Veratyr

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by Veratyr 10y ago
Your analogy isn't particularly good, as alcohol is something a person makes a choice to engage in, fully aware of the dangers. You can't know how stressful a job or project will be before you take it. Sometimes a stress inducing
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Representative democracy in one of the more well known forms (America's) is demonstrably an oligarchy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
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by Veratyr 10y ago
What it actually does [0] is set group policy according to the Microsoft specified methods [1]. It would have helped in this situation as not only would Windows not have downloaded the update in the first place, it would have deleted it had
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Any news on how the e2e support is progressing? The FAQ [0] says "End-to-end encryption is coming shortly to clients for both 1:1 and group chats to protect user data stored on servers, using the Olm cryptographic ratchet implementatio
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Do they even exist anymore? Maybe not S40 exactly but there are still plenty of "dumb" phones. It was only 3 years ago that smartphones started to outsell dumb phones [0]. In America, there are still ~24 million "dum
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Australian counterparts Could you elaborate? I'm an Australian but I haven't heard about anything 18F/Cloud.gov-like back home.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Or Photography. My Lightroom catalogue alone is 60GB. My photos several hundred GB.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
From the Vitess overview page: "Vitess has been serving all YouTube database traffic since 2011". Given that, it seems production ready.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Another thing on the k8s configuration guides is that few (none?) of them include SSL authentication. All the ones I tried were entirely insecure, allowing anyone to point the command line client at the cluster and do whatever they pleased.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
In America this is true. Prisons exist to punish criminals and to protect society from them. In more civilised countries, this is not the case. Prisons' ultimate goal is to rehabilitate the prisoners to the point where they can be rein
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Speaking of security on Kubernetes, it's worth noting that most of the "Getting Started" guides (e.g. [0]) to help you set up a cluster result in completely unauthenticated API servers. This means that by default, anyone can
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> AV1 is the new codename for Daala + Thor? No, AV1 is the name of the codec the Alliance for Open Media is producing. The Alliance for Open Media is a coalition formed by Amazon, AMD, ARM, Cisco, Google, Intel, Ittiam, Microsoft, Mozill
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Apple are being sleazy and refuse to support free codecs like VP9 and Opus. > May be Daala / Thor will eventually break their nasty behavior, especially if it will be adopted as mandatory for WebRTC. I think AV1 (Alliance for O
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Twitch needs very low latency streams. For them Flash and something like RTMP might work better. Not sure about others.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The problem with some of the really nice solutions on HN, like Tarsnap and Rsync.net is that they're really expensive compared to the alternatives. Tarsnap is $0.25/GB, over 5x the price of standard, 99.999999999% durable S3.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
1) Yes. The format and encryption specifics are even documented: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt 2) Yes. Although if you're after cheap space, Hetzner's storage boxes are the cheapest $/GB I&#x2
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Another popular alternative is Arq, which will back up to pretty much anything. [0]: https://www.arqbackup.com/
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> CDN should support that in their infrastructure (including codecs and etc.) This makes sense if the CDN is transcoding the video for you but if you do that yourself I don't think a special CDN is necessary. From Mozilla [0]: >
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by Veratyr 10y ago
As of last January, WhatsApp handled ~30b messages a day [0]. As of this January, WhatsApp has 1b users [1]. iMessage has ~300m and "several billion" messages per day (hard to get stats unfortunately). Telegram has 100m users and
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by Veratyr 10y ago
You can get MPEG-DASH latency far below 30s: https://github.com/gpac/node-gpac-dash
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Maybe I'm naïve or not seeing something here but DASH looks like something you can do by storing a couple of files somewhere and setting a MIME type [0]? What's special about DASH that CDNs need to specially support it? Or are you
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I didn't say both sides are correct, I said both sides have an argument. In this case I believe the "human != animal" definition is clearly what was intended but those who wish to argue that it shouldn't have been used h
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Duplicating my comment below for the the sake of visibility, the OED defines "animal" as: a. A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapid
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by Veratyr 10y ago
To expand this with quotes a little, OED (using the paid OED.com so can't provide links unfortunately) defines "animal" as: a. A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a n
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Access to codec specs is unfortunately rather difficult. Wikipedia has a lot of information and some links that may be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Video_Coding
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Signal is: - Bound to a phone number. - Limited to a single mobile device (can't use a tablet or a second phone). - Limited to a Chrome extension. The first two are the larger of my problems as phone numbers are far from permanent and
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Since nobody has pointed this out, although he may be able to tell people "I was working on that thing", he likely can't say much more. Many large companies don't allow employees to disclose details that haven't bee
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Doing it on the network means that the transcode is happening multiple times, which can result in playback issues if you get a source segment from two different transcodes. Not necessarily. H.264 Annex G specifies a way to encode lower
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by Veratyr 10y ago
It looks like it's just another mobile only platform too. Am I the only one who'd like to use my computer to send messages while I'm using it?
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Which map if you don't mind? Curious if it's one of those I played with my friends in high school.

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