The beauty of Loom is that once you have it installed, either Desktop or Chrome, its one button - record a video, auto-generates the link, and you can immediately send off. I used it a ton, both as a software eng and with designers to better communicate back and forth things in my environment that would be wordy or hard to communicate.

I would imagine that if I worked on mobile apps instead of web ones, the benefit of a tool like this would be if I could click a button and have the same experience from my laptop/computer.

When I worked on a mobile app for a startup earlier this year, I'd use the Screen Recording, and then send it to myself through Whatsapp, then on my Mac send it off to the person I was targeting.

If I could use the app, record a video, and then have that auto-generate the URL and then have that immediately available on your platform so I can see that URL on my computer after refreshing, that would be quite handy.

Thank you for the feedback, I agree instant shareable link is huge selling point on Loom.

I’ll try to look into maybe like, a Vimeo/youtube integration for a quick solve.

Obviously a lot of footage in investigations does not reach the public, during active ones or even after. But if you've followed these stories it seems liket between the Brown shooting and the Kirk/Utah shooting, there is a potential concern with universities not having security footage in certain areas of their campus? Has anyone else inquired more into this?

I'm sure Flock's sales team has made inquiries.

That’s funny, picturing their sales team smirking and rubbing their hands mischievously at every publicized manhunt

Well, Candace Owens and Valhalla VFT are talking about exactly those things and the MSM is saying their concerns are baseless. I can't believe I actually watched Candace Owens discuss some of this stuff, I shudder to write that.

Owens is unhinged. She's also claiming the French government are trying to have her killed because she's claiming their first lady is secretly transgender. It's not just the "MSM" who are pointing out she has no credibility, it's also people like Ben Shapiro from her same corner of the media.

exactly what we need, more cameras everywhere

I mean, yes? The cameras do help solve a ton of crime. The real issue is using them for surveillance without a cause, and that imo this is what should be under scrutiny. But trying to fight cameras existing in general is a lost cause imo

Such a common name honestly had no idea who it would be

I use this for booting up S3-compatible buckets for local development and testing -- paired up with s5cmd, I can seed 15GB and over 60,000 items (seed/mock data) in < 60s... have a perfect replica of a staging environment with Docker containers (api, db, cache, objects) all up in less than 2mins. Super simple to set up for my case and been working great.

Previously I used LocalStack S3 but ultimately didn't like the lack of persistance thats not available on the OSS verison. MinIO OSS is apparently no longer maintained? Also looked at SeaweedFS and RustFS but from a quick reading into them this once was the easiest to set up.

I work on SeaweedFS. So very biased. :)

Just run "weed sever -s3 -dir=..." to have an object store.

I'll try it!

This is my first comment on HN despite being a user for over a decade -- this is one of the most outrageous pricing changes I've encountered - I couldn't believe it when I read the email earlier (I run self-hosted runners).

Anyone using GitLab or any other VCM that you'd recommend? I'm absolutely done with Github. Or is everything else just as bad?

I'm pretty happy with codeberg.org as a free host.

Alternatively, Forgejo, Gitea, or (based on praise I've seen from other people) maybe sourcehut.org.

I find GitLab's interface intolerable. Heavy reliance on javascript even for read-only access, nonintuitive organization, common operations hidden behind menus, mystifying icons... Every time I seek out a project's home and discover a GitLab instance, I find myself pausing to reconsider whether contributing to the project will really be rewarding enough to outweigh the unpleasant experience I'm about to have.

What does VCM stand for?

Gitlab interface is busy, yeah. But you it packs a lot of functionality in. If you want, you disable features like wiki and snippets to free up space on the side bar of a project. Or just look past it and find the part you want, issues merge requests, whatever.

After working for years with GitLab professionally, you know exactly where everything is.

Particularly making a contribution should anyhow be trivial - you push the branch and it shows a banner in the repo asking if you want to open a MR for the recently pushed branch.

I don't know why anyone would use GitHub actions. They seem like a weird, less powerful version of the GitLab CI. Now they want to charge for runtime on your own runner.

We self host GitLab and it’s been amazing. Never down, all the features we need. And the CI is, at least for me, easier to understand than GH actions. You’re just running scripts in a container no weird abstractions.

codeberg.org for open source, because it's a non-profit, with what it seems, very well intentioned people, with a good governance structure, and it's starting to support federation.

For a company, I'd recommend self-hosting forgejo (which also has actions), which powers codeberg.

(forgejo started as a fork of gitea)

Gitea is almost fully compatible with the GitHub runners. You might need to do small changes in the workflows.

Gitea!

And the best (maybe?) part in your case is that the CI is based on GH Actions, so you can probably reuse your workflows without the need to adapt them.

Have been using Gitlab happily for a decade, though I have never had to directly worry about the cost for larger teams.

Self-hosted gitlab here. Love it, and gitlab CI is excellent as well. Almost all product development revolves around some crappy AI integration that we don't use, and it worries me to see so much focus there instead of the core product, but the core product is still excellent.

I will try Gitea -- thanks everyone for the recommendations

tangled.org is up and coming and uses ATProto!

Gitea has a fully compatible system AFAIK.

"Outrageous"? It's two tenths of a cent per minute. How much will it impact you, really, particularly relative to the cost of compute?

It's outrageous because self hosted runners are... self hosted.

And the entire solution just sucks. It's bad, bad software. It barely works a lot of the time.

The only reason they're doing this is because they can. Which is usually a really stupid reason. And here, it is. So, that's outrageous.

> because self hosted runners are... self hosted.

Sure, but there's a separate mechanism that you need to make it all work: the orchestration. Without that, you have only the capacity to run jobs -- it's potential energy, if you will, not doing real work.

That orchestrator thus provides real value. And it's not like it's free for them to build, operate, and maintain.

The CI pipeline using my own runner is absolutely something that I expect to come for free with hosting the repository.

At our company, it's ~35k USD increase annually. This is not negligeable.

That’s 2.5x what my actual runners cost. For every $100 in compute, I will be paying $250 to github. They can fuck right off

I'm curious - where are you finding runners for $0.0008/minute? What are their specs?

Ubicloud. Also faster than the analog runners github provide. Only problem is startup time is slower