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"The contract rider said that brown M&M's® were not supposed to be there." - IRA GLASS, Fine Print, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #FinePrint #NationalChocolateCandyDay #IraGlass

🚨 BREAKING: Tech Bros Discover "Source Available" ≠ "Open Source"! 🚨 In this week’s episode of "My License is Bigger Than Yours," #DHH tried to pass off his latest toy, #Fizzy, as open-source, only to be schooled by the internet on the actual meaning. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, open-source veterans watch in dismay, realizing that, yet again, nobody read the fine print. 📜🔍
https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay #TechBros #OpenSource #LicenseMyth #FinePrint #HackerNews #ngated

Our class exhibition at Spilberg castle. Part of a bigger SŠUD exhibition. Including some prints and the castle's architecture - recognise the art period? #art #illustration #fineprint #drypoint #graphics

Just incredibly sneaky language in this email from ING.

They make it look like some fees are being removed, but they were "fees" that we weren't paying anyway because of rebates. The lede here is that all rebates for using an ATM overseas is ending so you'll end up paying the local ATM fees yourself.

ATM rebates was the reason we started banking with ING.

#FinePrint #ING

Changes to fees on Orange Everyday and Orange One From 15 October 2025, the following fees will no longer be charged on Orange Everyday and Orange One: ING International Transaction fee; and ING International ATM Withdrawal fee. This means that the monthly criteria to qualify for rebates of these fees is also being removed. While not all ATM operators (e.g., major banks) may charge a fee, where one is charged, we will no longer rebate these fees.

Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy

I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.

This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.

7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag

The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.

8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag

This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.

8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag

Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.

8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag

One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.

8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.

#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices

Oh no, it seems like the gazillion-dollar company that prides itself on being "customer-focused" just accidentally locked you out of your digital life with their fancy credit card. 🤡 Guess you missed the fine print that said, "Use at your own risk – of losing everything." 🆘🍏
https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account #customerexperience #techfail #digitalrights #creditcardissues #fineprint #HackerNews #ngated

Weekly output: MediaTek’s new Chromebook chipset, Verizon’s new price-lock pledge

This week saw me file two longer, not-yet-published stories for places that hadn’t seen my byline in several months, which reminded me how client re-development can be as esential as client development. This coming week will have me in San Francisco for a few days to cover the NTT Upgrade conference for my trade-pub client Light Reading (with that Japanese telco paying for my airfare and lodging, an arrangement I will note in the copy I file).

4/2/2025: MediaTek’s New Chromebook Chip Looks a Bit Overpowered, PCMag

Writing about new chipset architectures makes me feel like I’m pushing the envelope of my own grasp of technology–because until a few years ago, that topic wasn’t a regular feature of my coverage.

4/3/2025: After Raft of Hikes, Verizon Offers 3-Year Price Lock on Rates (But Not Fees), PCMag

Verizon provided an advance copy of this announcement late Wednesday afternoon to a colleague at PCMag who then asked me to cover it. That didn’t leave me much time to write a post that would be ready to publish at expiration of Verizon’s 8 a.m. embargo Thursday, but then I realized that this press release didn’t answer some key points about this rate guarantee and a few of Verizon’s other changes. I got clarification on one detail from a Verizon publicist and then opted to wait to see the entirety of the company’s fine print before filing this copy. My editors, to their credit, were fine with my taking that extra time to get the story right.

#chipsets #chromebook #finePrint #KompanioUltra #laptops #MediaTek #priceLock #rateLock #verizon #VerizonPriceLock

Nominations are still open—there's time yet to put in your plug for the City of Roses as Best Series:

https://thecityofroses.com/books

https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-nominate/

#Hugos #BestSeries #CityOfRoses #FinePrint

#Trump admin adds #FinePrint to #FederalEmployees #buyout offer

It's been a week since nearly all 2.3M civilian employees of the #FederalGovernment were presented w/an offer: Agree to resign from your job by Feb 6 & keep your pay & benefits through the end of Sept.

Now, w/the deadline nearing, #FederalAgencies have sent out new terms & conditions in the form of a sample #contract agreement that employees are told they can use to "memorialize" the deal.

#law #TrumpCoup
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5286238/federal-employees-fork-musk-trump-deferred-resignation

#Lawfare Researchers affiliated with Brookings Institute see that the #DOGE edict offer to pay off any resigning #federal #workers for seven months is not actually a vetted govt policy, or even legal. Read The #FinePrint first ...

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/breaking-down-opm-s--fork-in-the-road--email-to-federal-workers

Void where prohibited. Void where not prohibited. The Void does not care about your prohibitions; the Void travels when and wherever it wishes.

#BlackFriday #FinePrint #Nihilism

#FireDepartment #lieutenant gets #undisclosed #punishment for #antiLGBTQ #posts.

Fellow #firefighter weighs in: “When you put that #badge on your chest and wear the #uniform, our #job is to #ProtectThePublic. There is no #fineprint in that(, that says except the LGBTQ community.)”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Massachusetts #NewBedford #Government #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://newbedfordlight.org/fire-lieutenant-gets-undisclosed-punishment-for-anti-lgbtq-posts/

"So the brown M&M's were like the canary in the coal mine!" - IRA GLASS, Fine Print, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #FinePrint #NationalMandMDay #IraGlass

If you use paypal, watch this tiktock

PayPal’s New Terms and Conditions #termsandconditions #fineprint #legal #cliffsnotes #summary #tut #optout #privacy

via @seanvv onTiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@seansvv/video/7421675474637573419

Couple who used #UberEats can't sue #Uber because of #arbitration terms, court says : NPR

A #NewJersey appeals court says a couple cannot sue Uber over a life-altering car accident because of the app’s terms & conditions, even though they say it was their daughter who agreed to those terms while placing an Uber Eats order.
#tos #fineprint
> First it was #Disney now it’s Uber limiting #rights

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-lawsuit-uber-eats-arbitration-terms

Mazola corn oil is running ads claiming it "may be healthier for you than olive oil" based on "studies". So they slapped a "Heart Healthy" label on the bottle.

But always check the #FinePrint: 🤨 #TruthInAdvertising #MugsysHouseholdTips