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Global Ping Data - https://wondernetwork.com/pings

We've got servers in 200+ cities around the world, and ask them to ping each other every hour. Currently it takes our servers in Tokyo and London about 226ms to ping each other.

We've got some downloadable datasets here if you want to play with them: https://wonderproxy.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-intern...

Mozilla: Please please please just concentrate on making an awesome browser people want to use. Then market it.

If you have cash, buy when prices crash and hold.

First time I generated an image that had some iStockPhoto watermarks on it I started getting really uncomfortable.

Some possible advantages of voting machines:

- They can provide different accessibility assistance than pen and paper, allowing people to vote on their own. Multi-language support should be easy.

- They can provide UI improvements over paper. Consider situations where the voter needs to select up to 3 candidates out of a list of 12. Or a long ballot with lots of distinct questions.

- Hopefully less lead time for updates to the ballot if someone drops out of the race, is replaced, etc.

The past few times I've voted (Canada) it's been pencil on paper, stuck into a machine that confirmed it could read the ballot, then I left. When it's been a longer ballot for municipal election it's actually felt like a bit of a test. We are voting for: city councillor, mayor, regional representatives, multiple school board trustees from one of two different school boards (but not both).

There's absolutely terrible players in the space.

We're also in the space, I don't think we're selling useless products, or falsely advertising.

Our customers use our proxy servers to test applications that use your IP address to show you localized content (IP Location, GeoIP, etc). We're in 80+ countries 250+ locations globally.

Being able to switch your location with a browser plugin makes it just a few clicks, and _much_ faster than switching VPN endpoints. You also get to proxy just your browser traffic (or even just traffic against a few specific domains) rather than all the traffic on your machine. So your Spotify/Slack/Outlook connections can all run normally, and you're only proxying the site you want to test from somewhere else.

This change is terrible for us. Especially so because users flipping around between different proxies is a major use case. A user needing to re-enter their credentials for each unique proxy server is much worse than just once.

It's telling that the last action from a google employee on the list was ... removing themselves from the notification list.

That was fun. Just like the TLD.

More of this internet please.

We avoid "unlimited" if we possibly can. The moment it comes up that provider generally flips from being "a good deal" to "the most expensive in the region". Then you're stuck looking for alternatives while you're in a bad situation. You don't always get an email, sometimes you're just suspended and they'll let you know if you email them.

(We work with >200 different hosting providers around the world)

We try to get a great couple of hours outside with the kids in the morning, right after breakfast. It started as a way to avoid crowds during covid, but we’ve kept it up and really enjoyed it.

Tomorrow probably somewhere with a lake and kayaking and walking around. Sunday probably series of playgrounds.

We got a cargo bike/ebike a few weeks ago and it’s been great for exploring our city outside of a car!

One more note here, Tesla has also announced they want to drop 10% of staff. Normally this sort of thing involves severance packages, notifying agencies about upcoming reductions, actually making decisions, etc.

One view here is that if Musk can convince 10% of their staff to quit with this announcement he'll save lots of money (by not paying severance packages and other stuff)!

He's got lots of money, you don't need to save it for him.

This seems completely conceivable to me.

You're not allowed to use a playground unless you're with a child (new york): https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1128/705238326_dd2bad6ea5_b.jp...

There's plenty of stories of men being yelled at for taking pictures of their own kids, e.g. https://www.arlnow.com/2022/04/13/acpd-woman-pepper-sprayed-...

British Airways wont seat an unaccompanied minor next to a man traveling alone: https://www.bbc.com/news/10401416

If you look like a dude, and are relatively near children, you're a suspect.

With the iPhone now ~silently deleting apps you don't use that often, and re-installing on demand I don't think this is as big a push as it used to be.

I usually fly Air Canada (AC), where these have been more common than the us carriers i've been on for a while. I use it _every time_.

Do I also have a phone? Sure, but the screen is smaller and I have to hold it. Do I also have a laptop? Sure, but if the person in front of me reclines quickly I don't want to hear a crunch.

In economy I'll use the in-seat thing to watch something, and leave my laptop in my bag. In economy-plus or higher I'll put a movie on the screen and write some code on my laptop.

On the AC flights I've taken I'd estimate something like 80% plus of the folks on the plane are using the in-seat stuff to watch something. The rest are asleep or reading a book.

I think the hardest thing with trying a new search engine is the constant question "i wonder if the old one would have done this better"

IPv6 is way further out thank people think.[1]

Sure, things can work okay server side if you're with a top 10 cloud provider, but support gets abysmal quick as you move further from the top.

[1] I'll define this as "the majority of home users perform the majority of their day to day web actively almost exclusively over IPv6"

The LinkedIn case, it's still up in the air i think - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...

I mean you can, but firefox doesn't treat you any better. We waited 2+ months to get a minor update through review, and getting it through that quickly took emailing several folks (including one from HN). During that whole process they also removed the display of your queue position, making it even more opaque.

At some point they disliked something in our extension that had been live for months, and disabled every release in the past year. At another point they found something wanting in a 2 year old release (not a recent one) and threatened to remove it from the store, our attempts to continue that conversation or just allow it to be pulled to save everyone some time met with crickets.

Is it a battle? Or is it 45 minutes of google searching and reading an HN thread.

Vote with your dollars every time you can.

> but over time these policies tend to settle in a place where thing are more affordable.

Could you point me at some more reading that talks about this? The increase in prices makes perfect sense to me, but I don't really have a good handle on why things would come back down.

Lots of them, the vast majority of the players in that space are absolutely terrible: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...

I originally read the title as "My indoor rowing tips after 15 meters" and was expecting a funny, sarcastic, take on advice given by founders extrapolating one quick failure into three pages of advice & cat pictures.

I much preferred the chrome approach. One window per "container" was really easy to manage.

It took 2+ months for our extension update to be approved, it was a small incremental update. Getting it done in that time frame required us to email Caitlin and an HN'er who commented on another thread to try and get things done in an expedited manner.

For a time there was a little ticker showing your place in the queue. We graphed that for a while, then they pulled the feature entirely: https://twitter.com/preinheimer/status/1422577415780450311

The queue of course isn't a straight queue. Some people end up traversing the entire queue, very slowly. Other folks manage to jump out of the queue and get listed sooner.

We've seriously considered abandoning our FF extension. FF's market share is shrinking, and we see the difference in the usage stats for our extension specifically.

Some of our updates require coordination on our website and the extension. So holding onto FF means that some updates take months to roll out for everyone.

I wonder if there's bandwidth constraints under the hood.

I absolutely think it's possible to suffer as the result of a photo, even if it's not clear you're the subject.

> ~$ sudo warp-diag feedback

An app that requires me to use sudo to send feedback doesn't seem like the kind of app I want to be running with sudo.

We maintain an add-on for our customers. For a long time Firefox was where we did our development, and released first. Their process was quick & easy, and a lot less confusing to navigate than Chrome/Edge.

Something on their end changed for which add-ons would require manual review. So a minor update (bug fixes, and a UI addition) has been in queue for review since June 22nd. We went from waiting hours to 6+ weeks at this point. There's plenty of frustrated people in their forums, but no real answers.

Thank you for bringing this up!

> And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one.

Completely false. There's several groups that might want the vaccine that can't get it. Including: children and the immuno compromised.

32 kids were hospitalized in one week in Alabama last month. A state with half the population of NYC.

https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2021/07/infant-among-children...