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Re:Popcorn Time Is Back on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:54AM (#31974222)
My code still exists in the desktop source[1] but essentially what you need to do is convert an srt to vtt [2] file and start a local http server that will serve the VTT file [3] and point the Chromecast to that

[1] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev...

[2] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev...

[3] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev...

Re:Popcorn Time Is Back on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:25AM (#31974054)
Awh this brings me back. I was a large contributor to the desktop version of this incarnation of PT, focusing on the ability to play on external applications and Chromecasts and also adding TV Shows. I remember having such a eureka moment when I finally figured out how to get subtitles working when streaming live to a Chromecast
Running on Windows machine vs Unix based tends to highlight issues regarding case sensitivity
You could probably hook that up to grocy[0]

[0] - https://grocy.info/

Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:45PM (#23274855)
I have this issue constantly, even the laptop screen itself will get 'washed out'. The solution is to go to Displays > Colour Profiles and change the profile to any other one and then change back to the default.
I think this part of the comment should be highlighted more due to people simply thinking switching to the right side 'fixes' whatever the issue is:

> Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging everything into the two right ports instead of the left raised the Right temperatures to over 100 degrees, without the fans coming on. No kernel_task either, but the machine becomes unusable from something throttling.

Re:MSPaint in JavaScript on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:00PM (#22416792)
The author has started work on locally running Electron App [0]

[0] - https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app

> Especially when it's a new aircraft, perhaps pilots need time to adjust, same as when you and I get in to a new car, it may have different response when you hit the gas, different mirrors, different sounds, different steering wheel sensitivity, etc.

This again pushes the blame back onto Boeing who insisted pilots didn't need to be retrained / trained up against this model aircraft as it would've meant extra expenditure by the airlines.

Re:How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:53AM (#18654470)
> The "foot in the door" came from a seemingly obscure capability of the Dreamcast to boot not from a GD-ROM but from a CD-ROM. Originally intended to add multimedia functions to music CDs, the functionality called "MIL-CD" was never used much, accounting for a mere seven karaoke applications.

Isn't the first sentence of the "SECOND PROTECTION LEVEL" section exactly what you described?

Re:Show HN: World Cup API for 2018 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:46AM (#17310688)
I believe they use the ELO Ratings[0]. they have the Win Probability on their website[1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings

[1] - http://eloratings.net/fixtures

Re:Node.js 7.6 Released on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:10AM (#13715007)
The linked PR[0] says it's just using the file: syntax

[0] - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10739

That's not what this article is about though really
Re:Caching at Reddit on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:54AM (#13434766)
I'd guess they'd execute this function in onbeforeunload (or the equivalent) so the functionality is called when you go to leave the page rather than when you load a fresh one.
XBMC was renamed to Kodi.
Re:Google discontinues support for hangouts API on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @07:21AM (#13364305)
> They just updated their FAQ

FTA:

> the notice came in the form of an updated Frequently Asked Questions page outlining the termination, and an email to developers active on the platform.

Any developers using the API in their product would've received an email.

Re:Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @12:12PM (#13124123)
Yeah sort of. I wouldn't use it to replace npm CLI or anything (even though you can), but like I said being able to glance at installed modules and see the different versions (installed vs latest) is a nice thing to have.
Re:Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:46AM (#13123890)
It's for npm, not nvm. It shows the installed packages in a project, the version that is installed and the latest available version which is handy. You can install/update packages too but don't see much use for that since the CLI is there but the displaying of info is decent.
Re:Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:43AM (#13123852)
Good job. I think it's useful purely for the fact that it can tell you the latest available version for each of the packages in your project. It's handy to have that at a glance
Re:Ask HN: Plain, unstyled html to clean, well design page on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:19AM (#12986211)
That's brilliant. Thanks for sharing
Re:Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:47AM (#12724192)
The URL bar shows "google.com" in a lot of mobile browsers (including the one in your screenshot), the bar shows the original website this content is from
Re:Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:46AM (#12724188)
> By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile.

It's to counteract the fact that in some browsers on mobile, it will just show "google.com" in the URL bar, the added bar shows the actual website. (Obviously this is a problem introduced by the whole caching thing but that's why it's there I guess)

Re:A Design Defect Is Breaking iPhone 6 Pluses on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @11:44AM (#12436826)
Carrying it in your jeans' pocket?
Re:Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:26AM (#12430792)
The Readme[0] has links to a hosted version on a CDN, as well as a direct download

[0]: https://github.com/palantir/plottable#quick-start

Re:A full-featured form software built with love in python on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:13AM (#12404095)
I think it's supposed to be "forum"
Re:Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @04:42AM (#12296230)
SMS' can be free in a lot of European countries, the main difference is that MMS didn't really take off in Europe as much as it did in the US so they usually cost more. Also since people weren't that attached to MMS, it was easy to 'replace'
I wonder if that couple could take advantage of this and start a life of cyber crime from now on in a sort of 'boy who cried wolf' situation
No, but they could give it to foo bar bay which is 3 thousand miles away.
Now automate it for 200 screenshots
Re:A Belch in Gym Class. Then Handcuffs and a Lawsuit on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:24AM (#12179236)
> Why was he pretending to belch in class like that?

Because he's a child. That doesn't warrant being handcuffed into the back of a police car and sent to a juvenile detention facility

Re:A Belch in Gym Class. Then Handcuffs and a Lawsuit on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:23AM (#12179231)
It's insane to me that schools have a police officer assigned

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