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by topranks 7d ago
Hahaha haven’t heard that one in a long time. Cracked me up.
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by topranks 7d ago
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 ef
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by topranks 7d ago
Yeah I’d love another mini, but alas.
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by topranks 7d ago
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.
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by topranks 1mo ago
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.
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by topranks 2mo ago
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)
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by topranks 2mo ago
Also all the bad food choices me and my fellow stoners make when we’re high.
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by topranks 3mo ago
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 th
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by topranks 3mo ago
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.
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by topranks 3mo ago
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 ve
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by topranks 3mo ago
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
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by topranks 3mo ago
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.
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by topranks 3mo ago
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 rang
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by topranks 3mo ago
Replaygain works reasonably well for modern music, as do the LUFS units. The problem with video content is there can be extended very quiet parts. If you try to bring the “average” volume of an ad to the same “average” volume as the last 3
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by topranks 3mo ago
But the training expense is part of their costs! The question is can they just stop training at some point, fixing the models in time, and still have a useful product.
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by topranks 3mo ago
It definitely costs them a lot. Implementing v6 without doubt saves money for ISPs. Especially in the CGNAT game as those boxes aren’t cheap.
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by topranks 3mo ago
Exactly. And because the infra was never public in the US, and thus no “privatisation with rules”, it’s been a bit of a disaster.
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by topranks 3mo ago
Indeed. This is a funny legacy of how telecoms was run and regulated in different countries. Now the US has the least consumer choice, and shitty ISP practices from exploiting peering relations to selling user data. I often said net neutral
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by topranks 3mo ago
Was that real DIA?? I’ve seen this commonly from them with residential service. They mostly give you a private v4 address behind CGNAT in addition to IPv6. If you want a public v4 they put you on their old network which has no v6.
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by topranks 3mo ago
A lot of web scraping. The ones that got KimWolf’d were/are doing a lot of DDoS (SYN floods etc).
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by topranks 3mo ago
It’s very tricky because the IPs are all on normal user ranges you can’t block without blocking those users. The company behind this blog - spur.us - offer some paid services I think. There is also this project from Wikimedia which uses th
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by topranks 3mo ago
VPN ranges at least are obvious so that’s different. Tor less so but it doesn’t seem to be commonly used for this kind of abuse.
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by topranks 3mo ago
Absolutely. Bear in mind the scrapers wouldn’t need to use these proxies were they not being blocked by the sites they are scraping. So it’s being used to evade blocks. For some content the level of scraping is outweighing real users, driv
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by topranks 3mo ago
Nah it’s messing up peoples home internet, and massively abused to perform denial of service attacks and scraping of web content by large AI companies who are otherwise blocked. Your vision of a randomly-routed mesh internet overlay is also
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by topranks 3mo ago
I connect every few months (with cable) to check for firmware updates and the like. Otherwise agree it stays offline.
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by topranks 3mo ago
This is to frustrate those using distillation techniques to train their own models right?
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by topranks 3mo ago
There is, see my other reply. CDs are able to store much louder tracks than can be cut on a record. The technical reason things on CD got louder is because they could.
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by topranks 3mo ago
CD has better dynamic range, sure. But a CD is also able to represent a signal with _much less dynamic range_ than it’s possible to cut on a record. It was the move to digital that facilitated the loudness war. In modern years it’s been fa
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by topranks 3mo ago
ULAs are standards compliant but tbh it's a layer of complexity I rather not have. Just give me GUAs and be done with it.
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by topranks 4mo ago
How do you know what it spat out is correct though? If it’s beyond our ability to review and we blindly trust it’s correct based on a limited set of tests… we’re asking for trouble.

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