Glitchvid

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[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The vast majority of these 3d printed guns use the fact that the registered "gun" is only a small part of the actual whole gun. You can buy barrels, magazines, slides, firing pins, etc, all mail order without any fuss — it's the part with the serial number that is actually the firearm and restricted. So if you print that part (which is often basically just a shell to hold the metal components in place) you have an unserialized gun that's basically just as good as one from a gun store.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bro even Macy's sells these things in store. They're a mass market product.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Cap LLMs to 1 Trillion parameters, can utilize no more than 384GiB of (V)RAM.

Offenders go to jail (corporations charged as a criminal enterprise), all equipment seized and destroyed.

If these AI glazers really believed that AI is the threat they claim it is, then we should treat it the way we'd treat corporations if they tried developing their own nuclear weapons.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably in anticipation of some serious price increases. They'd still like to get devices in people's hands even if they can't nominally afford them anymore.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Also worth noting that since this includes coastline, it means basically 2/3 of Americans are deprived constitutional rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception#/map/0

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where’s the pressure? Who’s making these files and trying to use them?

The standards bodies and the companies that pay their bills. That's Netflix, Google, et al. All have a vested interest in good multimedia support in browsers. It's why browsers have shockingly good support actually, most of the problems are downstream on clients and implementations that don't know or care to enable these newer formats.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What am I supposed to do?

You decide what to target, and work with what you have. That's how it's always been with web technology.

If you need to support the barest minimal possible clients then you might not even have HTML5. Otherwise, if you have HTML5 you can use the source tag to provide clients with a choice of formats/encodings and they can pick the one they support. If the clients can't even mange that, well, things on the internet have always been broken anyway.

And somebody's gotta start somewhere, WebP was shoved down everyones' throats and now it's supported very broadly, as AVIF pick up users software devs will take notice and start supporting it.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Using a browser or third party app?

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think that's a reasonable way to look at it.

It's not the route I'd take, after all, the video tag in html supports specifying multiple sources (including different formats/encodings), and with full control of the stack (they vend Safari) you could have logic on devices without AV1 hardware that prefers the AVC/HEVC/VP9 sources instead — then fallback to AV1 SW if it's the only option. That seems a better user experience than just failing to display content.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Very interesting, thank you!

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I checked that app's source code, and basically they're doing their own avif decode call instead of relying on a browser/webview to handle it. So essentially they forgot/don't know/don't intend to implement animated avif. Looks like they also use the aom reference decoder instead of using something faster like dav1d.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's caused by bad regex in the app, it's getting confused about domains.

e: attempted fix by using an aliased domain.

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