FYI - This article is from 2020.

I know they did some stuff semi-recently about the security of direct calls. So there is a high chance this is have changed since then.

The hill upto the finishline on my local park run this morning was way harder than usual, so (almost) that one today!

Is this a new build, or an existing building?

If it’s an existing building, with an existing HOA, then it should already have a bank account? (Probably with funds in it!)

If it’s new, build up an emergency fund, but leave it in a bank. putting it into stocks is crazy, it’s an emergancy/maintenance fund, you need to know how much is there, trust it’s not going to just disappear and be able to access it quickly.

Make sure you understand the voting rights and who has authority to access the money if there is going to be a significant sum in there.

Yeh, not like they can’t work it out.

(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can’t get them to understand the building I’m in has multiple houses in it…)

They also said in their last Q&A that there isn’t a non oped monitor on the market that they can recommend for this use case ☹️

I did try that once, you can’t catch stack overflow errors in .net at least. Too fundamentally broken.

Webassemby is still limited to a single thread as far as I’m aware, so it’s not a full runtime for the language you are writing in as anything using threads behind the scenes tends to fall over unexpectedly at runtime.

Its also an absolute bastard to debug (young ecosystem)

It depends who you are trying to hide from. A VPN will hide your internet traffic from your ISP/phone company, but obviously not from the site you are visiting.

At best you might be one of may people connecting from the same (VPN) IP address, but they can still collect info from your browser/app etc to generate points to ID you if they want.

Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?

Their problem is probably that they actually took too long to monetise it.

Before Discord, groups were often paying for hosted team speak, ventrilo or mumble servers. Then along came discord with it’s VC money and did what they did and more for free. Now most people probably are not willing to pay for what used to be a paid service.

BBC (pre launch): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55463366

After launch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/style/japan-wooden-satellite-hnk-intl/index.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LignoSat

Things fall into the thicker parts of the atmosphere because drag from the tiny amounts of air up there. if that is shrinking, then you can get lower before you have the same amount of drag? Therefore lower orbits might be more feasible?

Lower orbit means faster though, so it may not be linear? Would be interesting to see (someone else do) the maths.

Doesn’t that just mean that lower orbits can be used? Less air resistance?

Good to see companies making a stand where governments (kinda understandably) won’t.

Is there any way to actually have an effect of Firefox strategy? If they were a public company you could buy shares etc?

With the obvious disclaimer that it will hike your electricity bill.

I was going to bring up the Herman miller Arron, but that released in 1994!

That’s a very interesting site, thank you!

It looks like the screen size is the most identifying info for me, followed by the webGL hash. Not much can be done about those on mobile right?

Wasn’t there a spate of phone camera stabilisers being broken/worn out because they were strapped to bikes?

You want them all in one place so that they can be uploaded in one go to your fitness tracking site. That lets you see what your HR, power and cadence all where on that specific hill for example.

I used to have a Fitbit that used my phone for GPS and it was awful and drained the batteries on both devices. I guess the idea of having 5G is that you don’t actually take your phone with you, one less thing to have to force into your pockets.