Did you have extra usage enabled before checking? Mine was disabled and I received the $20 credit.

Yes, I did have it enabled. Though the terms say you "must have it enabled", not "must not have had it enabled". Perhaps there is a roll-out difference.

Well this feels scammy, or at least annoying AF. I tried toggling it on to see if that would make the credit appear, even though I'd never had it on before and never needed to use it, and since my balance was under $5, it auto-charged me $15. All I wanted to do was try to make the free $20 banner appear, and I didn't get that either.

It got extra fun. I tried to talk to the Fin AI and it closed the chat twice without even responding. It just told me I'd have to try again.

Fin isn't half as useful as Claude, and if that's not telling, I don't know what would be.

I'm also not seeing it. Did you have the "Auto-reload" on or off?

TBH, it looks to me as a trick to enable extra usage by baiting me with $20 credit by toggling on the feature that lets me burn another $20 without realizing it.

Toggling it again to turn it off immediately after (which I assume most people will miss) seems to guard against this.

That's not the purpose of the trick. The purpose is to soften the blow for turning off support for OpenClaw and other third party connectors. Now to use OpenClaw et all you'll have to pay at extra usage pricing, it won't count against your normal quota.

I'd actually be happy with this if they turned OpenCode support back on.

Auto-reload is off by default, is it not?

As in, what you're toggling on is "use my extra usage balance" not "automatically spend money by adding to my extra usage balance".

I read it as they'll invoice me up to $20. Not sure?

I don't believe so. I'll explain how I think it works.

    [x] Turn on extra usage to keep using Claude if you hit a limit.

^^^ This toggles whether it will automatically spend from your pre-paid balance when you hit limits.

    $20
    Monthly spend limit

^^^ I'm not actually sure which this toggles, but I think it is either a maximum amount to reload per month, OR I think it is a maximum amount of your balance to spend per month. I think it's how much to auto-reload but it is a confusing setting.

    Auto-reload off

^^^ This toggles whether it auto-reloads. It accepts a trigger balance and how much to top it off to. This setting shows the following text, which is

    You agree that Anthropic will charge the card you have on file in the amount above on a recurring basis whenever your balance reaches the amount indicated. To cancel, turn off auto-reload.

OpenAI is in deep trouble and are doing everything they can to get back in the game. If they get back in, they will monetize.

It eats more tokens than before, but is still more token efficient than Claude Code.

Yes it works exactly like that. Beware

I believe Android Work profile[0] would have limited the damage to the work profile rather than also impact the personal profile on a personal device.

Does anyone know if this is correct?

[0] https://www.android.com/enterprise/work-profile/

Exactly. BYOD cannot be wiped [0], neither on iOS, nor on Android. Only company-owned devices are affected.

edit: 0 - on iOS this means enrolled via User Enrollment

Thats assuming their IT department was competent and did the enrollment process correctly. Which, based on them just getting mega hacked, seems unlikely.

Traditionally, I used Python for personal tools optimizing for quick coding and easy maintenance. These tools commonly feed UI elements like waybar, shell, and tmux, requiring frequent, fast calls.

My approach is evolving due to NixOS and home-manager with vibe coding to do the lifting. I increasing lean on vibe coding to handle simple details to safely write shell scripts (escaping strings, fml) and C/C++ apps. The complexity is minimized, allowing me to almost one-shot small utilities, and Nix handles long-term maintenance.

With NixOS, a simple C/C++ application can often replace a Python one. Nix manages reading the source, pulling dependencies, and effectively eliminating the overhead that used to favor scripting languages while marking marginal power savings during everyday use.

`HOSTALIASES` lets you alias hostnames, but not map hostnames to IPs.

Docs at `man gethostbyname`

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/gethostbyname.3.html

You can use the linker to preload `nss_wrapper`[0] and overwrite anything using `nss`.

Here's an example:

  > cat hosts
  198.51.100.33 test.tld
  2001:db8::33 test.tld
  198.51.100.12 test4.tld
  2001:db8::12 test6.tld

  > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test.tld
  198.51.100.33   DGRAM  test.tld
  198.51.100.33   STREAM test.tld
  2001:db8::33    DGRAM
  2001:db8::33    STREAM

  > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test4.tld
  198.51.100.12   DGRAM  test4.tld
  198.51.100.12   STREAM test4.tld

  > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test6.tld
  2001:db8::12    DGRAM  test6.tld
  2001:db8::12    STREAM test6.tld

  > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts curl -v test.tld
  * Host test.tld:80 was resolved.
  * IPv6: 2001:db8::33
  * IPv4: 198.51.100.33
  *   Trying [2001:db8::33]:80...
  *   Trying 198.51.100.33:80...

[0] https://cwrap.org/nss_wrapper.html

Here's a good YouTube overview from the developer

https://youtu.be/QQV6vjzhylg

This looks like a great project!

That's my video. I'm indeed one of the developers but my contributions are mostly around adding new devices, creating installers when possible, and doing most of the Youtube content!

I think you mean

yourname+servicename@gmail.com

From my experience, many (bad) websites consider "+" an invalid character and prevent you from using the address in this form.

Smart spammers can just strip the service name since it works the same for all Gmail users.

Really need dedicated addresses like Fastmail's Masked Addresses.

Closed User Group (CUG)?

That's it!

Never heard of aws-lc before this, but now I'm looking for an excuse to use it.

Indeed, made some preliminary tests under RHEL 9 (Rocky, etc) for example and if you're used to compile HAProxy from sources to use specific OpenSSL versions, testing "aws-lc" is fairly straightforward. Their BUILD instructions and INSTALL file from HAProxy also help.

There is also a RHEL/CentOS 8/9 + QuicTLS / AWS-LC package available to test out or start with.

https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/Packages