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Back in 1997, the browser plugin RealPlayer became synonymous with "buffering" — which for 90s web users meant constant, annoying delays in streaming a video online (usually over dial-up). Funnily enough though, the buffering epidemic didn't dampen the HYPE for online video streaming that year. Wired magazine even declared that RealVideo was leading a “war with TV.” And you thought AI hype was bad... cybercultural.com/p/video-stre #InternetHistory #VideoStreaming

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CyberculturalThe Age of Buffering: Video Streaming and Webcasts in 1997
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Ieri tanto setup per microfonare ognuno dei componenti del quartetto #Jazz cui partecipo e alla fine io non mettevo la pinza sulla tromba, e il microfono della batteria era troppo lontano...

Non è facile fare tutto da sé, ma quando uno è hacker è hacker !

La prossima volta mi sa che non microfono nessuno e proviamo a fare lo streaming con un solo microfono "ambientale" (ma io ho solo quelli dinamici a gelato, potranno fare al caso mio ?)

@rexvonkostia ?

Just cancelled our Streamyard subscription and deleted our account.

The asshats automatically switched us to a plan that was 2× the price (from ~$44 to ~$88) with a single email’s notice and no authorisation on our part and when there was a new plan that almost exactly matched our current one with almost exactly the same features.

By the time I clocked on, they’d already charged us for several months so I wrote to them explaining that what they did was wrong and asking them to refund us the difference in the plan costs and place us on the plan that was almost the carbon copy of the one we were originally on.

They refused. And admitted no wrongdoing.

Finally, they offered a one month refund.

So I accepted. And now that it’s safely in our account, I just cancelled our subscription and deleted the account. I have a very fucking short fuse for asshole unethical American startups thinking they’re so bloody smart for fucking you over.

Anyway, beware of Streamyard. Not sure if they’ll pull the same shit again but I’m sure they’ll pull some other shit some other time.

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@MichaelRoss

#VideoStreaming #Foss #Kodi

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Hi Michael, thanks.

To my dismay, I had never heard about Kodi to this day. It seems to be in great use, but should always be used with a #VPN as copyright laws very from country to country and the (standard) global search function in conjunction with the ubiquitous add-ons will make source differentiation difficult.

What is fantastic is that it seems to run on most platforms:

"#AmazonFire TV Stick 4K Max,...

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