dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

well that was a waste of frickin time. i spent this evening making a lovely vertical video and it can't be a youtube short cos it's over 3 minutes. same limit on instagram/facebook reels.

i put it up unlisted for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MXv2MthMk

i mean it misunderstands the assignment, but hopefully it amuses

at least I can avoid for a bit longer having to contemplate lines like

ffmpeg -i out-sq1.mp4 -lavfi "[0:v]scale=1920/1080*iw:1920/1080*ih,boxblur=luma_radius=min(h\,w)/40:luma_power=3:chroma_radius=min(cw\,ch)/40:chroma_power=1[bg];[bg][0:v]overlay=(W-w)/2:(H-h)/2,setsar=1,crop=w=iw*1080/1920" -crf 10 -x264-params keyint=10:scenecut=0 out-vert1.mp4

^-- statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged

tiktok's limit is 10 minutes but the edit has to be completely different (no title cards or branding) and not clear i can say the website url in the video. also UK monetisation kicks in at 10k followers and 100k views in the past 30 days. i am unconvinced as yet.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Leo certainly didn't gatekeep his app's security, hem hem

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

coding with vibes

ChatGPT as the Sybian of coding

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

because they sell that! e.g. Kagi resells Google's actual-search-results API

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an "is it art?" maximalist. But I think it's the wrong question about generative AI. The right question is the corporate incentives.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

especiall when it goes into mangled, uncanny-valley territory

GPT-2 was the peak of LLMs, because it was interestingly broken shit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

an old phone without a SIM and with wifi switched off

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

It was a Jimmy Wales personal project, not an official WIkimedia project, and no, it didn't go anywhere

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

I believe in the necessity of wallet inspection, because the experts - the inspectors of wallets - tell me that wallet quality control is the future and is vital to society

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

a pile of people have said of Scoot using 10,000 words when 14 would do

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

LLMs are a development from machine learning of the sort that works, and translation was always squishy. Just a straight LLM can do surprisingly well at translation, though if I run "surprisingly well" through a translator it comes out as "impressive demo, not so great product." Tools like Google Translate are a complex array of stuff, not just one approach.

 

with bonus video version

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