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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


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@bradfitz
bradfitz / amp.go
Last active July 23, 2018 15:28
Sonos amp control
// turnAmp controls the mPower Mini unit in Barloga, which
// powers the rainbow Google Chord AMP hooked up to the speakers.
func turnAmp(on bool) bool {
c, err := ssh.Dial("tcp", "10.0.0.nnnn:22", &ssh.ClientConfig{
HostKeyCallback: ssh.InsecureIgnoreHostKey(),
Config: ssh.Config{
Ciphers: []string{"aes128-cbc"},
},
User: "ubnt",
Auth: []ssh.AuthMethod{ssh.Password("xxxxx")},
@kylemcdonald
kylemcdonald / Collect Parler Metadata.ipynb
Last active July 27, 2025 17:52
Collect video URLs and GPS data for Parler videos.
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@kconner
kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active November 6, 2025 09:43
macOS Internals

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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@milesrichardson
milesrichardson / open-vlc-m3u8-url-with-http.md
Created July 10, 2024 21:50
How to use VLC to watch m3u8 playlist at URL with custom HTTP referrer and user agent

Imagine this: it's Sunday afternoon at 1pm, and you want to watch some live content. But you don't have a TV subscription. So you do a little Googling, and eventually you find yourself on a sketchy website where you can watch the content you're looking for. But while the website has a video player, it's surrounded by advertisements, and probably a cryptominer too. You don't want this website eating your CPU for 2 hours while you're watching your favorite Sunday afternoon content.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch that video in VLC instead? Then you can close the sketchy website and still watch your content. It's like having your cake and taking a bite of it too!

Here's how you do it:

  1. Capture the m3u8 request in dev tools. Open the site (or just the iframe, if possible) in DevTools and click "play." Search the network tab for m3u8 and grab the first request.

  2. Run VLC with command line flags to set the User Agent and Referrer. From the request body, you need to copy the requested URL,