Glitchvid
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- Comment on [deleted] 12 hours ago:
Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There’s a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.
- Comment on [deleted] 14 hours ago:
It’s easier to scam someone than convince them they’ve been scammed.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 days ago:
Art is people making stuff, without the people… it’s just stuff.
- Comment on Fatphobia Is Fueled by AI-Created Images, Study Finds 4 days ago:
There are definitely folk who see obese people as an acceptable target because they can hide behind (valid) health claims, and then justify their moral superiority because they don’t have those “personal failures”.
The litmus test is if they think Semaglutide/GLP-1 is “legitimate” or obese people using it are “cheating”.
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 6 days ago:
Turns out burning thousands of kW, cooling, building datacenters, and filling them with the most expensive
shovelschips, is actually just more costly per real unit work than paying a real person. It was a gift the entire time! - Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 6 days ago:
Republican (but lets be fair here, most) states basically just threw their hands up and left it up to the “experts” (or their friends in the cable/local phone monopoly) for planning BEAD funds. Really it’s a failure of American politics and a case study on how baseline corrupt the average state is.
The only place that has actually gotten its shit together is, of all places, North Dakota, they have almost universal fiber access across the whole state, if you have power, you probably have fiber. All of contiguous America could have the same, only politics stands in the way.
Utah has also built out locally owned open-access municipal fiber, despite the best attempts from the Comcast/CenturyLink lobby and state legislature to kill it; among other projects in WA, TN, IA.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
My bad, I thought they were moving from Apache to something more restrictive / less open (the way so many have recently), especially by their wording — which conveys to me they’re frustrated they aren’t capturing the “value” of their code.
AGPL is not my favorite license but it has its purposes I suppose.
- Comment on Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs 1 week ago:
Not too surprising, it takes a 100kW AI rack to accomplish a fraction of what I can wrt writing code, and I can run on tacos and diet coke.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
Google themselves don’t really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.
Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.
In later versions the shrink the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple’s hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
I only “follow” because whatever Apple does gets broadcast by every media outlet in existence. Also Google started blindly following Apple design since they killed my beloved blob emojis.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there’s effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
Frutiger Aero.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 weeks ago:
Usually is. Still common among network admins to hear dumb shit like IPv6 being less secure because no NAT. 🤦♂️
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 2 weeks ago:
If it was a simple geoip lookup that isn’t really reliable wrt anycast addresses (or even addresses in general). 9.9.9.9 for example gets reported as Berkely, CA (US). Which is only partially accurate, for complicated business holding and ASN reasons, but is not representative of what DNS PoP you’re actually using at any given time.
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 2 weeks ago:
Quad9 is a Swiss org, but it operates at hundreds of PoPs inside many different countries (anywhere PCH has a presence), their addresses are anycast so it’ll use whatever the upstream routes/BGP dictate.
Both Quad9 and CloudFlare have the closest DNS for my network, at around 1ms RTT. However CloudFlare doesn’t support ECS, so I use the alternate Quad9 service that does, since it gives me better performance on a number of CDNs.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Moderately, it’s still not as good as Play Music it replaced, and frankly the only reason I use it is because it comes with Premium (and Lite gets ads so fuck that deal), otherwise I’d subscribe to something else for music (aside from growing my album collection on Bandcamp).
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 3 weeks ago:
Getting vertical video before modern codecs (AV1∨HEVC), and the same bitrate limitations since it was justin.tv.
It’s impressive how stagnant Twitch is, and how expensive it’s purported to be.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 3 weeks ago:
The ‘enthusiast’ side where all the university students and tinkerer devs reside is totally screwed up though. AMD is mirroring Nvidia’s VRAM cartel pricing when they have absolutely no reason to. It’s completely bonkers. AMD would be in a totally different place right now if they had sold 40GB/48GB 7900s for an extra $200 (instead of price matching an A6000).
Eh, the biggest issue here is that most (post-secondary) students probably just have a laptop for whatever small GPGPU learning they’re doing, which is overwhelmingly dominated by Nvidia. For grad students they’ll have access to the institution resources, which is also dominated by Nvidia (this has been a concerted effort).
Only a few that explicitly pursue AMD hardware will end up with it, but that also requires significant foundational work for the effort. So the easiest path for research is throw students at CUDA and Nvidia hardware.
Basically, Nvidia has entrenched itself in the research/educational space, and that space is slow moving (Java is still the de facto CS standard, with only slow movements to Python happening at some universities), so I don’t see much changing, unless AMD decides it’s very hungry and wants to chase the market.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 3 weeks ago:
That’s basically what I said in so many words. AMD is doing its own thing, if you want what Nvidia offers you’re gonna have to build it yourself. WRT pricing, I’m pretty sure AMD is typically a fraction of the price of Nvidia hardware on the enterprise side, from what I’ve read.
The biggest culprit from what I can gather is that AMD’s GPU side is basically still ATI camped up in Markham, divorced from the rest of the company in Austin that is doing great work with their CPU-side.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 3 weeks ago:
Expounding, Nvidia has very deeply engrained itself in educational and research institutions. People learning GPU compute are being taught CUDA and Nvidia hardware. Researchers have access to farms of Nvidia chips.
AMD has basically gone the “build it and they will come” attitude, and the results to match.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
It was basically up to the states this time around, they could allocate BEAD funds more or less as they wanted and absolutely build fiber out to the vast majority of residences (look at North Dakota, it’s evidently possible) through models like municipal fiber.
Ultimately it’s a political issue more than anything else, Americans just can’t get anything done anymore, politicians would rather enrich themselves and voters only care about the culture war.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 4 weeks ago:
For now, Google is clearly experimenting with baking ads into the delivered video streams, YT Premium members get served different endpoints already in preparation.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 4 weeks ago:
Sort of hard to exist without interacting with Google at all (lots of the material I’m given in courses is hosted on YouTube).
Your best bet is to use separate isolated/siloed accounts for their different services, never let your GCS account be attached to Gmail or one of their consumer facing products for example, lest it get nuked because some automated system went haywire and now you’re scrambling to get the account back.
- Comment on California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People 1 month ago:
ISPs really tried to make plans specially that were covered in whole by these credits, because it meant they could get customers who otherwise they wouldn’t have at all, and of course for the ISPs that gave a shit, it was also just a good thing to do.
- Comment on Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I gotta admit this got a chuckle out of me, I’d allow it.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 1 month ago:
This is pretty much on the money.
It even happened to me personally recently, Google nuked my (almost two decade old) YT channel for apparent adult content (Guess the AI hallucinated some crazy shit, since alls was on there was videogame footage) and of course, zero possibility of speaking to a human or any clue as to what’s going on, just a goodbye and thanks for all the adrev.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 months ago:
Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 months ago:
Standards as in parts of the spec, as you said in the original reply:
the new MatrixRTC spec Which is a fork of the WebRTC protocol and another “standard” on top of the REST HTTP protocol.
I should have been more specific with my language, it is federated, but specifically messages (events) are a distributed DAG, and I find the Matrix protocol overly generic for a replacement for something specific like Discord.
The end goal of Matrix is to be a ubiquitous messaging layer for synchronising arbitrary data between sets of people, devices and services
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 months ago:
Matrix has moved very very slowly and I’m concerned it’ll have the same fate as XMPP, where it’s a bunch of very complicated standards, with maybe one compliant implementation that nobody wants to work on.
I also don’t think it’s a particularly good protocol design for a Discord replacement, it’s not federated it’s a distributed message protocol, which is an order of magnitude more complicated and intensive than potential alternatives.
That said, many non-perfect things have achieved widespread success, so I’m at least hopeful that Matrix/Element are able to catch on in a wider capacity.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 months ago:
As someone who runs a Mumble server (and has for over a decade) – it’s really not a replacement for the user experience that is Discord.
People want a unified UI, the ability to create communities with some amount of customization, embedded/live content, plus voice and video so they can chill and play games together. Mumble is just voice, and while it’s a very good implementation of that, it’s not even in the same user space as Discord.