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After careful consideration, user accounts within the Dictionary.com app have been discontinued.
Not informative, but it's there.

As a result, users are no longer able to sign in to their accounts, and any saved word lists are no longer available.
Oh. Seems like they didn't want to spend money to fix their API framework. My observations on this point in a bit.

Unfortunately, since the coding technology that was used in the previous app version is different from what is used in the new app, it is not possible to recover word lists.
Bull. Ducking. Spit. And you can believe as much of that Bull Spit as you'd like. I could speculate but it does seem like a cash grab or that someone didn't get the source code and/or access to the backend data. I've worked for places were their vital, must work app - they forgot to put in the contract they own the source. And another place that outsourced their SANs and walked in one fine Monday to find all of them had been removed over the weekend for non-payment. Along with the backup tapes. (it's still in court).

Code changes? I'm not going to rant and rave about doing data transfers using output from a 20ma current loop teletype to RS-232 then to 8" floppy because it'll make yer eyes bleed. Or the fun and games using CPIO and DD to take data from 9 track tape to a SCSI DC150 tape - and mind the endian on that data stream. Data are fungible. They can always, ALWAYS be rearranged.

While we understand that this changes how you use Dictionary.com, we are hopeful that you will find the overall improvements provide faster search, additional content, and a better design.
Translation: We spit all over everything and hope you like the change in the taste, and if not... Oh well. Stinks to be you.

Metanote on API frameworks:
As things evolve or devolve, changes to the API are necessary. Leave wiggle room for you to meet those challenges going forward. No, I'm not going to get specific - that it the context for several books. I could write a few books on that but others already have, and likely more eloquently and patiently than I can. I will say that a api call with a version is pretty simple to do.

Reminds me of the segment of Gallagher's - "Ever meet the son of a bitch at the courtesy desk?" Yes, I don't like having to call for something as simple as getting a price for a commodity item.

Personally, if I have to call to find out what their price is, I'll just keep looking for someone that isn't afraid to be open and transparent on their pricing. I figure that I won't be happy as their customer and they won't be happy having my curmudgeonly ass as a client. The only reason they want your contact is so they can reach back to offer a lower price after a time.

I've worked with a sales clot that would call people back after a few days if the customer said "I already bought it somewhere else" with a price that was lower than cost. I got revenge on the sales clot but that's a story for another day. I knew I made a mistake taking that job in the first 10 minutes, and I only stuck around for a total of 15 days. And yes, the boss tried to not pay me too. So I got a check for 45 days before it was all over.

To save power, it won't shut itself down, it will simply switch to using Thermo Electric Generation from body heat. Think "Matrix".
"Soylent Green is people!"

I was given to furiously to think when I read your post. I came to the conclusion that for myself, the responsibility to grow as a person requires my personal commitment to do so. It isn't something that can be showered upon me by factors outside myself. This isn't just music, this is everything.

BUT, It's Friday, the weekend beckons, and there's an indie band playing at a restaurant I've never been to, and I raided the couch cushions for some spare change. I may not like the music or the food, but then again, I might!

But YouTube already says you can't repost Hollywood content!

If Apple started to create such a network and then accepted payment not to enter it, that may run afoul of Sarbanes Oxley for reporting and The Sherman Antitrust Act for colluding with the payment processors not to compete. You may recall that several pharma companies have had "a bit of a pother" over their very profitable drugs going off patent and the generic manufacturers that ... aren't making those drugs.... for a payment.

That there is very little true competition in payment processing is seemingly a bit odd.
That the fee structure seem to strangely be pretty much congruent with each other should make your spidey sense tingle.

To your point, no one can force another to enter a business is correct. However, it's may not be just that simple.

Here's the key:

Yeah, I've seen this before. They want you to get "skilled up" then don't give you any more pay for being a better worker. Thing to look out for are those very expensive training courses the company selected and then "pays for" which are utterly useless. But it puts you on the hook for a multi-year commitment and no raises because you got that very expensive training for free out of the goodness of their heart!

Close as I remember, no, it started in 2005 or so. It started to go downhill rapidly in 2019.

I see no facts or evidence to blame them for Google's decline on Trump or Trumpers.
Many other things, yes. Just not Google's enshittifcation.

YouTube, in any administration but the right wing, would be facing all kinds of hell for the scam ads it accepts. The penultimate was the toy robot dog with that jingle bells playing, now it's the rubber band air conditioners that even Walmart had to withdraw. CFPB and the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection have been gutted into uselessness. It seems to me that Alphabet is now the very definition of "evil" they pretend not to be. More proof, as if we needed it, that entropy only runs down hill. The Enshittification of the Universe.

...we don't? For the past few weeks, I've had Chrome act really squirrely on my daily driver to the point I VM'd a machine on a bastion to verify it wasn't simply a virus on my Linux box. Nope. The brand new install with base software and no extras was acting squirrely too, in exactly the same places in exactly the same way. No, not going into it just yet because I could be doing something incredibly stupid. Yes. I make mistakes sometimes. That's how you know someone is actually doing something and not simply lollygagging around. People that aren't working and doing new things never make mistakes. It's careful people that don't make them where it affects production.

I find that the assertion of 60K jobs in seven plants to be failing the smell test. That would be 8,571 people per plant. Mr. Google pants show me that on average a chip plant employed 2,200 for a 24/7/365 operation and that the job curve is skewed to warehousing, custodial, and security, with relatively few making more than 40K, slightly above poverty wages ($32,150 for a family of 4).

My suspicion, with no real evidence other than history, is that the announcement is a targeted effort to please the vanity of one particular person in Washington DC. Not the first time this has been done, nor the first time that particular person stopped a merger/acquisition from personal pique because a party involved was a perceived enemy.

In this case, given India's history of running air craft, railroads, and other mass transportation, I'm thinking it has little to do with Boeing and more to do with maintenance cycles. It's been reported that someone (unclear if it was maintenance or a random passenger) was taking pictures to document wide spread electrical failures in the passenger cabin on the flight prior to the crash. Which is not to say that Boeing isn't blameless, nor that in my opinion that their "leadership" has serious issues and failures. There's a reason folks say:

IF IT'S BOEING, I AIN'T GOING!

You're not counting product placement in the "program" - which to my mind has become simply the primary ad of a endless stream of ads. Keeping in mind that I stopped watching any mainstream "entertainment" 25 years ago because of the damn ads, not just on OTA, but premium and 'exclusive' premium products. (I'm not counting being forced to go see a movie as a work 'team building' exercise). If there's a way to extract another dollar from any situation, you may be sure that the end stage capitalism we are in will find it. On the whole, I don't object to the ads in principal. I object to the stupefying ignorance and idiocy of them and their assumption that will sell me something.

The usual practice is to have rate limits on the API to prevent things like runaway ansible playbooks creating thousands of allocations. I don't recall which of the cloud providers but that API limit was usually set to no more than 50 to 100 VPS creations within 24 hours. Yes, the limit could be raised. One customer doing quite legitimate work would start spinning up thousands of VPSs at XAM their time, and spin them down at the end of their work. I am not allowed to say why, but it made sense to me, kinda. I don't know if they ever found out they would have gotten those same resources for less if they'd just leave 'em spinning or not. The customer was not one we looked forward to dealing with.

Support at [different cloud providers I worked at] would sometimes raise a ticket to allocate IPs to specific customer VPS instations. Unless it was a well established customer, such requests were usually declined but given root access to the infrastructure, it's possible to do - if there's a good enough reason to do it. Money for one. Big customer (which is another way to say "money") is another. I've even seen cases at one cloud company that would delete someone's instantiation without warning to evacuate the resources from the specific infrastructure, and pass it off to the customers as "an emergency hardware failure". Which was utter BS and would tick me off. We had tools they could use to safely and seamlessly evacuate instantations but either did not know, or did not care, or most common didn't want to justify it to the change management control process. Change Management is a pain in the neck, I know, but when dealing with hundreds of thousands to millions of servers in tens of dozens of data centers around the world, some process control is not avoidable even if it is a PITA.