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melito··on Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
Looks cool. I vibe coded this a while back to share some org docs on the web https://orgmode.dev/ - its currently a mess, but it does mostly work.
melito··on Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
be cool in real life. the web is toxic can life can suck. mass media just amplifies it and can make it more annoying.
melito··on Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
Safari doesn't support DASH and probably will not.

Chrome does not support HLS.

DASH isn't plug and play. It's an XML representation describing how to ingest media streams using something like Media Source Extensions.

There are a lot of players out there that will do this heavy lifting for you.

melito··on Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
Also chiming in with a project I've put together in Swift

https://www.github.com/krad/morsel https://www.github.com/krad/plainview https://www.github.com/krad/pupil

morsel ingests h264 & aac and produces fragmented mp4 files & playlists. plainview reads the playlists and uses MSE in the browser to play them via the web pupil is a WIP server that reads h264 & aac over TCP and passes that data to morsel, then uploads to any s3 compatible storage (AWS, Minio, etc)

The swift stuff works on Linux, iOS, tvOS, etc

edit:

There's also a WIP project called "kubrick" https://github.com/krad/kubrick

It's a simple POP wrapper around AVFoundation that allows for building media processing pipelines.

There's an example in the project for reading video samples and passing them through a series of Metal shaders to produce fun effects.

melito··on Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before
In iOS you can specify that files in an app's sandbox are "encrypted" when the device is locked.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileMa... (See "Files Can Be Encrypted On Disk")

Implementing the feature is pretty trivial and works on a file by file basis

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone... (See "Protecting Data Using On-Disk Encryption")

More details about the options here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...

melito··on SkySafe – tech to take over badly behaved drones
Giving people a button that would make a drone fall out of the sky sounds like something that would need more regulation than the drones themselves
melito··on Chris Lattner on Swift
No different from learning a human language I think.

The first thing you're exposed to is its sounds and symbols.

They look & sound strange and your brain instinctively tries to make sense of them by comparing it to something you are already familiar with.

Then when you dig into it you begin learning vocabulary and grammar. You focus on that for a long time until the sounds sound less like gibberish and resemble something like what you've been practicing putting on paper.

Once you get comfortable with the constructs and stop focusing on them you can start conversing - putting more effort into what you're trying to say then how you would go about saying it.

After that then you can start picking up all the idioms, colloquialisms, cliches, double entendres, etc

Finally you can start inventing your own.

melito··on Chris Lattner on Swift
I think it's because Swift is so new only a small percentage of people have actually looked at the language spec.

First thing I thought of when I saw all the func calls, curly braces and beaks (->) was "this looks like in between Lua and Go"

After starting to dig into the book, it's pretty apparent that isn't the case

melito··on Don't Fly During Ramadan
Aditya, if you're reading this: the next time a TSA agent threatens to call the cops, let them. If you hadn't made any outbursts, you haven't broken any laws.

Plus they'd be calling REAL cops. Ones that have to enforce and abide by real laws or actually face consequences.

melito··on Stephen Watt discusses how he spent 2 years in prison for writing software
Sorry about that.

I was able to see it and assumed everyone else would be able to as well

http://infiltratecon.com/watt.html

melito··on NSLogger – a flexible logging tool for OS X and iOS
Have used this in combination with CocoaLumberjack on a good number of projects and it has come in VERY handy. Highly recommended.

Not too difficult to get it wired up with papertrailapp.com either - That combo makes it VERY handy

melito··on 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
As much this reads as FUD, I agree.

That's what I was getting at with my "Breaking Bad" comment.

A sort of "total depravity" is already a big part of pop culture, so it'd be easy to ignore false positives of people crying wolf.

What I was getting at is that what they're looking for is kind of a big unknown. If media about illegal things is so popular and they ignore it, it leads one to think that data being mined is possibly being used in a fashion similar to a personal agenda.

That's what's truly dangerous about monitoring at this scale. It's not so much that it's happening it's that they're creating something that could grant someone almost god like powers.

If I were to make an analogy, I'd say it's like a man buying a pistol to protect his family and then his child finds it loaded in a night stand.

melito··on 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
I think there are already a couple products like that....in fact I have a few in my house.

I call them my cable modem and tivo

melito··on 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
It's easy to opine about things like educating the public or engineering 'crypto' for the common man.

In my opinion that would be an exercise in futility.

I think a proper response to this issue is to simply promote social depravity on a grand scale.

Everybody should just constantly read/watch/listen to media involving things like methamphetamine manufacturing, nuclear & home made weapons/chemicals, illegal currencies, human trafficking, hardcore pornography, armed rebellions, the middle east, famous terrorists, serial killers, bon jovi, etc

All of those are a lot more interesting to the common man than lessons on how to use PGP....which is theoretically breakable thanks to the advent of quantum computing.

If everything is being sniffed and stored, there have to be a number of very specific topics that are being sought after in that data.....in my opinion it'd be far worse if the government wasn't searching for things like human trafficking and nuclear weapons (things, hopefully, we can all agree are not good).

Television series like "Breaking Bad" are already pulling weekly audience number of around 3 million plus. One could argue that you wouldn't even have to do much promotion, as these topics already seem to be mainstays in much present day pop culture

melito··on Andrew Warner is in the hospital
I don't believe he's in the states
melito··on VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store
You have a part in authoring VLC, correct?

You did not have a hand in authoring the iPad app, correct?

You submitted a claim to Apple about clauses in the GPL not being compatible with the App Store's distribution model, correct?

In my original statement, I don't think I made any point that could be considered "wrong". I stated one fact (a 3rd party developed the app) followed by my opinion. I'm sorry you don't think my opinion is 'correct', but that doesn't mean I'm going to bet against the proliferation of GPL'd software because of these actions.

melito··on VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store
The VLC iOS app was developed by a company in France named Applidium, not the core VLC dev team. Applidium develops iOS apps.

So no. This does not mean there will be more focus on VLC for Android.

If anything I think this is a bad thing for all software currently using the GPL.

I understand the claim and ultimately it's the author's decision, but I feel that using the GPL in this fashion is ironic at best and hypocritical at worst.

melito··on Apple's Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes
This is one of the most helpful things I've seen posted on Hacker News all year. Thank you very much for sharing.
melito··on Ask HN: So, what did you think of the Social Network?
I thought the tech stuff was pretty realistic (although I refuse to believe Facebook was written inside of emacs).

Also I felt the whole "I scored 1600 on my SATs" and shooting down his professor with some technobabble about memory management was a little much. I understand there needs to be elements to add dramatic effect, but I can't help but feel there's a whole generation of assholes out there taking notes and thinking that being arrogant all the time = being right all the time

melito··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
freenode for channels about opensource projects undernet for goofing off
melito··on Greener pastures? A tale of the Minnesota startup that was
I love Austin. I think it's an awesome city.

Right place at the wrong time I suppose. Just wasn't happy while I was there.

melito··on Greener pastures? A tale of the Minnesota startup that was
Austin is a great town with a lot of great people and it's a lot of fun, but...

I was absolutely miserable living here.

If you're young, you should head to one of the coasts. That's my opinion.

Austin would be great if I was older and in a position to buy a house/ start a family / etc

melito··on Use an Android phone and an USRP (GNURadio) to create a GSM "Cell" (BTS)
Nice share, biafra. You should start a telephone company in Cambodia.

The story is they had this at burning man a few years ago. Great technology for setting up little "communal" nodes in different parts of the world.

Could easily be abused. Would probably drive the cost up.

If shared between a small group though, could be a cost effective way to bridge small&remote communities across the world.

Could diversify our internets.

melito··on Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers
If I could put a dollar amount on my internet reputation that would be very valuable to me. I reckon that's something I could put to good use.
melito··on Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers
I'd assume the inspiration for the service is grounded on the idea that your social circle influences things that you buy.

If you buy something and then a number of your 'followers' buy the same item a few days afterwards, that information is very valuable.

melito··on Databases are for Pussies
Pixii seems broken on OSX (stock ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1).

I can't try tyrone :(

Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.

melito··on Ask HN: Are you a single founder ?
1) In my spare time for a few months. 2) I have never applied. 3) No, I am entirely self funded. 4) http://www.sliceapp.com / http://www.clevercollie.com
melito··on Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
While I can understand downing based on my knee jerk immaturity towards this, but is any of this legitimate?

Will anyone benefit from having read this article?

Are there really that many people interested in this?

Are you all really up voting this stuff because you're legitimately interested?

melito··on Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
FLAME BAIT IS FLAMING
melito··on Why I don't write about programming and why it's not really worthwhile to do so
Not doing something simply because people will criticize you is a terrible approach to anything.
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