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by dkh 5y ago
I love that a service to detect outages had an outage because there was an outage on their provider, which is most likely the same provider that most of their customers are running services on that they want outage monitoring for Can't
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by dkh 5y ago
Exactly. Setting aside all legal concerns and whatever anyone's philosophy is about piracy or moderated content, you still have the enormous concern about what kind of community you are fostering and what kind of people you are attract
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by dkh 5y ago
In this case, a mix of both is required. While you absolutely must plan ahead and implement as many safeguards as you can prior to launch, that's simply the beginning, and it is incredibly naive to think that all the leaks can be preve
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by dkh 5y ago
It's inevitable that these folks would show up pretty quickly, but your very first user? Extremely impressive!
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by dkh 5y ago
Okay, so disregarding that label, most platforms will have a target or focus or niche (well, the ones that want a chance of surviving, anyway) and they will thus be very wise to tailor the rules around that, and create the conditions ideal
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by dkh 5y ago
We weren't held responsible, but it was still investigated and required our cooperation and was not the best use of our resources. Honestly, the public reputation part was far and away the more unfortunate consequence. Trust me, I have
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by dkh 5y ago
Not involved with this project, but there's a couple big reasons most would care about this. * Child porn and similar content that is a level beyond simply "NSFW" * Uploaders of NSFW stuff are always in need of a new platform
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by dkh 5y ago
It drives me absolutely nuts when I encounter a video platform upstart that has not adequately prepared (or prepared at all) for the inevitable onslaught of undesirable and illegal content that users will soon start uploading if the platfor
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by dkh 5y ago
What format, bitrate, and resolution are your video outputs? Or just a length and file size of one that’s handy. (I’m a streaming video engineer and curious.) Reduction in file size from re-encoding doesn’t mean there will be perceivable lo
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by dkh 5y ago
There are plenty of people who don't seem to notice how crappy things look when their monitor is set to non-native resolution, or the differences between SD/HD/4K, or a clearly uprezzed JPG. Might be something to do with what
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by dkh 5y ago
Right, I failed to parse the comment as inquiring as to if that's the Btrfs issue referred to. Yes, I am familiar with Btrfs' RAID blunder. Somewhat ironic though since RAID5 is rarely the best idea regardless of the system implem
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by dkh 5y ago
Not sure if you are suggesting RAID5 as a relevant problem or solution, but it's arguably the former! :) Regardless, ZFS has configurations equivalent to most "traditional" RAID options anyway (raidz1 is their RAID5) but with
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by dkh 5y ago
Yup, and as far as "blackbox" solutions go, if something horrible should happen to your system, you want something that works like ZFS as opposed to, say, some high-performance but proprietary hardware RAID. As someone who has a c
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by dkh 5y ago
Could you briefly elaborate on this? Are you suggesting the right structures within Elixir/Erlang are both concurrent and safe enough to negate the need for these things at some level? (And are you referring to things like OTP, or more
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by dkh 5y ago
Yes, and as a happy early adopter with many projects running off it, I was very happy about this. However the pace of development since then has been absolutely glacial and seemingly without direction. It's truly a shame.
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by dkh 5y ago
SQLModel isn't its own totally new thing so much as an abstraction that lets you create models that are both SQLAlchemy models as well as Pydantic models, simultaneously. If you use Pydantic, or want to be using it with your models, th
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by dkh 5y ago
Flask was incredible and a joy to build with, but it's not the future. It's only the present in that so any legacy apps exist that use it and because people who don't knew better will likely still stumble upon it first and us
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by dkh 5y ago
Excellent, more [real-life] context for something [fictional] that happened on “Mad Men.” “When I say I want the moon, I expect the moon.”
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by dkh 6y ago
Same here! I went to a computer camp in 1999 (age 12) and started learning C++. Not able to pay for either CodeWarrior (what the camp used) or Visual C++, I stumbled across Dev-C++ on bloodshed.net and for years it became my go-to. Memories
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by dkh 6y ago
FFmpeg is a miraculous tool and I have relied on it for a couple decades now. Beyond the plethora of personal use-cases, it has enabled individuals and smaller companies to possess the same abilities as the bigger guys, who themselves are a
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by dkh 6y ago
The best ffmpeg-based video platform exploit I've ever seen was this one [1] where a user could upload a specially-doctored video to your YouTube-esque platform and while encoding it would trick ffmpeg into reading system files on the
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by dkh 6y ago
There are also things like LL-HLS and others coming down the pipeline that will further reduce latency issues with a lot less complexity than WebRTC. (Maybe not for the security camera not-many-viewers use-case, but certainly for anything b
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by dkh 6y ago
WebRTC is amazing and definitely has its uses in video streaming, but it does present a number of challenges and disadvantages. Simplified, it can have lower latency and higher reliability, but at the cost of compatibility and scalability.
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by dkh 6y ago
I came across 2A in 2000 as a freshman in high school getting interested in web design and it was absolute magic. It was hugely influential on my excitement about the web and by extension my decision to do the work I do now. If I think abou
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by dkh 6y ago
> The peer to peer stream will buffer through the whole video so you can seed it. The paid streaming service buffers only like the next 30 seconds to save on their bandwith I think you're seeing how these systems actually work in pr
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by dkh 6y ago
> But from my understanding of VideoCoin, nothing seems to be different there at first glance. I did not mean to imply that VideoCoin solves this issue, just that it is, in my opinion, a clever and functional solution to one or two piece
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by dkh 6y ago
It is definitely true that an enormous part of YouTube's value is its ubiquity and the discoverability of content there. Absolutely. But the immense technical and financial challenges are a huge part of why it's such a Herculean t
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by dkh 6y ago
I've been cautiously following projects like this, and will add this one to the list.
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by dkh 6y ago
Any sort of delay or buffering can affect you very negatively (see: https://mux.com/blog/buffering-reduces-video-watch-time-by-4... and https://mux.com/blog/rebuffering-the-most-frustrating-and-fr.
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by dkh 6y ago
Just as an example of how crypto can help solve some problems in this arena see VideoCoin's proof system: ( https://medium.com/videocoin/proof-system-for-videocoin-stor... and https://medium.com/vid

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