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It still is, but it's not as recommended over MPV but I'm not as familiar with what it decodes and renders wrong in comparison, but it is still suggested over VLC in Anime circles.

Chromium based browsers have non-google sync. Vivaldi implements their own encrypted sync service and I believe Brave does as well.

But I am talking about browser feature support, not stuff that can supplemented with an extension like a password manager.

Firefox has poor support for modern web features including video processing and encoding which makes it very bad at web conferencing/video calls or in-page streaming.

Firefox's developer tools and console is also much worse and missing important features.

Other features Firefox is missing or has poor support for compared to Chromium are WebGPU, WebTransport, Periodic Background Sync, and parts of WebRTC. Plus various APIs for web serial, badging, and Web Share are missing partial or full support.

Firefox still doesn't have functional HDR for images and videos including AV1.

IDK where you have been for the last decade, but Firefox has not been the better option since Chromium was made

Disliking Google Chrome proper is one thing, but Chromium is superior in every way. Rendering, features, speed, memory management

Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. It is the Firefox of media players.

There is a reason why the Anime community has collectively has ditched VLC in favor of MPV and MPC-HC. Color reproduction, modern codec support, ASS subtitle rendering, and even audio codecs are janky or even broken on VLC. 98% of all Anime encode release playback problems are caused by the user using VLC.

We even have a dedicated pastebin on a quick run down of what is wrong: https://rentry.co/vee-ell-cee

And this pastebin doesn't even have all the issues. VLC has a long standing issue of not playing back 5.1 Surround sound Opus correctly or at all. VLC is still using FFmpeg 4.x. We're on FFmpeg 8.x these days

I can not even use VLC to take screenshots of videos I encode because the color rendering on everything is wrong. BT.709 is very much NOT new and predates VLC itself.

And you can say "VLC is easy to install and the UI is easy." Yeah so is IINA for macOS, Celluloid for Linux, and MPV.net for Windows which all use MPV underneath. Other better and easy video players exist today.

We are not in 2012 anymore. We are no longer just using AVC/H264 + AAC or AC-3 (Dolby Audio) MP4s for every video. We are playing back HEVC, VP9, and AV1 with HDR metadata in MKV/webm cnotainers with audio codecs like Opus or HE-AACv3 or TrueHD in surround channels, BT.2020 colorspaces. VLC's current release is made of libraries and FFmpeg versions that predate some of these codecs/formats/metadata types. Even the VLC 4.0 nightly alpha is not keeping up. 4.0 is several years late to releasing and when it does, it may not even matter.

Smaller PT sites usually allow it

Bigger PT sites with strict rules do not allow it yet and are actively discussing/debating it.Netflix Web-DLs being AV1 is definitely pushing that. The codec has to be a select-able option during upload.

I do a lot of AV1 encoding. Here's a couple of guides for encoding with SVT-AV1 from enthusiast encoding groups:

https://wiki.x266.mov/docs/encoders/SVT-AV1

https://jaded-encoding-thaumaturgy.github.io/JET-guide/maste...

The first game was good. This one is not. I don’t understand how a big game like this could have you just walking around doing nearly nothing for several hours straight. Every puzzle and lock solution is basically on a sticky note next to it in game removing the minimum challenge the game presents. Movies are more engaging.

As for the story, it’s just Alan Wake 1 retold but louder and in your face about it.

We use ZFS on every server we deploy

We typically use Proxmox. It’s a convenient node host setup and usually has a very up to date zfs and it’s stable

I just wouldn’t use the Proxmox web ui for zfs configuration. It doesn’t have up to date options. Always configure zfs on the cli

No, that is called reverse causality. The type of people likely to drink artificial sweeteners most are those that are overweight, obese, or have diabetes. There is no insulin response from artificial sweeteners. And as an amateur bodybuilder, I utilize a lot of artificial sweeteners daily to curb my cravings while eating rice, chicken, and turkey to help me cut.

Sweeteners won’t make someone overeating stop overeating. But they can be used to lower overall caloric energy intake and reduce cravings as a tool.

I use Octal on iOS/iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support

I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats.

But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex which seems to have stagnated. The next gen Jellyfin Web UI (Jellyfin Vue) is looking good too

Jellyfin is also pretty forgiving about my file names but I am meticulous at making sure the structure and filenames are correct before dumping anything new to the library to the point where I have a complex script to process movie and tv show filenames and folders. You can also override the metadata with the Identify function on the media page context menu.

I disagree. The market ready for disruption was the CPU market stagnated by Intel. It was also the perfect opportunity to put the limited financial resources behind to come out with a viable product to compete that didn't need a ton of software ecosystem to work. Datacenters, gamers, Cloud hyperscalers, Supercomputers, they all needed something to replace their aging and inefficient Intel Skylake Xeons and Core CPUs. And their chiplet tech made it possible to make this CPU product span the entire portfolio for cheap.

If they decided to compete with GPU, they would have just lost in gaming GPU sales to NVIDIA due to mindshare and they wouldn't have had the resources to develop the software to compete. And datacenter GPUs were still a niche and rare product.

AI/ML was not realistically something they could predict or bet the house on 7 years ago. And just like Lisa said in the recent presentation, AI is in its early stages and will be a growing and long term business venture.

Additionally, their CPU chiplet developments were critical in producing the talent and experience that would translate to GPU chiplets that AMD is not utilizing on RDNA 3 and CDNA 3, providing a strategic advantage over NVIDIA.

They still have the time to enter it with their MI300s AND now they have the money and resources to develop their software ecosystems more.

AMD absolutely made the right move to focus on Zen and HPC. It's not their fault that investors are blindly overhyped about AI.

AMD's greatest threat in datacenter AI hardware isn't even NVIDIA. It's the biggest tech companies producing their own AI hardware (Google, Meta, Tesla, Amazon) effectively and eventually eliminating the need for AMD or NVIDIA GPU/AI hardware.

The cost of nuclear today has more to do with the fact that we aren’t building nuclear plants. There are minimum companies with small operations making nuclear reactor technologies for just maintenance of existing ones and military contracts. If we were building new nuclear plants with modern reactors, the costs wouldn’t be a big deal anymore because the production of them would have scaled better.

But instead we’re spending tens of billions on windmills and solar panels that won’t last 15 years or operate well in many regions, including Germany and especially south Germany. This is why Germany is now reliant on France’s nuclear power to handle the majority of its power needs and the citizens are paying massive premiums for it. Not the government.

So maybe we should ignore the pesky cost issue cause we certainly ignored the financial and economic cost consequences of solar and wind.

LTT reviewed the Framework laptop before Linus decided to invest into the company.

While I'm happy enough with using Standard Notes for free, $15/mo for the first paid version is way too much for the extra features. I get that it adds a simple spreadsheet function and 2FA stuff, but some of that is not what I want a notes app for. If they want to make a productivity suite, go ahead, but I can't justify that jump to make my notes for checklists and markdown when all I wanted was a good notes app.

On top of that the macOS app doesn't work right for like over a year now and it's still not fixed despite updates every few days.

I'm already paying for Bitwarden Enterprise for personal/SMB use and I could just use that for my Encrypted notes instead. But while I use macOS and iPhone mostly, I still use a Linux workstation daily and I can't use iCloud Notes on that, so I may just use Nextcloud for my non-sensitive notes. I already use it for To-Dos and Calendars.

Akamai is heavily remote now and plans to keep it that way.

I setup a Wiki.js install as a contingency documentation plan for our company when Atlassian had their major outage last year. I liked it.

I also like how the documents are literally markdown files and you can synchronize/backup the data to a git repo and the data isn’t even reliant on the wiki.js instance you run to be readable.

Hi, owner of GitGud.io here

>>Free - Yes, totally free for any user or group

>Such claims are invariably false. Or, stated most generously, heavily misleading, because of limitations.

Can you explain your issue with this? GitGud.io has been operating for over 8 years with only free accounts and without any paid setup. Historically we've been supported by user donations, but I now also pay out of pocket, a relatively trivial amount since my main job is being a DevOps engineer for a CDN & cloud company, for server resources and upgrades for GitGud.io and we have plans to launch SaaS products that will completely offset any GitGud.io costs.

>>Fast - One of the fastest git hosting services

>Holistically, I’d say this isn’t even possible if you’re using GitLab. Significant parts of GitLab are very slow. And as for GitGud.io at present, well, that repository’s URL is consistently taking about ten seconds to send the first byte of the response, and even HEAD / takes more than five seconds to issue a 302 redirect to /users/sign_in.

GitGud.io has historically been fast. Currently we just finished an upgrade of the main node last week from an 8-core Epyc to a 64-core Epyc, plus 2-3x more available memory and we have not had enough traffic to adjust this. This event helped us tune GitLab better to our new resources. And yes, as someone who has been working with GitLab for over 8 years, I know exactly how slow and bloated it is, but you must also understand that GitLab.com itself spent years being constantly down or hardly loading in comparison. Different scales of "users", but GitGud.io still has 41,000 users and close to 15,000 repositories. You'd be hard pressed to find many other GitLab instances publicly usable that big. We could utilize Gitea or something lighter, but GitLab offers a lot of features and Gitea didn't exist when we started.

>> Highly available - average uptime of 99.83% ¹

>Look, “highly available” is a vague term, but for this kind of service I’d expect it to mean three nines at the very least, probably four, and to mean an architecture and upgrade deployment mechanism significantly different from GitLab’s, where upgrades are disruptive. >Also, their actual status page is currently saying 91.16% for the last 24 hours (2h7m of downtime), which is already more than two months’ downtime budget even at 99.83%.

Yes, cause currently we currently took the host node down 12 hours ago for a couple of hours in a planned hardware upgrade maintenance to install new 40g NICs, SSDs, etc. Overall the average is decent, and this line harkens back to the days when GitLab.com was down daily. We run on our own bare metal colo servers, not magically appearing cloud instances.

>> Reliable - We have never lost any data, unlike other services

>You also probably haven’t dealt with any of the scale-related issues that have caused data loss in said Other Services.

Their scale outs should have made it harder to lose data, not the other way around. We've also have ran a fairly large file/media sharing site in the form of Imgur with dozens of TBs of user uploaded media scaled across several servers, and we didn't lose data there. Fact is, we haven't lost any data and that's our track record so far over the past 8 years. I think that's worth of some note.

Either way, while the homepage claims are eyebrow raising for you, I don't see how this matters much for a service that is charging $0 for Git repo hosting. We make $0 for any user who decides to utilize us. If we wanted to charge for GitGud.io access and it's GitLab CI runner access, we could. There's nothing stopping us from doing that. But even if we disappeared tomorrow, the fact is that Git is naturally decentralized. The original creators and the clones exist somewhere.

We exist as an alternative to other services that suspend accounts on a whim and an easy solution for those that don't want to setup or pay for their own Git instance.

I self host a Ghost instance for my personal blog and for any blog I setup for other stuff. No longer utilize wordpress for blogs. That said, Ghost decided this year to make Ghost only compatible with MySQL 8 instead of allowing MariaDB like it did before, or any other DB setup. But otherwise it’s a good simple setup. My personal blog is hosted on a container on my homelab and behind cloudflare.

I don’t have an issue with using the Weather app over darksky on my iPhone. My issue is that the darksky website was a pinned tab on my browser cause there’s no alternative weather website like it.

I had a theory about this about 5 years ago as I started noticing that there was a correlation with my friends who had autism. I got a lot of heat for it though when I mentioned it, even as someone who is lgbt myself.

Airbnb is not crushing hotels. The use cases of airbnbs are usually different than hotels. On top of that, Airbnb is on the verge of a reckoning with the issues plaguing the system. Sketchy hosts, destructive and abusive guests, over saturation of listings.

The only reason you’d probably think airbnb is crushing hotels is the financial reports of hotels from during the pandemic. But before the pandemic, with airbnb already in full swing, hotels were still hitting record revenues. Their financials are already returning.

While this is already very useful for my homelab setup, I’d like to see if this could be deployed on multiple servers and communicate the status to a master node to watch over all my servers.

If this has something I could tap into to get the status info externally , could privately hack something together to get that.

I’d like to see more detailed comparisons between providers like Akamai, Fastly, CDN77, KeyCDN, StackPath, etc

Funny timing as I recently, as of yesterday, found out about pv when searching for a way to view the progress of a zfs send and receive

Another utility I found out about is “progress” available at least on debian systems. It can monitor stuff like cp and mv without actually being used in the command

Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially.

The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.

This may be a little off topic from the pricing changes, but working in a DC (and a competitor to DO in some way but not directly), we typically have to end up blocking DO's ASNs to prevent the vast amount of automated abuse coming from their services. Typically we have to end up blocking AWS, DO, Azure, gCloud on most servers. Not really so with Linode and Vultr.

I wouldn't trust or believe either of those numbers for either country, at all.

Recently, I was asked an interview question about what affects Linux IO load averages with a MANGA company. When I mentioned that one of the multiple possible reasons could be IO, he acted like I said the sky was green. He did not push me through the process. He was a systems engineer too and not just some HR person reading a script.

I'm a Senior Systems Administrator and team manager in the NOC for a multi-site Data Center company. I've gotten to the final round of interviews with several companies but they chose someone else instead in each case. IMO just a case of luck and timing with someone nudging me out or someone getting the position before my interview series is finished. Half of those companies reached out to me with recruiter themselves. I wouldn't say my resume is amazingly, but it's not preventing me from getting into interviews. I'm also not applying to a lot of different places or a variety of positions. I've been pretty selective for positions or companies that match what I'm interesting in doing and their work culture.