Anyone else denied access to the page due to rate limiting?? >> Check back later once traffic has gone down.
Yup. This happens sometimes when a site is linked from the HN home page.
TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
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#102Anyone else denied access to the page due to rate limiting?? >> Check back later once traffic has gone down.
Yeah, looks like it's been slashdotted. (Or whatever the appropriate verbing of an aggregation site is in 2022).
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#103We've been using this approach for a long time in a B2B setting. The fallback to a file picker is really elegant for our use cases wherein some users operate on an old-school desktop PC rather than a mobile device.
The state of the modern web is pretty incredible now. There really isn't any kind of application that I would feel uncomfortable building this way in 2022.
For me, native has evolved into pure overhead (unless you need to light up some shiny device-specific feature that will inevitably become deprecated within 2-3 years). I also understand those who believe their product's main selling point is that it exists as an offering in the various app stores. For us, we actually have a value proposition beyond "it has a native app icon".
If I had to attribute my confidence in the web to any one specific aspect, it would have to be CSS grid by a very wide margin. Realizing that I could achieve the exact layout I want on any range of viewport without having to pull down a 3rd party dependency was a huge step for me.
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#104"This website has been temporarily rate limited"
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#105I’m getting a Cloudflare rate limit warning. I didn’t know this was a thing.
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#106Anyone else denied access to the page due to rate limiting?? >> Check back later once traffic has gone down.
So not only Cloudflare does not serve the website, it also serve another site with links to Cloudflare.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I personally _love_ how the browser is becoming a very well-featured sandbox for shipping applications. Same. My latest project is a waveform generator for wavetable synthesizers [1]; there are visualizations, as well as handling audio (not real time but still). I was surprised that I could build that as a web app and achieve good UX and performance. [1]: https://merely.xyz/waves
I know nothing about this. It looks cool. I want to learn more. Where do I start ? DDG search does not help much [1], [2] Any pointers ? 1: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=waveform+generator+for+wavetable+s... 2: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wavetable+synthesizers&ia=web
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What an awesome idea! Was thinking of doing raspi craziness for capturing birds out my window. Why do that when you can duct tape an old phone to the window lol
There are apps for turning old phones into dashcams and security cams, too. Why waste an old phone?
Not the same but for a more pro approach and allowing to stream to a RTSP Server I use LARIX Broadcaster, which is both available on android and iOS and it's just superb to turn an old phone into a camera, ofc you'd need an other software to actually detect movement and such from the RTSP feed. Scrypted can do that (for example)
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#110"This website has been temporarily rate limited"
Same. But it’s in Google’s cache and I was able to read it from there.