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MrZeuson Searching for Humanity in Fortnite [video]

Can you win Fortnite's Battle Royale as a pacifist? Can you make friends with opponents during a death match? Come with me on a journey as I try to break Fortnite by acting like a Care Bear on a battlefield.

MrZeuson WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

It was, you can get a history of submissions for a domain by clicking the domain name to the right of a HN article title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=myfonts.com

MrZeuson Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing

There is always https://photo.stackexchange.com/ too :-)

MrZeuson Optimizing latency of an Arduino MIDI controller

When I read the title of the article I wondered "did they just discover ASIO4ALL?"

Yes. Yes, they did.

- http://asio4all.com/

MrZeuson Music industry welcomes landmark ruling in Google delisting case

Also, the EFF has an article warning that this court decision might set a dangerous precedent for Internet Censorship in the future:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/top-canadian-court-per...

MrZeuson The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

That HTML RFC page is one of the few pages I've ever tested with PageSpeed (by Google) that gets 100/100 marks for Mobile and Desktop versions!

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

MrZeuson MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

Not quite, you can install Rockbox on pretty much any portable player. It supports Opus and FLAC among many other formats.

https://www.rockbox.org/

MrZeuson Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

This is the document (and page) you're looking for... <waves hand>

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...

MrZeuson Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

Just a clarification: while it's page 82 of the paper document, it is actually page 84 of the PDF file. The chapter titled "A FRAMEWORK FOR DATA AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY".

Here is a link that should take you straight to page 84 of the PDF (tested on Firefox and Chrome only):

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...

MrZeuson Nomx Passes Security Tests After Blogger Claims to Have Penetrated Nomx

I wonder why Nomx don't have a Comments section at the bottom of their rebuttal... >:-D

MrZeuson Spellfucker

I could also read it OK, with concentration (not Slavic). Ai theenke thet eefe ay red laikh theiss four ey uayl eye wood gette phassterh kueekh-Lee.

Edit: όλσο, ουάν κούντ υιούζ σούπερ γουίερντ Γκρήκ κάρακτερς. (also, one could use super weird Greek characters)

MrZeuson The History of Computer RPGs

Could I mention the legendary artist Mark Ferrari for your consideration?

http://markferrari.com/art/digital-concepts/

(I know there are hundreds of others, I'm hoping people might reply and compile a favourites list for you ^_^)

MrZeuson Progress Report for the 4D Game “Miegakure” (Hide and Reveal)

Plenty of explanation videos about this 4-spacial-dimensions puzzle game!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marc%20ten%20bo...

MrZeuson Opus Audio Codec 1.2-alpha is out

"Opus supports all bitrates from 6 kbit/s to 510 kbit/s." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#section-2.1.1

Here's a public listening test conducted between Opus, AAC and Vorbis at ~105 kbit/s: http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

MrZeuson Open Cola

I was thinking the exact same thing, so it's not tenuous.

+1 to OpenCola On GitHub idea :-)

Although:

https://github.com/search?q=open%20cola

https://github.com/NeuralSandwich/OpenCola

MrZeuson Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll

+10! I have been hating this exact thing about AVG for months.

MrZeuson Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released

Yeah, Opus is known to compress noisy rock/metal-like audio pretty well, even at low bitrates. The stuff it finds harder to do is tonal content, though it assigns more bitrate to help itself out. See the Tonality Estimation section here: https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/opus/demo3.shtml

MrZeuson Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released

Touché, the comparison tests are at http://opus-codec.com/comparison/

MrZeuson Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released

More info: - https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ - https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings - http://caniuse.com/#search=Opus

MrZeuson Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones

Hehe, ironic response about missing the obvious, since the first thing the hacker did was check it wasn't the headphones that were faulty :-)

Asking a co-passenger for a spare set of phones would have left him with the same problem: the plane socket was only feeding audio from one hole, not both.

MrZeuson Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

Wow. Indeed. 44.2 MB for the whole page!

The morphing-letters demo is kinda cool though :-)

MrZeuson Revisiting Daala Technology Demos

True, some ready-made video comparisons would be nice, but the codec is being actively developed as we speak, so they'd be out of date pretty quickly (the bitstream format isn't even frozen yet).

However, the Daala code is open-source, so people are free to generate their own comparisons using whichever codecs they like on whatever video snippets they have.

The Daala code is available via Git (https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=summary and https://github.com/xiph/daala/) and there are even some test video sequences one can compare with at https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/.