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He was knocking crypto from the very start

Such an odd world where someone like Patrick Boyle is considered “left wing”.

Hahaha haven’t heard that one in a long time. Cracked me up.

Crypto is in no way better money.

It’s slow and expensive and doesn’t scale.

The real answer is an alternative that relies on a centralised provider - or set of them - who use traditional databases and the like, but do things in a modern efficient way and don’t charge the same fees as the current card providers do.

Yeah I’d love another mini, but alas.

I remember Ubuntu were going for that “dock it and it’s a full computer” idea about 10 years back with their failed phone OS project.

You might be anti-ai in the sense you aren’t comfortable with all your data being shipped back and forth to a third party.

Yeah I don’t think they are over-priced, last I checked all those companies are still losing money hand over fist.

I guess the question is more he doesn’t want people catching up by doing cheaper training (through distillation or otherwise), and he definitely doesn’t want companies to spend their money training these models and then _giving them away_, which fundamentally undercuts their commercial model and any way to claw back their investment

Also all the bad food choices me and my fellow stoners make when we’re high.

Yeah but messaging apps are really only useful if there are lots of people on them to message.

So in the real world a relatively small number of providers, WhatsApp, Signal etc, are in a position where all your friends are going to be on them. And those are the ones likely to be named and told they need to implement image scanning/review.

Really hope they aren’t forced to do that.

Apple TV one of the few streamers with decent quality audio.

We don’t need a “loudness war” for TV and movie content.

You’re way off here.

Conflating DCT-based compression of audio data (like MP3) to dynamic-range compression of an audio signal (as done on an audio compressor during production) shows how little your grasping the problem.

It doesn’t work very well for TV in my opinion. Ads still sound louder as they are mastered differently.

I’ve no skin in this game, and no desire to ever see or hear ads. I just hope we don’t kick off a “loudness war” for TV/Movie audio by mandating the average volume across entire programs has to hit some high level like modern music or ads have.

Uh huh.

What people are now talking about here is to normalise the “average volume” (by using compression to increase it, or just lowering the volume to decrease).

The problem is the “average volume” of 30 minutes of video, depending on the content, could be quite low.

So matching the ad to that level might not work. The nightmare response we might get is the average volume of TV/movies will be pushed to the limit in future, removing any dynamic range or impact. To comply with the rules for ads. Sigh.

You “turn it up” by using dynamic range compression. Which is fundamentally altering the work.

It’s right and proper YouTube do not do this to people’s work.

Because content creators have a right to produce audio how they want.

If it’s a video of someone speaking in a quiet voice it shouldn’t have to have an average volume level of a new Metallica video. Forcing people to use heavy dynamic range compression to get it there would not be good.