stream.new VS Confusables

This is super cool! We built something in the same vein but using Mux as a way to dog food our products: https://stream.new

I noticed your demo example in your top comment isn’t working, which made me suspect you’re just using the raw MediaRecorder output, and sure enough. Unfortunately…that’s just not going to work for any “real” use case.

MediaRecorder is well known in the video infra world as being incredibly crappy videos, to the point of being difficult to transcode reliably much less just use directly as a video for playback. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s just no way of avoiding a proper transcode (if you care about the videos created from any supported browser being playable on the gamut of browsers).

Thanks! Yeah that would be a significant improvement.

This started as a little demo project with Nextjs + Mux and then evolved into more of an actual product (https://github.com/muxinc/stream.new).

Right now the lightweight utility aspect of stream.new feel right, but if we continue to build upon it as a standalone free product then adding the concept of an "account" with saved videos makes a ton of sense.

I wrote a small python library for searching obfuscated Unicode text by creating regex expressions; our company’s chat was being overrun by spammers.

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

From the readme:

E.g. "℮1೦" would match "Hello"

"Hello" gets turned into the following regex of character classes:

  [HＨℋℌℍΗⲎНᎻᕼꓧ𐋏ⱧҢĦӉӇ]

You're right. The code was correct but the Readme hadn't been updated to reflect the lack of backslashes. Thanks for the find!

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables/commit/c4121428...

I built a Python library for finding strings obfuscated this way. Was critical when moderating our telegram channel before an ICO.

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

E.g. "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" would match "Hello"