Notices by Hailey (hailey@hails.org)

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

tracked down that ffi gem bug on x32. curious

@mntmn ohhhh yes!! Keen to see how you go with it!

im a desktop developer now

the lua console works!

merry christmas, the bark receiver now plays audio with alsa directly rather than using cpal. this means I have finer control of latency and buffers, including being able to match the period of the underlying DAC to really eek out minimal latency!

honestly pipewire is so freakin good man. they got the design right, it's fully observable + tunable, and it's flexible as hell. linux audio has arrived. its good now

using alsa directly also means you can use real alsa device names (which function kinda like connection strings) to select the output node + configure it further if u like

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

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