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deston Foobar2000

At some point Subsonic/Airsonic had an integration with Last.fm to make smart playlists with music from your library

deston BitTorrent v2 (2020)

don't many traditional clients support webtorrent as well? https://feross.org/libtorrent-webtorrent/

deston Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

I blindly accept the terms in Firefox private mode, consult the content, then close the tab, which deletes all cookies AFAIK.

deston Apple Helps Asahi Linux

For context: Mach-O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O

deston How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

AFAIK it's E2E for 1:1 video chats, but not when more are there.

deston Reduce your website’s environmental impact with a carbon budget

Including a stellar 378kB PNG image of 2776*1381 pixels, while it's only a small illustration in the article.

https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cloud.png

deston Proof of steak: a scalable, efficient, protein-rich algorithm

It's the joke

deston Arc – A P2P CDN that runs in the browser

So that you can seed it later, very probably

deston Show HN: Scientists hate him – we built a 10x cheaper CDN with 500k PoPs

You can get this info with public IP vs common databases like Maxmind

deston Arc – A P2P CDN that runs in the browser

I wonder what is the time to first byte for a given asset when the page loads for the first time. Establishing a webrtc connection takes several rtts to the tracker/signalling server and will always be longer than a plain CDN request. I think it's rather useful on subsequent page navigation then, when p2p connections are already established.

What about partnering with browsers like Brave, that would embed it in many pages at once?

Disclaimer: I work at Lumen/Streamroot, we do this for video.

deston Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model

Thanks for your answer. I'm seeing a tweet, but not a thread. Is it expected?

deston Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model

If the dataset mostly contains edge cases, model performance on the dataset is going to be poor, but it's not an issue I think.

But how could the real-world accuracy be computed? Is a separate dataset needed for that purpose?

deston Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

deston Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997

Install NoScript browser extention, then ban medium.com

deston Observing my cellphone switch towers

https://opencellid.org/ and https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/info.zamojski.soft.towercoll...

deston Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

Does it work for videoconferencing?

Edit: yes

> Microsoft Teams Bridging supports both group and individual messaging, as well as voice and video conferences.

deston Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service

I had a similar issue (two years ago as well!) and support was pretty disappointing. It was a self hosted email server, all content just vanished.

The only alternative they gave to me was to upgrade to another type of machine, as the previous one was not available anymore. It was noticeably more expensive of course.

So in the end they had a failure and I ended up having to pay more (I found another solution at another provider)

deston Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

The irony is high

deston Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

or the most cynical statement

deston WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

That was the original business model of whatsapp

deston PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC

You can use DHT / Kademlia for this purpose

deston PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC

Check out https://streamroot.io if you want to work professionally on this kind of thing (demo at the bottom)

deston Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

This fork is in a poor state, barely working, needs some love

deston Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra

Nominative is "dies" which is not stellar as a brand in English.

deston Ray Dalio Has a Point About Bitcoin at $18,000

Network effect?

deston Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

"Ruin my search history" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmvv9w/ruin-your-google-s...

deston Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

Streamroot / Lumen (https://streamroot.io) | Multiple roles | Full time | office in Paris, partial remote possible in France

WebRTC-based peer-to-peer video CDN for media companies, OTT platforms, live TV streaming and more.

* Lead Engineer - Media & Compatibility

You will lead a talented compatibility team to deliver robust and user-friendly SDKs (Javascript / Web assembly on Web, C++ & Kotlin/Swift on mobile), integrate our solution into more video players and platforms, and advance towards our mission to become compatible with 100% of broadcasters’ traffic.

Apply here: https://streamroot.io/jobs/lead-engineer-media-compatibility...

* Scalability and Reliability Engineer - SRE

You will join our technical team to operate and scale the backend of our peer-to-peer and multi-CDN products, as well as our data analytics platform. Today, we have multiple Kubernetes clusters with dozens of nodes in production spread over multiple availability zones in the Cloud and on bare metal servers. At peak, we support millions of concurrent connections and tens of thousands of requests per second, and our goal is to triple this number in the next three years.

Apply here: https://streamroot.io/jobs/scalability-and-reliability-engin...

deston Lockheed Martin receives $187.5M for mesh network of 10 small satellites

The protocol of communication used in this network is most probably highly proprietary. Though I wonder which of the reference routing protocols they have used as a base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ad_hoc_routing_protoco...

deston DIY Bertin Matrix with 569 Dominoes and No Glue

If those rods were attached together like a comb, it would be much faster

deston Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships

French movie on a similar topic: L'Arnacœur https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465487/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_20