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arcameron

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arcameron··on Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG
With imgur, you can just right-click and hit `Save video as...` in both Chrome/Firefox (even without manually adding their ".gifv" extension)

Twitter though, doesn't seem possible

arcameron··on Nintendo announced Switch Dev kits are $500
Why do they do that kind of thing? If anything, you might expect them to include less RAM & storage so that you're forced to work under tighter limitations.
arcameron··on Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service
This page[1] documents some effects of gamma-incorrect resizing. Specifically, check out Figure 12.

[1] http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should...

arcameron··on Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable
Can you elaborate on this please?
arcameron··on Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots
Improvement: If I navigate to https://botlist.co/bots/filter?platform=5, then I should be able to see what each bot claims to do, without needing to click in to the #show page
arcameron··on Show HN: A tool to measure how responsive images benefit your page weight
I posted one of your share links into our Slack, and was really impressed with the image it found (your `meta property="og:image"`) & attached in the rich snippet! Nice work!
arcameron··on Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
Regarding the avatar images:

Why not a <div> with a border-radius & background color? Seems you could achieve the same thing without another HTTP request (1 for each unique avatar), no need to zopfli 45,000 unique files.

arcameron··on The Website Obesity Crisis
>I just want it to stop.

You and I are kindred spirits.

I feel it's getting worse. A large % of the links (mostly start-ups landing pages, not articles) I click on HN just present me with a completely blank white page. No <noscript>, nothing! If you're lucky, you see enough to realize that it's probably just a page that relies on JS. It's never a good first impression.

It's getting progressively more annoying to whitelist the TLD as well as the myriads of CDNs that sites are using. Often it's a click gamble: a "Temporarily allow sketchy.domain.com", throwing in the towel and saying "Temporarily allow all this site".

Site embeds a video? Good luck picking which domain to whitelist out of a list of 35 different domains ;) Temporarily allow one, reload, repeat a few times, close tab in anger and disappointment.

arcameron··on Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
It could be you! ;)

https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/ooIv1fwm

arcameron··on Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
reminds me a lot of TermKit

http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

looking cool!

arcameron··on IBM Watson Tone Analyzer
Keep building it. Especially if it interests you. It interested you enough to start it in the first place! Just don't build it with the expectation that you'll garner fame or fortune.

I imagine a lot of people could use some kind of OSS sentiment detection, even if it's not perfect.

Try therapy before pills

arcameron··on “I confirm that I am not a resident of Iran, Syria, North Korea or State of NY”
Reddit is down; what was it?
arcameron··on Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.
Looks great! Any timeline on Android?
arcameron··on Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
Something like Netflix, but for your home

https://github.com/qq99/muvee

- rails, open source

- find & torrent movies and tv shows

- organize your media and enrich files with art, descriptions, ratings

- controls your Hue lights to match playback

arcameron··on GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative
A while back I wrote https://echoplex.us, which had video/voice WebRTC calling

Now, I've mostly abandoned the project

It may be something for you to check out

arcameron··on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture
Rough, I'm sorry that happened to you
arcameron··on Show HN: Forestry.io – A better way to host static websites (demo)
Agreed, I did not look further seeing heroku there. One of the thoughts that came to mind is maybe this is spinning up dynos for you. Hopefully not hosting many sites under 1 dyno
arcameron··on Oculus Rift
Why does nobody make a noscript version of their site?!

There's absolutely no body text on this page unless you allow their JS

arcameron··on Passcard
What part of that website needs JavaScript?
arcameron··on Ask HN: Brag about open-source projects you're proud of
https://github.com/qq99/muvee - μv, a mix of concepts like Plex, Netflix, Popcorn Time for your LAN, with Hue light support. I'm working on this one regularly and use it frequently at home

https://echoplex.us/ - anonymous chat, code, draw, WebRTC calls, with PGP support. Much less maintained nowadays

arcameron··on Show HN: Chroma for Hue, Control Your Philips Hue Bulbs from OS X
Sorry, I meant the code for this .app specifically
arcameron··on Show HN: Chroma for Hue, Control Your Philips Hue Bulbs from OS X
Is this open source?

I would love to play with this

arcameron··on To Be
Completely white page with NoScript, please add a <noscript> tag
arcameron··on N.S.A. Tapped into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say
I think you've massively devalued an entire people based on the actions of their government...

Let's not forget the great value and results of CS education in the US:

- spying for pretty much everybody, regardless of location

- drone guidance systems to kill people unlawfully

- missile systems for air strikes on countries purported to have WMDs

- millions of $ spent on silly apps that arguably do nothing to improve quality of life, whilst millions suffer and die of starvation

Do you really know enough about North Korea's tech community to say that "More likely, these students will go on to make software for less-than-ethical purposes"?

arcameron··on Shout – A web IRC client
Check out https://echoplex.us
arcameron··on Show HN: Codassium – A better way to conduct remote interviews
Interesting project, when I saw the headline I was like, "welp, someone totally built what I built"

https://echoplex.us

Though looking more closely, they're not quite the same project.

Here's a similar project by a colleague of mine:

http://hiresync.io/

arcameron··on Show HN: Timedrip – Drop a message to the future
Friendly NoScript user reporting in: I only see a blank white page!
arcameron··on Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library
If you're OK with screwing over Safari/IE users, you'll have pretty good support. You could engineer a browser-based fallback to gif, but honestly I wouldn't bother.

I'd imagine we can create an impetus to support it if we actually used it more

arcameron··on Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library
I don't follow your comment, but I should have been more explicit:

gif is a waste of bandwidth compared to a soundless webm

arcameron··on Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library
Why bother with gif these days, and why in the browser?
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