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 :)
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:
hate to make an annoying toot on here, but if you are a commie/anarchist/leftist of any kind, it’s time to just install Linux. It’s fine, really.
If you haven’t used it properly in some time, you might be surprised by how fine it is, plus you get to stick to your ideals, and also avoid the complete adware/nagware/spyware shitheap that the rest of the capitalist computing ecosystem has become. Actually, considering all that, it’s quite good, really.
Liebe Berliner*innen, ich möchte noch einmal für die großartigen fLotte-Lastenräder Werbung machen. Diese Lastenräder sind unkompliziert gegen eine Ausweiskopie + freiwillige Spende ausleihbar. Wenn man mal eins braucht, ist das sehr praktisch. Die Lastis sind in ganz Berlin verteilt stationiert. https://flotte-berlin.de
The #cccamp23 orga is still looking for 15-20x 2-person sleeping tents for artists during the event - in the best case incl. sleeping mat/sleeping bag (will also be accepted individually).
If you can spare these things temporarily, please get in touch via email with the subject "Tent-for-artists" to camp2023-orga@cccv.de and write what you can bring in which amount for how long /co
Remember me warning about Jean Pereira, an #infosec fraud? Well, there's a video detailing just how much he is overplaying his hand. https://youtu.be/duLJUpptSik
