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dan1234··on Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
Deny access to contacts and push notifications, use DNS based ad blocker should take care of those problems.

Are people actually typing thought provoking, in-depth analysis into Twitter?

dan1234··on Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud
It’s £11.99/month if you subscribe via the website, instead of an iOS subscription.
dan1234··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
I actually switched away from Apple Music when I subscribed to YouTube premium, so it’s only really cost me £2 extra per month.

YouTube music is definitely not as good as Apple Music (or Spotify) but it’s acceptable for the combined cost.

dan1234··on Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
Motion One is the non-react version of Framer Motion.

https://motion.dev/

dan1234··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
Looks pretty similar to the font used on the Tyne and Wear Metro[0], though I have heard the metro's signage is made up of hand-me-downs from the tube anyway.

[0]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

dan1234··on 100 Days of SwiftUI
I have the same problem with react native.
dan1234··on The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence
I think it depends how good you need the translation to be.

I’d say current automation is ‘good enough’ for most cases, but you wouldn’t rely on it for translating a contract and it would probably still miss a lot of slang and local dialects.

dan1234··on Apple Vision Pro Is Apple's New VR Headset
Agreed. I’d like to have seen Apple use some of their massive cash warchest to subsidise the platform until it’s on its feet.
dan1234··on Bank Failures Visualized
So is this just a problem with the US banking system, or are banks in other regions failing too?
dan1234··on I Quit Reddit in 1 Day
Yes, I got hooked on /r/all and I ended up adding reddit to my nextdns ban list to force a total break.

Haven't missed it, it was a real time sink with very little positive return.

dan1234··on Starship Flight Test [video]
According to an Elon tweet it was due to a frozen valve.
dan1234··on Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer
At 20,000 copies sold (according to the site), it seems you get rich by writing the book!
dan1234··on DPReview is being shut down by Amazon today
Not only is it still working for me (12:29 UK time), but their most recent article (published today) is titled “Most significant cameras of the DPReview era: Part 1”, implying more content to come!

https://m.dpreview.com/articles/5191963353/most-significant-...

dan1234··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
Patched in mid 2022, unfortunately.
dan1234··on Download, copy and paste AWS icons in SVG and PNG format for your projects
AWS have an integration for Draw.io[1] so no copy/pasting needed!

https://www.draw.io/?splash=0&libs=aws4

dan1234··on Made a Flappy Bird clone with GPT4 and Midjourney in under an hour
How much longer would it have taken if you just used open source graphics and search engines instead of GPT and Midjourney?
dan1234··on Download, copy and paste AWS icons in SVG and PNG format for your projects
Why use this instead of the official packages?

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/

dan1234··on Last night I read for the first time the company’s 8k announcing my resignation
Thanks, sometimes business jargon can be pretty difficult to guess!
dan1234··on Last night I read for the first time the company’s 8k announcing my resignation
What is a “company’s 8k”?
dan1234··on Reddit is down
Neither HN or Reddit use Cloudflare, but I’m having problems with both too.

Wonder if there's a bigger routing issue or possible DDOS attempts against both sites?

dan1234··on Using a Mac without a network connection
I think Little Snitch does a good job, but it would be easy to see any leaks at the router/hardware firewall if there's a real concern.
dan1234··on HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank
IIRC, it stopped standing for anything when they moved the HQ to London in the 90s (following the takeover of Midland Bank), and it became HSBC Holdings plc.
dan1234··on HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank
They’ll be taking on some debt too.

They’ve paid £1 (symbolic purchase price) but it’ll cost them a lot more.

dan1234··on Coinbase Tells User Missing $96,000 After Security Breach Is His Problem
This guy[1] was refunded £70,000 he willingly transferred to scammers! Hard to imagine the same thing happening in the crypto-sphere.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/06/i-paid-70000-t...

dan1234··on I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
Thanks, I've actually looked at that in the past, but I'm not sure what their throughput is, and I'd have to configure each device individually as the router I have can't be configured for it.

I think I've still got my HE IPv6 t-shirt somewhere, from when I completed their readiness quiz so years ago!

Edit: I actually decided to set up a tunnel, just to see how well it worked, and it turns out my ISP supplied router won't forward the protocol 41 packets anyway, so that's a total no-go.

I suppose I could probably set up a small VPS and Wireguard vpn, then forward the IPv6 packets that way?

dan1234··on I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
I'd love to embrace ipv6, but my ISP's official line, for as long as I can remember, is 'planning it, details to come'.

I don't expect them to move forward on it until significant sites become ipv6 only as they've admitted that they have more than enough ipv4 addresses for their subscriber base, so there's very little incentive for them to do anything atm.

dan1234··on What is the minimal possible UK address?
There's a CCP Grey video which take a decent stab at untangling everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

dan1234··on Linode increases price of compute plans and more
I just wish Hetzner had a UK PoP, I would jump on that in a second!
dan1234··on Linode increases price of compute plans and more
According to the ticket I got, the VPSes are going up 20% but the backup price isn't changing, so your new bill will be around $696/mo, an increase of $1,152/yr.

The main alternatives in the budget cloud space are Digital Ocean, Vultr, OvH etc - they're all similarly priced for the equivalent servers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they all start increasing their prices to match - DO especially as they recently laid off a load of employees.

dan1234··on Linode increases price of compute plans and more
Does this mean we can expect similar announcements from the other budget cloud providers (they all seem to be around the same price points) or is it time to jump?
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