Yes, there is a lot of potential. There are micro-spectrometers available covering this range, like the MEMS-FPI type spectrometer or the multi-pixel arrays with filters (example: https://www.mantispectra.com/products). But this new kind of detector seems to come with higher resolution, faster readout than the MEMS-FPI, and more sensitivity. It is quite exciting, I’m curious to see if they commercialize it soon.

I am not 100% sure, but I think that the designer bears the cost of the wafer yield.

The PDK is specific to the manufacturer, and I imagine that the risk associated with specific features is known and the yield range can be estimated. A design with more and riskier the features would lower the expected yield, and it makes sense that this risk gets passed onto the designer. The contract may have some protections for the case when the yield is significantly lower than expected because of the manufacturer’s fault. Just a guess though, it would be great if someone with real experience can answer.

Very cool!

I also like that they included a device cost analysis. I think they used some aggressively optimistic assumptions (100% yield from the wafer) and large-volume procurement prices that I am skeptical of, but if true it is valuable info.

Since my work involves sensors, I set up a continuous testing setup on a raspberry pi and got its IP whitelisted. I ssh into it when something is annoying to do in the Windows laptop.

It always surprises me when ppl don’t know about torrents. They were the only way to get things before streaming services privatized all this content, and still remain better, by using the latest encodings and quality formats for media.

I did know enough about torrents to do practically use them to download things since the Limewire/Ares times. But what I meant is that I never actually knew how they work at a technical level - I never opened a torrent file and looked inside, or knew what a magnet link was. So, then, the topic as a whole is still opaque to me. But I did some reading today and I’m getting into it.

So new content would be no different than the thousands of people seeding existing content.

I see it, but I also see why this concept might be intimidating to some. I (and probably many others) make use of torrents in rare occasion when I cannot find a movie, a series, or want an album. I associate torrenting with acquiring a large file for long term storage. Streaming feels different - videos exist in my computer only while I need them, and then they leave no trace. As I understand it, a torrent-based system would actually download all (or some) videos to disk to be able to seed them.

Still, I do think that a youtube-like torrent-based client would be successful - especially if implemented in a way that is simple for the user. An interface to find content, transparent and adjustable torrent settings with control over disk space allocation, and the torrents/magnet link management mostly hidden from the user.

Thanks. I don’t know much about torrenting other, and I never looked into the concept of what Magnet links are.

It is actually very interesting! Such an elegant and simple solution.

And I think it is even simpler than what the instructions imply… I can write the following into the terminal:

transmission-cli "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:563cf8f2a0bdd5564ae9ef3d3302eecef639328b"

And that’s enough to pull the first episode of alien earth that you shared. That unique hash is all it takes to search for seeders. Very cool.

It is still not obvious to me who would seed when implementing the torrent-based YouTube alternative. Would it make sense that users set some torrenting ratio, a file lifetime, and a size limit, and ‘collect’ videos as they watch them so that they can seed for other users?

All that’s needed is for people to learn how to seed their own videos, and post magnet links around.

I’m in! Looking into it. Now I need to go make something worth sharing.

I like it.

I find the feature of pulling comments from cross-posts even more desirable now that I see how it interfaces with PeerTube videos, pulling the comment history as well. I still think that improvements can be made. With regular cross-posts, you have different people sharing the same link, often to a resource outside of the Fediverse. But, in the case of a federated piece of content such as a PeerTube video, the original does live within the fediverse. There is a master post, which is the video itself. I feel like there is some way to design a special kind of fedi-cross post that allows to share with a community without breaking the interaction… At least for upvotes.

It does get a little complicated and confusing. And for some reason it only works for some PeerTube instances, not for all…

But, for example, let’s say I like this video: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/c8c6a9df-121e-4a00-95c1-b7af4beb73a1

By pasting that URL into the search box, the video is brought into the instance as a post. The channel is also pulled as a “locked” community. If anyone in the instance subscribes to that community, then future uploads to the PeerTube channel will be brought into the community.

Look, here is the channel pulled into your instance: https://sh.itjust.works/c/bpt11_channel@tilvids.com

If a user upvotes post, then the original video will get a “like”. If one comments, the comment will appear under the original video.

But let’s be honest, Peertubés problem is discoverability of content.

I’ve discovered lately that there is a Firefox extension which lets you use Youtube and signals you when a video is already on Peertube. This could be great.

Yeah… I have been going through the effort of pulling channels and subscribing to them from within the instance so that future videos also populate the instance. It is some effort to discover these channels, but hopefully over time we can have a nice library of channels interacting with Lemmy.

Thanks. Yeah, I was thinking of writing this as an “enhancement” issue, but figured it might be worth to refine this before bringing it up there.

Id love to get peertube spread throughout my feeds. My biggest reason for not using it was the fact I’d have to use a different platform and my device is already maxed out on storage. Here’s hoping it would be a quick fix!

I’ve been looking for channels, pulling them into the instance, and subscribing to try to increase the number of channels in my feed.

AMSTERDAM TRIP: 52.37952717594758, 4.898731163397595 -> 52.373726213381254, 4.8991743688343785 -> 52.37307624236834, 4.892481840346751 -> 52.375235597713356, 4.883881824117286 -> 52.364346142549444, 4.882779439603186 -> 52.358151346039655, 4.868920785661565 -> 52.36032825423474, 4.885688072103288 -> 52.38899110197864, 4.8381014035210965