up the devices and receive reports on operating behavior and alerts to potential failures in your machinery.

> The most significant changes since 2.5.0 are macOS Big Sur support on Intel, brew commands replacing all brew cask commands, the beginnings of macOS M1/Apple Silicon/ARM support and API deprecations.

For iOS, I know of two. Both are on TestFlight:

* Gemini for iOS (https://github.com/pitr/gemini-ios)

* Rocketeer (https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/002812.html)

For Android, Ariane is available on the Play Store and for direct download:

* Ariane (https://oppenlab.net/pr/ariane/)

I had a brief look at the iOS ones but haven't checked how well they do in the protocol test suite: gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/

Yep: https://rawtext.club/~sloum/bombadillo.html

> The name Bombadillo comes fromt he legendarium of [J.R.R. Tolkien], specifically The Lord of the Rings. [Tom Bombadil], who was a jolly fellow, is a mysterious figure. A seemingly simple character that speaks in rhymed meter and lives in the woods, Tom is master of his domain and is in his way quite powerful.

> Bombadillo is a non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web.

I learned about BitBar today, only to find that development had slowed down. It still worked on Big Sur but I encountered this text alignment bug [0].

I'm interested in trying its spiritual successor SwiftBar [1] and any other alternatives folks know of.

[0] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/105

[1] https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar

TIL. It looks like 1Password stores the key in the Secure Enclave and uses the "watch" constraint [0] to access it. This triggers the "Approve with Apple Watch" prompt [1].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/secaccess...

[1] https://i.1password.com/media/mac-apple-watch-prompt.png

Interesting! On the topic of security, do you plan to add a SECURITY.md [0] in case people wish to report potential vulnerabilities?

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/manag...

> One of our most highly requested features, Apple Watch can now unlock 1Password on any Mac with a Secure Enclave.

I'm curious how 1Password achieved this as (afaik) Apple hasn't exposed an "Unlock with Apple Watch" API to third parties.

This is a neat way to develop muscle memory for the home row.

As a complement to `vimtutor`, I'd love to know about more games that get people familiar with vim.

Right now I only know of https://vim-adventures.com which costs $25 for 6 months' use.

Do you plan to post about karma.fm when it comes out of alpha?

I'd be interested in the Zettelkasten and second brain examples under "How can Karma help me?"

I imagine Amazon's bot detection would flag the high volume of requests made with this pattern:

a) fetch products from a particular category

b) add products to cart

c) proceed to checkout

Amazon doesn't mention how they'd enforce against scraping but my guess is IP- and account-level restrictions.

Looks like wttr.in forks wego which uses these sources [0]:

  * worldweatheronline.com
  * darksky.net
  * openweathermap.com

I couldn't find anything more concrete.

[0] https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/544