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downdetector.com is also showing a spike of users reporting issues with Instagram around the same time. Assuming both products are hosted with the same infra, perhaps the issue is up-the-chain and not related to any changes in the product per se.

Basically everything I was doing came to a grinding halt for 45 minutes because I live in Latin America, where your entire life runs on WhatsApp.

It's infuriating because nobody will consider any other messaging app. My phone's carrier also gives everyone several free GBs of WhatsApp data per month.

Anyone know if this exists for Firefox?

Man gnip was wild. I remember getting access to the Twitter firehouse for a while through this service. We built some really useful stuff with this.

One could interpret "leaving the UK market" in such a way.

Except for iOS users, which is roughly 1/2 of all people in UK (according to a quick search).

Signal could block all UK IP addresses from accessing its messaging server. UK could require ISPs to block access to Signal messaging servers. Both of these are fairly trivial (my understanding is that UK already forces filtering on ISPs for e.g. pornography).

Of course you are correct that anyone motivated and/or technical enough could still access Signal. However, their less motivated/less technical contacts won't be using it any longer.

The government is basically asking the bad actors to self-identify through their continued use of Signal.

There's a couple ways:

- Signal could just ban all UK IP addresses from accessing its messaging servers. Your encrypted messages still pass through servers controlled by Signal, Inc.

- UK government could require ISPs to deny access to Signal's messaging servers.

Of course, one could just use a VPN, set up a VM in a third country and run a Signal Proxy Server, etc.

It was hard enough getting family/friends to download/use Signal, as its UX is sub-par compared to alternatives.

If you start telling them they have to use a VPN, or run a server, etc, that will kill the network effect in UK.

Came here for this.

This is correct.

There would just be fewer students in this major, they wouldn’t disappear entirely.

People don’t read. Period. They’ll just click anything.

One approach I take is to make the user type something before taking the destructive action. Make them type IRREVERSIBLY DELETE MY ACCOUNT!, in all caps, with punctuation.

Another option is to have a 30 second timer where users have to sit on that screen and wait until you enable the delete button.

I’m sure many here would call these “dark patterns”, but these tricks have saved me so many painful support tickets over the years it’s not even funny.

> addicts are a small minority of drug users.

Do you have any reliable data to back up that claim? In my experience users who purport to not be addicts are indeed addicts in massive denial about their poor choices.

> They're supposed to share posts with each other

Relays are not intended to connect with each other. Clients send notes to relays. Relays store notes and send them back to clients.

> Your view of Nostr is whatever the peers that you connect with

Clients don’t connect to peers on nostr. They connect to relays.

Sounds like Postgres connection scaling issues to me.

Just a wild guess but the fact that connections are heavy in pg is a foot gun that tends to rear its head during large scale-up events

Switched on a VPN in EU and it started loading. I can get back to what I was doing now ;).

All read, too. Don't think I've ever seen everything red on a status page before!

Omada is their SMB line so they act a bit differently. You can freely use the hardware without any registration or restriction.

I also just set up an Omada system (8 switches, 20 APs) for a friend for the first time after recommending UniFi for years. Very happy with it so far.

Not anymore with their latest models. You are required to have a Protect NVR and account before they’ll let you use standalone mode, and, apparently some new models disable it entirely.

Check out the UniFi subreddit for details.

Very disappointed, as that was my go to brand for standalone IP cameras.

I was looking at buying a new camera from them to use in standalone mode. AIUI, you are required to have a Protect account to activate newer model cameras. It appears as though they’ve done away with standalone RTSP streams. This is a new change on their newest models.

I’m in a similar situation to OP and recently came across this project. Their supported hardware lists compatible SoCs, not actual make/models of cameras. I’ve found it fairly hard to map an SoC to a camera. Anyone have any suggestions?

> Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water.

Cool tip, thanks. I use basically the same steps except fort this one. Living in a high humidity environment (it's rarely below 70%), any step to reduce excess moisture helps improve the crunchiness of the popcorn.

That all makes sense to me. I don’t live in California so I guess I’m just really out of touch with the housing situation there.

I guess if you really want to work for Google, and they’re moving away from WFH options, this is as good an option as any as you point out.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

I also dislike living in McMansions in suburbia, I’m more of a rural dweller type.

I’ve wondered if it’s an introvert/extrovert thing. Maybe it’s just unique to the individual with no correlated personality trait.

I get there’s trade offs to each living situation and we all just assign different weights.

I prefer WFH.

It’s wild to me that someone making 300k/yr would want to live in an apartment building.

I’m assuming they’ll be constructed like every other apartment in the past decade with paper thin walls and little consideration for natural light.

I guess I’m the outlier but I would never consider living in one of those ever again.

I went with “Apollo didn’t kill itself”

I’ve been thinking about the “relays as subreddits” paradigm for nostr. It could work.