Timeline
Every post and feed across this instance
- I want one social network with lots of branches where ideas flow in ways people want them to flow. Take the big corps out of the middle.
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Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
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The timeline and details of the Hugging Face attack are wild. One of the things that Codex Security flags for me that I’ve been working through is server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. They seem harmless enough, but this Hugging Face exploit is basically many small things chained together.
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UEFA statement on The Times article
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Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact...
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact. “The impact would have produced an immense cloud of dust that superheated the upper atmosphere, charbroiling living organisms unable to take shelter and igniting widespread wildfires.”
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Highlighting Dave Winer's comment on the issue of federating rss.chat servers,
Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.
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Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…”
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Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC
A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency’s ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony “investigations” into ABC — including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company’s broadcast licenses. In the filing, former FCC officials allied under […] -
Not really sure how this happened.
If I replied to Jake it was by mistake?
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Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did
We start this week with Matthew’s experience of what happened when Flock came to his small town. It’s a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. After the break, Sam tells us about a bunch of no phone Luddite events. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains why anti-Flock influencers making up BS are bad, actually. Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET What Happened When Flock Came to My Town Being a Luddite Is Fun Again The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/C0Sb0HqPXBI This is a production of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. Learn more and subscribe at: htttps://404media.co Listen to our weekly podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?ref=404media.co Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47l2XgoBMaAmIaw29?ref=404media.co Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL3RoZS00MDQtbWVkaWEtcG9kY2FzdA?ref=404media.co Become a paid subscriber for access to bonus content: https://404media.co/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Broken Vibecoded Dreams on r/RSS
We all know the vibecoding wave is crazy, but exactly how crazy?
I gathered data from Reddit archives, for this subreddit only. 496 applications have been published on r/RSS since January 2020.
The pace has increased a lot: from 3 a month in 2020 to 25 new applications a month this year. The busiest month is July 2026 (not even over when I ran the analysis yesterday), with 36 applications already.
I made a graph, and it's quite telling: See the graph here
If you want to dig into which apps have been created,Here is the full excel file
I made deduplication, so no app is counted twice.And this is just one subreddit, imagine the rest of Reddit. (I might gather the data for other subs too, it's quite fun.)
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To be clear, I'm not criticizing vibecoders. I built an RSS app myself (see the irony here 😂 ), hugin.news, I love it and I use it everyday. And as I just checked, I'm quite proud it's the only one that can connect directly to your claude/chatGPT with MCP to make your news digest.
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I made some very personal reflections with this data :
1 ) How much RSS apps do we need ? I would say about 20 are enough to cover every use case. So 95% of apps won't have a meaningful number of users.
And let's be honest the apps people use are mostly Big Tech. If you want to have visibility in the app business you need a very high marketing budget and a very good marketing strategy.2) If you code on your free time, like evenings week ends holidays and so, you will NEVER make money out of it. Just don't believe in it and don't put efforts or money in marketing.
You can still do it for pleasure, or to learn vibecoding for something you may need at work one day.
But don't expect to you find users, even for free, people just don't care about sloppy vibecoded apps, do it for fun if you enjoy it.3) If you are a full-time vibecoder, you have better chance of building an original, usefull, well designed product, but the odds of making a salary out of it are extremely slim.
In any case you can look the data I shared to see if your app already exists or if you have a genuine new idea.
You'll probably earn a lot more with a real job at a well-funded company, but maybe companies will start valuing vibecoding skills in the future, who knows.4) There is kind of a huge industry that wants you to believe you can vibecode your way to money : AI providers (Cursor, Claude...), cloud services (AWS, Google cloud...), ads providers (Google ads...) and plenty of other layers of the stack. I think they're the ones actually making money by taking ours and wasting our time for that.
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What do you think of this data ?
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Hushread - an affordable Inoreader alternative with AI summaries, narration, and sentiment alerts
Full disclosure - I’m the developer
Some of its key features:
- Natural-sounding article narration, available even on the free tier - using top most AI Model.
- AI-generated summaries, so you can quickly understand an article without reading the whole thing.
- Sentiment-based keyword alerts. You can get notified when a keyword appears in one of your subscribed feeds and filter alerts by positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. I personally use this to track updates related to my stock portfolio.
- Search within your subscribed feeds or across global sources.
- A web app, so you can also use it on your laptop.
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Proposal for Testing RSS Readers
A lot of people offer their RSS readers, but very few people are willing to test them. So here's what I'm proposing: if you pay me, I'll test your RSS reader. $10 seems reasonable to me.
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RSS Reader Pro - Open-source desktop RSS reader with DNS-over-HTTPS, YouTube video playback, and dual UI themes
Hi everyone!
I built an open-source RSS reader desktop app with some unique features for privacy and usability.
**Features:**
- DNS-over-HTTPS to bypass censorship/restrictions
- YouTube video playback within the app
- Dual UI themes (Reddit & Telegram style)
- 100% local privacy (SQLite, no external data)
- Smart caching for faster loading
**Built with:** Python 3.8+, Tkinter, VLC, SQLite
**GitHub:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app
**Download EXE:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app/releases/latest
MIT License. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
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AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow
With billions pouring into AI based on its promises, Jon is joined by Cory Doctorow, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” to separate the hype from reality. Together, they examine how the AI industry relies on inflated expectations, question what AI can genuinely do and whether that even matters when selling a product, and explore how the technology is supercharging problems already embedded in our society, including surveillance, labor exploitation, and corporate consolidation. Plus, Jon answers listeners’ questions about 107 days until the midterms, the Fox Administration, and Punch vs. Jimothy. This episode is brought to you by: UPWORK - Visit https://Upwork.com/TWS right now and post your job for free. AVOCADO GREEN MATTRESS - Find an Avocado near you or shop online at https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS — and check out their mattress and bedding sale! Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood
On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
- Everyone signs the open weights open letter, except Anthropic… of course.
- OpenAI had no idea it had hacked Hugging Face
- Kimi K3 open weights released and they’re massive!
- Why a more aggressive response is needed to cyber attacks on OT
- And much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by SpecterOps. In this week’s sponsor interview Justin Kohler and Jared Atkinson talk about how SpecterOps’ Bloodhound now supports AWS attack paths. Run it against your AWS infra, but only if you have a strong stomach. The results will terrify you.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
- Open Weights and American AI Leadership | Social Signals
- Our position on open-weights models | Social Signals
- Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable | cyberscoop.com
- Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- Its AI Agent Spent Days Hacking a Company, but Sources Say OpenAI Did Not Notice for a Week | reuters.com
- How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch Security
- Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack | TechCrunch Security
- Sens. Banks and Schiff Introduce Bill to Help American AI Companies Combat Chinese Espionage |
- AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems | Ars Technica
- Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech "kill switch" | reuters.com
- Federal agencies broaden alert on Iran-linked OT attacks | therecord.media
- Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | CyberScoop
- NSA and Partners Alert Zimbra Collaboration Suite Users of a Russian State-Supported Phishing Campaign | nsa.gov
- Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts | BleepingComputer
- Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows | Ars Technica
- LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps | krebsonsecurity.com
- Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow | cyberscoop.com
- Extension of CISA 2015 info-sharing protections passes as part of House’s defense bill | therecord.media
- Upbound says hack caused $13 million in fraudulent Acima leases | BleepingComputer
- Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware | BleepingComputer
- Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin | BleepingComputer
- Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
- 'Wrench' attacks against crypto holders appear to be on the rise | therecord.media
- OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face | wired.com
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I have an rss.chat UI added to my naive Elixir/Phoenix-built news reader (which started out with the API from feedbin). I only have a couple of unanswered questions:
1. rss.chat feed permalinks are based on the screenname. What happens if a user wants to change her handle?
2. the API indicates that an item can have an enclosure, but I don’t see how to post an item with an enclosure either vis the frontend or via the API.
3. Are there any ideas about how to grow a federation of rss.chat servers? (This question may expose my naivite concerning RSS’s inbound and outbound possibilities.)
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Question for the rss.chat team, from the operator of the instance at rsschat.sofab.ch: is there a supported way for a user to change their email address after signup? One user is switching to a new email address and wants to keep their screenname and feed.
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A Blackout Protest Over Sony Ditching Disks Is Brewing
Sony’s decision to stop producing PlayStation discs starting in 2028 was met with a ton of initial backlash, especially in the wake of Sony reminding its customers yet again that a digital purchase of content isn’t actually a purchase of content at all and what you’ve bought can be ripped away from you with the […] -
Pourquoi tu m’aimes pas ? | Devenir : folle ? (3/5)
La situation tourne au cauchemar pour Camille lorsqu’elle découvre qu’Alban lui a menti depuis le début. Alors que tout converge pour envoyer balader cette relation qui la rend si malheureuse, Camille replonge en plein déni et continue de chercher désespérément son attention.
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Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month Straight
For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. “Stingrays” made headlines on nearly a daily basis. Then they just kind of fell off the map. L3Harris — the manufacturer of cell site simulators that commanded enough market share to see its flagship product become the victim of genericide — saw the writing on the wall […] -
On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...
On the experience of the long haul flight. “The meal cart appears two hours in. You can hear it banging into passengers’ knees before you see it, and the sound causes the entire cabin to sit up slightly, like meerkats detecting motion on the savanna.”
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Pacing the Frontier, signed by employees of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other labs.
To realize AI’s potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight.
Foothills of the singularity. 💬
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“ The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been...
“The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been announced…” Among the authors nominated are Marlon James, M. John Harrison, Emma Cline, and Elizabeth Strout.
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I Love RSS
A new way to say you mean so much to me...
Uploading image…
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Please Use AI . “Be sure to use AI when planning that...
Please Use AI. “Be sure to use AI when planning that next camping trip, the last one you will take with this particular child. Definitely do not text your friend who has fly-fished every river in Pennsylvania and biked every backwoods trail…”
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Feedler is now available on iPad. Awaiting your feedback
Highly requested by testers, the iPad version of Feedler is now available on TestFlight!
An all-new iPad experience in version 1.6
- Three-column layout: feeds sidebar, article list and a persistent reading pane, with smooth column animations and a full-screen reading mode
- Redesigned account hub in the sidebar, with an overview of the synchronization status
- Pull up or down at the end of an article to jump to the next or previous one, with a brand-new indicator animation (now on iPhone too)
- Info sheets and popovers properly sized for the big screen
- Display settings are now stored per device, so your iPad and iPhone can each keep their own setup
- iCloud backup will automatically restore all your accounts (except Local RSS) your created on your iPhone
Note: Feedler also runs better on the Mac too, but it isn't fully optimized yet, that's coming in a future update.
As always, great care has been taken with the design, user experience, and smooth animations.
You'll also find all the features that have made the iOS app unique and smart, its powerful and customizable in-house parser, a lot of customization options, and AI-powered summaries.
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6Hs73zXe
You can find more details about the app in the first Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1uksjbu/feedler_the_smart_rss_reader_in_open_beta/
Feel free to give it a try (it's free) and send me your feedback
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Paramount Merger Gets Further Delayed, And Things Could Get Expensive
Just as Larry Ellison and Paramount executives had worried, the state antitrust challenge to their $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers has resulted in significant delays that could prove terminal. Two weeks ago California and eleven other states filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the merger, pointing out that the consolidation would undermine market competition, […] -
The pessimist
Dario Amodei responded to the letter about open weight models. He agrees with some parts of the letter and disagrees with other parts. And while I don’t think he intended his own post to be fear-mongering, it’s not exactly hopeful either:
I worry that biology will have a strong attacker-defender asymmetry, where sufficiently capable models may be able to quickly weaponize pandemic-level viruses with widely available materials, whereas defense against these agents is a multi-year operational task in the best case (as we saw with Operation Warp Speed).
Last year I read the book The Optimist about Sam Altman. I wonder if there should be a complementary book about Dario Amodei called The Pessimist. I don’t entirely mean that as a joke, or even as criticism… We do need people who are a check on runaway enthusiasm. Dario is well suited to this role because of his time at OpenAI and his excellent essay Machines of Loving Grace, with its more uplifting tone. But there has to be balance, and currently I find the fear exhausting.
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My hacking continues. I managed to create a zero-length media object at demo.rss.chat/media/23 (this is what happens when you forget the @ in the curl command). I suspect that eventually, endpoints for /deletemedia and /updatemedia will be needed.
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new rss.chat backend
Over the weekend, I sat down with my old buddy Claude and made a new backend for rss.chat written with Go.
The big differences are that it splits the database into more task relevant pieces, and ports it to sqlite rather than mysql. (its just a file!).
With this new foundation I'm able to do some hacking on pieces that I'm interested in, like websockets (I'm super impressed with Bluesky's ATProtocol "Jetstream" service), and getting a native phone interface up and running.
The code is available at https://github.com/roberte3/rss.chat.go.
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Where Do European Country Names Come From?
Word nerd Rob Watts explains where the names of all the European countries come from.
Which country is the “land of the rabbits”? Why does Germany have so many different names? Where do the Dutch actually live? What links Croatians and neckties?
(via open culture)
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Surprisingly, posting from my smartphone interrupted the song I was listening to on Qobuz (the new Rough and Twisted at the time). Oh well—I like silence too.
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The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection
On Friday this week the FTC’s open comment period regarding its “Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy” will close, which means that a bunch of very smart, very busy people are wasting a ton of time this week writing up comments that will mostly be ignored by the FTC — but still matter for the record. […] -
Daily Deal: The Complete Machine Learning Bundle
Dive into the world of self-driving cars, speech recognition technology, and more with the Complete Machine Learning Bundle. Over 10 courses, you will learn about pattern recognition and prediction, and how to harness the power of machine learning to take your programming to the next level. Discover quant trading, how to harness large data sets, […] - A new this.how page for RSS.chat. I'll point to it from blog posts.
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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said. -
TechCrunch reporting about the grid:
The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM Interconnection, has said it will cut off data centers and other large users during power shortages.
Totally reasonable. In fact, the new OpenAI data center in Georgia announced last week has this partially baked in, saying they will “proactively reduce its power consumption before residential customers are impacted during periods of high demand”.
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Il fait beau aujourd'hui
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Bonjour
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30 notable sales of rare books by AbeBooks over the past...
30 notable sales of rare books by AbeBooks over the past 30 years, including first editions of Moby-Dick, Winnie-The-Pooh, and Leaves of Grass.
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On a post yesterday, I accidentally used the HTML tag
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404 Media Scores Leaked Document Detailing The Dozens Of Surveillance Tools ICE Has Access To
The always-invaluable 404 Media has scored another minor coup. We all know ICE is heavily invested in surveillance tech, ranging from its purchases of cell location data from data brokers to throwing money at Clearview AI, the most notorious of facial recognition tech firms. But there’s so much more to it than that. On top […] -
The Great Mouse Detective was released 40 years ago. Cartoon Brew has a look back at it and many other animated detectives.
Love that movie, will never forget seeing it in the theater as a kid. That and seeing the original Transformers had a big influence on my love for animation.
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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively...
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'I Would Never Do This To You:' Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
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Our companion app for recording short podcasts Wavelength is getting a full redesign. Thanks to @vincent for the great work on it! Here’s a set of screenshots for a sneak peek. Hope to submit to Apple and Google this week.
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All US Cities Which Used to Have More Than 100,000 People But Don’t Anymore
Here’s a map of the 21 US cities that used to have a population of 100,000 people but don’t anymore. Many of these are Rust Belt cities, in which manufacturing employment fell steeply during the latter part of the 20th century.
The thread at Reddit mentions Detroit and St. Louis as two other cities whose population has dropped during that same time period. Detroit went from 1.85 million in 1950 to 639,000 in 2020 and St. Louis dropped from 857,000 to 300,000 over the same time period:
St. Louis was once the country’s 4th largest city. Worlds Fair and Olympics in 1904. Two Major League Baseball teams. It didn’t boom as much as the Great Lakes cities in between the wars and it declined just as much after.
Tags: demographics · maps · population · usa
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Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’
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Digging into Streamplace. It appears to store video and audio tracks as blobs and then uses HTTP content ranges to stream the data. Micro.blog uses HTTP live streaming, very different. But I could cross-post to Streamplace.
