How many users does this website have? It must be relatively tiny.

Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense? I'd wager this thing could be run off a $5 VPS with 30 minutes of setup.

Overengineering won. That's not going to go well when paired with the new best practice of not actually learning your tools because the AI will take care of it.

You do it once and then you no longer work there.

Isn't it a good way to play with all these in a relatively safe way, but still with nonzero stakes?

could have been on sqlite -- backups in s3 or equivalent object storage

but let's over-engineer

So…the less crucial the system, the closer to the metal?

* US price: $599 * UK price: £599

I don't like swearing on here, but fuck that.

The "real" USD-GBP exchange rate price should be £448. Apple are basically taking £150 extra on top for UK consumers.

Does the UK price include VAT? How much is VAT in the UK?

Price difference?

* $500 = base model (250 GB SSD) (education)

* $600 = 500 GB + Touch ID (education)

* $1,000 = MacBook Air (500 GB SSD) (education)

While they are at it, they could bring back the $250 iPad Mini.

I can't quite figure out why the Mini became a luxury item ten years ago, leaving the kid's cheap tablet to Android.

* The smaller devices don't have enough demand to have multiple versions.

* Just because it's smaller doesn't magically reduce the price by 30% (currently iPad is $350).

These prefs - and many others - can be placed in a user.js file: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox

I'm deeply saddened that they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack.

There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot.

I appreciate they have to draw a line under the feature set somewhere, however the cost of an audio jack is literal pennies and I'm quite sure the PCB designers could have squeezed it in somewhere.

As someone who has no interest in wireless accessories it makes me unwilling to buy the phone.

>they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack.

This works wonderfully in quiet environments. But the moment you have any significant background noise, and need noise-cancelling headphones, this ends up being useless because no headsets do noise cancelling over a headphone jack - only internal batteries or USB connectivity.

Even with those rare wired-optional headsets that accept headphone cords, the noise cancelling functionality gets shut off the moment you plug the headphone jack in.

Seems like a very poor choice to build in a headphone jack. Why not just use usb c to headphone adapter?

why does it seem like a very poor choice to you, exactly?

as for using an adapter, it's one extra thing to carry and also difficult to charge with simultaneously

What's wrong with 3.5mm headphone jack?

> Me, and 99% of HN readers, will gladly pull the trigger to release a missile from a drone if we are paid even just US$1,000,000/year.

I sincerely doubt that's true. I hope it's not. $1m is a lot of money, but I find it hard to believe most people would be willing to indiscriminately kill a large number of people for it.

Never mind people in the US, there are plenty of people elsewhere happy to work with their governments who are doubtless developing such autonomous entities.

It doesn't need to be most, it just needs to be enough. I dont think it's close to a majority, but at the same time its more than enough.

No, because many apps refuse to run on third-party distros due to misguided notions of them being insecure. It's easy to say "just don't use those apps" but in reality, people are rightly unwilling to put up with any friction and so will simply continue to use Google's version of the OS.

Many banking apps work as long as you relock the bootloader. E.g. on GrapheneOS:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Strange, because I always remember Flickr having horrible UX. You could never just open an image file directly; if you tried, Flickr would always redirect you to a page which obscured the image behind an invisible layer which obscured pointer events such as right-click.

I learned quickly to avoid Flickr links.

Maybe it was like that for a while? But flickr allowed image downloads, there was a dropdown in the UI with the available sizes for years. And it had an API (+stable URLs) to download images.

It's possible they did not allow the way you tried to access images directly, to enable control of the downloads for the photographer. But I think you misjudged the behaviour back then, they were pretty open.

I believe that is to prevent hotlinking, which isn't the purpose of the service.

That would make finding the URL to hotlink harder, but wouldn't prevent it.

Typically, sites check that the referer header is from one of their sites to prevent hotlinking.

Twitter is a garbage fire, after all.

You must be joking. The Supernova UI redesign is an unmitigated disaster. They unnecessarily butchered the look and feel of Thunderbird to the point where people are switching to forks.

Absolutely. New Thunderbird sucks, I was afraid this would happen when they resumed development. what’s the best alternative?

Give me the 1990s GUI back.

Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design. (SeaMonkey did a piss poor job picking screenshots for their webpage...)

https://www.claws-mail.org/screenshots.php

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/screenshots

Claws, that’s the one I remember.

Well I like Supernova better, it made me switch to Thunderbird from em Client. (I always wanted to switch to Thunderbird, but until Supernova I never liked the UX enough to keep using it)

The previous UI made no sense. Having the email viewer on the bottom and the list on the top instead of side by side makes absolutely no sense when most emails are designed for viewing in portrait.