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If we're talking AI music videos that are amazing with a human in the loop, I really enjoy Snoop Dogg's music video for "Last dance with Mary Jane".

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rseqmSGH7xk&t=59s

From the start, the production team knew they didn’t want a music video that relied solely on any single technique. With this goal in mind, they worked to blend live action, AI, and a wide range of handcrafted animation styles – 2D, 3D, collage and motion design.

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The Aquilon RS4 can do DisplayPort 1.4[1] up to 32.4Gbps (HBR3). You will need two DP1.4 output cards[2] and two DP1.4 input cards[3].

Probably easier & cheaper to do switching in HDMI 2.1 though.

Aquilon is expensive, but the nice thing about the units is that they literally allow you to have a seamless switching experience (everything else will blank out the screen, and cause it to disconnect for a few seconds while everything resyncs).

[1] https://www.analogway.com/products/aquilon-rs4

[2] https://www.analogway.com/products/four-displayport-1-2-outp...

[3] https://www.analogway.com/products/four-displayport-1-2-inpu...

These exist, but are exceptionally niche, and very, extremely expensive.

I went down a similar rabbit hole a while back and ended up building something that attacks the same problem from the opposite direction: instead of just a hardware box that switches everything (video + USB), I wrote Fence[1], a software layer that automates switching USB input devices when you glide the mouse to the edge of the screen.

The idea is basically "Synergy's convenience, but with real hardware switching." You run a tiny client on each machine. When your cursor hits the left edge of your desktop, Fence tells a USB and HDMI Switch to physically redirect your keyboard and mouse to the next PC.

The switching happens in hardware and you can design your layout per-direction and per-device.

Where the L1T KVM is the "one box handles video and IO beautifully" approach, Fence is more of an "IO routing layer" that lets you keep your existing monitors and their auto-input-switching (or a separate video path).

I built it specifically to be cross-platform. You don't pass clicks/keystrokes over the network, just a "switch to pc2 PC, left edge" message.

Not a replacement for the L1T if you want one-button video+peripheral switching, but if someone likes their monitor's own input handling and just wants the "mouse to edge" workflow it's a nice middle ground.

I like the fact that moving the mouse to different edges of the screen can show exactly the source to the sink that I want.

I originally built it for live streaming with OBS, but now, I miss it when I have more than one computer I need to deal with at a time.

[1] https://github.com/timgws/kvm-switch

accessibility. Also regularly seen as a11y.

Terrestrial cellular towers cost between $150k to $500k per tower

I'd be interested to find out exactly where this cost exists. I would expect the majority of the cost (especially in rural/mountainous areas) to be more with power and backhaul, rather than the physical radio gear. Because it's rural, you should be able to easily just use coverage bands (ie 850 MHz or 900 MHz) with relatively high transmission power. This would easily be able to cover 300 km2.

Because of the higher transmission power, and the fact that the tower would be in the middle of nowhere, wouldn't the OPEX be higher, with smaller numbers for CAPEX?

I 100% agree. It should have just happened 12 or 24 months ago. It's not too late, and there is a chance to capture some market, but it is late. If Motorola did this last year, I think they could have captured 10-20% market share. Their share will be reduced because the people who did care for long term updates have upgraded. Now they get 4+ years of updates because of Android. https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb

This is a power move on Motorola's side, and I'm here for it.

There are conditions for OEM's installing any of the Google services. Although, so far it seems that graphene have been able to work around them (although, this is not a world I traverse).

I don't think the standard Android user wants to install ReVanced. They don't care about custom OS's. They want support and updates.

I remember the dark times where you purchased hardware, and you would be lucky to get 4 years of updates.

Motorola/Lenovo are late to this game. Two years ago, people updated to phones with phones that would get monthly security updates for five years. This was new to the Android ecosystem two years ago (with the exception of maybe a few Pixel phones).

Can I be devils advocate and say I think this is two years too late on Motorola's side?

Samsung has a great offer with their Galaxy Enterprise Edition phones. Phones with 5 year warranty. 7 years of software updates.

Motorola, welcome! I wish you did this before I bought my last Samsung phone. That being said, if you can keep this up till my current phone needs replacing, you will have a customer in me, guaranteed.

My Lenovo experience has surpassed that of any other computer hardware brand.

I think you meant https://nic.apple :)

Worth pointing out that the ICANN agreement for all these new TLDs require a website live on whois.nic.<tld> under Specification 4. eg, Google's TLD delegation agreement (https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/googl...).

Most TLDs will also put live nic.<tld>, but it's not required.

edit: huh, seems like a lot of TLDs are not following their ICANN agreements.

You say that, but someone at CERN has spent at least ten minutes thinking about how they could expose the Haldron Colider as an MCP server.

For what it's worth, TigerData is the company that develops TimescaleDB, a very popular and performant time series database provided as a Postgres extension. I'm surprised that the fact that TigerData is behind it is not mentioned anywhere in the blog post. (Though, TimescaleDB is mentioned 14 times on the page).

For a long time, Inspur K-UX, a Red Hat Linux derivitive was a Unix O3 certified system as well. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3617.htm

Would zero knowledge proofs work here?

Yes, but that would then require more infrastructure. For example, Australia does not have a national ID card - or a national proof of age card (each state, however, does implement a Proof of Age card, eg https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-...).

So, what is your zero knowledge based on? Who is the signer?

Under the Identity Verification Services Act 2023 we have IDMatch (https://www.idmatch.gov.au/). This whole setup can simply be extended to have third parties act as an intermediary between the government and the party attempting to get proof of age. Similar to AusPost's DigitaliD (https://www.digitalid.com/personal). But let's not have that company owned by the Government :)

It's pretty cooked that we are asking the social media companies to go ahead and prove to the eSaftey commissioner that they have measures in place to stop kids from getting access to social websites, yet they have to use unreliable measures like selfies to do it. The companies can't win here. This won't be the last you hear of this. https://youtu.be/YTwBStZIawY?t=306

Have you turned off SIMPLINK? (LG's older name for CEC).

Option 1 (Hidden Menu Method)

* Press the Mute button repeatedly until the hidden menu appears; ensure Auto Power Sync is enabled.

* Go to General → Devices → TV Management and disable Quick Start+.

* Go to General → System → Additional Settings → Home Settings and turn off both options.

Option 2 (Settings Menu Method, webOS)

* Press Settings on the remote and open All Settings.

* Navigate to General → Devices.

* Turn SIMPLINK (HDMI-CEC) ON. (webOS 6.0+, enabling SIMPLINK automatically enables external device control).

Can't you just put a middle man on there then? Get a non-profit organisation like Mozilla to ask the govt. on behalf of the user.

The organisation asks the govt, and gives back a signed token.

The the only thing the government knows is that an age verification was requested. Once verification has been done once for one site, it can be used for future verifications.

Wasn't Micron using Phison controllers in basically every single SSD they made?

Sure, but that is an older Terms and Conditions. It was a perpetual license, not a lifetime license that is sold today. It's like saying you shouldn't purchase Windows 11 because Windows XP no longer gets updates. Well duh! It stopped being supported more than 10 years ago, and Windows 11 is a different license to that of Windows XP.

The lifetime license purchased today is not a perpetual license. FileZilla says that it will update it for life.

So, respectfully, no, it's not good to warn people about the clause, because people purchasing the product today do not run into this issue.

So then you didn't buy a lifetime subscription? Why would you get access to the software for lifetime, if you ordered only a 1, 3 or 5 year license?

Your right to receive updates is limited to the time that you selected when you ordered FileZilla Pro.

If you have, infact, ordered a "Perpetual License", then you would have agreed to the Terms and Conditions when ordering FileZilla (here's a random old copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20211128083132/https://store.fil...)

It clearly says in the T&C that you agreed to:

  > All risk of loss for the Products shall pass to You upon delivery of the Products to the location specified in Your Order (even if no signature is required for delivery). For the avoidance of doubt, the delivery of downloaded Products occurs when the Products are downloaded.

FileZilla's Terms and Conditions are a mess. https://filezillapro.com/terms-and-conditions/

It does say:

In a one-off purchase you will have a right to receive services or other rights for the maximum period of time indicated in the package you have purchased or ‒ missing that indication ‒ for up to five years.

It also says:

Unless registered, your copy will not receive updates and will not exploit the services of the Software.

So, I would assume that if you purchased the Lifetime license, and you registered the software within the 4 required weeks, then they are infact breaking their contract with you.

So, going to https://filezilla-project.org/prodownload.php?beta=0 and entering your email address and order number doesn't work?

The Wikimedia Endowment (which is sorta-kinda separate) is to drive solutions to that exact problem.

By having a separate fund that the Wikimedia Foundation can access to help Wikipedia to have the technical expertise and knowledge workers required to continue the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Should the Wikimedia Foundation cease to exist, the funds in the endowment can be redirected to a successor.

EDIT: this is similar in style to the UK's Guardian Foundation, who provides funding to The Guardian newspaper. https://theguardianfoundation.org/

The Wikimedia Endowment [0] has been created for this. From it's Financials [1] it mentions that

... [its mission is...] to act as a permanent fund that can support in perpetuity the operations and activities of current and future Wikimedia projects, which are projects that are approved by and advance the purposes of the Foundation or its successor if the Foundation ceases to exist

[0] https://wikimediaendowment.org/

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f6/Wikim...

I don't disagree with any of your points.

They retire. They disappear. They get hit by a bus.

Then maybe a better NC license should be designed specifically for hardware? The Creative Commons license isn't fantastic, for all the reasons that you suggest.

Just because the hardware is licensed by default as NC, doesn't mean that there can not be other providers of parts, a dual licensed open source hardware project if you will.

You get the GPL-like CC NC license for general use, the tinkerers have the plans so they can modify the hardware.

Then the commercial suppliers of replacement parts can pay a small percentage of their sales to the group that made the original designs, so they can continue to build new designs and improve existing ones.

Someone who just carbon copies a design and makes a profit of it, without giving back anything to the community is hard to avoid in the open hardware space.

Why does the printer design being NC licensed mean that you won't be able to purchase one?

To me, it seems like this license makes the most sense for everyone. The designer(s) of the printer get to sell a printer that no doubt took more than a few days worth of work to go from idea to "hey look, it prints something", and everyone else gets to see how the design works, to either improve, or create a new design based on learnings from this project. Hopefully that brand new design is licensed more liberally!

But I sure as hell would love an open printer that has a less than ideal license, especially when the alternative is basically getting a new printer from one of four companies (Canon, Epson, HP... did I miss anyone?)

The world needs more open source hardware. I'm currently trying to tackle an open source washing machine and heat pump dryer in my spare time. Will it ever turn into a built project? Probably not, but I sure as hell want to make sure that every peice that I've worked on so far is released to the world if it means that the next few people can finish or fix the design.

The fact that we see __washing machines__ as something that's not worth supporting after 6 years is honestly disgusting to me. It's not a flat screen TV, I don't see the design of a washing machine improving radically in my generation.

But if it does, it should be able to be retrofitted, rather than replacing an entire machine.

Interesting times indeed. It was also just before the Nokia acquisition that Microsoft was selling their first Android phone (under the Nokia brand) so they could see the winds of change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X

Nokia already had Android phones released months before the Microsoft acquisition closed. Makes me wonder if Nokia would have pulled out completely from making Windows phones had Microsoft not purchased them.

Even Microsoft changed their tune, releasing Android phones themselves years later under the Surface brand.

I am guessing a business analyst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_analyst). Basically, someone who facilitates creating and communicating stakeholder analysis across a business. The idea is that a BA would have a thorough understanding of everything across a business. Think of them as a product owner in scrum, except there is a bit more overlap working with different parties both internal and external to the business.

You will likely find a BA (or someone with a similar role under a different name) in most large organisations (and likely in quite a lot of medium ones, too).

There's a mono version of the font too! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible+Mono

From the designer's website (https://anti.as/optiker-k) it seems that this was commissioned by ANTI Hamar for the rebranding project for Optiker-K, a Norwegian optician and optometrists store.

This is fantastic! More custom fonts like this should be open sourced.

To me the font looks pretty legible. Worth noting that the font is from 2018, so it's not really a new font, but it is still one of my favorites.

This is power vs. energy.

The Richter Scale is a logarithmic scale, based on shaking measurements (think of the old pencil-based seismograph!). Power. (10^1).

The Moment Magnitude Scale (the more modern/replacement of Richter Scale) is based on energy. Geological organisations reporting on an earthquake will usually show this as "M <number>" or "Mw <number>".

Richter works well for small-to-medium earthquakes, and it's not accurate for really large or distant earthquakes.

The energy released in an earthquake increases exponentially, not just linearly.

EDIT: The Moment Magnitude Scale is where the "10^1.5" figure is coming from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale

For fun, I am building a little tool called 'domain-manager'. Basically just a binary that automates configuring a Linux host to run a bunch of WordPress/Laravel/PHP sites.

It creates all the necessary boilerplate to generate PHP Docker containers, creates all of the MySQL users, and sets up all of the directory structures to get a new website up and running. It even helps set up SFTP users and gets letsencrypt certificates set up with certbot.

It's still very early days, but I appreciate that what used to be a bunch of commands that I would run by hand and slightly change every few months is now pretty much just all self contained. Should mean the next migration to a different server is easier.

Created in frustration because I was too cheap to pay the $50/month for a cPanel license.

https://github.com/timgws/domain-manager

This reminds me of a project for using a receipt printer to print of physical tickets of GitHub issues. https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-built-a-receipt-printer-for-gi...