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tmp65535
4y ago
This app has earned significant money since 2017: http://driftwheeler.com Not safe for work. Pornography advertising. I get a cut of the monthly fees when somebody signs up for MetArt.
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tmp65535
5y ago
In my case, the year was 2017. Early 2017. How many of those formats were available on all Android phones in 2017? Answer: None.
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tmp65535
5y ago
Listen friend, I'm using it as a concrete example of a technology in every case. Today I'm using it as a concrete example of H.265 (BPG) as an astonishingly good alternative to JPEG in applications where you control the encoder an
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tmp65535
5y ago
We may differ in our interpretation of the phrase "sensitive information". It used to be that most computer programmers ("hackers") understood the value of privacy.
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tmp65535
5y ago
You are correct, there may be licensing issue.
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tmp65535
5y ago
Sure. But the benefits of privacy and compartmentalization outweigh the costs.
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tmp65535
5y ago
This account exists ONLY to talk about that app. Every one of my projects is isolated from the others by using different accounts, etc. We should all be meticulous about compartmentalizing our online identity. This app uses an unusual image
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5y ago
Fabrice Bellard's BPG image format uses H.265's keyframe compressor: https://bellard.org/bpg/ Here is a side-by-side visual comparison: http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#ball
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5y ago
Be careful working in this field (pornography). In 2017 I wrote a mildly pornographic app ( http://driftwheeler.com ) and it appears on my resume. When hiring managers or recruiters take a look, some of them get upset. For example
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5y ago
Here is the first (?) application of deep learning to improve the pornography experience, an Android app called Melondream published in early 2017: http://driftwheeler.com Surprisingly, almost 5 years after being published, this
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5y ago
I have been distributing a pornographic Android app on the web since 2017 and there are no difficulties. Simply put the APK on a webpage and link to some instructions for installing an untrusted APK. For example, see http://drift
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tmp65535
5y ago
The app allows you to search through a large collection of images by "pressing" parts of an image. The images are not generated.
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tmp65535
5y ago
This app, now almost 5 years old (warning, NSFW): http://driftwheeler.com uses a custom brute force search in CUDA, based on bitonic sort ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitonic_sorter ) and a fractional no
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5y ago
Similarly, I've been writing respectable software for decades but I'm fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app ( http://driftwheeler.com ) This app, publis
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5y ago
All the major app stores restrict pornographic or sexually explicit content. But if you Google "porn app", the 4th or 5th search result (SexTechGuide) is a page that features the app, with a review, pros/cons, and the funny i
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5y ago
Similarly, I've been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I'm fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app ( http://driftwheeler.com ) O