davidlumley

Visa renewals are processed at a US consulate. You can extend your status (ie you ability to legally be in the US) while staying in the US, but if you want to renew your visa (your ability to leave and re-enter) you need to visit a consulate and those only exist outside of the US.

Can you explain what bar has been raised unless you were planning to sell PII as part of your business model?

I'm the person who originally set Cara up on Vercel in late 2022, before I stepped away to focus on my own startup.

I chose Vercel for a few reasons:

1. When you have 0 users, worrying about scale is a huge time sink. I wanted the team to be able to focus on building a product people wanted, acquiring users, and retaining them.

2. Vercel's preview branches make it lovely to preview work in progress, and QA pull requests. This is critical given Cara was and still is a small team of volunteers.

3. NextJS is lovely to work with, and choosing something both popular and with a JS/TS base made it easy to onboard new volunteers.

If I was doing things again, I'd still choose Vercel. The only difference is I'd enable spend management for their team (a feature Vercel released in late 2023: https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/spend-management).

> You couldve accomplished this at the webserver level

That's true, but only if you have access to your web server!

If you're using something like Vercel (or some other hosting service) to run your application, having a little middleware that handles subdomain routing is pretty common.

edit: Sorry if I've read this comment out of context - the linked repo has been taken down.

If you're curious what an implementation looks like: Charlie Gerard's article[1] shows how to accomplish a similar effect in-browser. It's pretty straight forward although not sure what performance looks like in large scenes.

I like the idea, but don't know if people are ready to grant webcam permissions to untrusted any websites.

1: https://charliegerard.dev/blog/interactive-frame-head-tracki...

Similar! The biggest difference in my mind is that any website using FLoC would be able to know what cohort I belonged to.

FLoC is definitely more anonymous than "davidlumley visited nytimes.com twice on December 1st 2022". However, that particular usage information was previously only available to nytimes.com, any ad/data vendor using third party tracking cookies that were present on nytimes.com at the time of my visit, and finally any company that purchased data from the ad/data vendor.

My FLoC was theoretically available to any website and had much of the same intent data that intent ad/data vendors were/are selling.

If my understanding of Apple's ad platform is correct, advertisers don't know which cohort the user davidlumley belongs to, or that their ads are being served to me because that's all handled on device.

My understanding around how this works (and I might be wrong!) is that Apple tracks a variety of usage on device and your device itself knows which ad to serve, versus say Google or Facebook collating your data on their own servers.

I'd not be surprised to learn there was some level of phoning home though.

To be clear: taxes are due when you receive the shares. For options, that's when you execute/purchase your options not when they vest.

edit: (in the US at least)

In this case I think they mean "update your version of iOS" because there was a recent and important security fix: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213412

What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?

Robert Evans and Jason Wilson have a pretty good overview here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...

Name changes of popular OSS projects feels contentious, but like anything built on language it's inherently political and full of bias. As with anything, it's worth striving to improve things where we can. There are a few great examples including:

1. FactoryGirl -> FactoryBot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921

2. Whitelist -> Allowlist API in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33677

The irony that rather than engaging in the conversation and attempting to understand where people are coming from, bbatsov wrote a code of conduct then enforced it is not lost on me.

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> Get specific about the concern, otherwise it's easy to get afraid about everything.

There are many reasons to be afraid about a private corporation from a country with little regulation providing a utility to areas with no other choice.

If Amazon was sponsoring this, that's one thing, but them owning the network raises red flags for me surrounding: 1) Privacy 2) The potential for anti competitive practices 3) Quality of service / expected lifetime of service

I simply don't trust Amazon (or any other large private company) to do anything else than look out for their bottom line when push comes to shove.

> Govt's hardly own telecom infra, it's all in private hands

I'm old enough to remember when Australia did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#Privatisation

Since Telstra was privatised, any impetus to upgrade Australia's struggling networks has gone out the window and when they do end up upgrading capacity, it is usually as part of a Government project. All in all, tax payers still foot the bill to improve utilities while a private company furthers their monopoly.

Private corporations owning more and more utility infrastructure really concerns me.

Is there a world where nations band together and launch this as public infrastructure rather than private corporations lobbying a USA government agency for permission?

To be clear, Clearbit can only transform IPs into company data.

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> Which makes me wonder where this demand came from.

My local coffee shop trialled Oatly and as someone who usually drinks soy or almond milk, it's a really nice alternative. Much easier to work with, and tastes better too.

Two points:

1) The fact in a latter comment you seem to have priced yourself out of being unable to afford this service doesn't make it not worth while

2) I imagine if you're looking at 500k rps you probably qualify for an enterprise level plan where you'd have a sit down chat and negotiate terms rather than just extending the pricing linearly.

Close! It's Drift (drift.com), not Intercom.

You still have complete control over what you do to your own body in your own privacy.

This gives other people complete control over their body too – in terms of not having to breathe in your smoke.

> I have never seen anyone fined for smoking in any of the places where it isn't allowed (sporting fields, bus stops, etc), and I see people smoking at these locations literally every single day - especially at bus stops. The whole legislation seems to be "smoke and mirrors".

I'm from Brisbane and it's extremely common on Friday and Saturday nights to see police and council workers in pairs fining people in the city and similar suburbs who are smoking in incorrect areas, or who have thrown their butts on the ground.

I don't know if Mumble (or Ventrilo, or Teamspeak, or Discord) are really comparable.

They require you run your own server (although Discord abstracts that), that everyone know the server details, and that everyone be authenticated for your server in some manner.

They're great for playing video games, but Skype matches up a lot better with what a lot of people use it for – making phone calls.

No. I looked into it at one stage between jobs but didn't qualify for it because I had savings. I've had numerous friends who have been on and off various forms over the past 10 years though.

I'm not implying it's not do-able, but it's definitely not the same as having a job that pays even 30k AUD a year.

How comfortable you're going to be also depends on where you live naturally, as renting a room in Brisbane is about ~$120 a week minimum. Melbourne is more expensive and Sydney same again.

> anyone that isn't earning much (or doesn't have a job, or has never had one) can get around $250 per week. Forever. Very few strings attached.

Sorry but that's just flat out incorrect.

The maximum payment possible is $528 a fortnight through Newstart (not available to everyone, and only available for 6 months). See https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelin... for more information.

$528 a fortnight equates to $13,728 annually (so you're going to get less than this, because you can only get it for 6 months) in a nation where the _median_ income is over $80,000 AUD. What little you get is going to be spent on rent, food, and going to and from interviews (which are a requirement of you getting NewStart).

> It's known there are tens of thousands (hundreds? millions?) of people who just don't want to work and sit around on it for their entire lives.

Dole bludgers are _few_ and far between. What you're seeing is people doing nothing because they literally cannot afford to do anything, even if they're getting the maximum payment (and it's likely they're not).

Welfare in Australia could be a lot better, and I'd be interested to find out how a UBI could affect the process as Centrelink (the welfare department) is incredibly inefficient.

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> If you want to charge your laptop, you have to bring your charger.

That's not really correct regarding MacBooks. If you've got the same Magsafe adapter (gen 1 or gen 2) the charger will work. It just charges at a faster or slower rate than intentional.

Drawing a penis on a ballot paper is frustrating for people who actually care about the country – you've registered to vote so perhaps you could have spent 5 minutes becoming informed, and then making a proper vote rather than drawing a penis and rendering your vote informal (i.e. not counted).

That said it's infinitely better than donkey voting which is a more serious issue that plagues our elections.

A donkey vote is when someone numbers their preferences from top to bottom, or bottom to top on the ballot paper. This is considered a formal vote, and your paper will affect the results. Positions on the ballot paper are randomised to try and reduce this as much as possible.

It's not compulsory to register to vote.

edit: apologies, that's completely incorrect.

While it is compulsory, you are incredibly unlikely to be fined for not registering. The AEC typically sends a reminder every few years if they have information on your residential address from another government agency.

Once you are enrolled though, if you fail to vote at an election you will be asked to explain your absence and, without a satisfactory excuse, fined.

It looks like the AEC now has the power to automatically enrol you too.

Because they also make apps that integrate with the fitness trackers housed in some of their shoes.

> Social media is becoming so much of a "safe space" that having a place to freely express ideas has become a liberal echo chamber

I don't think this is true at all. Racists, fascists, sexists, and general bigots make avid use social media to attack people. Recently Mic did a piece on the (((trend))) to use brackets around names on Twitter, and how it's actually something Neo Nazi's use to target people ( see: https://mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-sy... )

What you're seeing is people who were formerly oppressed and unable to voice their opinion properly are now able to, and in exactly the same way as the people who have been attacking them.