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by benwilber0 2y ago
But what if I did't do any of those things? What if I made a mistake and didn't save my backup codes on 3 different types of storage medium (at least one of them offsite)? Or at all?
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by benwilber0 2y ago
Well, hopefully you never lose your original birth certificate and your social security card! You won't be a citizen anymore!
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by benwilber0 2y ago
oh shit I lost my backup codes. So now I'm just never allowed to use Uber again?
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Never enable 2FA for accounts that you actually care about (2023)(benwilber.github.io)
10 points by benwilber0 2y ago|58 comments
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by benwilber0 3y ago
Several years ago I cobbled together all the pieces to make a live video streaming website [1] like Twitch.tv, et al. It's impossible to actually run at any kind of scale without being an ISP or Google-scale peer. Not to mention the
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by benwilber0 4y ago
I released Boltstream [0] for exactly this kind of thing. It's not a Youtube replacement. It's a self-hosted replacement for Youtube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch.tv, and alike. [0] https://github.com/benwilber&#x2
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by benwilber0 5y ago
I built Boltstream [0] over the course of a couple years and got burned out. I wouldn't say it was actually a failed project because in the back of my mind I never really had any intention of trying to turn it into a Twitch/YouTu
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Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform(github.com)
510 points by benwilber0 6y ago|93 comments
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Show HN: OpenResty buildpack for Heroku (and compatibles like Dokku)(github.com)
1 points by benwilber0 6y ago|0 comments
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Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM(benwilber.github.io)
86 points by benwilber0 8y ago|21 comments
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Building a live video streaming website – Part 2 – The Application(benwilber.github.io)
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by benwilber0 8y ago
why would i go through all this effort just to let some stranger torrent iron man on my internet account
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by benwilber0 8y ago
They just stop showing your history to you on the website. Don't think for a second that they don't still have it.
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by benwilber0 8y ago
What if I don't believe them?
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by benwilber0 8y ago
Public DNS is just one of the many free services that Google provides in order to slurp up every single possible activity that happens on the internet. Visit this website in your logged-in Google browser tab: https://myactivity.
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by benwilber0 8y ago
wait a second. can I launch my own satellite into outer space?
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Ask HN: How to protect your dotfiles from being stolen by nefarious scripts?
2 points by benwilber0 8y ago|4 comments
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by benwilber0 8y ago
we don't need to victim blame here. we can both practice security best practices and also try to find and prosecute those responsible.
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by benwilber0 8y ago
I am very surprised they stopped at just grabbing your .npmrc. They could have grabbed basically anything they want like ~/.aws/credentials, your whole .bashrc (which often contains a whole slew of API keys and access tokens), an
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by benwilber0 8y ago
us-east-2 is back online now. all of our EC2 instances were terminated and our ASGs have spawned replacements. So I don't think that's just a network issue..
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by benwilber0 8y ago
I hate adding syntax but you know what's really useful? Django's `for .. empty` template syntax. I would like to see this in Python: for i in []: print(i) empty: print("Sequence was empty!")
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by benwilber0 8y ago
I don't know much about the startup landscape in France (or anywhere in the EU), but I've always heard that it is difficult to incorporate a small company and hire employees due to large regulatory/bureaucracy hurdles. The &
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by benwilber0 8y ago
WebDAV is still one of the main protocols for pushing HLS live streams to CDNs
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by benwilber0 8y ago
Unfortunately is seems that Roman Arutyunyan has not been able (or willing) to keep up the development of nginx-rtmp-module. Thankfully, Mr. Sergey Dryabzhinsky has a fork [0] that has added a lot of nice new features (EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-T
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by benwilber0 9y ago
This trick is to add them to a list like "People I Follow" instead of just following them like usual. Lists are always sequential and not loaded with a billion ads, "Stuff you missed", and all that algorithmic garbage
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by benwilber0 9y ago
I agree with you. At Facebook-scale the data is massive -- far bigger than anyone here could possibly comprehend and that includes the Facebook and Google-ers lurking around. Data has incredible inertia. And when there's a lot of it
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by benwilber0 9y ago
https://www.imgix.com/
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by benwilber0 9y ago
Driving the speed limit is never unsafe. And especially not in a residential area 35 MPH zone.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
That is speeding and also the car was inattentive to potential hazards outside of its vision. Normal human drivers slow down when they see a wild lady on the median looking like she might dart into the road. Normal people slow down when t
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> According to the Chronicle, the preliminary investigation found the Uber car was driving at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone and did not attempt to brake. Herzberg is said to have abruptly walked from a center median into a lane with traffic. T

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