ReverseCold

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by ReverseCold 7y ago
I'm running ~1k DAU on a $6/mo Vultr VPS. Just a Phoenix Web App, no special things done to optimize. If I cache a little more aggressively on the frontend I should be able to handle even 10k. As always, advice in article depends
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> You mean I have to own a computer to back up my phone to a computer that I own? Many people only own an iPhone and nothing else. > If an iPhone is charging and on the same wifi network as the computer, it will automatically sync at
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
iCloud backs up when you plug in your phone at night without any configuration. Requirements to back up to your own computer include... - Owning a computer - Plugging your phone into your computer - Having iTunes always running (if it'
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210318 Sign in with your Apple account basically. It works nowhere near as well as on iOS or other Apple platforms, but I'm surprised they made it work.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
If possible, Micro Center or Frys. Frys is somehow profitable but with dwindling stock at every California/Nevada location I’ve been to recently (maybe an indicator of higher prices?), but Micro Center is great.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> CPU compute well yeah, CPUs are many orders of magnitude slower than ASICs
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Flutter is seriously the easiest app development framework though (and still indistinguishable from native apps, even on old hardware, unlike React). I managed to train a bunch of high school students with minimal prior programming experien
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
I'll admit this is a very niche usecase, but not even CrossOver runs 16 bit apps anymore (like Minesweeper for Windows 98). Luckily the Windows XP version is basically the same and is 32-bit.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Facebook did it once. First by marketing to college students for the original product (Facebook), then by buying the next big thing (Instagram). I don't think they're doing it again though, many recent acquisitions (starting from
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Maybe they're talking about something like Face ID on an iPhone? You can use it to identify yourself.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
One of many GPU cloud providers (paperspace, lambda, etc). If you want to do it for free you can use Google Colab. It won't be fun to train this on a MacBook directly.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
The minute Mozilla goes bankrupt and Firefox loses funding is the minute the internet is dead. Imagine only having a single client for HTTP (Chrome/WebKit).
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
This might be a necessary evil. If you could turn it off (even in a convoluted way), people would do it - which is what led to the issue of such a large proportion of Americans having their location data streamed 24/7 in the first plac
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> Additionally, Nissan has the #4-selling electric car, and Chevy has the #2. From here: https://insideevs.com/news/343998/monthly-plug-in-ev-sales-s... - by # of units sold, no one is even close to the Model 3
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> new Flash ... but Flash was easy to reverse too, just download the .swf file and use one of many tools to reverse engineer it. It's probably why there are so many "hacked" flash games available if you search for them.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
I remembered seeing this post on Mastodon, and it turns out this website federates. My response from Mastodon is listed as a comment on this website. The wonders of ActivityPub...
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> Smaller sim card (obsoleting old approaches) I've always just cut the old ones to fit and it's worked fine.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Yup, chromebooks are huge in K12, and there really isn’t any promising alternative. Even students at schools without chromebooks often buy them independently because of their low price. These things are a massive success, even if not in the
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Oh, I actually didn't know that. Thanks!
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
It looks like it's a person (not a company) that owns the patent too, so unless this person is a m/billionaire a court case doesn't even sound that bad.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon :)
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> I just don't understand why people keep buying such things... You can't really tell if the device can be remotely bricked (that easily) or unless someone's already been burned. I miss when companies would advertise their
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard. Sure there is. If you try to "text" someone (as in SMS) and the Messages app (which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS) detects your number as regist
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
There's two ways you can get pictures on iOS. 1. UIImagePickerController - This opens the system image picker and ONLY returns the user selected image to the application. 2. "Access Camera Roll" Permission - This is what What
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> It's now to a point I weigh everything coming in Instead of just not using the service? If it's not bad enough for you to stop then Amazon seems to be making a good business decision.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Yup, that's what the warning is hinting at.
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> People tell me this, but I genuinely can't tell the difference between Chrome and FF's speed on linux. It's pretty apparent in "web apps" - plenty of SPAs grind Firefox to a halt and not Chrome. The other major
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
Why is everyone working on internet satellites? There's no way this is profitable, and people using competitors' solutions still means they can access the internet. Maybe it's easier than starting a regular ISP (to vacuum up
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
The author says they’re waiting on Rust and Matrix features/documentation. There’s an open issue with more details https://github.com/ruma/ruma/issues/189
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by ReverseCold 7y ago
> Apple’s smart home protocol famously does not support multiple users. It does? I'm added to my dad's account and can access everything just fine along with my own stuff.

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