More like being surrounded by oceans of A.I. pee

The servers are down because the servers are down. Would you like me to make a 14 step plan of action to investigate this?

Reminder that net neutrality is dead. I use a VPN because otherwise my ISP decides on my behalf when I’ve had enough 1080p YouTube and slows down specifically that connection

If it wasn’t to confuse people, they could just show both bits and bytes. There’s no reason not to. I’ve seen this occasionally with ethical ISPs who care about their customers (extremely rare) - they would display it like this:

Typical evening speed: 25Mbps (approx 3 megabytes per second)

Almost everyone I know who isn’t in tech is extremely confused by this distinction. Absolutely they keep the bigger number because it directly benefits them. If they’re offering the 3 speed, but competitors are offering the 25 speed, of course customers want the bigger number! Normies don’t even know what a bit is.

I don’t particularly think the historical value of a byte is really relevant either. It’s been 8 bits for half a century now.

Since 1975 or so, the word byte has come to mean a sequence of precisely eight binary digits

I don’t think it’s a big deal or a hill to die on or anything. Since everyone does it, at least it’s consistent. But the industry is kind of shooting themselves in the foot because they get ten thousand service desk calls per day complaining about slow internet speeds that are less than one eighth of the advertised number.

Sentence ChatGPT to 20 years imprisonment in a docker container with no network access

Do you also switch teams when the underdog starts winning too hard and becomes the new overdog?

They’re already trying to run A.I. on human brain neurons. How long until they can use living human brains for running A.I.?

Yeah it’s crazy. Are they just constantly pinging every possible ip address on every possible port every second? I opened a port for 1 day and the traffic made me uncomfortable enough to rearchitecture my entire self host setup

In an ideal universe, A.I. could have been a good and helpful tool. But in the world we live in, that’s unfortunately impossible.

The closest we have to good, is a local LLM running on your (comparatively) tiny consumer graphics card, which is barely powerful enough to reword an email.

I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write yt-dlp and then paste in the URL.

Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.

Edit: ~/yt-dlp.conf

# Save the files to this directory with this format
--paths /mnt/Vidoes/inprogress/youtube
--output "%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

# Include subtitles and chapter metadata
--write-subs
--embed-chapters

# Resume incomplete downloads
--continue

# I use Vivaldi exclusively with a burner account to find videos to download so that Google thinks my activity is more organic
--cookies-from-browser vivaldi

# Optional - Only needed if you have issues downloading subtitles. I had to git clone and build "bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider" to generate tokens to download files properly. This part was just copy pasted from their instructions
--extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilscript:server_home=/home/[username]/git/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider/server"

# Optional quality filter - Possibly the only complicated part. This tells YT-DLP to prefer downloading H264 MP4 files, because my old as fuck android tablet doesn't support any other format. It also forces 1080p video, because I found after downloading too many videos YouTube will downgrade you to 360p and I'd rather get an error message than watch a 360p video. Some 720p only videos I edit this temporarily
--format "bv[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]/bv*[height=1080]+ba/b[height=1080]"

You will need to delete any # comments in your own config - I don’t think they’re supported. I included them for explanation.

I do this again now. I use YouTube as just a frontend and copy links into yt-dlp to watch without ads at my leisure. If I like it and think I’ll watch it again I simply don’t delete it after I’ve watched it. They’re like 80mb videos each.

In days of yore, I did this because I wanted to rewatch the same videos over and over. It was hugely wasteful and also frustrating to do this on a dial up connection.

My favourite part is I get “real” 1080p, rather than whatever Google thinks I’ll believe is 1080p.

I’ve watched family members Google [software name] e.g. Adobe Acrobat and the top two results are ads for clearly malicious impersonations. Same thing happens in Duck Duck Go; but at least you can turn off ads in advanced settings. It’s just more proof that every advertisement is malware

This might sound silly, but I ended up just hooking up my PC to the TV via HDMI. I just have a wireless mouse and keyboard and it can do all the things

Damn, does that mean my home image server is evil?

Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.

Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.

Programming a project I know well feels Godlike; sitting in the cuck chair watching the computer do it feels doglike

Any one symptom in isolation is often brushed off as simply eccentric. It’s the combination of dozens to thousands of these frictions, over a lifetime, that makes it a disorder.

Congratulations on being neurotypical, though; happy for you.

The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.

That’s kind of fucked up. Let people speak for themselves; don’t “”“improve”“” their speech without permission

Modern A.I. is just 4 LLMs in a trenchcoat