#what is api integration

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would you guys believe me if i said i used to develop discord bots years ago but stopped because it having over near 200k users overwhelmed me

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they should give me access to the tumblr api for no reason

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AI in UX: How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing User Experience

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6 Must Have WooCommerce Shipping APIs for Ecommerce

Shipping is crucial to every WooCommerce business, shaping how customers shop on your site. However, between technology and logistics, it can feel like a puzzle. Luckily, WordPress has many plugins to help business owners solve their problems.

This blog explores the best WooCommerce shipping API plugins to improve your customers' shopping experience. Before we recommend plugins, let's discuss the benefits of choosing the right shipping API plugin for your online store.

Why do you Need Shipping API Integration?

Seamless Integration

For small or large businesses, the WooCommerce shipping API plugin integrates easily with your store framework. It connects your store to external apps to facilitate data exchange.

Enhanced Automation

Say goodbye to manual labor! Automate tasks like inventory updates, order management, and customer data synchronization with the WooCommerce API plugin. Greetings from streamlined operations and more time to concentrate on expanding your company.

Customization Flexibility

Each online store is unique, and the WooCommerce API plugin knows that. Enjoy unmatched customization options to customize your store's functionality. From customized customer experiences to creative marketing, the possibilities are endless.

Real-time Data Sync

Stay up to date on the state of your store in real-time. Your ability to make informed decisions is enhanced by the WooCommerce API plugin, which synchronizes data across all platforms and applications.

Expand Your Reach

Maximize integrations to create new avenues for expansion. To quickly expand your customer base and break into new markets, integrate your store with the marketplaces, apps, and services offered by other businesses.

Boosted Productivity

E-commerce is a fast-paced industry, so efficiency is essential. Using the features provided by the WooCommerce API plugin will significantly boost your output. Say goodbye to repetitive tasks and hello to increased productivity with less effort.

Future-proof Your Business

Your online store has to be future-proofed because technology is constantly changing. You can stay ahead of the competition by using the WooCommerce API plugin to keep your store adaptable and ready to take on new concepts and styles.

However, integrating APIs can be a difficult process. Should you need expert help linking your WooCommerce store to external services, our talented developers can ensure a seamless and efficient Shipping API integration.

6 Best Shipping APIs for Your Ecommerce Store

Table Rate Shipping for WooCommerce

For stores with basic shipping requirements, the user-friendly Table rate shipping API WooCommerce plugin is perfect. It assists you in establishing precise shipping costs for each order by taking into account a variety of factors.

Example Use Case: Consider being the owner of a clothing store that specializes in sweaters, coats, and t-shirts. To entice customers to buy more, you can raise the price of heavier jackets and provide free shipping on orders over $100.

2. WooCommerce Advanced Shipping (Premium):

Advanced Woocommerce shipping Ideal for intricate shipping scenarios is the premium plugin for WooCommerce. It offers a comprehensive shipping management solution by integrating advanced features and systems from Table Rate Shipping.

Example Use Case: Your electronics store sells phone accessories and TVs. You can offer competitive shipping rates with real-time carrier quotes and conditional shipping rules. This includes free local pickups of bulky TVs and weight-based discounts on heavier items.

3. Flexible Shipping for WooCommerce (Free & Premium):

WooCommerce flexible shipping from WP Desk offers free and premium zone-based shipping control and customization. Stores looking to manage regional shipping costs should use it.

Example Use Case: An excellent option for retailers with a range of product sizes and a desire for zone-based shipping control (e.g., furniture stores with bulky items).

4. AfterShip Tracking (Free & Premium):

This free and premium WooCommerce plugin from AfterShip offers order-tracking features to improve customer experience. Maintaining delivery status updates builds client confidence and reduces shipping questions.

Consider performing an eCommerce migration to transfer your Shopify store to WooCommerce if your Shopify store is currently operational and you would like to utilize WooCommerce's AfterShip integration. The AfterShip API can then be used without any issues within the WooCommerce platform.

Example Use Case: provides order tracking features to improve the online shopping experience for all retailers.

5. ShipStation for WooCommerce (Free & Premium):

The ShipStation plugin, which links your WooCommerce store to the ShipStation shipping platform, offers this all-inclusive shipping solution (available in both free and premium versions). ShipStation expedites the entire shipping process, saving you both money and time.

Example Use Case: For large retailers or those looking for a comprehensive shipping solution, ShipStation is an effective tool. While the premium version automates, discounts, and manages inventory across platforms, the free version makes basic tasks simpler.

6. WooCommerce UPS Shipping Plugin with Print Label (Premium):

The premium UPS shipping plugin from PluginHive is designed for WooCommerce stores that ship with UPS or require direct UPS services. It removes the need for manual integration and expedites UPS shipping.

Example Use Case: Imagine that you run a posh electronics store and that UPS is your main source for reliable and secure delivery. You can offer real-time UPS by using this plugin.

How to Choose the Best Shipping API & Plugins for WooCommerce?

After reading about the best WooCommerce shipping plugins, let's discuss what to look for in a shipping API plugin for your ecommerce store.

Compatibility and Integration

Make sure the WooCommerce API plugin you choose works with WordPress, WooCommerce, any other plugins, and your store configuration. Find plugins that integrate easily with popular third-party services and applications like shipping companies, accounting software, and payment gateways.

Functionality and Features

Examine WooCommerce API plugin features. Business needs include order management, inventory synchronization, customer data management, and reporting. Look for plugins with complete features that match your business goals and workflows.

Performance and Reliability

Choosing a WooCommerce API plugin requires performance and reliability. Select stable, updated plugins. To evaluate the plugin's real-world performance and find usability bugs, read user reviews and ratings.

Security and Compliance

WooCommerce API plugins handle sensitive customer data and financial transactions, so security is crucial. Choose plugins that encrypt data transmission, use secure authentication, and comply with payment processing standards like PCI DSS.

Scalability and Flexibility

WooCommerce API plugins handle sensitive customer data and financial transactions, so security is crucial. Choose plugins that encrypt data transmission, use secure authentication, and comply with payment processing standards like PCI DSS.

Partner with us for Shipping API Integration

We conclude that WooCommerce stores need shipping plugins to prioritize sales and scaling over logistics. These shipping automation tools let businesses handle more orders without sacrificing quality.

Are you in need of assistance? Our e-commerce software development team possesses a wide range of expertise in the areas of API development, integration implementation, and testing. To ensure that the process goes smoothly, we can integrate your WooCommerce store with the ideal shipping API.

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Nintendo is removing twitter integration next week, here's what to do to share screenshots instead

So in case you missed it, Nintendo announced last month that they're removing the Switch's twitter integration on Jun 10/11 (depending on your time zone) as a result of twitter jacking up their API fees to absolutely ridiculous degrees. This will not affect making posts in the plaza (at least in Splatoon 3) but it does mean you will not be able to upload screenshots and videos to twitter for easy access.

If you're like me and do this a lot, then you've got two alternatives.

One of these methods is significantly easier than the others, but requires a computer that runs Windows and a USB cable. With your Switch in portable mode, go into your System Settings and find the Data Management section:

Click it and scroll down to the "Copy to PC via USB Connection" option.

Click it and you'll be prompted to connect your Switch to your PC via USB. When you do, a folder containing all your Switch screenshots and videos will pop up on your PC. From there, you can copy as many videos and screenshots as you'd like to a location of your choosing, at which point you can disconnect your Switch.

And now you're done!

The other option is a bit more finicky (and also I can't take screenshots to show you the process), but can be done with any smart device. Go into your Album and pick a video or screenshot you would like to share. Select Send to smart device, after which you'll be prompted to scan a QR code. Scan it with your smart device and you'll be given a link to connect to a Wifi, which sounds weird but is just how the console and smart device connects. Once they have, you'll be able to send your images and video to your phone.

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big things happening on roblox right now

hiding this under Keep Reading coz this is more me rambling than anything

art block has been kicking my AAAASSSSS yadda yadda ... i think i was just getting bored of drawing ... and i figured What better way to drag myself out of it than to finally do what i've been putting off for ages: make mock graffiti for my music venue-inspired Work At A Pizza Place house! here's where it started... lately (and by 'lately' i mean since about 6am yesterday) i've been reading a lot about Punk subculture in Malaysia ... originally for oc reseaech purposes (would you believe me if i said this is also in[?]directly related to mayday) but then i got super sucked into older blogs containing. like. insanely fascinating stuff (history, articles, zine scans, etc) ... i came across some graffiti in one picture in particular of a punk venue called Rumah Api -- and that's where the names up there come from. i wish i knew if they were perhaps a band or a group of friends or something similar... but. back on-topic. Soooo that's the wall in the first image; made it in csp with the Next Ups Regular font (i tried doing the lettering myself several times but it did NOT look right) and colored it in + some manually drawn doodles and graphics and stuff , and some cut up images of already graffiti'd-up walls i found on pinterest. very proud of it Especially considering it's something people will always see Should they decide to break into my house ... even if roblox did butcher the quality of it a little. i had to chop it into SIX SQUARES to preserve its integrity dude

As for the Second image! Mayday! that is the mayday echo chamber located Above the venue on the third floor. i'm thinking about remodeling it so that the room isn't a straight-up box... but it's not too pressing of a matter for now. anyways... thank you for reading

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The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

How could this happen? Owners of Chamberlain MyQ automatic garage door openers just woke up to discover that the company had confiscated valuable features overnight, and that there was nothing they could do about it.

Oh, we know what happened, technically speaking. Chamberlain shut off the API for its garage-door openers, which breaks their integration with home automation systems like Home Assistant. The company even announced that it was doing this, calling the integration an "unauthorized usage" of its products, though the "unauthorized" parties in this case are the people who own Chamberlain products:

https://chamberlaingroup.com/press/a-message-about-our-decision-to-prevent-unauthorized-usage-of-myq

We even know why Chamberlain did this. As Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo points out, shutting off the API is a way for Chamberlain to force its customers to use its ad-beshitted, worst-of-breed app, so that it can make a few pennies by nonconsensually monetizing its customers' eyeballs:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/

But how did this happen? How did a giant company like Chamberlain come to this enshittening juncture, in which it felt empowered to sabotage the products it had already sold to its customers? How can this be legal? How can it be good for business? How can the people who made this decision even look themselves in the mirror?

To answer these questions, we must first consider the forces that discipline companies, acting against the impulse to enshittify their products and services. There are four constraints on corporate conduct:

I. Competition. The fear of losing your business to a rival can stay even the most sociopathic corporate executive's hand.

II. Regulation. The fear of being fined, criminally sanctioned, or banned from doing business can check the greediest of leaders.

III. Capability. Corporate executives can dream up all kinds of awful ways to shift value from your side of the ledger to their own, but they can only do the things that are technically feasible.

IV. Self-help. The possibility of customers modifying, reconfiguring or altering their products to restore lost functionality or neutralize antifeatures carries an implied threat to vendors. If a printer company's anti-generic-ink measures drives a customer to jailbreak their printers, the original manufacturer's connection to that customer is permanently severed, as the customer creates a durable digital connection to a rival.

When companies act in obnoxious, dishonest, shitty ways, they aren't merely yielding to temptation – they are evading these disciplining forces. Thus, the Great Enshittening we are living through doesn't reflect an increase in the wickedness of corporate leadership. Rather, it represents a moment in which each of these disciplining factors have been gutted by specific policies.

This is good news, actually. We used to put down rat poison and we didn't have a rat problem. Then we stopped putting down rat poison and rats are eating us alive. That's not a nice feeling, but at least we know at least one way of addressing it – we can start putting down poison again. That is, we can start enforcing the rules that we stopped enforcing, in living memory. Having a terrible problem is no fun, but the best kind of terrible problem to have is one that you know a solution to.

As it happens, Chamberlain is a neat microcosm for all the bad policy choices that created the Era of Enshittification. Let's go through them:

Competition: Chamberlain doesn't have to worry about competition, because it is owned by a private equity fund that "rolled up" all of Chamberlain's major competitors into a single, giant firm. Most garage-door opener brands are actually Chamberlain, including "LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Merlin, and Grifco":

https://www.lakewoodgaragedoor.biz/blog/the-history-of-garage-door-openers

This is a pretty typical PE rollup, and it exploits a bug in US competition law called "Antitrust's Twilight Zone":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

When companies buy each other, they are subject to "merger scrutiny," a set of guidelines that the FTC and DoJ Antitrust Division use to determine whether the outcome is likely to be bad for competition. These rules have been pretty lax since the Reagan administration, but they've currently being revised to make them substantially more strict:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-ftc-seek-comment-draft-merger-guidelines

One of the blind spots in these merger guidelines is an exemption for mergers valued at less than $101m. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, these fly under the radar, evading merger scrutiny. That means that canny PE companies can roll up dozens and dozens of standalone businesses, like funeral homes, hospital beds, magic mushrooms, youth addiction treatment centers, mobile home parks, nursing homes, physicians’ practices, local newspapers, or e-commerce sellers:

http://www.economicliberties.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Serial-Acquisitions-Working-Paper-R4-2.pdf

By titrating the purchase prices, PE companies – like Blackstone, owners of Chamberlain and all the other garage-door makers – can acquire a monopoly without ever raising a regulatory red flag.

But antitrust enforcers aren't helpless. Under (the long dormant) Section 7 of the Clayton Act, competition regulators can block mergers that lead to "incipient monopolization." The incipiency standard prevented monopolies from forming from 1914, when the Clayton Act passed, until the Reagan administration. We used to put down rat poison, and we didn't have rats. We stopped, and rats are gnawing our faces off. We still know where the rat poison is – maybe we should start putting it down again.

On to regulation. How is it possible for Chamberlain to sell you a garage-door opener that has an API and works with your chosen home automation system, and then unilaterally confiscate that valuable feature? Shouldn't regulation protect you from this kind of ripoff?

It should, but it doesn't. Instead, we have a bunch of regulations that protect Chamberlain from you. Think of binding arbitration, which allows Chamberlain to force you to click through an "agreement" that takes away your right to sue them or join a class-action suit:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

But regulation could protect you from Chamberlain. Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act allows the FTC to ban any "unfair and deceptive" conduct. This law has been on the books since 1914, but Section 5 has been dormant, forgotten and unused, for decades. The FTC's new dynamo chair, Lina Khan, has revived it, and is use it like a can-opener to free Americans who've been trapped by abusive conduct:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

Khan's used Section 5 powers to challenge privacy invasions, noncompete clauses, and other corporate abuses – the bait-and-switch tactics of Chamberlain are ripe for a Section 5 case. If you buy a gadget because it has five features and then the vendor takes two of them away, they are clearly engaged in "unfair and deceptive" conduct.

On to capability. Since time immemorial, corporate leaders have fetishized "flexibility" in their business arrangements – like the ability to do "dynamic pricing" that changes how much you pay for something based on their guess about how much you are willing to pay. But this impulse to play shell games runs up against the hard limits of physical reality: grocers just can't send an army of rollerskated teenagers around the store to reprice everything as soon as a wealthy or desperate-looking customer comes through the door. They're stuck with crude tactics like doubling the price of a flight that doesn't include a Saturday stay as a way of gouging business travelers on an expense account.

With any shell-game, the quickness of the hand deceives the eye. Corporate crooks armed with computers aren't smarter or more wicked than their analog forebears, but they are faster. Digital tools allow companies to alter the "business logic" of their services from instant to instant, in highly automated ways:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The monopoly coalition has successfully argued that this endless "twiddling" should not be constrained by privacy, labor or consumer protection law. Without these constraints, corporate twiddlers can engage in all kinds of ripoffs, like wage theft and algorithmic wage discrimination:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

Twiddling is key to the Darth Vader MBA ("I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further"), in which features are confiscated from moment to moment, without warning or recourse:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure

There's no reason to accept the premise that violating your privacy, labor rights or consumer rights with a computer is so different from analog ripoffs that existing laws don't apply. The unconstrained twiddling of digital ripoff artists is a plague on billions of peoples' lives, and any enforcer who sticks up for our rights will have an army of supporters behind them.

Finally, there's the fear of self-help measures. All the digital flexibility that tech companies use to take value away can be used to take it back, too. The whole modern history of digital computers is the history of "adversarial interoperability," in which the sleazy antifeatures of established companies are banished through reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other forms of technological guerrilla warfare:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

Adversarial interoperability represents a serious threat to established business. If you're a printer company gouging on toner, your customers might defect to a rival that jailbreaks your security measures. That's what happened to Lexmark, who lost a case against the toner-refilling company Static Controls, which went on to buy Lexmark:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-business-model-lexmarks-anti-competitive-legacy

Sure, your customers are busy and inattentive and you can degrade the quality of your product a lot before they start looking for ways out. But once they cross that threshold, you can lose them forever. That's what happened to Microsoft: the company made the tactical decision to produce a substandard version of Office for the Mac in a drive to get Mac users to switch to Windows. Instead, Apple made Iwork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote), which could read and write every Office file, and Mac users threw away Office, the only Microsoft product they owned, permanently severing their relationship to the company:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

Today, companies can operate without worrying about this kind of self-help measure. There' a whole slew of IP rights that Chamberlain can enforce against you if you try to fix your garage-door opener yourself, or look to a competitor to sell you a product that restores the feature they took away:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

Jailbreaking your Chamberlain gadget in order to make it answer to a rival's app involves bypassing a digital lock. Trafficking in a tool to break a digital lock is a felony under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine.

In other words, it's not just that tech isn't regulated, allowing for endless twiddling against your privacy, consumer rights and labor rights. It's that tech is badly regulated, to permit unlimited twiddling by tech companies to take away your rightsand to prohibit any twiddling by you to take them back. The US government thumbs the scales against you, creating a regime that Jay Freeman aptly dubbed "felony contempt of business model":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/how-to-fix-cars-by-breaking-felony-contempt-of-business-model/

All kinds of companies have availed themselves of this government-backed superpower. There's DRM – digital locks, covered by DMCA 1201 – in powered wheelchairs:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair

In dishwashers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/03/cassette-rewinder/#disher-bob

In treadmills:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#jane-get-me-off-this-crazy-thing

In tractors:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

It should come as no surprise to learn that Chamberlain has used DMCA 1201 to block interoperable garage door opener components:

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1233&context=iplr

That's how we arrived at this juncture, where a company like Chamberlain can break functionality its customers value highly, solely to eke out a minuscule new line of revenue by selling ads on their own app.

Chamberlain bought all its competitors.

Chamberlain operates in a regulatory environment that is extremely tolerant of unfair and deceptive practices. Worse: they can unilaterally take away your right to sue them, which means that if regulators don't bestir themselves to police Chamberlain, you are shit out of luck.

Chamberlain has endless flexibility to unilaterally alter its products' functionality, in fine-grained ways, even after you've purchased them.

Chamberlain can sue you if you try to exercise some of that same flexibility to protect yourself from their bad practices.

Combine all four of those factors, and of course Chamberlain is going to enshittify its products. Every company has had that one weaselly asshole at the product-planning table who suggests a petty grift like breaking every one of the company's customers' property to sell a few ads. But historically, the weasel lost the argument to others, who argued that making every existing customer furious would affect the company's bottom line, costing it sales and/or fines, and prompting customers to permanently sever their relationship with the company by seeking out and installing alternative software. Take away all the constraints on a corporation's worst impulses, and this kind of conduct is inevitable:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

This isn't limited to Chamberlain. Without the discipline of competition, regulation, self-help measures or technological limitations, every industry in undergoing wholesale enshittification. It's not a coincidence that Chamberlain's grift involves a push to move users into its app. Because apps can't be reverse-engineered and modified without risking DMCA 1201 prosecution, forcing a user into an app is a tidy and reliable way to take away that user's rights.

Think about ad-blocking. One in four web users has installed an ad-blockers ("the biggest boycott in world history" -Doc Searls). Zero app users have installed app-blockers, because they don't exist, because making one is a felony. An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a crime to defend yourself against corporate predation:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/27/an-audacious-plan-to-halt-the-internets-enshittification-and-throw-it-into-reverse/

The temptation to enshitiffy isn't new, but the ability to do so without consequence is a modern phenomenon, the intersection of weak policy enforcement and powerful technology. Your car is autoenshittified, a rolling rent-seeking platform that spies on you and price-gouges you:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Cars are in an uncontrolled skid over Enshittification Cliff. Honda, Toyota, VW and GM all sell cars with infotainment systems that harvest your connected phone's text-messages and send them to the corporation for data-mining. What's more, a judge in Washington state just ruled that this is legal:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

While there's no excuse for this kind of sleazy conduct, we can reasonably anticipate that if our courts would punish companies for engaging in it, they might be able to resist the temptation. No wonder Mozilla's latest Privacy Not Included research report called cars "the worst product category we have ever reviewed":

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

I mean, Nissan tries to infer facts about your sex life and sells those inferences to marketing companies:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/nissan/

But the OG digital companies are the masters of enshittification. Microsoft has been at this game for longer than anyone, and every day brings a fresh way that Microsoft has worsened its products without fear of consequence. The latest? You can't delete your OneDrive account until you provide an acceptable explanation for your disloyalty:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23952878/microsoft-onedrive-windows-close-app-notification

It's tempting to think that the cruelty is the point, but it isn't. It's almost never the point. The point is power and money. Unscrupulous businesses have found ways to make money by making their products worse since the industrial revolution. Here's Jules Dupuis, writing about 19th century French railroads:

It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriages or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches. What the company is trying to do is to prevent the passengers who can pay the second class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich. And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class passengers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.

https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/731357317521719296/having-refused-the-poor-what-is-necessary-they

But as bad as all this is, let me remind you about the good part: we know how to stop companies from enshittifying their products. We know what disciplines their conduct: competition, regulation, capability and self-help measures. Yes, rats are gnawing our eyeballs, but we know which rat-poison to use, and where to put it to control those rats.

Competition, regulation, constraint and self-help measures all backstop one another, and while one or a few can make a difference, they are most powerful when they're all mobilized in concert. Think of the failure of the EU's landmark privacy law, the GDPR. While the GDPR proved very effective against bottom-feeding smaller ad-tech companies, the worse offenders, Meta and Google, have thumbed their noses at it.

This was enabled in part by the companies' flying an Irish flag of convenience, maintaining the pretense that they have to be regulated in a notorious corporate crime-haven:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

That let them get away with all kinds of shenanigans, like ignoring the GDPR's requirement that you should be able to easily opt out of data-collection without having to go through cumbersome "cookie consent" dialogs or losing access to the service as punishment for declining to be tracked.

As the noose has tightened around these surveillance giants, they're continuing to play games. Meta now says that the only way to opt out of data-collection in the EU is to pay for the service:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law

This is facially illegal under the GDPR. Not only are they prohibited from punishing you for opting out of collection, but the whole scheme ignores the nature of private data collection. If Facebook collects the fact that you and I are friends, but I never opted into data-collection, they have violated the GDPR, even if you were coerced into granting consent:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/the-pay-or-consent-challenge-for-platform-regulators.html

The GDPR has been around since 2016 and Google and Meta are still invading 500 million Europeans' privacy. This latest delaying tactic could add years to their crime-spree before they are brought to justice.

But most of this surveillance is only possible because so much of how you interact with Google and Meta is via an app, and an app is just a web-page that's a felony to make an ad-blocker for. If the EU were to legalize breaking DRM – repealing Article 6 of the 2001 Copyright Directive – then we wouldn't have to wait for the European Commission to finally wrestle these two giant companies to the ground. Instead, EU companies could make alternative clients for all of Google and Meta's services that don't spy on you, without suffering the fate of OG App, which tried this last winter and was shut down by "felony contempt of business model":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained

Enshittification is demoralizing. To quote @wilwheaton, every update to the services we use inspires "dread of 'How will this complicate things as I try to maintain privacy and sanity in a world that demands I have this thing to operate?'"

https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/698603648058556416/cory-doctorow-if-you-see-this-and-have-thoughts

But there are huge natural constituencies for the four disciplining forces that keep enshittification at bay.

Remember, Antitrust's Twilight Zone doesn't just allow rollups of garage-door opener companies – it's also poison for funeral homes, hospital beds, magic mushrooms, youth addiction treatment centers, mobile home parks, nursing homes, physicians’ practices, local newspapers, or e-commerce sellers.

The Binding Arbitration scam that stops Chamberlain customers from suing the company also stops Uber drivers from suing over stolen wages, Turbotax customers from suing over fraud, and many other victims of corporate crime from getting a day in court.

The failure to constrain twiddling to protect privacy, labor rights and consumer rights enables a host of abuses, from stalking, doxing and SWATting to wage theft and price gouging:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

And Felony Contempt of Business Model is used to screw you over every time you refill your printer, run your dishwasher, or get your Iphone's screen replaced.

The actions needed to halt and reverse this enshittification are well understood, and the partisans for taking those actions are too numerous to count. It's taken a long time for all those individuals suffering under corporate abuses to crystallize into a movement, but at long last, it's happening.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

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[goblin-social]

A quick example of the current state of Goblin:

I imported my following list from mastodon and started following everyone with my goblin.band account too, so I basically read all my mastodon content from there already. Even if no one but me using the tumblr-like features I'm adding, I already enjoy Goblin more than Mastodon.

Things that I've added since my last post:

Integration with mastodon (and well, any other fediverse platform that use plain text instead of html)

Copy/pasting images in the editor

Sanitized html input when saving & updating posts

Improved the landing page

Cleaned the menus and improved the UI in general

Current "next" to-do list:

Fix posts displaying images twice when you paste an image

Fix RSS feed including the inline files again after the post

Sanitize html inputs on incoming federated posts

fix several style issues around different settings sections (black texts on dark blue background, white text over white background, etc)

Figure out if I can create a tumblr-api app so the posts from goblin can be automatically shared here without having to go through Zappier.

Figure out what kind of server I need to run a, let's say, 500 people server.

Find someone to do some security review of my server (Long story short, I've only a very slim idea of what I'm doing when configuring a server and I'm sure I've left some huge security holes around).

This is happening, folks. I think Goblin is going to be a reality. At least https://goblin.band will be.

[2headedb0y]

Tldr I'm 98% sure I'll be able to get stuff like Steam achievements working in my game as well as stuff like checking for DLC ownership if the game ever gets popular enough to warrant a DLC.

Also this is Yurei's apartment so far, he needs more furniture! And I gotta adjust the alignment of a mirror so he can have a bathroom mirror without it clipping into the sink or ceiling.

Long boring version: I got basically nothing done on 2-Headed Boy yesterday, found out Steam's API integration thing only supports C++ and if you want Steam features on your Steam game that's programmed in a different language, you basically gotta use a 3rd party service, the website for the one they list as commonly used for my engine was down of course.

But thankfully the RM community came in clutch once again, and someone wrote up a thorough tutorial on a community forum, including a zip file with all the files I needed to update my engine and game etc. for Steam integration. So that's what I did yesterday. And worked my job too, dumb I know but I got bills to pay 🫠

[toxartsukagakas]

Yes_Man.NAR, Version 1.4.0

This update is on the smaller side with a more varied bunch of changes, but I'm deciding to release it early since the next update might take a couple months due to upcoming stuff! This update includes:

Weather Station integration! Open it either through the plugin menu on SSP's right click menu, or find it under Yes Man's 'function' menu! You MUST update him using the .NAR to have this feature, network updates will NOT install it. It's bundled with the .NAR due to using my own API key, and there are small changes to make sure degrees display properly in Yes Man's bundled balloon. This will also allow for future planned features in which Yes Man can comment on the current weather and other things!

Overhauled Yes Man's petting responses. Added in a lot of new ones and now what he says changes appropriately with how he feels about you.

Changes to Relationship System: I wanted getting to know him to take a bit longer, so values have been changed. If you already have him installed, it's going to change where you're at with him friendship-wise, and is not a bug. Made it to where romance points take longer to accumulate so you're befriending him before he gets romantic feelings for the user.

As always, full list of changes are in the changelog. As usual the link for new .NAR is [HERE], and like I said if you wish to use the weather station features, do not update him through network updates in SSP's menu! Switch to another ghost, drag the new .NAR over them like you did when you first installed Yes Man, when it asks if you want to overwrite the directory click 'yes', and then switch back, and he should be fully updated!

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Shipping APIs: Streamlining Your Business's Shipping Operations

Smooth shipping operations are key to success. One of the game-changers in this arena is the Shipping API, a powerful tool that simplifies shipping processes for online businesses. Let's dive into what Shipping APIs are, their benefits, and why integrating them is a smart move for ecommerce owners.

What is a Shipping API?

A Shipping API, short for Application Programming Interface, is like a bridge that connects your ecommerce platform with shipping carriers like UPS, FedEx, or USPS. It enables automated communication between your online store and these carriers, streamlining shipping tasks such as generating labels, calculating shipping rates, tracking shipments, and more.

Why Shipping API Integration Matters

Imagine manually entering shipping details for each order – time-consuming, error-prone, and not scalable. Here's where Shipping API integration comes in handy:

Efficiency: Automating shipping tasks saves time and reduces human errors, leading to faster order processing and happier customers.

Cost-Effectiveness: Accurate shipping rate calculations help you offer competitive shipping prices without eating into your margins.

Real-Time Tracking: Provide customers with tracking information, enhancing their shopping experience and trust in your brand.

Scalability: As your business grows, Shipping APIs scale seamlessly to handle increased shipping volumes efficiently.

Flexibility: Choose the best shipping carriers for your needs and easily switch between them as needed.

Understanding the Best Shipping API Options

When it comes to Shipping APIs, there are several options available. Here's a glimpse into some of the best ones:

EasyPost: Known for its user-friendly interface and robust features, EasyPost simplifies shipping processes for businesses of all sizes.

ShipEngine: Offering a wide range of carrier integrations and advanced shipping capabilities, ShipEngine is a popular choice among e-commerce businesses.

Shippo: With its focus on simplicity and cost-effectiveness, Shippo is a great choice for small to medium-sized businesses looking to streamline shipping.

ShipStation: Ideal for multichannel sellers, ShipStation offers powerful automation tools and integrations with major e-commerce platforms.

Choosing the Right Shipping API for Your Business

Selecting the best Shipping API depends on your specific business needs, shipping volume, budget, and integration requirements. Evaluate factors like carrier options, pricing, ease of integration, customer support, and scalability before making a decision.

Conclusion

In the competitive world of ecommerce development, leveraging Shipping APIs is a strategic move that can boost efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Whether you're a small online boutique or a growing ecommerce giant, integrating a Shipping API like EasyPost, ShipEngine, Shippo, or ShipStation can take your shipping operations to the next level.

For a detailed guide on Shipping APIs and how they can benefit your ecommerce business, check out this insightful blog post. Unlock the power of seamless shipping and propel your business towards greater success!

[rainet00]

API For UPI

Introduction

In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to streamline their operations and enhance customer experience. One such solution that has gained immense popularity is the use of API for UPI (Unified Payments Interface). This technology allows businesses to seamlessly integrate UPI payments into their applications or websites, providing a convenient and secure payment method for customers. However, with numerous options available in the market, it can be challenging to choose the right API provider that meets your specific business needs. That's where Rainet Technology comes in. With its exceptional expertise and comprehensive features, Rainet Technology stands out as the best choice for API for UPI solutions. In this article, we will explore how Rainet Technology can help your business thrive in the digital payment landscape and why you should consider them as your trusted partner. So let's dive in and discover the endless possibilities that await you with Rainet Technology's API for UPI services.

Rainet Technology is the best choice for api for upi.

When it comes to choosing the best API for UPI (Unified Payments Interface), Rainet Technology is undoubtedly the top choice. With years of experience and expertise in the field, Rainet Technology has established itself as a reliable and trusted provider of UPI APIs.

What sets Rainet Technology apart from its competitors is its commitment to delivering high-quality and seamless solutions. The team at Rainet Technology understands the importance of a smooth and secure payment process for businesses, and their UPI API is designed with this in mind. By integrating Rainet Technology's API into your business operations, you can ensure that your customers have a hassle-free experience when making payments through UPI.

Rainet Technology's UPI API offers a wide range of features that are tailored to meet the specific needs of businesses. From easy integration to real-time transaction updates, their API provides all the necessary tools to streamline your payment processes. Whether you are a small startup or an established enterprise, Rainet Technology's UPI API can help you enhance your business operations and provide a seamless payment experience for your customers.

In conclusion, if you are looking for the best choice in API for UPI, look no further than Rainet Technology. Their expertise, commitment to quality, and comprehensive feature set make them the ideal partner for businesses seeking efficient and secure payment solutions. Don't miss out on the opportunity to take your business to new heights – choose Rainet Technology today!

How can api for upi can help your business?

In today's digital age, businesses are constantly looking for ways to streamline their operations and provide convenient solutions to their customers. One such solution that has gained immense popularity is the use of API for UPI (Unified Payments Interface).

API for UPI allows businesses to integrate the UPI payment system into their own applications or websites, providing a seamless and secure payment experience for their customers. This means that your customers can make payments directly from your platform without the need for any additional steps or redirects.

But how exactly can API for UPI help your business? Well, it offers several advantages. Firstly, it enables you to offer a wide range of payment options to your customers. With UPI becoming increasingly popular in India, integrating this payment method into your platform can attract more customers and increase conversions.

Secondly, API for UPI ensures a smooth and hassle-free payment process. Customers no longer have to enter their card details or go through multiple authentication steps. They can simply authorize the transaction using their UPI credentials, making the checkout process quick and convenient.

Furthermore, API for UPI provides enhanced security measures. Transactions made through UPI are encrypted and require two-factor authentication, ensuring that both you and your customers are protected against fraud.

By implementing an API for UPI in your business, you can offer a seamless payment experience to your customers while also improving efficiency and reducing manual efforts. It's a win-win situation that can significantly boost your business growth.

At Rainet Technology, we understand the importance of staying ahead in this competitive market. That's why we offer top-notch API for UPI services that are tailored to meet your specific business needs. Our team of experts will guide you through the integration process and ensure that everything runs smoothly.

So why wait? Embrace the power of API for UPI today and take your business to new heights with Rainet Technology by your side!

What features provide Rainet Technology in api for upi?

Rainet Technology offers a comprehensive range of features in its API for UPI that can greatly benefit your business. Our API is designed to provide seamless integration with the UPI platform, allowing you to easily incorporate UPI payments into your existing systems and applications.

One of the key features of our API is its robust security measures. We understand the importance of protecting sensitive financial data, which is why we have implemented industry-standard encryption protocols and authentication mechanisms. This ensures that all transactions made through our API are secure and protected from any unauthorized access.

In addition to security, our API also offers advanced functionality such as real-time transaction tracking and reporting. With this feature, you can easily monitor the status of each transaction, track payments in real-time, and generate detailed reports for analysis and reconciliation purposes. This level of transparency allows you to have complete visibility into your payment processes and make informed decisions based on accurate data.

Furthermore, Rainet Technology's API for UPI supports multiple payment modes, including QR code-based payments, mobile number-based payments, and VPA (Virtual Payment Address) based payments. This flexibility enables your customers to choose their preferred payment method, enhancing their overall experience with your business.

Overall, Rainet Technology's API for UPI provides a wide range of features that can streamline your payment processes and enhance customer satisfaction. By choosing our API, you can ensure secure transactions, real-time tracking capabilities, and support for various payment modes - all essential components for a successful UPI integration.

Why Chhose Rainet Technology for api for upi?

When it comes to choosing the right API for UPI (Unified Payments Interface), Rainet Technology stands out as the best choice. With our expertise and experience in developing APIs, we have built a strong reputation in the industry for delivering top-notch solutions that cater to the specific needs of businesses.

One of the key reasons why you should choose Rainet Technology for your API for UPI requirements is our commitment to providing seamless integration and functionality. Our team of skilled developers understands the intricacies of UPI and can create an API that seamlessly integrates with your existing systems, ensuring smooth transactions and a hassle-free user experience.

Moreover, Rainet Technology offers a wide range of features in our API for UPI. From easy payment initiation and verification to secure transaction processing, we have got you covered. Our API allows businesses to accept payments from multiple UPI apps, making it convenient for customers to transact using their preferred payment method.

In addition to our technical expertise, what sets us apart is our dedication to customer satisfaction. We prioritize understanding your business requirements and tailor our solutions accordingly. Our team works closely with you throughout the development process, ensuring that your API for UPI aligns perfectly with your business goals.

So why wait? Choose Rainet Technology today and experience the difference we can make in streamlining your payment processes through our reliable and efficient API for UPI.

Hire us today.

If you're looking to integrate UPI functionality into your business, look no further than Rainet Technology. Our team of experts has extensive experience in developing and implementing API for UPI solutions that can take your business to new heights. By hiring us today, you can ensure that you are partnering with a company that understands the intricacies of UPI and can provide you with a seamless integration process.

At Rainet Technology, we pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering high-quality services tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Our API for UPI solutions are designed to enhance your business operations by enabling secure and convenient transactions through the UPI platform. With our expertise, you can rest assured that your customers will have a smooth payment experience while enjoying the benefits of UPI's fast and reliable payment system.

By choosing Rainet Technology as your API for UPI provider, you gain access to a range of features that will give your business a competitive edge. Our APIs offer real-time transaction updates, secure authentication protocols, and easy integration with existing systems. We understand the importance of customization, so our team will work closely with you to tailor the API solution according to your specific requirements.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to leverage the power of UPI for your business. Hire Rainet Technology today and let us help you unlock the full potential of this revolutionary payment system.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the use of API for UPI can greatly benefit businesses in today's digital age. Rainet Technology stands out as the best choice for implementing this technology due to its exceptional features and reliable services. By integrating API for UPI into your business operations, you can streamline payment processes, enhance customer experience, and increase efficiency. Rainet Technology offers a wide range of features in their API for UPI solution, including secure transactions, real-time notifications, and seamless integration with existing systems. Choosing Rainet Technology as your provider ensures that you will receive top-notch support and expertise in implementing API for UPI. So why wait? Take the leap and hire Rainet Technology today to unlock the full potential of API for UPI and propel your business towards success in the digital realm.

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