I chose Vercel for a few reasons:

1. When you have 0 users, worrying about scale is a huge time sink. I wanted the team to be able to focus on building a product people wanted, acquiring users, and retaining them.

2. Vercel's preview branches make it lovely to preview work in progress, and QA pull requests. This is critical given Cara was and still is a small team of volunteers.

3. NextJS is lovely to work with, and choosing something both popular and with a JS/TS base made it easy to onboard new volunteers.

If I was doing things again, I'd still choose Vercel. The only difference is I'd enable spend management for their team (a feature Vercel released in late 2023: https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/spend-management).

That's true, but only if you have access to your web server!

If you're using something like Vercel (or some other hosting service) to run your application, having a little middleware that handles subdomain routing is pretty common.

edit: Sorry if I've read this comment out of context - the linked repo has been taken down.

I like the idea, but don't know if people are ready to grant webcam permissions to untrusted any websites.

1: https://charliegerard.dev/blog/interactive-frame-head-tracki...

FLoC is definitely more anonymous than "davidlumley visited nytimes.com twice on December 1st 2022". However, that particular usage information was previously only available to nytimes.com, any ad/data vendor using third party tracking cookies that were present on nytimes.com at the time of my visit, and finally any company that purchased data from the ad/data vendor.

My FLoC was theoretically available to any website and had much of the same intent data that intent ad/data vendors were/are selling.

If my understanding of Apple's ad platform is correct, advertisers don't know which cohort the user davidlumley belongs to, or that their ads are being served to me because that's all handled on device.

I'd not be surprised to learn there was some level of phoning home though.

edit: (in the US at least)

1. FactoryGirl -> FactoryBot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921

2. Whitelist -> Allowlist API in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33677

The irony that rather than engaging in the conversation and attempting to understand where people are coming from, bbatsov wrote a code of conduct then enforced it is not lost on me.

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There are many reasons to be afraid about a private corporation from a country with little regulation providing a utility to areas with no other choice.

If Amazon was sponsoring this, that's one thing, but them owning the network raises red flags for me surrounding: 1) Privacy 2) The potential for anti competitive practices 3) Quality of service / expected lifetime of service

I simply don't trust Amazon (or any other large private company) to do anything else than look out for their bottom line when push comes to shove.

> Govt's hardly own telecom infra, it's all in private hands

I'm old enough to remember when Australia did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#Privatisation

Since Telstra was privatised, any impetus to upgrade Australia's struggling networks has gone out the window and when they do end up upgrading capacity, it is usually as part of a Government project. All in all, tax payers still foot the bill to improve utilities while a private company furthers their monopoly.

Is there a world where nations band together and launch this as public infrastructure rather than private corporations lobbying a USA government agency for permission?

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My local coffee shop trialled Oatly and as someone who usually drinks soy or almond milk, it's a really nice alternative. Much easier to work with, and tastes better too.

1) The fact in a latter comment you seem to have priced yourself out of being unable to afford this service doesn't make it not worth while

2) I imagine if you're looking at 500k rps you probably qualify for an enterprise level plan where you'd have a sit down chat and negotiate terms rather than just extending the pricing linearly.

This gives other people complete control over their body too – in terms of not having to breathe in your smoke.