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New comment by marquis in "Devouring the Heart of Portugal"

marquis — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:16:14 +0000

Raise your hand if you have worked hard building an honest product that does what it says, only to see another business rise up to claim the same thing but based on smoke and mirrors. Must be an age-old trick, maybe akin to the octopus pretending to be a plant so it can catch prey, or the angler fish's glowing trap in the dark.

New comment by marquis in "BlackHole Audio Driver"

marquis — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:58:16 +0000

I've also seen Source-Nexus, that has plugins for Pro Tools as well as VST/AU, and you can make multiple named drivers. It would work pretty well with Loopback it seems.

https://www.source-elements.com/products/source-nexus/

New comment by marquis in "ARIN Finally Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses"

marquis — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:05:29 +0000

Currently in the mobile space everyone is behind at least one double-NAT at least, and you can order business level access for your wireless data account and get an IPv4 address allocated to you. AT&T does this for a single $500 fee for example, Sprint as a monthly $3 fee. I imagine this will become common with ISPs - you'll need to upgrade to a gaming/business class in order to make use of port-forwarding etc and for everyone else, some programs will cease to work or not connect as quickly/easily.

New comment by marquis in "The Most Misread Poem in America"

marquis — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:12:03 +0000

The NZ ad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwXfAFQoh8 (NZ isn't a large country: those roads probably ran to the same town anyway).

New comment by marquis in "Apple September 2015 Keynote"

marquis — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:22:07 +0000

It's about the patents.

"while OpenH264 is not truly open, at least it is the most open widely used video codec"

http://andreasgal.com/2014/10/14/openh264-now-in-firefox/

New comment by marquis in "Apple September 2015 Keynote"

marquis — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:51:06 +0000

Yes, thanks to the open source H.264 codec from Cisco. This is about open source options and I think Firefox's decisions are completely valid.

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/14/h-264-support-arrives-in-firef...

New comment by marquis in "Apple September 2015 Keynote"

marquis — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:24:57 +0000

Chrome supports its own streaming method, MPEG-DASH with H.264 which is what Youtube runs on where possible. Firefox stated it won't support H.264 on principle (although it does now, for WebRTC). Android supports HLS, as does iOS, out of the box. HLS was designed to supersede RTSP however we also have the equally-ubiquitous RTMP, which Flash supports natively. You can get an HLS stream via Flash with an add-on to some clients so now this will work on IE, Chrome Firefox, and there are also some custom, proprietary clients out there for h.264/HLS. It's not a pleasant ecosystem right now..

New comment by marquis in "America’s national vacation problem"

marquis — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:57:25 +0000

>every couple years, go off and do something completely different

You mean, like take a vacation? You are saying exactly the same thing but with the time-scale different. I agree on that: work hard for 10 months, no days off. 2 months completely out of the office. But that assumes excellent health and no family.

New comment by marquis in "Movim: A social network on XMPP"

marquis — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:23:46 +0000

Hipchat uses XMPP so you answered the parent's question perfectly. Slack, I believe, created a custom protocol.

New comment by marquis in "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014)"

marquis — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:56:29 +0000

Ah yes, Florence Foster Jenkins being the famous example [1] who was wealthy and hired Carnegie hall for a concert, in spite of being tone deaf thought she would sing Mozart's difficult Queen of the Night aria: and record it. [2]

She is famous for saying "people may say I can't sing but no one can ever say I didn't sing".

Warning: anyone who values their ears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

[2] http://www.carnegiehall.org/BlogPost.aspx?id=4294993274

New comment by marquis in "What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?"

marquis — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:05:45 +0000

No Stream API support for example

http://caniuse.com/#feat=stream

New comment by marquis in "Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads"

marquis — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:45:55 +0000

Media players: browsers don't have native support for H.264 over HLS or RTMP, and MPEG-Dash seems native to Chrome only. If the browsers could accept these natively, this would certainly speed flash's demise. Until then, what are the alternatives?

New comment by marquis in "The Desk of Haruki Murakami"

marquis — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:00:33 +0000

Borges short stories - some of my favourites are very accessible: The Garden of Forking Paths and The Aleph. Some of his stories are difficult to read and make more sense as you know the author better. He wrote interesting works such as reviews on fictitious books. If you are looking for 'not shallow', he's your man. I also second 'The Master and Margarita' recommended by iambatman.

New comment by marquis in "Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are"

marquis — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:56:19 +0000

I'm not sure what stops EasyTaxi from working in the U.S. I use it in South/Central America and it routes regular taxis, you pay in cash like usual but get the convenience of the Uber experience of knowing a cab is on the way, and who the driver is.

http://www.easytaxi.com/cities/

New comment by marquis in "Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay"

marquis — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:24:29 +0000

Working holiday visas are not permitted once you reach 31. You must apply and enter the country before you are 31, I believe (it may be 30).

New comment by marquis in "Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks"

marquis — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 07:28:25 +0000

Finnegan's Wake is packed-full of self-referential meta-data and has a highly coherent structure.

In this sense, it's relevant to the discussion because it may appear to have been created by Markov chains whereas in fact it's intelligently molded and makes (more and more interesting) sense from the many perspectives you start to have as you spend your life with it.

Excellent project here, which even from reading the first page you'll have an a-ha moment: http://www.wakeinprogress.com/2010/10/introduction-to-charac...

New comment by marquis in "OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild"

marquis — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:54:15 +0000

That's the correct behaviour. It's supposed to be patched in El Capitan by default.

New comment by marquis in "OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild"

marquis — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:52:11 +0000

The patch works. I now have 2 patched systems and I've instructed my team to run the patch immediately on every mac.

New comment by marquis in "OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild"

marquis — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:37:23 +0000

Thanks for clarifying: I was able to find the vulnerability on the unpatched system with:

  $ ls -al /
  (etc)
  -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       0 Aug  6 06:46   this_system_is_vulnerable

So I can a) confirm the vulnerability exists and it can write with root privileges.

and b) the patch works: I ran the patch, deleted the test file, rebooted and the file is no longer able to be written.

New comment by marquis in "OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild"

marquis — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:59:02 +0000

Is there a test to determine if the patch is successful?

Edit: as noted in Esser's blog [1]: $ EDITOR=/usr/bin/true DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE=/this_system_is_vulnerable crontab -e

I found this test failed in both a patched (10.10.4) and un-patched system (10.10.1) so not sure what these results mean.

[1] https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/15-07-07-dyld_print_to_fi...