Isn’t the GPU documented now?

https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12358545

There are reverse engineered docs as well: https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

See up-thread: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

From the UK perspective broadcasters have a license to broadcast and are regulated by ofcomm. I thought the FCC had similar oversight of the US broadcasters - for example not being keen on swearing and sex on TV. For UK news programmes there is a requirement to be balanced for example.

I think one difference is Google is a pull system: you query Google and get results. The short form video streams are push mediums. They feed you a stream of content that it thinks you want. They are fundamentally more susceptible to pushing a particular agenda.

The evidence from the reports in the above article certainly looks pretty daming that tiktok is pushing a particular agenda. The comparison to broadcast which often does have licensing requirements is probably apt.

I don’t buy the arguement that this gives cover to repressive regimes to censor more views because frankly they are doing that already.

The man is a legend although I guess he has done prior experience with codecs through ffmpeg.

Yes it does. You can derive the domain from snooping DNS lookups but the URL is part of the encrypted get header.

An interesting piece but isn’t this what VC investors do, not every play will result in a unicorn and those that do pay for the losses of those that don’t. I expect more than a few billion will evaporate into vapourware as we crest this wave of generative ai hype.

Hmm don’t know why the image gets clipped. Is today a Mastodon or Lemmy issue?

Yes training is the most expensive but it’s still an additional trillion or so floating point operations per generated token of output. That’s not nothing computationally.

It’s about time. I know there was a desire to avoid over regulating the burgeoning internet economy but we reached the era of monopolies a while ago now.

So I may be biased but what is vmwares USP? From my limited experience it was a slightly more polished GUI for creating VMs and the ability to run on older pre-virt hardware. Is the experience still objectively better than the alternatives?

I certainly agree with a lot of that analysis. I also worry how signal continue to fund their app sustainably without compromising their users.

Most open source developers don’t want to be messing about with non-profit admin tasks. This is why umbrella organisations like the Software Freedom Conservancy exist.

It’s well worth reading the longer newsletter the above link quotes: https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/

I kinda agree we are probably cresting the peak of the hype cycle right now.

What’s wrong with the software? They are client web devices and with crostini you can develop at a pinch. But they aren’t meant to be laptop/desktop replacement.

I wasn’t personally using C++, I was using relatively modern C which has had an homegrown object system added to it.

Is this what people who haven’t been introduced to #magit use?