MudMan

Windows 7 is on par with Mint on the Steam hardware survey.

I’m thinking the stuff you “don’t want to do” after Windows lack of support ranks pretty low on people’s new year’s resolutions.

Oh, it’s extraordinarily expensive, and what people really underestimate is how HUGE Google’s storage requirements actually are.

Thing is, it’s also a ton of money. Youtube isn’t just ad-driven video streaming, it’s also a Spotify competitor, a Twitch competitor, a video subscription service (and for some reason they still have a movie and show rental thing in there). 10% of all of Alphabet’s money is a LOT of money, and this isn’t the only business of theirs that demands insane storage requirements.

I’m sure they’ll tighten requirements eventually, and they’ve already done a ton of throttling, but they, again, own Internet video.

Let me put it this way, I think if Google decided to offer Youtube to either of us for a dollar on the condition we can’t resell it to anybody and we have to keep running it forever we’d both still take it.

Did not know Thiel was an investor, actually. If we’re judging software based on the personality of people we’ve read random crap about in the press then that’d indeed be disqualifying.

However, I’d argue maybe that’s not a great way to pretend you have any agency in an aggressively oligopolistic environment.

We may need to stop making choices based on knee-jerk personality-driven branding crap and start focusing on systemic issues. Just… you know, as a species.

Operating costs are not known with that granularity, to my knowledge, but it’s a good guess. Best anybody can tell Youtube is 10-ish percent of all of Alphabet’s ad revenue and they have a subscription model as well. Not to mention the data gathering for AI training, plus all the intangible benefits from owning all the video on the Internet, from using Youtube tech for Google Drive stored videos to… you know, owning all the video on the Internet. And all of that without investing the ungodly amount of money Netflix and the other streaming competitors do on content. People just… upload that crap.

However their internal accounting breaks down, I’m pretty sure nobody thinks Youtube is bleeding money.

And your alternative is the cryptobro farm Chromium skin?

I mean, we’re grading on a curve, I guess, but… I think I’m sticking with FF for now.

Man, branding and PR are weird.

Trading processing power for size is a thing. I guess it depends on application and implementation. Well, and on the actual size of the models required.

It’s one of those things that makes for a good headline, but then for usability it has to be part of a whole conversation about whether you want to spend the bandwidth, the processing power on compression, the processing power on real time upscaling, the processing power on different compression tools, something else or a mix of the above.

I suppose at some point it’s all “benchmarks or it didn’t happen” for these things. And when it comes to ML benchmarks are increasingly iffy anyway.

Lossless is the big claim that nobody is fixating on because “AI” discussions only ever run one set of talking points.

I get how semantic understanding would trade performance for file size when doing compression. I don’t get how you can deterministically use it to always get the exact same complete output from a partial input. I’d love to go over the full paper. And even then the maths would probably go way, way over my head.

You see, part of this company-facing discussion had to do with current hiring policies, with gems like “we have never hired based on quotas, but going forward we will discontinue the practice” bandied about on stage. Such a stance could be misconstrued as an end to its illegal and discriminatory DEI policies at the company, something IBM, Red Hat, and others are ending or getting sued for.

The hell am I reading?

This is a very weird piece written very weirdly that misconstrues an automated process as deliberate cooperation.

Which I guess makes more sense when you look up the person the reposted article is reposting which seems to be some weird Trumpy asshole who is also somehow an open source advocate guy?

This is not good reporting, but congrats, I think you made me take Adobe’s side on something and I would not have bet that was possible half an hour ago.

Well, I’d say “you get a warning and need to click past it once” is probably the right set of guardrails there, which is to say “as robust as a little bit of tape”.

The real disincentives on Google services are downstream, where that impacts your placement to receive ads and monetize. I don’t know how much The Onion cares about that, I’m guessing Youtube ads aren’t a massive slice of their revenue pie, but for everybody else it’s a significant carrot and stick thing to keep access to that sweet, sweet midroll ad money.