I don't think they were anonymous to the people they blew the whistle to. I think the people they blew the whistle to are keeping them anonymous to the public.
>Now, Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH) ... says his panel and the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower “who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer.”
I think the dissenting / mocking comments here are missing the spirit of the post.
Since bash can evoke any Turing complete program, feasibly anything could be done with one line of bash.
The authors intent as I saw was to show what that line was. Would you have known without this article?
Whether or not people are just being sarcastic, I feel we should definitely not mock but rather encourage any open and free attempts at teaching us cool things that are more novel than the “how to get started on Linux” type bs the market is inundated with.
"To solve this problem I wrote a simple server that runs in the cloud which can handle any number of realtime broadcasts uploaded using a simple curl command. This allows you to essentially broadcast radio feeds with a single line. My solution to the problem of broadcasting audio without port-forwarding was to create a free and public “dummy” server that handles any incoming traffic and forwards to any number of connected clients. This server keeps track of connected clients and routes incoming packets to them, otherwise discarding the packets."
If the author had perhaps titled their post "I wrote a multiplexing server for audio streams" it might go over better, although that doesn't have the proper click-bait appeal.
I think the spirit of the post got overrun by (likely accidentally) making the title so clickbaity.
Bash can run any program, that's why you don't advertise running a program with it in your title unless the program is (at least mostly) in bash which is an interesting constraint to go check out. There are some really whacky crazy interesting things done in actual bash scripting including internet applications like this via bash's builtin /dev/tcp functionality... come to think of it this might actually be one of those crazy "I did it in pure bash"able things.
I'm sure most on HN knew you could pipe the output of a media application like ffmpeg into something like curl instead of locally. All of the exact options and methodology used here off the top of their head? Very unlikely but is that really what this title sets the expectation of?
I don't think mocking is the best recourse but I'm not sure it's much more useful to argue the author should only be receiving blind encouragement in cases like this either. Like I said I highly doubt the author had any malice when changing the title for HN but I also understand why many don't want to blindly encourage posts where the title can be so misleading/confusing.
Ironically "Creating my own free and easy to use internet radio station host" would probably have gotten even more attention with almost never of the pushback and the project work on norns is probably worth its own post.
Could be interesting sci fi technology to “wrap” the sensitive parts in a shell kind of like a roly poly bug (it would have to be more than a wrap and more of securing foam that disappears, but interesting to ponder)
Ignore the motorcycle bit completely and just think physics
You could trigger this on any oscillating “body” if that body is oscillating at a certain frequency and amplitude combination.
It just so happens motorcycle engines produce that combination. There would certainly be others. tHe sustained nature of the shaking would also be cause for concern but I didn’t see any mention of duration in the support article
TLDR shaking the phone anywhere at any time with certain amplitude / frequency combinations will permanently damage sensitive components and make pics look like you’ve got ALS again
Yeah they actually go into more interesting detail than expected from a support article and detail how (not an expert so it could just be wool over my eyes Apple BS but doesn’t smell that way here) the OIS and closed loop AF work in that article.
Basically sensitive gadgets shouldn’t be exposed to certain frequency / amplitude combinations because sensitive gadgets rely on well, not being shaken out of whack.
Exactly. It doesn't even require the operation of the image stabilization for the damage to happen. The damage happens when it reaches that magic frequency where the components break.
Good question! Right now we are fortunate to have some AWS credits to subsidize some voice costs :P. At the moment our focus is on usage, but our goal is to have a freemium model based on the size of the space, premium assets, etc.
If you want to be „close” to AWS but still save money, try spinning lightsail instances that act as media proxies, similarly with other more resource generous providers. You could shift majority of media traffic off AWS and keep the “signalling” just there.
Boy, oh boy do I wish there was a way for an individual to be anonymous but verifiable as a unique individual operating on a consistently used device.
Sybil be damned.