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unclekev··on SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]
> The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport

Cant tell if they are being serious...

unclekev··on Who said Windows wouldn't run well on AppleSilicon
This is impressive.

It's not being emulated, they are running the Windows ARM64 Insider Preview virtualized - No emulation involved.

Amazing work!

unclekev··on DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi
The thought of - if the 'bad guys' get access to a single machine, they can potentially control every security related device in my house makes me very anxious.
unclekev··on AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
> Incident communication should be factual and concise.

Could not agree more. It's immensely frustrating working with organisations that spend more time trying to cover up the cause of a outage to external stakeholders than actually fixing the root cause.

The same organisations tend try and blame individuals for outages.

I think both are a symptom of businesses that embrace the "blame culture"

unclekev··on Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices
People have tried over and over, there's been countless startups and Kickstarter campaigns and none have stuck around past the initial release.
unclekev··on How much is YouTube worth today?
> I still am using Google Play Music

Didn't they shut down Google Play Music recently?

unclekev··on Should I use SwiftUI in production? A code-to-code comparison to help you decide
I really shouldn't need to pay for support from a software engineer for something that should be in basic documentation.
unclekev··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
14 year club here as well.

I'd argue that the following are fundamental changes that have impacted the community in a big way:

- Selling 10% of the business to Tencent/Chinese investors

- Firing their community managers in 2015 and not replacing them

- When I first joined Reddit it was more technology focused, now it's all pop culture and memes. Although Tech subs are still plentiful so it can still be that site. (With some effort)

- Banning any Sub-Reddit's that go against whatever the admins mood is on a particular day, or content that no longer fits with their "We have shareholders and need to keep them happy" mantra. Reddit is absolutely not a place for free speech/uncensored discussions these days. Because of both toxic mods and horrible admins.

- Huge increase of censorship across the site in Sub-Reddit's, Posts and Comments

- Users care about the video stuff because Reddit's video hosting is fundamentally broken and hardly works, but they would rather keep it broken because it makes it harder to download videos (DASH)

- The whole new design is anti-user, the site is just masses of white space, super slow, JS heavy and pretty much unusable outside a third party mobile client. The day old.reddit.com gets shut down will be a sad day.

None of this stuff was a problem 14 years ago

Although some of the above comes with the toxicity that tends to come with huge community growth.

You can argue the above isn't significant, but as someone who's been on the site for 14 years, it sure ain't the same place I signed up for all those years ago.

unclekev··on Dev Fonts
I've never seen a font's design explained so well.

There's so many subliminal things that I had never thought about/considered.

unclekev··on Norwegian Covid-19 contact tracing app banned by the Data Protection Authority
Because then the politicians wouldn't be able to over-pay their friends software development companies to reinvent the wheel, produce a broken product, then get paid an extreme amount of money to fix issues that should have never existed in the first place.

Look at the crap show that was the development of Australia's COVIDSafe App. Huge bugs and security issues months after the release with no intention of fixing them.

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