Hacker News: flawawa2

New comment by flawawa2 in "How to encode to WebM"

flawawa2 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:27:51 +0000

I might be wrong but wasn't streamingmedia.com doing some bullshit Theora vs H264 comparison before?

New comment by flawawa2 in "Show HN: Pocket - my first app ever"

flawawa2 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:18:19 +0000

random first second thoughts:

as i scrolled down the page, I lost the text to image connection. where does the text belong to, the image above or below.

does not show the mobile interface. or is it just a website that you call "app"?

New comment by flawawa2 in "Poll: How much do you trust Google?"

flawawa2 — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:44:29 +0000

I have the same problem. I do "trust" Google with some of my activities (such as watching online videos on -> Youtube and sometimes using the web search -> Google) but I do not trust them in the meaning that I think they do no evil with my data.

I trust they are not abusing the data they record about me, but I do not trust in the good of harvesting and data mining said data.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack"

flawawa2 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:04:54 +0000

There is nothing in the gaming future that excites me more than good old voxels. That game/engine looks amazing.

New comment by flawawa2 in "What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?"

flawawa2 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:18:14 +0000

Art is created because people feel the need. Money should not be the incentive.

An example could be a fan-made translation of old works. Mashups. Redubbing of movies. Free recordings of music.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Building an RFID Proximity Card Cloner for $30"

flawawa2 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:16:24 +0000

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2007/24c3-2378-en-mifare...

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2008/25c3-3032-en-analyz...

Nowadays he is busy cracking and hacking GSM. Remarkable person.

New comment by flawawa2 in "What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?"

flawawa2 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:12:05 +0000

Wrong.

People adapted and built upon other people's music, art and technology.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Show HN: I wrote a script to turn a webpage into bitmap HTML. (Caution: huge)"

flawawa2 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:59:50 +0000

If you are just looking to make a self-contained file that has the page as image, I would suggest you simply embed the image as base64.

I made a bitmap ->

once, that was pure hell like this. ;-)

New comment by flawawa2 in "17 years old, 11 startups"

flawawa2 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:16:33 +0000

When I was young, I wanted to become an astronaut.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor"

flawawa2 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:42:53 +0000

Sounds like I must disregard anything he says or does because I do not like him having been trained to murder.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor"

flawawa2 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:40:12 +0000

Using Tor does not mean that you are an exit node. You have to actually set that up and it is warning you about it. Using Tor as a client only is safe and secure.

If people do bad things through your exit node, you are in danger regardless where you live. The law enforcement must be aware of what your server was doing. Its understanding varies from place to place.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor"

flawawa2 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:38:11 +0000

Title of that novel please, sounds interesting!

New comment by flawawa2 in "Chaos Computer Club Congress starts today. Livestreams."

flawawa2 — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:54:17 +0000

You can directly stream these with mplayer:

rtmp://berlin1.rtmp.27c3.fem-net.de/rtmp/saal1_hq

rtmp://berlin1.rtmp.27c3.fem-net.de/rtmp/saal2_hq

rtmp://berlin1.rtmp.27c3.fem-net.de/rtmp/saal3_hq

Sound might not be working right yet.

New comment by flawawa2 in "My mom's experience with an iPad"

flawawa2 — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:59:30 +0000

The author might live in a country where that is not the case. In Germany for example the term "app" was not used before Apple came.

New comment by flawawa2 in "VLC For Android May Arrive In Early 2011"

flawawa2 — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:58:00 +0000

original source is http://gigaom.com/video/vlc-for-android-coming-soon/

linked page is just a conclusion.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Poll: Is your PayPal email address also your primary email address?"

flawawa2 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:27:44 +0000

What reasons would that be?

New comment by flawawa2 in "Unencrypted public wifi should die"

flawawa2 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:50:52 +0000

I hope you do not really think that allowing others to use your internet connection will protect you from any problems arising from bad things being done with your internet connection. But please do run a Tor exit node.

New comment by flawawa2 in "Your apps are watching you"

flawawa2 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:56:35 +0000

That is (one reason) why I rooted and installed a firewall on my Android phone.

New comment by flawawa2 in "The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords"

flawawa2 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:53:38 +0000

Check out http://www.bugmenot.com

New comment by flawawa2 in "Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate"

flawawa2 — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:48:57 +0000

Then don't. You don't have to. Listen to the radio. Record the radio (in many countries that is legal). Listen to Youtube or streams. Listen to free music!