Looks like they're relying on system fonts instead of serving them over the web. It uses Segoe UI (a Windows font) by default. I tried accessing the page via Fedora and iOS and neither load the font correctly.
I am honestly not excited about the "AI" tech here--I'm excited about the battery life improvements that will come from using ARM chips. Battery life was the reason I chose an M1 laptop over the alternatives. Hopefully we can get some more competition in the space with these new chips!
Some tests might have side effects. Probably not a great idea to test the function “bill customer” on a prod deployment. That’s why containers for testing is great—it’s easy to spin up an environment that can be messed around with without consequences (even if things go wrong or your tests have side effects).
I recently rewrote a website/small backend API for a non-profit organization. I could've gone with a serverless architecture for our forms handling API and reduced spending to nearly the free tier, but I had no good way to protect against a scenario like this. There was just not good enough documentation about how to completely cut off spending in the scenario of an attack, and I wasn't comfortable leaving the organization open to a cost attack like this.
So we're using Github Pages for static hosting and a $5 box from OVH now. Unmetered bandwidth, plenty resources for our purposes. Cheap enough, and we will never, EVER, have to worry about an attack like this. Well worth it imo.
Imo, serverless is great for internal jobs where you can control spending. For public facing things, you have to be a lot more careful.
I feel like this could be a part of a weird plan to trap Apple into an antitrust lawsuit about iMessage. Beeper's CEO has been claiming that the existence of Beeper Mini actually improves iPhone users' experiences. He could argue that Apple shutting off access is not meant to improve Apple users' experiences, but rather, to keep people off of Android.
Honestly, I have mixed feelings. I REALLY think that iMessage needs to be opened up, but this was not the way to do it. Really hoping the EU swoops in and saves the day here.
pypush, the open source project behind today’s developments in the iMessage reversing news, is licensed under MongoDB’s Server Side Public License and owned by Beeper (JJTech sold the rights to Beeper, per discord). Although this library is fantastic, I do think that the extremely copyleft license could have implications on where we see this used.
As someone that is still in undergrad but will be entering the labor market in a few years, this entire process makes me incredibly anxious to think about. Reading what some people go through to find decent jobs has been a huge stressor throughout my undergrad career. I was lucky enough to secure a good internship this summer (which took months of searching and getting ghosted). I’m not excited to run the rat race again once I graduate—that’s for sure!