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skiing_crawling | 1 month ago | on: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

An interesting point is, SoundTouch has always had a local API available (publicly documented) on a web server that runs on a speaker (at least for the last 10+ years).

skiing_crawling | 2 months ago | on: A faster heart for F-Droid

A "single server" covers a pretty large range of scale, its more about how F-droid is used and perceived. Package repos are infrastructure, and reliability is important. A server behind someone's TV is much more susceptible to power outages, network issues, accidents, and tampering. Again, I don't know that's the case since they didn't really say anything specific.

> not hosted in just any data center where commodity hardware is managed by some unknown staff

I took this to mean it's not in a colo facility either, assumed it mean't someone's home, AKA residential power and internet.

skiing_crawling | 2 months ago | on: A faster heart for F-Droid

I never questioned or thought twice about F-Droid's trustworthiness until I read that. It makes it sound like a very amateurish operation.

I had passively assumed something like this would be a Cloud VM + DB + buckets. The "hardware upgrade" they are talking about would have been a couple clicks to change the VM type, a total nothingburger. Now I can only imagine a janky setup in some random (to me) guy's closet.

In any case, I'm more curious to know exactly what kind hardware is required for F-Droid, they didn't mention any specifics about CPU, Memory, Storage etc.