Cool, great that you got your account back! But please spare a thought to those less privileged and less connected individuals who also have this happen to them and never get their account back... Anyway, are you back being an Apple evangelist now?

You wouldn't have happened to be in the middle of writing a book? If you were locked out of a manuscript, you could argue that your publisher owns the work and they should have some legal resources.

Ok! I looked at their support forum and I'm not, in fact, alone with this issue, but good that it's working for you.

It's chilling they've calculated that it's better to just lose a devoted evangelist than to restore your account, because then they would have to start restoring all other wrongfully disabled accounts as well, and I guess that'd be costly... 😬 This is how much Big Tech cares about little people.

How's Obsidian for Android working for you? I can't get copy-paste to work reliably! Either Select all does not select all, or the context menu doesn't even appear when some text is selected. 🤦 Running on Samsung Galaxy S24+.

Tangentially related: Just the other day I asked ChatGPT for a polite way to tell GitHub Copilot to fuck off with its bonkers pull request review suggestions. It suggested "Copilot, go sit in the corner", which I took into use. 👍

You can't start a video by saying that it's cold, dark, and foggy, and then have none of those elements present in a video that looks like it's been filmed on a great day in the early September at best.

Hey that's a nice article, took me a while but just finished reading it! Sounds like the priests were quite the gate keepers... They'd hate the way AI would allow everyone to create programs now. 😅

Yeah, I would say "esoteerinen" in Finnish is such an obscure loan word (from Ancient Greek) that not many people would ever use it at all. It's probably more common in English. So I think that "secret knowledge" is definitely the most common meaning amongst those who even know the word.

Ha, right, that's a compound word actually: teema + kielet, literally the same, "theme + languages". 🙂

Well I think Trump should just stop bullying Ukraine and maybe give Russia, say, the state of Delaware instead? That's approximately the same size.