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mhugoon Show HN: Computer Music with Python

Same in French ("pipi")

mhugoon Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (2011)

Please someone correct me, but my understanding is that Jitsi meet has a very different architecture compared to Zoom.

Jitsi Meet uses a "SFU" which means the A/V stream of each participant is sent to all the others. That basically does not scale in terms of network bandwidth.

Zoom seems to use a central server that kind of "mix" streams and send them to all participants. Or something hybrid.

Jitsi could be able to connect to an "MCU" like OpenMCU for this kind of architecture, but I have no clue if it is easy or not to deploy.

I am working in a full-remote company with ~15 people. Jitsi is ok for meetings with 2-4 people. With more people, it just does not work reliably. Zoom does.

mhugoon Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

Remind me of Boby's "bibi-binary" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary

mhugoon GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub

Gitlab runners have different "executors". One of which is virtualbox. if you have a windows vm where you can ssh into, it works well

mhugoon Build Uber-for-X within a day using HyperTrack

It seems to me this example has nothing to do with the parent's comment. He is talking about co-ops. Companies that are owned by workers. It implies the company cannot be sold without a majority of workers to agree.

But you're right the funding scheme would be more challenging. But if the service sold is of very good quality, it may work. And the "not for private investors" model may also be something good to promote for (some) consumers.

mhugoon Russian crowdfunded reflector satellite aims to be “brightest star in the sky”

I guess because the Earth is still not warm enough ...

mhugoon GCP - cp with a progress bar

This one is also pretty clever (based on catching the write() syscall with strace) : https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-prog...