davidlumley

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Comment · 2 months ago

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.

Comment · 2 years ago

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

Comment · 2 years ago

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).

Comment · 3 years ago

> 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.

Comment · 3 years ago

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...

Comment · 3 years ago

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.

Comment · 3 years ago

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.

Comment · 4 years ago

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)

Comment · 4 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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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Comment · 7 years ago

> 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.

Comment · 7 years ago

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?