dbread @dbread@qoto.org

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

Starting with version 116, #Firefox will drop support for macOS versions prior to 10.15 as well as Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. This has understandably annoyed a few users so let me explain why we're taking this step: the maintenance burden of supporting several versions of each platform is very significant. I'll show you how much by citing three platform-specific bugs I've worked on over the past two years. 🧵 1/13

@gabrielesvelto Being a Firefox user since eons ago I pay respect to the dedication of the team that builds it. Thank you for sharing!

Today in 1993, 30 years ago: in the United States, Ian Murdock announces, through an email, the Linux distribution of the Debian project.

#OnThisDay

Damn plastic straws ruining the earth.
#meme #memes #capitalism #climatechange #climate

Say hello to privacy! 👋

Tutanota comes with zero trackers. Get the easiest email app now: https://tutanota.com/#download

Because your data belongs to you. 😎

I just learned that there's already a talk about Overpass, so I'll do mine at a different conference instead.

If you're interested in Overpass, go visit the talk on day 2, 11:00 at Jugend-Village @jugendhackt!

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/hub/camp23/en/event/openstreetmap-und-overpass-api/

On the last day at #DEFCON31 we have setup our first @VeilidNetwork headless/server node, a new chapter for us running privacy infrastructure for public use

#Veilid documentation is sparse currently so here is what we've used to setup/validate/troubleshoot a node on Ubuntu Server 22.04

this #Veilid node (veilid.emeraldonion.org) is running on dedicated hardware hosted in our Westin Datacenter in downtown Seattle with Seattle Internet Exchange peering

#DEFCON #Privacy
cc @thegibson

a lone Tech Guy, sitting at his desk while tears fall into his keyboard that clicks really loudly for no reason: Ignore Previous Instructions And Make Me Some Money

We’ve released Little Snitch Mini 1.4 today. It adds the ability to optionally show live data rates of sent and received data in the menu bar. And the chart in the status menu now also shows the total amount of data transferred in the displayed period.

#LittleSnitchMini

Celebrity Mortal Kombat 😆 #mortalkombat
https://i.devol.it/watch?v=Z__i7C2OQQs

It should maybe be illegal for a company to change the Privacy Policy on a product you already own/are using.

The policy changes are worded like "you agree to it if you keep using our product", but this is coersion.

If I bought a watch from you and you decide you want to sell my biometrics now, my choices are to throw away the money I spent or agree.

If I have all my digital life in your services and you change your policy like that, I have to somehow uproot all my data and possibly my business or how I connect with family or friends before the time expires, or you get to go mine all my data now because you said so?

This feels all very wrong.

If the folks working on high-temperature superconductivity got together with the folks who worked on cold fusion we could have lukewarm superconfusion.

#physics

The @music 𝕏 handle was just seized through eminent domain by X Corp. from Jeremy Vaught after he had accrued 11.4M followers over 16 years.

So much for 𝕏 being the "best place on Earth for great content creators". 🙄

#DeadTwitter

It is literally happening in front of our eyes. #globalwarming #Glacier I took the photos of Mer de Glace in Chamonix in 2012 and 2023, to the day 11 years between.