It is a service available to Cloudflare customers and is opt-in. I fail to see how they’re being gatekeepers when site owners have option not to use it.
>They ended up with a final sample size of 813 people.
I want BlueSky to succeed but this sampling bias is simply too much to ignore.
This comment (by nunobrito) from few days ago on a similar topic is best analysis of this topic.
> These news are awfully similar to click-bait stating "the science is settled" by grouping a small set of the group and then pretending it represents the whole.
The paper failed both to identify the overall number of scientists using X or the cases where multiple platforms are used (most common scenario). Therefore the paper only seems biased on its best scenario or downright propaganda at its worst.
> NOSTR and Mastodon should never be left out of any serious research.
If the poll was done _properly_, that sample size is _fine_; there’ll be a decent margin of error, but not as much as you might expect. 1k people is a fairly standard size for polls, with even very high quality ones rarely doing over a few thousand.
The real consideration was whether the poll was done properly.
The article itself talks about this self-selection/sampling bias due to a minuscule sample size of 813 people. Reducing “science community” to such a small sample is not convincing.
Self-selections, sure, that's a risk with any and all surveys and questionnaires, which must be mentioned.
But 813? Why wouldn't that be enough? Basic stats puts that at a very healthy number for most questions, and the researchers don't raise any questions about bias about the number.
bonus, these have both http & https endpoints if you needed a differential diagnosis or just a means to trip some shitty airline/hotel walled garden into saying hello.
I usually load my blog to check internet connectivity.
I work at an e-waste recycling company. Earlier this week, I had to test a bunch of laptop docking stations, so I kept force refreshing my blog to see if the Ethernet port worked. Thing is, it loads so fast, I kept the dev tools open to see if it actually refreshed.
(Edit: Btw, it's fine to say 'fucked' or other swear words on HN - we don't care about profanity and aren't Bowdlers. I add this because people sometimes misinterpret https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that way, assuming that we want drawing-room politness.)
When did you notice HN switching to AWS, and what changed?
(Those are trick questions, because we haven't switched to AWS. But I genuinely would like to hear the answers.)
(We did switch to AWS briefly when our hosting provider went down because of a bizarre SSD self-bricking incident a few years ago...but it was only for a day or two!)
This seems like an abandoned project with no updates since 2019 (!!)
Those looking for a more active and stable project: ubports is carrying the torch forward on the convergence front. I have personally used it on my old OnePlus device and it was quite usable.
Fun fact: UAE's "Jaywan" cards (currently Debit Cards only) is UAE initiative to replace Visa, Mastercards, etc., and Jaywan itself is based on India's NCPI org's technology stack used for RuPay. So Jaywan is RuPay tech implemented in UAE! Other countries are following suit as NCPI has taken extraordinary efforts to make this technology stack versatile, scalable, interoperable, robust, resilient and easy to implement and customize.
So India is becoming the world leader in digital payments!
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