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PrivateGPT
Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used
I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you're running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages.<p>I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire.<p>Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is "unable to print" even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!).<p>I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently.<p>It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.<p>This has to be one shadiest and just overall worst product experiences I've come across in a while.<p>Printers have always been a bit of a pain but since when did they have to be near permanently connected to the internet else threaten to cut you off from all of their capabilities.<p>[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230522114823/https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Knowledge-Base/Cancelled-Instant-Ink-service-and-now-I-can-t-print/ta-p/7037780" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20230522114823/https://h30434.ww...</a>
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
Memory Allocation
Memory Allocation
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
Rooms.xyz
FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says
We will be shutting down neeva.com
Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline
yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword.
People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living
Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks
Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd