The_Decryptor

“I’d like to plead insanity. I think the charge is insane. Anyone who takes it seriously could be such as well.”

“I don’t think I’m insane. I think the law is insane,” Dowling said.

I’m not sure it’ll go well for him, but I wish him luck, and I wish he had a proper lawyer.

Yeah, I bet it’s something to do with a video decoder trying to decode empty data (dropped or corrupted frame, etc.), and the result of that being converted from YCbCr to RGB, it’s too consistent of a failure case.

That’s old school hardware overlays, haven’t really been a thing since XP era Windows.

These days everything is a scene graph with normal texture buffers, and the compositor is responsible for either layering stuff over it or doing direct scanout of that surface.

Ok, but who is making those “open weight” models though? Individuals don’t really have the resources to run these huge scraping operations, so they’re often still corporate releases with fake open source branding.

To me lying implies an intent to deceive, LLMs can’t do that as they have no intentions or understanding of the output they produce.

It’s not lying, because it’s also not telling the truth either, it’s just statistically weighted noise.

I kinda get the average person overestimating the capabilities of an LLM, but technically minded people falling for it did surprise me.

Of course, I really shouldn’t be, the ELIZA effect is old and well documented, I suppose it’s more worrying that it can affect anybody.

Nah, storage is fried.

People always focus on systemd whenever this is posted, but all systemd is saying is that it can’t read the service files when it tries to start something. Earlier on the kernel is complaining about I/O errors as well.

I bet the actual logo display is a full screen browser too, multiple computers each running chrome just to display ads.

I would argue that a battery powered bike is closer to a dirt-bike/motorcycle/mini-bike and should probably be looked at the same as those.

I don’t really know if I’d consider this

A motorcycle.

By claiming that you own patents on technology used by said format.

The “open royalty free” aspect applies to companies that are a part of the AOMedia group, if you’re not involved with them you’re not covered by the patent grants and restrictions in place, and can charge whatever the courts say is cool.

Depending on the output device it’s still using ALSA underneath (e.g. Bluetooth output instead is given to the BT stack), PipeWire is dealing with managing and routing the audio output rather than actually performing it.

The best part of the article is the very end, even if the site makes it look unrelated.

Avanci’s Video pool and Access Advance’s Video Distribution Patent pool are both now seeking content royalties from streaming services for the use of HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1. Access Advance’s rates are capped at roughly $63 million per year, and Avanci has published rates of 1.6% to 2.0% of revenue or $0.12 to $0.15 per user per month.

$4.5 million max for H.264 is rookie numbers vs. the $63 million max for AV1

Yeah, we have mDNS for a reason.

Or even just link the DHCPv6 server to the DNS, that’s the default config in most cases anyway.

tbf it was played straight in Hot Fuzz, Sgt. Angel was right and there was somebody who caused it.

Makes it portable across architectures while also providing sandboxing.

The fedi software I use (GoToSocial) runs both ffmpeg (Sorry, ffmpreg) and sqlite through WASM, also makes it easier to integrate it with Go code apparently.

If there’s slop in the code base, that will be harder to avoid than whole modules that you can just not install.

Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

There’s BlackSky now, the first full outside server setup (Things like relays and PDSs are just smaller components of the larger required stack)

So you know, they’re at 2 total instances currently.

It’s not just bug reports; in the last month, AI driven development has actually gone from slop to reliably better than the average human.

Funny, I heard that same claim about 6 months ago.

And I’m sure I’ll hear it again in another 6 months or so.

will hopefully drive positive govt policy outcomes.

From the current city and state governments? Highly unlikely.

The laws they’re trying to support require very limited information, but they’re storing far more than that and they’ve actively decided not to protect it properly.

All systemd is storing is the DOB in YYYY-MM-DD format.