OmarAssadi

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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Netflix uses Widevine DRM, and in short, not very easy. Widevine has three different security levels: L1, L2, and L3, with L3 being the lowest-level. Things like Chrome have L3 access. There have been tools to dump Chrome’s key and decrypt
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
If it were dual-licensed, I think it’d be hard to find anyone who’d object. GPL is scary to me, though, since I prefer to license my stuff under pretty unrestrictive licenses, and I don’t really want to deal with the virality.
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Kotlin does both functional and object-oriented programming very well. It also has near-perfect interoperability with Java, so you can reuse your existing libraries without any hassle. And it works well with standard build tools like Gradle
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Maybe it is paranoia on my end, but it’s not as small of a risk as it may seem. A couple of years ago, I attempted to pay for an app on Google Play, which didn’t work, so I tried a different payment method, but I put in my number wrong, and
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
I wish :( Unfortunately, pretty much all of the sites have rules regarding giving away invites to people on public forums and such. And many will claim to ban your entire invite tree if someone breaks any serious rules. I wouldn't be s
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Yeah, getting an account on those two sites, in particular, without knowing someone would be tough. HDB is the only other one I can really think of like that, though. Most others are relatively straightforward, with passive time often being
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
There is a reason why I said "almost" no need ;-) Of course, you can never be sure about anything, but on the other hand, many of these places have been around for upwards of a decade or longer without any major incidents. I get p
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Redacted ("RED") is probably the best place to be nowadays for general music. It is where the majority of people ended up after What.CD, one of the earlier trackers, closed. They have a ton of lossless audio, and you generally hav
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
With the demographics of HN and some of the topics that come up often (e.g., Linux, privacy, nostalgia for old-school forums, weird little micro-optimizations of peoples' lifestyles to achieve the "best" possible way to do a
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by OmarAssadi 5y ago
Perhaps not famous, but Bryan Cantrill, who gives my favorite talks, has an interesting and funny talk on one of the Joyent outages: https://youtu.be/30jNsCVLpAE
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by OmarAssadi 5y ago
That sounds like you’d just want MIT then and simply license your distribution of the binaries separately. However, doing that would mean that someone could just compile it themselves and then release their own binaries. You’d probably want
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by OmarAssadi 5y ago
Borderless gaming, perhaps?
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by OmarAssadi 5y ago
I had been paying a little over $1,000 USD per month in Tomsk, Russia. I had about 125 square meters in the center of the city, right across from the main university campus, 600/600Mbps unmetered symmetrical fiber with a static ipv4 ad