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by bigiain 11mo ago
Is it just me, our does this feel like the AI grifters doing the same market manipulation tricks that their new best friends (or their past selves) the Crypto Currency grifters used, only this time with private company stock price insane va
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by bigiain 11mo ago
One fairly busy forum I cofounded and "moderated" on, we intentionally call the moderators "Janitors" in an attempt to dissuade the sort of people who wanted "a powerful role" from even wanting to ask. It sorta
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Yeah. Everybody wants "more of the right kind of people", but there are as many interpretations of "the right kind of people" as there are people. People and interactions between them are just messy. And that's not
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Here's hoping the Mastodon "non profit" is somewhat better set up than Matt's "WordPress Foundation" and that Mastodon is not now completely under control of one person (with two sock puppets) that also owns a
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Sadly, I suspect he's reasonably successful at being popular amongst the people he wants to be popular with. Taylor Swift is super popular in the demographic she plays to, while being unpopular with, say, techno or metal fans. Musk is
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I don't think it matters all that much. Any specific opinions are going to be more a natter of personal taste. Get one aimed at rhythm/percussion, one that has some bass/lowend sounds, and something to make melodies. I have a
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by bigiain 11mo ago
That's a great reason to redesign it around an ESP32. So you can have an app on your phone that lets you control the volume over WiFi...
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by bigiain 11mo ago
They're great, but I feel their pricing moves them out of impulse purchase (or "drunk eBay") territory. And for me, they're kinda in that no mans land of "I want something better that my OPs, do I spend a few hundre
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Garageband was never even half as much fun as three POs plugged together - at least for me. Same way the all the guitar effect models running on my iPad aren't nearly as much fun as stomping on the Rat Distortion or Boss Chorus pedals
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I have 3. I have never regretted a single cent of what I paid. I don't get them out and play often, but even the fun I had when they were new was 10 times better value in the dollars per hour of fun measurement that most other things.
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Reminded me of Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators: https://teenage.engineering/store/pocket-operators I have a few of those, and heaps of my friends gat sucked deeply into playing with them at the expense of w
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> They pay as little as humanly possible to cover their ass. They probably spend more on the team who ends up writing the "We take your security very seriously" breach notification message than they do on "security people&
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> Foveated streaming! That's a great idea. Back when I was in Uni, so late 80s or early 90s, my dad was Project Manager on an Air Force project for a new F-111 flight simulator, when Australia upgraded the avionics on their F-111 fi
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> Other developers tend to point out objections in terms of maintainability, scalability, overly complicated solutions, and so on. All of which are valid. I've spent the bulk of my 30+ career in various in-house dev/management
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> In 2022 the best available models was GPT-3 text-davinci-003 at $60/million input tokens. >GPT-5 today is $1.25/million input tokens - 48x cheaper for a massively more capable model. Yes - but. GPT-5 and all the other mode
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> Having something that can generate code reliabily (which these things can barely do even with an expert at the wheel) doesn't address any of the actual hard problems we deal with on a daily basis. Not understanding that is somethi
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Single Sweat Off is an Enterprise Only requirement.
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> Google has been running all sorts of fuzzers against ffmpeg for over a decade at this point Yeah. It's called YouTube... Why run fuzzers if you can get people to upload a few million random videos every day? ;-) (I wonder if the B
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> But "everyone else down stream of us should compile out our security hole" is a terrible way to go about things. Is that somehow _less_ of a terrible way to think than "someone who's contributed their time as a volu
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by bigiain 11mo ago
That behaviour is indeed totally unacceptable. At your job. Where they're paying you, and especially if they're paying you at FAANG type pay scales. If you're an unpaid volunteer? Yeah - nah. They can tell you "Sorry, I&
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Hmmmm. There's probably just one guy who wrote the ffmpeg code for that format. _Maybe_ one or two more who contributed fixes or enhancements? The ffmpeg project need to get in touch and get then to assign copyright to the ffmpeg proje
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by bigiain 11mo ago
" ... and it can do insane stuff" That's a pretty good indicator it's likely just ffmpeg in an AWS Hoodie/Trenchcoat.
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I reckon this is an impedance mismatch between "Open Source Advocacy" and Open Source as a programming hobby/lifestyle/itch-to-scratch that drives people to write and release code as Open Source (of whatever flavour they
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Yeah - Amazon Elastic Transcoder which they just shut down and replaced with Elemental MediaConvert is almost certainly just managed "ffmpeg as a Service" under the hood.
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I managed about 1.5gb/s in 2007, between our solo and the office. With a server strapped to the back of a motorcycle. https://flic.kr/p/4bQ8jz
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Dans Data (RIP that website, apparently) did this backup tapes to microSD cards update about 15 years ago. He started with "Well, first we need to know how big our station wagon is. I hereby arbitrarily declare it to be a 1985 Volvo 24
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Somewhat related, there are people doing amazing things by modifying VHS players and tapping into the raw output from the tape heads (bypassing all of the player's other electronics), and then using modern signal processing techniques
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by bigiain 1y ago
Didn't Alfred Hitchcock make this movie?
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by bigiain 1y ago
Now my brain is doing it's usual "over complicate things to the extent a project cannot possibly get started" thing"... Active noise cancelling. Vibration detectors on oscillating parts of the track with LRAs or similar
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by bigiain 1y ago
I started making sure my notes included the search queries keywords/keyphrases/terminology I uses and any webpages or documentation that I successfully used to come up with the solution (and where relevant, and search queries or m

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