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> mediamtx is a great project! Use w/e works best for your use case.

I agree, I'm just struggling to differentiate what BB offers that MMTX does not, so I can identify if there's a USP. If it's a passion project to scratch a personal itch, that's also great!

Also, can you share your latency measuring methodology?

Is there a reason why I'd want to use Broadcast Box instead of mediamtx, which features RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC/WHIP, and (LL)HLS in a single small binary?

> 16:10, which is the most common.

I'm so glad we're back at this world. I had a laptop in 2011 that developed a fault on it's 16:10 (1920x1200) screen, Dell ran out of replacement parts and laptops had standardised on 16:9 screens by this point, so they ended up replacing the entire laptop with one with a 16:9 (1920x1080) screen.

I wasn't thrilled at the loss of pixels.

A lot of mobile apps use TLS connections when communicating with their backends.

You can MITM the traffic, and continue to deliver the traffic using a self signed certificate that you’ve trusted on your mobile device, and boom, you can capture the traffic at your proxy point and be happy.

A lot of mobile apps use certificate pinning to ensure that the backend certificate matches what the app expects. Now your self signed certificate, even though it’s trusted at the OS level, no longer matches the certificate that the app is expecting, and no data is exchanged after TLS handshake fails.

> The accusations are serious enough that it’s probably reasonable to assume that they have some serious evidence for this and if that is true then this is a good outcome that should be celebrated.

Isn’t it equally reasonable to assume the accused is innocent until proven guilty?

> Besides some annoyances (try to switch phone while your plan is on esim. I hope you dont reset your old phone before you transferred the esim to your new phone), esim really works.

This makes it sounds like the way AppleCare works is incompatible with eSIMs, as I’m required to reset my old phone before they’re able to pull out the replacement handset and allow me to activate it.

> If the chat is RCS on both ends then it's Google or Apple reading the text. I don't buy any of the E2EE marketing.

The “E2EE marketing” around RCS applies solely to messages sent between Google Android devices on both sides. Otherwise, RCS is plain text like SMS. The carrier can read it all. This includes Apple’s implementation.

> Ownership is very natural for humans (2 year old already declares “it’s mine”).

The idea that something a two year old does is a suitable basis for the foundations of society as a whole is both hilarious and terrifying. Two year olds are tyrants.

Bless you sir

> SLAAC? Literally a hack that accidentally caught on because some vendor implemented it sooner than DHCPv6 for some reason.

The history I recall is very much a academics designing theoretical standards vs operators who actually implement the damn things.

The academics designed the standards around the use of SLAAC deliberately and intentionally. DHCPv6 was the ‘hack’ that operators implemented after the fact.

I’m sure there’s an RFC somewhere that’ll prove this one way or another, if anyone else reading this cares enough to determine for sure (Duty Calls).

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

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> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

The US govt doesn’t like it when entities outside of their control potentially have power over their citizens.

It’s not an unreasonable position to take, and this site is US centric.

> The situation that keeps Firefox and Linux from jumping all over H.265 is not some natural property of the universe, it's just a social construct that we uphold by willing choice.

Can you elaborate and/or link me to anything related to this?

This is possibly a better approach than I’m currently taking, thanks! I’ll try this on my next trip!

Same as the sibling comment already stated, I was able to check in, and instead of being assigned seat 24B (or something of that calibre), my boarding pass said “seat assigned at gate”.

I still had a valid boarding pass. Nothing went wrong at the airport, besides Ryanair failing to follow correct overbooking procedure. Fortunately in that instance, had they refused boarding on me, I would have suffered zero inconvenience, and have received 350 euros compensation and a flight the next day. In a way, I wish they had refused me that day.

> One feature i need is a configurable sub-adressing separator (not just "+").

If you use postfix & dovecot, the setting that might help you is recipient_delimiter

The cheap trips clock in around 60 euros return. The expensive ones have clocked in around 100 euros return. Honestly, parking at the airport is more expensive than the cost of the flights most of the time.

> even eg scheduled video calls take place in physical places, so in practice future events of any kind are best stored in localtime with the relevant user’s timezone attached

I was in London when I scheduled a video call with someone in New York. When we actually took the call, I was in Spain and he was in Chicago.

I can’t think of any timezone that could have been attached to that meeting to make it useful at the time of creation. I absolutely expect my machine to be able to tell me what the local time of the meeting is when its timezone changes.

I've taken maybe 16 ryanair flights this year (it's the only airline that does the city combination I want), and more than half of those flights have gone mostly empty. Those flights were also the cheapest. The ones that went full were the most expensive.

So feel free to add my anecdote to yours, and derive nothing statistically significant besides that I fly a route that is only intermittently popular.

..I'm also flexible on dates so I deliberately book cheaper days, which may make for self selection in this way.

Ryanair absolutely does this. I've been on a flight in the last 3 months that was +2 oversold. Everyone else had checked in online earlier than me and gotten a seat assignment, so I was held at the gate, unable to pass, until the gate was ready to close and they had confirmed they had a seat for me.

The 'rules' state that they're supposed to ask for volunteers, but in this instance, they didn't. I was just withheld from boarding until they confirmed they had a seat for me.

https://www.amiunique.org/ is scary and eye opening

Why would you need to make a point of allowing sub-addressing? Surely it’s whether or not you make a point of disallowing it?

That's the FAQ relating to the use of the OSI trademark.

You might be better off linking to the definition of open source, per the OSI, since 2006:

https://opensource.org/osd

Eitherway, this is why open source zealots tend to specifically say F/LOSS (free / libre open source software), to avoid any ambiguity with people who like to claim 'open source' is ambiguous and easily conflated with 'source available'.

...That there are so many of them proves their own point, I guess!

> I have tried almost every major non-alcoholic beer in the U.S., and none of them truly taste exactly like beer.

Agreed, but if you drink them exclusively for a few weeks, your taste buds and brain will reframe around them, and it'll cease to be a problem. I did this with Brewdog's Punk AF, and after 2 weeks on that, most non-alcoholic beers triggered my brain's "I'm drinking beer!" response.

It's a lot of work for overpriced soft drinks, and isn't for everyone.

Also, I'm back to drinking real beer again anyway.

> Commodities are consumable goods that get transformed through usage in industrial or commercial processes. Gold and silver can be transformed into jewelry. Securities, on the other hand, grant holders the right to periodic benefits like dividends, coupons, principal repayments and potential profit shares.

> How are you consuming crypto? What commercial or industrial process are being used?

What rights does holding bitcoin confer to the holder? I get no dividends, coupons, principle repayments or potential profit shares.

We’ve nicely entered why this argument still rages on. It doesn’t fit cleanly into either definition.

When a word ends with an s, the use of an apostrophe without another s is valid English.

Thomas’ and Thomas’s are the same thing.

There are no banana trees, only banana plants.

> How do you do 3*9? You memorized it

I put my hands out, count to the third finger from the left, and put that finger down. I then count the fingers to the left (2) and count the fingers to the right (2 + hand aka 5) and conclude 27.

I have memorised the technique, but I definitely never memorised my nine times table. If you’d said ‘6’, then the answer would be different, as I’d actually have to sing a song to get to the answer.

Can you elaborate on what you mean here? I’ve never seen a Debian install packages without docs in 20 years. What have I been doing right/wrong?

Well, bad news: VLC team is pretty explicit about their negative views about app stores in general, as well as the microsoft store specifically.

VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake (twitter.com/videolan) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798565

More here: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/19/vlc-vs-the-app-stores/

> Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users…

> If you do wonder why we don’t update VLC on the Windows Store or why VLC/iOS can’t connect properly to OneDrive shares, it’s because Microsoft Kafkaïesque bureaucracy refuses to help us.

So maybe you don’t want to use centralised app stores with commercial control, and instead want to download software directly from the authors.