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This is an interesting example where the new expanded set of TLDs can get confusing. My brain interpreted the URL as something semantically like "audio.github.c
by freditup 10y ago
This is an interesting example where the new expanded set of TLDs can get confusing. My brain interpreted the URL as something semantically like "audio.github.com". Put another way, I thought the site was actually GitHub-made at first glance at its domain.
Of course, this was possible in various ways before expanding TLDs, but I think the problem, and thus the ease of phishing, is greater now.
- geostyx 10y agoI agree. How am I supposed to know if a TLD belongs to a company?
- hyperhopper 10y agoWHOIS
- CalRobert 10y agoIf you're using the default whois that comes with OS X you're out of luck. $ whois github.audio whois: audio.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
- eriknstr 10y agoI don't have time for that every time I encounter a new domain.
- jsingleton 10y agoThis functionality could be automated with a browser extension, or even as a built-in feature where there isn't an EV cert.
- throwawayReply 10y agoThen your whois provider gets to see all the domains you are visiting in real-time.
- jsingleton 10y agoGood point. Even though your ISP/DNS provider can see this too (including HTTPS connections) it's prudent to limit data leakage as much as possible. Perhaps the lookup could require a single click (only needed when you are unsure of the owner).
- jsingleton 10y agoI guess EV certs can help. This one just uses Let's Encrypt but GitHub have their company name in the URL bar for official sites.
- eriknstr 10y agoI think the name "GitHub Audio" is confusing and probably a trademark violation. When I read "GitHub Audio", I figured it was a new service by GitHub for musicians to version control their music.
- mojuba 10y agoThat would be very very cool, but good luck with trying to version .logicx or .cpr I think popular software vendors should seriously reconsider their file formats in the 21st century, including graphical and audio ones.
- NikolaeVarius 10y agoWhy wouldn't it be possible to version control in the same way we version control other random files? Just treat it as a stream of arbitrary data.
- jpfed 10y agoYes, but more tantalizing would be some kind of wavelet-based semantic versioning. This might allow merging.
- stdbrouw 10y agoYou'd miss out on all the goodies of version control like seeing what has changed. Ideally, version control for musicians would have the ability to show "change panning of guitar a to 0.3 and volume to 0.1" similarly to a code diff. Otherwise all you've got is just a bunch of backups, possibly with semi-informative commit messages if you really put a lot of effort into it.
- spudlyo 10y agoI wish that there was a way of getting Logic X to output a list of changes you've made during a session. When I collaborate with my bandmate, I often struggle to describe all the changes I've made since he passed me the project. I'd also like to know the changes he's made. My bandmate often works on our project while it's in a Dropbox folder, so I get a steady stream of notifications about impulse responses and undo files being changed; not very useful. I can tell when he's tracking because the new .aif files come over but that's about it.
- rasmi 10y agoAgreed. The name made me expect an official "GitHub for Audio" type service, something like: https://splice.com/ https://splice.com/
- kristopolous 10y agoThe closest thing to collaborative music I've found is https://www.audiotool.com/ https://www.audiotool.com/ Why? You can edit other people's music. Watch this magic: https://www.audiotool.com/app/soundlab/ https://www.audiotool.com/app/soundlab/
- stepanhruda 10y agoTBL made an unfortunate decision to put .com at the end, instead of keeping the hierarchy like this http:com.github.www/foo
- alexduros 10y agoActually, the simple fact that this thread appears in 1st in HN lead me to this wrong way, prior to the TLD.
- seagreen 10y agoEven worse, this matches the actual way URLs should have gone in the first place: com.site.subdomain/folder/subfolder/subsubfolder/.
- dylanz 10y agoAgreed. I think the title of this post could have been: "Generating audio from Github events". The title is somewhat click-bait.
- totally 10y agoWhy are people more interested in what they thought it was than what it is?