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techietim··on OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available
Agreed! I tried to make OBS work for a video podcast, and it was a very unpleasant experience. vMix has great features: built-in remote callers, audio buses, MIDI controller support, titles; just to name a few that I use.

I love and use free software a lot, but vMix blows OBS out of the water for semi-professional video productions.

techietim··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
> my 7-year-old son just started half that dose

This is horrifying.

techietim··on Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles
How much should he make?
techietim··on Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Australia?
vMix, a popular live video production/streaming software, is based in Australia.
techietim··on Ask HN: What do you use to download videos?
The correct spelling is yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
techietim··on Ask HN: How did yall meet your SO?
I met my wife at Church. I asked her out after the evening service and three weeks later we were married!
techietim··on Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024665
techietim··on Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
At the bottom of the list you will find a "Paid options" section. The author says they personally have had a good experience with DeleteMe and Kanary.
techietim··on Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
https://archive.ph/Z6iLG
techietim··on Ask HN: Is there any tool for benchmarking responsiveness for Linux?
I use Zen on a newer Thinkpad T14, but I feel there is a difference. Applications like Firefox and Intellij feel snappier than with the standard Kernel.
techietim··on Show HN: Bridge Audio Between Mumble and Discord
I am the author of the Mumble library[1] used in OP's project. I've also contributed directly to the Mumble project a bit in the past.

It has been several years since I shut down my personal Mumble server. One of the reasons being that lots of my friends were using Discord and found opening Mumble an annoyance (being connected to multiple Mumble servers at once is not well supported, but being in multiple Discord "servers" is very common). The Mumble client also had a poor UX.

It would be great if Mumble had a web interface, support for multiple servers, and a better text chat interface, but I think it's too little too late to convince regular users to use Mumble.

[1]: https://github.com/layeh/gumble

techietim··on PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
There is no real point in posting this now: you needed to sign up as a developer back in September in order to purchase this:

> Developers will need to use a coupon code to complete the purchase.

techietim··on MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released
I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.
techietim··on How Long Can We Live?
I do not believe her age is correct; the Bible states that man's maximum lifespan is now 120:

> Genesis 6:3

> And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

techietim··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
What is your company's back and front-end stack?
techietim··on Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
For anyone who is using Digital Ocean, I have written up a little guide on how to install Alpine directly onto a droplet:

https://github.com/bontibon/digitalocean-alpine

techietim··on Ask HN: Chrome browser phones home, how to disable this?
There are a set of privacy related patches for Chromium called inox (https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset).

If you are on Arch Linux, binaries are available on the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/inox-bin

techietim··on Facebook DNS record has been compromised
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345872
techietim··on [dead]
Relevant blog post: https://github.com/blog/1767-redesigned-conversations.
techietim··on The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses
This reminds me of a research project that was done at my university a few years back[1], except they were specifically scanning for web servers. Out of the 3,690,921,984 addresses they scanned, 18,560,257 had web servers running on port 80[2].

[1]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...

[2]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...

techietim··on A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956
I'm not sure why the article is saying this video is now on YouTube. The video pages says it was uploaded in 2009.
techietim··on Getty's New Watermark
I just typed in the address listed on the sample image and, due to the contrast between the text and the image, mistook it as "gly.im". Did anyone else notice this?
techietim··on Ask HN: music for hackers?
I've been recently listening to and enjoying Digitally Imported's Ambient channel. Not a lot of distracting lyrics in their songs, and usually very calming.

http://www.di.fm/ambient

techietim··on Ask HN: Why does StackOverflow close so many useful topics?
There is a relatively new (a month old) FAQ section named What Stack Overflow is Not[1]. I believe lots of new and old questions are being closed and deleted based on this list.

For your example, a "what is best..." question would be closed under "Stack Overflow is not a Recommendation Engine".

[1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/128548/151459

techietim··on Electric Potential Pong (html5/processing.js)
Looks like the author is taking advantage of the recently exposed voting forgery:

  <iframe width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742984&dir=up&whence=newest"></iframe>
techietim··on Show HN: Beauty Contest for Virtual Life - Digital Art Project (lurepet.com)
Clickable: http://lurepet.com
techietim··on Ask HN: I'm a 14yo HS student. How can I improve my situation?
As a soon to graduate high school senior and someone who seems to have the same interests as you, here are some of my thoughts:

1. Stay on the ball with your school work. I regret doing this myself. Freshman and sophomore year I had a decent average (85-90%), however, junior year I just got lazy. Most of my classes went down into the 70s and I was not enjoying myself. I'm in my final semester now, I have been accepted to university, but I'll most likely have to take out a big student loan as my average isn't good enough for most scholarships. I could have done better in those last two years of high school, but I didn't know how to manage my time. I'm getting better with it now, thankfully, and two tips I have for you are: (a) write down what homework you have for the evening on an ipod, notebook, or whatever you are guaranteed to look at once you get home. As soon as you get home, before you visit HN, reddit, or play any games(!), do that homework! You'll be able to focus better if you're not distracted by anything else, and you won't have to rush to finish it before bed (b) find time to do as much work as you can at school. If you happen to have a free period, study hall, or lunch break, take advantage of that. If you have something to do, find somewhere quite to work and JUST DO IT. You'll feel so much better after completing it and then you won't have to spend time at home on it. Don't let your friends talk you out of doing your homework to spend time with them, as there will be opportunities for that later. There's a due date on assignments, and you'll most likely not have another chance to get it done.

2. I've attended the canada-wide national science fair two times (hopefully a third. I'll find out soon), and this is something where one has to spend TONS of their free time working on a project. My projects were programming related, so I got to do what I enjoy doing and I won some cash and prizes doing so. However, there are huge time management issue with this. This is where finding those spare moments at school to do homework and assignments is really important.

3. Don't worry about a VPS. I know the feeling of wanting one though, but I've had to resist. There's just no practical reason why you actually NEED one. Before you buy something, ask yourself if it's something you actually need. If you would like to get a domain name (which can be helpful if you're advertising yourself on Kijiji or Craigslist for web dev.), you could just have a static HTML page (which most domain registrars allow you to have free), and have it link to your work (Github, etc.)

4. As others have pointed out, there are many free resources online. You just have to look.

techietim··on Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers
I hope you don't plan on keeping the current URL for the developer listing, as humorous as it is:

http://profile.io/developers/developers/developers/developer...

techietim··on Kevin Rose's new startup/tech podcast to go live tomorrow at 10am
I think it's suppose to say that the podcast will be about startups and tech.
techietim··on What computer games do HNers play?
Team Fortress 2.
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