I'm a little confused. You said LiveKit powers Visio. But isn't Visio a CAD and drawing app inside of Microsoft Office?
Visio here is most likely a shorted "visioconférence", the French word for video conference, or online meeting.
Readit Newshommelix commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001
hommelix commented on Pong Cam – My ESP32S3 Thinks It's a WebCam atomic14.com/2026/02/01/p... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1
It reminds me that I want to get one of these ESP32 Sense module with a camera, to build a rear view camera for my bike rack behind the car.
hommelix commented on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) jpmorgan.com/insights/glo... · Posted by u/andsoitis
I actually have a greater disgust for those who see it but don't act. I think this line from an incredibly relevant book is precisely this:
> "Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better.
Those who act on behalf of evil are not free from guilt, of course. But the truly damned are those who sense better but look the other way. They walk in the footsteps of the millions who tacitly supported the last time this evil took hold of the world, by not acting.
This entire book, but especially this exerpt, is a must read: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
Thanks for sharing this except of the book.
hommelix commented on Show HN: Munimet.ro – ML-based status page for the local subways in SF munimet.ro/... · Posted by u/MrEricSir
I'm wondering why you chose a domain name of Romania for something local to San Francisco in California, USA?
A camera with optical zoom would be indeed nice.
For me another feature is what disqualifies it. Fairphone 6 would have been otherwise acceptable for myself, as it has quite decent specifications, but it only has USB 2.0.
Other smartphones at around the same price not only have USB 3, but also DisplayPort 1.4 (e.g. from Motorola).
I hate when I see even on many smartphones over $1000, that they save a few cents by implementing USB 2 instead of USB 3, and a few dollars at most by not implementing DisplayPort.
The SoC used in Fairphone 6 supports both USB 3 and DisplayPort, but its designers have saved a few external components by not offering these features.
Pixel is also disqualified for me by the same reason. Unfortunately only some smartphones made in China offer complete features and without excessive locking of the phone.
Thanks for this. My Fairphone 4 has USB3 and works well with my laptop docking station. I would not have imagined that Fairphone regressed on that point.
hommelix commented on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail lalitm.com/post/why-senio... · Posted by u/SupremumLimit
Yeah, ultimately you're paid to deliver results. Criticism is only of value to the degree that it leads to better results; there is zero value in predicting failure per se. Some people place so much value on being right that they lose sight of the actual goals (and I won't say I'm immune to this, but marriage helped). Nothing with a high upside is low risk, so as en employee you need to inherently frame all risks in terms of identifying the most likely path to succeed.
The only alternative is to advocate for inaction, but then why are they paying you? Those kind of bets can make sense for private equity investors, but not for employees, and my builder-brain just finds them dull and annoying.
> Some people place so much value on being right that they lose sight of the actual goals (and I won't say I'm immune to this, but marriage helped).
Thanks I appreciate the hindsight ! This is so true.
hommelix commented on KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server github.com/kd2org/karadav... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
Are you the author?
No not at all. I happen to read the website a couple of weeks ago.
hommelix commented on KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server github.com/kd2org/karadav... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
I wonder isn't WebDAV horrendously slow for you? I have selfhosted nextCloud and sending 1GB file was a nightmare (over WiFi). It took ages and didn't finish at the end. I did fall back to usb pendrive... I would like to have something that is not in PHP I guess, this might be the bottleneck
Oh ! The performance table on github is not rendered. If you look at the same page on https://fossil.kd2.org/karadav/doc/main/README.md KaraDAV is very close to apache mod_dav module and way faster than NextCloud.
> KaraDAV performance was very close to mod_dav, and NextCloud performance was incredibly poor.
Client KaraDAV NextCloud mod_dav
Dolphin (KDE) 5 seconds 1 minute 15 seconds 3 seconds
Thunar (GTK) 5 seconds 1 minute 50 seconds 5 seconds
WebDAV Manager.js 4 seconds (no delete) -- --hommelix commented on Changes to Android Open Source Project source.android.com/... · Posted by u/TechTechTech
We need a third alternative, based on freedom with your device. No root access, remote control by apple and google, all wrong.
> We need a third alternative, based on freedom with your device. No root access, remote control by apple and google, all wrong.
There is https://postmarketos.org/
Maybe 2026 will be the year of Linux on mobile phone.