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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Basic authentication is covered in Section 11[0] There are more thoughts on tightening up authentication in the last section "Tightening and tidying" Apologies if I have misunderstood your comment [0] https://github.com&
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Cheers :) I trained and worked as a writer in my previous career, so it's nice to know that at least some of those chops remain. Like every other writer on the planet, I've tried AI for generating some base text that I could then
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Oh, thanks that's very kind of you to say. PeerJS is great - it takes a lot of the complexity out of WebRTC and replaces it with a nice, clean API. I think it was an OK decision for them to use Google for their TURN server - really, th
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Thanks, and you're exactly right - the Oracle bit is probably the most basic, interchangeable part of the whole stack. The tricky bit there for me was all the ports/firewall configuration which like you say will be the same/v
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Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server(github.com)
122 points by cookie_monsta 2y ago|52 comments
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Some sort of navigation would be nice a prev/next or some way to avoid having to go back to the links page all the time. All of the pages that I visited were small enough that you could probably wrap them them <details> tags[1] a
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
As shall we all one day
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Betteridge's law in full effect
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
It might be useful here to give a current example or two of Aussie nanny statism, just for context
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Yeah, but those are probably two of the easiest to understand characters in that show
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England. Coming from Australia I would say that the subtitles were mostly useful and only sometimes unnecessary. I'm ok with ac
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
It's because that puts the onus for coming up with a solution onto the millions of end users rather than the handful of devs who created the problem in the first place
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> The problem is that users much prefer native apps. I imagine there is some data on this, but it goes against my observations of me and my circle. I have maybe 4 apps that I use heavily and another 10 that I use when I have to. I active
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Why a tow truck?
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Oh, ok. Thanks, but curious why that link instead of so many others which talk explicitly about that law
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Loads. This wasn't a secret policy: > “The police will do the right thing: Aim at their little heads and fire! So there is no mistake” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/world/americas/brazil
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
If you are interested in what anarchy would actually look like as a political system, Latin America gives some very good insights
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
It seems to me that business springs up wherever there is arbitrage and this is especially true for "free" natural resources (timber, water, etc). Organised crime can make it profitable because they already have manpower and equip
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
There's a chart about half way through the article - around 40% in Brazil
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> you don't want a random person become hair stylist for the day and then switch to something else Considering that the stakes are fairly low (compared to say, surgeon for a day) and that there are plenty of jobs that obviously do n
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Thank you for compounding the problem. Skipping ahead to the conclusion, I am guessing the law is "be lean and flexible"?
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Here's another data point: I have taken literally thousands of taxis on 5 continents and none of this has ever happened to me
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Quora had some really good content when I first started using it (maybe 10 years ago). Some really interesting people at the top of their field would post thoughtful things there. Then after a couple of years I think it changed hands. The d
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
They are both there, in the table at the bottom
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Hmm, but you have to be squinting pretty hard to see an equivalence between Snapchat and silk road
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
We moved to groups.io years ago when yahoo groups folded. It's very feature-rich and completely free. I have been expecting some sort of monetization attempt but so far nothing. I have no idea how it makes money, which is sadly worryin
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Maybe because it never had currency?
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
I felt like I got the gist after the first two: > Adopting Wide Event-style instrumentation has been one of the highest-leverage changes I’ve made in my engineering career. The feedback loop on all my changes tightened and debugging syst
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
I see where you're going but for me "create more work" doesn't quite capture it. In my mind there's a pretty clear distinction between computer work and human work. Computers are good at fast, precise calculations a
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
This is pretty much the opposite of every explanation I have seen of this principle

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