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swanee commented on Maxar's Open Satellite Feed tech.marksblogg.com/maxar... · Posted by u/ingve

ge96 · 2 years ago

I should have specified, I was referring to the NOAA ones that are public

These images are super far away though eg. entire Earth so idk

swanee · 2 years ago

I will add for the U.S. based satellites the disc images are from the NOAA GOES sats which are in a Geosynchronous orbit but there is also the NOAA-15/18/19 which are lower in a Sun-synchronous orbit and you get a strip as it passes over.

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swanee commented on Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom github.com/Jcparkyn/dpoin... · Posted by u/jcparkyn

crazygringo · 2 years ago

Very cool. The use of a webcam really makes me wonder if there's a future where our regular single ~78° FOV webcams are going to be replaced by dual (stereo) fisheye webcams that can:

- Enable all sorts of new UX interactions (gestures with eye tracking)

- Enable all sorts of new peripheral interactions (stylus like this, but also things like a steering wheel for racing games)

- Enable 3D 180° filming for far more flexible webcam meetings, including VR presence, etc.

The idea of being able to use the entire 3D space in front of your computer display as an input method feels like it's coming, and using a webcam the way OP describes feels like it's a little step in that direction.

swanee · 2 years ago

I thought this was around the corner years ago when Intel and partners had RealSense modules being built into laptops but it seems like all the players have shifted focus to more enterprise and industrial markets.

swanee commented on uBlock Origin 1.53 github.com/gorhill/uBlock... · Posted by u/archo

jenadine · 2 years ago

I'm not seeing any YouTube adds. I'm using ublock origin with firefox and didn't do anything special. What YouTube adds are everyone talking about?

swanee · 2 years ago

They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.

swanee commented on Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables engadget.com/comcast-star... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

ls612 · 2 years ago

Minneapolis has a private fiber ISP, my brother is in Madison and they too have private fiber available widely. I was under the impression there had been a lot of fiber deployment in cities in the past five years.

swanee · 2 years ago

The Midwest absolutely has seen a lot of fiber going in the ground with federal money the past couple years and Metronet has expanded pretty aggressively.

swanee commented on The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun wired.com/story/starlink-... · Posted by u/jerryjerryjerry

14 · 4 years ago

Xbox 360 had the reset glitch hack where if you powered cycled the chip at the exact right timing you could run unsigned code. It required a small mod chip soldered to some of the smallest points on the motherboard that I have ever soldered. Different versions of the 360 worked better but most worked even if it took a minute or so before the glitched worked and booted into custom firmware. Mine worked really well and booted first try almost every time. I was very proud to successfully install it and watch my 360 boot into fsd a custom OS that allowed me to play all my games from a HDD.

swanee · 4 years ago

The newest glitch hack v3 is really cool in that it uses the 360 southbridge to do the glitching without a external mod chip.

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swanee commented on Imaging Edge Webcam support.d-imaging.sony.co... · Posted by u/woldemariam

franga2000 · 6 years ago

Looking at the camera list and the fact it doesn't need new firmware, they're probably just using the existing tethering preview functionality.

The same can be achieved with gphoto2 piped to v4l2loopback (using ffmpeg to transcode). Something like:

    $ sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 
    
    $ gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video0

swanee · 6 years ago

I think this is essentially the same thing Nikon is doing as well with the beta webcam utility.

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