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WebAuthn is the standard for token authentication.
(I.e., Yubikeys and other USB sticks.)
It works fine and it a no-brainer to use.
The problems start when vendors start trying to shoehorn their shitty cloud auth services into WebAuthn.
lament the loss of the „old models”
My Qwen GGUFs are still here.
The cost of LLM inference is orders of magnitude more than the typical ad CPM.
Not even "native ads" embedded in LLM output can offset the difference.
FOSS is a legal and political tool that removes catastrophic dependency risk.
It's not something that exists simply because software developers had free time to waste.
Most of these are either discontinued or some sort of paraphonic and/or hybrid-digital architecture. :)
There's no point in trying to make an analogue synth that mimics the percussive nature of piano.
Synths are much closer to woodwinds.
Sorry, I can't make any sense of your comment.
"Polyphonic analogue synth" means several independent envelope generators and VCFs.
Doing this is pointless -- it increases your synth's costs by orders of magnitude and provides no musical benefit whatsoever except make it slightly easier for piano players with no synthesizer experience to play it.
The growth of cheap analogue synths
Yes, but literally none of them are doing analogue polyphony. The entire idea is just massively stupid and makes no sense in the 21st century.
If you're using passwords as an authentication methods then you've already lost.
"It's corruption and cronies" is a generic cop-out answer that doesn't explain anything.
Like whenever someone gets caught in a compromising situation they say they "were hacked", as if saying that means anything.
It's for collectors. There's no musical value in a polyphonic analogue synthesizer.
You can absolutely press the same compressed masters on vinyl
Nah, there's physical limits of the needle-in-a-groove medium that prevent this.
or release the uncompressed masters digitally.
Technically yes, but nobody is gonna do this and risk not "standing out".
who can afford high-end equipment
The average vinyl record player nowadays costs less than $150. The market is absolutely flooded with low-end Chinese turntables.
When a modern person listens to vinyl records for the first time, the immediate reaction is "how the hell do I make this louder so it pops out more".
And the answer is that you can't, the medium just doesn't work like that.
I'm just saying there is a market for vinyl records with no art or sleeves, but no market for sleeves and art with no record.
Clearly the art isn't the driver of this market niche.
Digital is more capable of faithfully reproducing sound than vinyl is.
That's exactly the problem that makes digital unsuitable.
Theoretically digital can reproduce sound faithfully, but if the medium allows sound engineers to compress the hell out of music, then they will abuse the opportunity.
Vinyl is a very limited format and you can't really do any sort of "creative" audio optimization bullshit with it.
There's a shitload of valuable vinyl records that don't have any art at all or even any cover. Paper and cardboard doesn't last as long as the record itself.
No, the reasons for this are entirely technical.
It's largely driven by a kind of retro nostalgia
Incorrect. The reasons why vinyl specifically is still relevant (as opposed to any other "retro" audio format) are technical.
Vinyl avoids compression issues by design. (Compression both in the computer science sense and in the audio engineering sense.)
pretty much anything that most people want to listen to is on music streaming sites
If that were true, then vinyl sales wouldn't be growing.
From the statistics I can find, around 30% of console players are GenZ/GenA.
This is a theoretical maximum in a specific USA-centric bubble.
Consoles (and gaming in general) is just not a thing for teenagers anymore.
Gaming is gonna go the way of the electric guitar. Remember when guitar was actually cool and not just a midlife crisis marker for tired middle aged men?
AI is created by big tech stealing other people's data. Yes, this has everything to do with AI - stealing data is a foundational feature of the technology.
Yes, consoles are an expensive lifestyle item for millennials who have money now.
the console market is as large as it's ever been as gaming as a whole became genuinely mainstream
Yes, like I said - lifestyle item for gen-X and millennials who have money now.
...and kids absolutely still play on them
The vast majority is kids playing their parents' console.
If the market wasn't being driven by parents' demand then no modern kid would be asking to buy a console. (They can play Roblox and Brawl Stars on their iPhone/iPad.)
That will be the game to get the entire world on their games consoles.
Console gaming is like 15% of all gaming world-wide, and GTA 6 is like a single-digit slice of that 15% slice.
"Game consoles" are a niche lifestyle item for gen-X and millennials with money to waste. (Like vinyl records.)
Nobody under 20 knows what a "console" is even for, they play games on their iPhone almost exclusively.
that help to improve the final output
Do they actually help? Are you sure?
They don't reason.
Because AI represents the distillation of the very best human knowledge and expertise.
You say it like it's a fact, but in reality everyone sees the phenomenon of AI slop.
P.S. Information search and retrieval if the best and most direct way to use LLMs.
Sounds bonkers. Why not make an overlay LAN and host your own DNS server in 10.0.0.0/8?
Depends on what you want.
Postgres doesn't do replication, HA or columnar/OLAP workloads, for example.
Postgres sucks. It does a little bit of everything, but badly and with much manual intervention.
LLMs do not match patterns. They predict one statistically most likely token (only one!) given a history of some N previously known tokens.
Markdown has very few issues
Markdown's issue is that it isn't a standard, and many "standard" Markdown implementation default to rending HTML tags without any validation.
while others do
Now we just need to find those tasks. I want to believe.
and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to
Zero evidence for this. It's programmers self-reporting their own productivity. (Have we not learned this lesson after 50 years of programming practice?)