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Prediction: By the end of 2027, one "tier 2" podcast app (meaning Overcast, Podcast Addict, Castro, etc) will put a "Skip Dynamic Ads" checkbox on their settings screen, which will remove DAI slots from podcast episodes on-device after download. And, as soon as one of them does it, they will all do it.
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Podcast Index terms of service updated (finally):

https://api.podcastindex.org/tos_v2.0.html

The old v1.x terms were 90% boilerplate legalese that never accurately reflected what we wanted. I get emails weekly asking for clarification.

Here is the github repo for the terms: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/terms-of-service

The PI terms of service are an open project just like everything else. If you think something can be worded better, or there's a way to make things clearer just open a PR.
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Has anyone used Cloudflare R2 extensively enough to give advice on whether it's superior to Linode object storage cost-wise and ease of use wise?
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Fun new problem: restricting un-metered outbound bandwidth from clients using direct linode object storage URLs instead of our published Cloudflare cached versions of those URLs. That accounted for 40TB of bandwidth last month.

The sysadmin fun never stops.