viktorelofsson

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   by viktorelofsson 5y ago

   Not really true - v0.20 of PicoTorrent [1] was released with BitTorrent v2 support on the same day as libtorrent released support for v2 torrents. I think this predates BiglyBT 2.5 with v2 [2] support with about two weeks. [1] https:/
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   by viktorelofsson 5y ago

   BitTorrent v2 has been officially supported in PicoTorrent since the same date as the featured blog post from libtorrent :)
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   by viktorelofsson 5y ago

   Of course I can :) Thanks for pointing it out!
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   by viktorelofsson 5y ago

   Hello HN! Today we officially launch our first SaaS - Shellhook, a service to turn any shell command into a HTTP API. We've been working on it on late nights and weekends for almost a year, with some breaks here and there. It's bu
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   Show HN: Shellhook – turn any shell command into a HTTP API(shellhook.com)

   9 points by viktorelofsson 5y ago|4 comments
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   by viktorelofsson 6y ago

   That's really valuable, thank you!
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   by viktorelofsson 6y ago

   I'm using wxWidgets, so it's the Win32 API at the lowest layer. For accessibility I want to make it support the NVDA screen reader which I think would make it support other readers as well :)
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   by viktorelofsson 6y ago

   There are two libraries called libtorrent - Rasterbar-libtorrent (the one in this discussion, made by arvidn) and rakshasa-libtorrent (made by rakshasa).
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   by viktorelofsson 6y ago

   If you want to try a client with v2 (and v1+v2 hybrid) support, I've just released PicoTorrent v0.20 [0] based on Rasterbar-libtorrent 2.0 :) [0] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag&#x
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Thanks for the information! It's given me a positive outlook on a second trial for the Win32 API stuff :)
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Sure! Two examples where the Win32 API and/or my knowledge of it falls short, * Layout management. There's no "easy" way of managing dialog layouts (letting controls expand/shrink on resize etc). * Custom cont
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    (Author here) I haven't listed the specific features from Rasterbar-libtorrent but I'll make sure to do that in an upcoming update, to make it clearer. It supports DHT, PeX and LSD as well as various proxies (SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP)
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Author here - the readme is a bit outdated, sorry about that :) wxWidgets is a hard dependency since a few versions back.
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Hi! Author here. The name has been with us since the beginning, and the first few versions were actually quite small. Since then, features and other things have made things grow (mostly in file size). Since I'm a lone developer, the ha
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Hi HN! I've been working with ElasticSearch the last few days and got tired of elasticdump being slow when dumping data to disk, so I wrote Blaze. It dumps indexes to disk fast. It dumps them in a format compatible with the ElasticSear
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    Show HN: Blaze – a blazing fast ElasticSearch data exporter(github.com)

    3 points by viktorelofsson 8y ago|1 comments
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Hi HN! Author here. I've been working on this BitTorrent client for a while now and would like some feedback! It's a Node.js based BitTorrent client aimed at technical users looking for a powerful server (or seedbox) setup. It use
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    Show HN: Porla – a programmable BitTorrent client for servers and seedboxes(github.com)

    1 points by viktorelofsson 8y ago|1 comments
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    by viktorelofsson 8y ago

    Shameless self promotion: I did something similar a while back, available at https://cryptob.in Haven’t had the time to publish the sources, but I didn’t obfuscate the JS (where all the interesting and important stuff is happeni
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    I took your advice from the other comment and started using TweetNaCl.js which had some pretty good endorsements :) I’ll definitely check out some more sources on crypto in general. Thanks for the input, really!
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    Thanks! It’s mostly Bootstrap so I shouldn’t really take credit :) Have a look at https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent for one of the more popular projects I run!
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    Yes, that would probably make sense for the browsers that supports it. Which seems to be mostly everyone except IE. It will be fixed in the next update!
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    I've implemented all points that @tptacek mentioned (except the web extension, that will be a future update), and will also activate HSTS when I feel comfortable with the server setup. I switched from CryptoJS to TweetNaCl which seemed
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    Also - regarding your second #1, are we talking about something like a Chrome extension?
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    by viktorelofsson 9y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely address your points, and I really appreciate the constructive criticism :)
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    Show HN: Cryptob.in – A snippet share tool with client-side encryption(cryptob.in)

    19 points by viktorelofsson 9y ago|12 comments
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    by viktorelofsson 10y ago

    > With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout. (No, seriously.) Yes, seems like you check-in with an app.
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    by viktorelofsson 10y ago

    Also discussed here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12914188
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    by viktorelofsson 10y ago

    My guess is so it makes it harder to fingerprint people. If I remember correctly the advice is to not resize the browser window, etc.
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    by viktorelofsson 10y ago

    Yes, and then you have Hadouken ( https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken ), another BitTorrent client of mine (though server oriented) :)