chrisballinger

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by chrisballinger 12y ago
It will soon! After playing around with their latest Signal 2.0 beta that integrates TextSecure support, I honestly would recommend using Signal unless you specifically need Tor/OTR or want to host your own XMPP infrastructure.
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
I'd love to make this happen, but it won't be possible unless they support open federation, which is currently impossible when using your phone number as the identifier. I do plan to support Axolotl in conjunction with our provide
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
I was excited about the possibility of federated XMPP over mobile hidden services, mainly because of the built-in NAT traversal. It could make creating a "good enough" XMPP server as simple as buying a cheap Android phone, install
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Most people don't choose their devices like a developer would and instead focus on things like ease of use (or the best marketing campaign). Just because a platform doesn't offer completely perfect theoretical security and privacy
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Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v3.0 (OTR + Tor + XMPP)(chatsecure.org)
74 points by chrisballinger 12y ago|28 comments
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Have you seen libsodium [1]? It's a "portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended API to improve usability even further." I've been using it in a toy project o
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Have you guys seen YapDatabase [1]? It is an awesome Obj-C key/value/collection store (and more) built on top of SQLite, that I originally started using instead of Core Data for its easy SQLCipher support. It's built by the v
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Hey all, we put a lot of work into this year's iBurn over the last couple of weeks. We rebuilt the iOS app from scratch this year and hopefully laid a solid modern foundation for future years. Hopefully it is useful to some of you! Eve
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Show HN: iBurn 2014 – Open Source Burning Man Map and Guide(iburnapp.com)
14 points by chrisballinger 12y ago|2 comments
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Congrats Seth! I had to unfollow you while you were making all those repos because it clogged my feed. GitHub should really put some work into improving their feed algorithm so one project can't just clog it all.
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
How does this compare to WhisperSystem's Flock? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Flock
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
RTMP support is on our roadmap (and actually exists inside the SDK in a disabled state), and our live transcoding backend will have the ability to restream to any arbitrary RTMP endpoint in addition to the other outputs.
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
What do you mean by "share the costs"? Our pricing plans are based on usage tiers: https://kickflip.io/pricing
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Yep, we manage all of the infrastructure so you don't have to. We should make our pricing more up-front but here is a direct link: https://kickflip.io/pricing
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Yeah I made modifications to disable frame reordering and handle the extra SEI information properly, but I'll study your solution too because it seems really awesome. The lower the latency the better :)
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
I've done simultaneous hardware encoding before (two 640x480 videos) but I haven't pushed the boundaries yet. I have a hunch that newer phones might be able to do a few bitrates at the same time, but at that point we will do re-en
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Wow, if only I knew about VideoCore earlier! I used a modified version of Geraint Davies temp .mp4 file hack, but it looks like you developed a great alternative.
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by chrisballinger 12y ago
Unfortunately Apple still doesn't expose the APIs that we need and are forced to use tricks to get the encoded frames. We based our hardware encoder wrapper on the technique described by Geraint Davies [1], but have modified and improv
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
If you weren't aware, the guy who made this also made the very awesome Frog Fractions and recently funded its successor on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fraction...
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
This one has basic ePub support https://github.com/OnlyInAmerica/OpenSpritz-Android
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
It's actually a .co http://capptivate.co
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
> Yes! Of course! August 28, 2013! That was the day I invented time-dilated difficulty gravitational wells. The black holes of difficulty formulas! I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet about to upload a standard
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
I am working on a protocol-agnostic, federated push messaging layer for ChatSecure-iOS but it will be interesting to see if anything else pops up in the meantime.
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
We are working on a federated, protocol agnostic push server design here: https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-Push-Server/tree/ma...
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
Layer seems interesting but I think the reason XMPP ultimately succeeded was because of federation and a healthy open source ecosystem. We are drafting a federated, minimal knowledge push server design for privacy-minded chat apps: https:&
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
What really disappoints me about the current crop of VC funded messaging apps is that none of them care very strongly about user privacy. Even apps that claim to keep your messages "encrypted" are closed source and don't incl
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
Even though these libraries are open source, it cannot be built without their proprietary, binary-only "AMD APP SDK" [1], only available for Linux and Windows. Bummer. 1. http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks&#x2
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
Unfortunately you still aren't able to use your own hardware how you'd like on iOS, even with a developer account. Certain private APIs (like the VPN one)[1] require an "Entitlements" file linked to a provisioning profil
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
Cool to see this posted here, I know one of the guys working on it. It would be nice if they provided some compiled/preconfigured images for VirtualBox or VMware to play with though.
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by chrisballinger 13y ago
My apps ChatSecure [1] and OpenWatch [2] are fully open source as well. 1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS 2. https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-iOS

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