Reading some comments I don’t know whether some use fallacious arguments deliberately or are simply incapable of logical reasoning.

I don't use any social media (except HN ~once a week) and every time I suggest a person they try stopping social media it's either a quiet "Yeah I know it's not good but I can't stop" or defending the "fun" and supposed virtues of doomscrolling with great fervor.

I think it's this latter camp of people. It triggers them as if you threatened to take away his candy from a child.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

Way too many working in/adjacent to the advertising or the doomscrolling industry here.

I don't see censorship here could you enlighten me? It doesn't seem like they are trying to censor specific topics is it?

Chess is healthy you get to go outside and meet people to play with, engage in your local club. Some online platforms make the thing addictive.

most people play online tho

I'm not sure about that and if it is so, it's very recent. Playing online isn't bad and addictive per say I would argue though. My comment was more in response to someone who seemed to associate chess to the main online platform which to me, is using addictive patterns to some level.

Challenging but certainly doable with kernel bypass technologies and dedicated CPU cores.

It generally also needs help from the NIC, to pace out the packets at the right timestamps. (Typically delivered as part of said bypass technologies.)

It's worth mentioning NDI (Network Device Interface) as well, which is widely used in the Pro-AV for transporting compressed video and audio over IP.

Generally NDI is not widely used in professional AV. There's a fair bit in prosumer, and a _little_ bit in the low end of pro. But the fact that it's a proprietary protocol (they can claim it's “open” all they want, but the SDK is closed source, there is no spec and they sue people who make open reimplementations), has poor image quality (it's roughly MPEG-2 intraframe, i.e., not very good), has poor latency and isn't very reliable makes it a no-go for most larger installations.

I would argue that it is heavily used in professional AV, but not as much in high-end installations and usually not in broadcast setups.

It is certainly not open and doesn't compare to ST2110. I was mentioning it for compressed video streaming.

Just to add options, there is also the relatively new OpenMediaTransport ( https://www.openmediatransport.org/ ) that aims to be a licensing free, open alternative to NDI. At the moment, there are a number of programs supporting it, but sadly not many cameras, stand alone converters, nor audio gear. If line to see that change.

You might also want to mention AMWA NMOS, which is increasingly used alongside SMPTE 2110 in setups like this. NMOS (Networked Media Open Specifications) defines open, vendor-neutral APIs for device discovery, registration, connection management, and control of IP media systems. In practice, it's what lets 2110 devices automatically find each other, advertise their streams, and be connected or reconfigured via software.

The specs are fully open source and developed in the open, with reference implementations available on GitHub (https://github.com/AMWA-TV)

The specs define REST API's, JSON schemas, certificate provisioning, and service discovery mechanisms (DNS-SD / mDNS), providing an open control framework for IP-based media systems.

There’s also AES70, or OCA (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934318). More popular in audio than video, something of a competitor to NMOS (although there are parts of NMOS that were very much inspired by OCA). There are open source C++, Python, JavaScript and Swift implementations as well as some commercial ones.

Hi! I have been happily using Ardour as a hobbyist since version 5. At the same time I also started learning Pure Data. I was wondering how difficult it would be to implement a feature similar to "The Grid" from Bitwig. I’m not sure whether this could be done as a simple plugin, or if it would require much deeper integration with Ardour.

Most likely we would do a closer-than-normal integration of Cardinal ....

https://cardinal.kx.studio/

You can already load Cardinal as a plugin and get the full scope of is power(s) (or VCV Rack if you paid for the "pro" version). You just don't get the GUI "integrated" into Ardour, and its tied to a specific track.

We might do this via I/O plugins (an existing Ardour feature), which would make the inputs & outputs of Cardinal be just like your hardware. Lots of details to that sort of design, however.

There is also PlugData which could theoretically be handled in a similar way.

What we will not try to do is to implement Yet Another Software Modular Environment ourselves. Cardinal/Rack (or even PD) are approximately infinitely better than anything we could or would do.

Plugdata (a rework of Puredata as an LV2 plug-in) fills that role pretty well

Right, it works by a bunch of different people all using the words in the same way to communicate. Like, say, various SI prefixes being used to mean powers of two in computing contexts by large numbers of people for longer than most of us have been alive.

Then of course you are free to count 1024 bytes and call that a kB. Pretending everyone else will agree on that is a different thing.

Everyone else has already agreed.

Not everyone else. Just you and your friends.

Otherwise this discussion had ended since long.

Well at least Microsoft is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation for many years...