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rlyshwon Historic sale of a Gala Games Fantasy MMORPG in-game NFT item for US$800K

I read a few sentences and am wondering what an NFT is. I’m familiar with OpenSea but there really is not much explanation here for people not already deeply embedded in this world.

rlyshwon Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

Got it. I’m fresh on FTL, first I’ve really dug into it so apologies for the ignorance. I’m in the industry of stream transport and mostly work with SRT.

Looking forward to tinkering with this!

rlyshwon Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

This project is pretty cool, I’ll tinker around with it tomorrow.

As an aside, I’ve noticed you’re building out your own stream protocol stack (FTL/LightSpeed). What’s the reasoning there? Seems slightly inconvenient to have to “hack” OBS to make the output stream work. Will FTL support be merged into OBS in the future?

If you’re just trying to avoid the latency of RTMP then I might suggest considering the existing SRT protocol[1]. It’s been open source for a while and is well-established(native support in OBS core and optional in FFMPEG). Seems to already solve a lot of the transport-level stuff that you’re working on with FTL.

[1] Secure Reliable Transport: https://github.com/Haivision/srt

rlyshwon Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Honestly just more proof that we need decentralization of the Internet. Handing over control of our digital platforms and identities to 3rd party for-profit companies is not the way the internet should work.

rlyshwon How Bochs Works Under the Hood (2012) [pdf]

I did a bunch of hacking on bochs for a little virtualization toy project last year and found the source pretty easy to follow, at least much more-so than qemu. Wish I knew about this overview doc before then...

rlyshwon OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

FFMPEG is a great tool for any IP video streaming workflow. You can easily define multiple outputs. Check out the live streaming guide: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

I just haven't yet found a good way to export active stream status from the CLI out to other interfaces for the tool I'm working on.

rlyshwon OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

I've been looking into building a containerized FFMPEG stream routing solution but haven't been able to think of a good use-case. What is your alternative destination after Facebook RTMPS?

rlyshwon QEMU for iOS

You can run seemingly unrestricted python code on your iOS devices with Pythonista [0]. I'm using it right now to proxy my hotspot connection through my iPhone.

Not sure how they're allowed to exist on the app store, but it's been solid for me for a while now.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pythonista-3/id1085978097

rlyshwon Thrangrycat

I found it interesting that the section that explains the name of this vulnerability is way more thought-out and verbose than any of the other sections. It's almost like they had a linguist on the team and the emoji name was his prideful contribution.

rlyshwon Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

WebRTC is direct peer to peer. There’s a reliance on a STUN/TURN server to provide signaling for things like NAT traversal but other than that it’s all p2p.

rlyshwon Sheela-Na-Gigs: Women Adorning Britain's Churches

This is hilarious, and makes me think humans have been entertained by dumb depictions of genitalia for as long as we’ve been human. I can’t help but think these works are the Norman equivalent of a bored teenager’s notebook drawings.

rlyshwon Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing

>[serverless computing] closely parallels past advances in programmer productivity, such as the transition from assembly language to high-level programming languages

Is this serious? The author seems to imply that we can just abstract away the entire internet in the same way we abstracted away copper wires.

rlyshwon Repl.it Multiplayer

I imagine I could edit a file in a web-based editor and my collaborators would be able to see those edits in real time. Maybe it wouldn’t be a full-fledged IDE, but I could imagine building development workflows into gitlab’s CI/CD pipeline to facilitate semi-rapid pair-programming/prototyping.

rlyshwon Repl.it Multiplayer

It looks like Repl.it is in this thread, they might provide an exact answer.

But, if they don’t, here’s my take. To me it seems like this is something that would be built in-house with the ability to leverage repl.it’s existing application infrastructure. I’d imagine this would simplify the development compared to the vscode plugin. (stand-alone desktop app)

Also, long-time gitlab-CE user here. I’d love to see multiplayer as a feature.

rlyshwon Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA

This same thing happened to me from a large financial company on the east coast, except I had received a written offer via email.

rlyshwon Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

In college I was somehow made the owner or something of my department building’s google maps entry. I worked for the department, so my .edu google account was in some admin/staff group I guess. I kept getting emails asking me to update the listing and definitely considered some harmless pranks/light vandalism.

rlyshwon Taking lessons from the rise and fall of divinity in online games (2014)

My friend and I were online “gods” back around 2012 when we ran a Minecraft server with a small-but-dedicated player base.

Gods in online communities aren’t totally lost, they’ve just reduced in scope to smaller private servers in more niche games.

rlyshwon Reddit Experiencing Elevated Error Rates

Maybe I don't necessarily understand what you mean by "traffic light statuses" but I feel like the red=down; yellow=issues; green=all-good; indicators are pretty effective at quickly and concisely communicating the status of a service to the general public.

I don't see that as useless? Unless you are talking about such a system for the internal infra team. I doubt that they are looking at this public-facing "traffic light status" page, however.

rlyshwon Reddit Experiencing Elevated Error Rates

It seems to be back up now. There was an outage a few days ago as well. https://reddit.statuspage.io/incidents/ysbr3dq5rgh4

There was no follow up from that Aug 15th outage, at-least as far as I can see via their social-media accounts. https://twitter.com/redditstatus

rlyshwon Reddit is offline, 500 internal server error

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

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rlyshwon Ask HN: What is the “other side” of the Net Neutrality argument?

I've found snippets of Rand Paul's opinions on net neutrality, which basically sum up to "any government control in a market is bad".[1]

[1] Campaign for liberty's "The Technology Revolution" http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/c4l-introduc...

rlyshwon Ask HN: What is the “other side” of the Net Neutrality argument?

This is the most common argument FOR Net Neutrality, but I don't think there is any evidence to believe that this is exactly what ISPs will do if Net Neutrality ends.

rlyshwon Ask HN: What is the “other side” of the Net Neutrality argument?

Ok, but the curators would need to provide a suitably large range of content in order to stay competitive.

rlyshwon Ask HN: What is the “other side” of the Net Neutrality argument?

From my point of view, a curated internet would be much less noisy. I'd only be allowed to access to the content that I want to have access to.

Reducing the amount of useless and distracting information that I can see would increase my overall productivity. I realize I could just blacklist sites like reddit and youtube on my laptop, but when I have control over it, I'll just turn it off and browse anyway. If access came at a premium, I'd be much more selective of the information and content I consume through these distracting sites.

I don't think ending Net Neutrality is the best way of filtering the noise, but I think it is one (naive) attempt at doing so.

rlyshwon MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8

I'm the VP of the Linux users group at the University of Delaware and we have several servers in the central data center connected to the university's subnet(128.4.0.0/16) with unfettered access to the general internet. No NAT, and limited firewall.

Our Webserver is on a subdomain of the .edu(lug.udel.edu) and is totally accessible from the internet. It even listens for incoming connections. We run a mail server, a mirror, and an IRC server on there. It's great because even alumni can connect from wherever. I think there is a central firewall for every connection coming in, but I haven't run into problems for my uses.

In fact, every system registered for an IP on the UD intranet is assigned a public, world-accessible IP on the 128.4.0.0/16 subnet and can listen for incoming connections. Even wireless devices.

rlyshwon [dead]

What about trucks and buses and other elevated vehicles that are common on city streets?

rlyshwon Build a Swarm cluster

I'm in the process of building a system to do just that; super easy, small to medium container deployment. It's still a WIP and there's not much (or any) documentation, but if it generates some interest I'll work on it more and maybe post a Show HN.

In short, all you have to do is POST a url to a github repo and the system will pull your code, build a docker image from your Dockerfile, spin up a container, and then reverse proxy to the container's IP.

All you have to do is provide a repo with a Dockerfile and the deployment system does the rest.

Here's the code for it; https://gitlab.rlyshw.com/rlyshw/tiny-deploy

and here is an outdated blog post that outlines how it works; https://blog.rlyshw.com/2016/07/13/home-brew-deployment-syst...