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The Voice Dream team has announced that they’re dropping the yearly sub price to $40, which may mean more new users can afford it while still helping out the team with the costs of maintaining the app.

Imo some of the criticism that lead to Voice Dream making this decision was incredibly rude. There’s no cause for talking to small dev teams the same way you would to a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Fuck sake.

—@JustGrist

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A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

—@ernie

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iOS Shortcuts. Darcy Burnard, from the Maccessibility podcast, did a 10 part series on understanding and using shortcuts. If you are interested in iOS shortcuts, I would highly recommend checking out this series! You can find it on the ACB Community podcast. You can either join the podcast through your favorite podcast app, or go to the website link at the end. Now there is many different things posted to this podcast feed. But just do a search for Understanding Shorcuts, and this will filter them out. The series ran from January 23rd to April 10th. Thanks to Darcy for putting in the time and doing this series! I personally listen to them through my podcast app, but here is the website link if you want it. https://acb-community.pinecast.co. #iOS #Shortcuts #Tip #UnderstandingShortcuts #Blind #Voiceover @DHSDarcy

—@ChrisChaffin

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The hip new game all the kids are playing, coast to coast and all around the world, is something they call “Chess”. It’s pretty fun.

Deep Green was one of the iPhone apps I considered impeccable when it came out. I played it for years and years. On and off. As is my life long dalliance with chess.

I’m thrilled to see it return to iPhone! I’ve been fortunate enough to have beta tested it and it’s now available publicly. Check it!

https://deepgreen.app/

—@Gte

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** Ten years ago today, I posted my first MicroSFF story on Twitter. Four thousand stories later, I’m still writing them. Who’d a thunk it?

Many thanks to all of you, for reading, sharing, liking, and commenting.

Here’s that first story:
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God finally stopped the planet to let people off, but hardly anyone left. We watched the sun speed away and felt very silly.
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I have collected the most popular story from each year in a blog post here:
https://microsff.com/a-decade-of-microfiction
**

—@MicroSFF