davidgerard

yeah I use vp9 with opus for uploads by choice, it's great!

YouTube serves vp9 but it always re-encodes my videos as AV1. Annoying.

(I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.)

ssh -D

(really, that's what I do)

Kai Lentit just dropped a video on precisely this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E7kBOH9owI

I heartily endorse the Fuck You Pay Me support process.

What if, right, what if Roko's Basilisk responded to a prompt injection and blew up the WORLD, huh? What then? That'd be pretty messed up!

Back here in reality, please show me evidence that any AI agent deleted a single byte on jqwik's say-so.

I'm seeing the cheering AI haters showing up on Mastodon, fwiw. This story is today's secondary main character, the main one being rsync falling to vibe code.

The discussion around this topic is plagued with internet tough guy attorneys at LOL threatening Johannes Link with all manner of legal retribution.

If that's not what you're doing, I look forward to hearing your action plan.

I'm seeing protesting AI fans and cheering AI haters. As far as I can tell, this is enhancing trust in the non-LLM users. Why would you think it wasn't?

no one will use your tools anymore.

pretty obviously, no one who he's stated repeatedly he doesn't want to use the tool will use his tools any more. But there are more coders in the world than ardent AI users.

So unfair they were allowed to hit back!

But trust in the project is more fragile than ever.

yeah and it's one guy doing that

Note that Gitea has embraced AI code, and Forgejo refuses it - if that's a criterion for you.

author of Pivot to AI here. The impacts are local, but real bad for those localities.

Also, the fact that the AI hyperscalers will sue to keep the usage secret isn't something they're doing 'cos the usage looks good.

Very annoyed Microsoft's words were extruded corporate spam reiterating the press release and how great this deal was.

Openshot is alive and well and actively developed, but it's still buggy as hell. I use it 'cos it's super simple and so easy to use, but e.g. I use a specific daily build 'cos release 3.5.1 broke libopus again.

That's the TOS for the broader Microsoft Copilot, not for the GitHub one, which has its own TOSes (depending whether your last renewal was before or after March 5) that don't include the "entertainment" wording.

But one to file away!

NEWS UPDATE: Kent's AI girlfriend has had a realisation https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B3gZZsCZxDtZJ88XxI

transcript https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.

it was "currently happening" in May 2023, but I look forward to the working examples!

also, that's not a list of which specific claims are "outdated"

Which specific claims are "outdated"?

Your answers have all been that it'll be solved in the fabulous future. Quite possibly! But until it happens, it hasn't happened.

It's very much a Not Invented Here of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Bluesky is a good user experience insofar as it's centralised.

Mastodon is a bad user experience insofar as you're forced to be aware of the decentralisation.

If you want successful decentralisation, Mastodon has that out of the box. You can stand up a Mastodon, Akkoma, GotoSocial etc on a $5/mo VM and you're an equal participant immediately. Or you can join someone else's server.

ActivityPub is underspecified and Mastodon just ignored a lot of it and so the actual protocol is an unholy mishmash of the two. It mostly works though, by the process of people beating on it until it works.

With Bluesky, you have a centralised service and a lot of people saying "decentralised!"

AT Proto is theoretically decentralised in the fabulous future and points of absolute and financial centralisation keep turning up.

I spend all day posting to both, fwiw. They each do a particular job. But the "decentralisation" in Bluesky is fake. Or at best, simply not feasiblly true.

Last I looked its how to sign on page said "first create a keypair". That's certainly a good way to avoid the problems of success ...

Bluesky growth spurts are always when Musk or (less frequently) Zuckerberg step on their dicks again and more people come over from their services. In between are slow declines.

A relay or appview needs a ton of resources. Blacksky finally created the second ever real-world usable appview instance after 2.5 years.

Also, the open source version of the appview doesn't work at Bluesky scale. You need a proprietary database for sufficient speed.

AT Proto is completely decentralised, except for all the structural and financial points of absolute centralisation.

you should probably read down the thread, and also find out who Ariadne Conill is

I do not believe the third position is supportable, no. This incident does not supply evidence.

As I said below, there's hands on and there's hands on. The operator is unambiguously the operator, even as they automate to some degree.

author here - there's hands on and there's hands on, a Waymo operator is mostly getting the robot out of stuff beyond its if-then loop but also they are in any reasonable sense the human operator.

Like, I'm sure our bro automated as much as possible that wasn't more directly relevant to the crypto bit.

The original PR is innocuous at a glance, but then an innocuous PR is how Jia Tan started.

author here, the video and post content are basically the same

full credit to Ariadne Conill for finding the crypto angle, that makes sense of the whole thing

I can't see the crypto token, but everything about this reeks of someone will announce a token shortly.

EDIT: oh there it is

There's a bug about it, and it's already marked WONTFIX

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/3143

This isn't quite right? Wayland was literally created by an X11 developer who got two more main X11 developers in. It's a second system, not a competitor as such.