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   by dividuum 9y ago

   Holy shit. Mentioning the demo scene in an article about game engines made me remember the "Into the Shadows" demo by Triton from 1995 (one year before quake was released): https://youtu.be/MViZocLJVcM?t=28s . That
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   by dividuum 9y ago

   I've worked almost exclusively on https://info-beamer.com , a digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi. It all started as a for fun project while freelancing and turned into a profitable business. All while still being a
3. 573.▲
   by dividuum 9y ago

   Then open a support ticket. They are usually very responsive and helpful.
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   by dividuum 9y ago

   3) That's not true. I'm using their Android app and marking any mail read/unread is instantly replicated to the open web interface on my desktop machine and vice versa.
5. 575.▲
   by dividuum 9y ago

   Can't confirm. Reloading the page takes at most two seconds with a multi GB inbox. I've can't remember ever feeling that their initial page load time is slow. Odd.
6. 576.▲
   by dividuum 9y ago

   Put it in a sandbox without network access. https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap might be worth looking at for that. It also has the added benefit of reducing the attack surface of running w3m on untrusted conte
7. 577.▲
   by dividuum 9y ago

   > Private network is available, unmetered. It's not private. It's internal and shared with all other customers at the same data center location. I wouldn't be surprise if this misleading marketing resulted in lots of accid
8. 578.▲
   by dividuum 9y ago

   Reminds me of "python plays GTA V" stream where a Convolutional Neural Network drives through the vast GTA world: https://www.twitch.tv/sentdex
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   by dividuum 9y ago

   Adding to the already existing examples: Back in 1998, the CIH virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus) bricked quite a few computers by overwriting the BIOS.
10. 580.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    OS development for info-beamer started in 2013. I'm fairly sure nothing even close was available back then. I'm not sure about today. So far I don't regret the NIH approach we took.
11. 581.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    Not a major user, but we're using zsync for system updates of our Raspberry Pi based digital signage operating system ( https://info-beamer.com/hosted ). It's pretty great and offers a few things we couldn't do
12. 582.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    I'm a bit reminded of the central GAME.C file from the original Duke3D source code: https://github.com/videogamepreservation/dukenukem3d/blob/ma... It's almost 10k lines of nested if statements, lot
13. 583.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    Of course not. Because my OS isn't specifically designed for that. If it was (like my router): Of course.
14. 584.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    Of course it's a solution. It solve (among other things) the problem of unexpected power loss. You can't design your system for the happy path and hope for the best.
15. 585.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    You can't rely on users to actually do this every time. The more robust you make your system the better.
16. 586.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    Neat! We're also using a SquashFS root file system. It's only 30MB total at the moment. Right now there isn't a way to do remote system configuration changes (through a UI, it's doable from a command line). Most changes
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    It's not based on Ubuntu Snaps. It's a custom development. It predated Ubuntu Snaps by I think 2 years? I don't see any obvious reason to switch to Snaps now, since it's all been really reliable so far. The downloads are
18. 588.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    I haven't. So far it's really customized for our use case. If you're interested in a smallish self contained code that is based on Go, you might have a look at https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy
19. 589.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    Not 100% of course, but so far we haven't encountered any problem. We also checksum both the operating system and all downloaded data periodically so we can catch and repair any corruption. Of course this won't help if the system
20. 590.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    I'm operating a digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi ( https://info-beamer.com/hosted ). When we started designing our Linux based custom operating system we also decided to go with the read-only approach. So far
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    Personally I don't think the idea behind AMP is bad. But the implementation is dangerous as it artificially fragments the web. I guess fewer would oppose AMP if google made some machine verifiable guidelines for "light" webpa
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    I think this all is a fascinating problem. I'm running a digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi (see profile) and also offer OTA updates. I've initially built my OTA process around the same idea: Keep a bare minimum bootable
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    > With ByzCoin, if you can't reach quorum, you can't make progress [...] This may be a stupid questions, but how does such a system prevent me from adding new nodes, only to remove them all at once if I want to prevent the syst
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    The Show HN guidelines say something about not submitting a project if the visitors can't directly play around with it. As that package I'm showing isn't publicly available yet, I thought I might wait until I do a Show HN. I
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    Video Wall on the Raspberry Pi: Configure it by taking a picture of your screens

    24 points by dividuum 9y ago|5 comments
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    Since it claims to be "100% bit compatible with Amazon S3", I would assume that you can use boto if you manually configure their endpoints.
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    I'm running a digital signage service based on the Raspberry Pi: https://info-beamer.com/ It started as a for-fun project and I'm now working full time on it. So I guess it qualifies :-) If you want to display any
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    by dividuum 9y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. > Hardware is unreliable and inconsistent That's not true from my experience. I'm running a digital signage service based on the Pi. So far all devices are very reliable. Of course that depends on othe
29. 599.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    > There's no guarantee of long-term support; [...] They make no guarantees that they will continue manufacturing what you're already committed to. The Pi foundation guarantees the availability for the Compute Module 1 and 3 unt
30. 600.▲
    by dividuum 9y ago

    What's wrong with something like the Raspberry Pi? I'm working with it professionally (see my profile) and am very successful at using it in "production". Right now I don't have the need to build a custom board but