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New comment by fattire in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

fattire — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:55:49 +0000

Tesla claims this is a hoax on Twitter.

https://x.com/Tesla/status/1954992987223757149

New comment by fattire in "Our Android app is frozen in carbonite"

fattire — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:17:44 +0000

Why not use the storage access framework, which is agnostic to where the files are being saved whether local or remote? By selecting the file to open or naming it to save, you choose a destination and permission is implicitly granted to that location for that file. Could be google drive or the local file system or any cloud provider app that supports SAF. No storage permissions needed, and it's been around for years and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C28pvd2plBA

New comment by fattire in "Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it"

fattire — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:27:24 +0000

It's always suspect when a big company asks for more regulation-- OpenAI, FTX, etc. It's usually in the name of the public good or fairness etc, but they may actually be looking for legal recognition of otherwise dubious activities, ways to block out new competition, or they could be trying to curtail inevitable regulation by writing the law themselves in the most favorable way possible.

New comment by fattire in "Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks"

fattire — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:48:38 +0000

You can opt out of it thankfully.

New comment by fattire in "The Problem with LangChain"

fattire — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:14:08 +0000

I've played with langchain now for a couple weeks (with some of the llama-derivative local models and Oobadooba's native & openai apis + TextGen https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/model_io/models/ll... ) and find it not-too-insanely-hard for an idiot like myself to figure out, though I'm just experimenting at this point with different models, esp. using tools, etc. I've found that some of the recommended prompts in the demos that, while perhaps working well with chatgpt/gpt4, need a lot of tweaking to work with with say WizardLM. But then I can get them working, so that's kinda neat.

I also played with huggingface's transformer agent (https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/transformers_agents ) and thought it was a lot easier to useas far as the tools go, though is perhaps less capable for other things. I may go back to playing with that actually.

New comment by fattire in "Tesla Quietly Disconnecting Radar in Customer Cars During Service Visits"

fattire — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:58:42 +0000

"Tyranny"? Really?

New comment by fattire in "Mastodon Is Doomed"

fattire — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:54:12 +0000

Strange that you use a still-popular, decentralized, open-standard global service with a myriad of paid and free providers, for which there exists dozens of open-source clients and servers across the planet, all of which integrate with each other... as a model for why Mastodon won't work.

Why do you say "gmail won"? Did gmail switch to a proprietary, closed protocol? Did they lose compatibility with even the smallest, independent email servers? (That was rhetorical-- provided those smaller servers adopt appropriate open, non-proprietary anti-spam measures (DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc), they work fine.)

Meanwhile, no one uses AOL's old proprietary mail system, if it exists any more.

New comment by fattire in "Farming Robot Kills 100k Weeds per Hour with Lasers"

fattire — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:08:26 +0000

The year is 2029. Farmers everywhere are confounded by new weed strains which look more and more like the crops they intermingle with, hiding more perfectly among the plants every year.

Then someone had the idea to not vaporize a small percentage of the most conspicuous, ugly weeds, so they'd survive into the next year, crossbreeding with the stealth strains and keeping the weeds from getting too stealthy.

The End.

New comment by fattire in "The Twitter Files"

fattire — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:08:12 +0000

Here is an account of the whole laptop decision on Kara Swisher's podcast from the perspective of Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-twitters-former-sa...

New comment by fattire in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

fattire — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:10:19 +0000

As you mentioned, the nodes are used in Fusion and the Color page, where they belong, not in either timeline editor (Cut Page & Edit Page).

New comment by fattire in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

fattire — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:07:17 +0000

Only for lack of hardware to test it on. There is an open issue if you want to try your hand at getting it to work on non-NVidia, though it will run best on some kind of dedicated GPU due to the heavy graphics operations it does.

See https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve/issues/8

New comment by fattire in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

fattire — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:21:09 +0000

(You edited your comment to oblivion, but because it was so embarassingly wrong, I don't blame you.)

My original response:

"close enough to a NLE"?? What the--

DaVinci Resolve has included a standalone non-linear editor since 2014. Today it has every major feature one would expect from a NLE-- with the noted exception of a lack of some codecs in the Linux version due to licensing issues, AAC being conspicuously one of them. So ffmpeg is often needed for transcoding media. I have a fair amount of familiarity with Avid, Final Cut Pro (7, not X), and to a lesser degree Adobe Premiere, and some experience with other NLEs from OpenShot to iMovie to Lightworks to Blender's NLE. Not only is DVR a feature-packed NLE- it ALSO includes a ProTools-like audio editing component called Fairlight, a node-based 2d/3d After Effects-like component (which integrates neatly with Blender) called Fusion, and a best-in-class color grading tool, for which Resolve is probably best known, which has roots going back to the DaVinci color correction systems of the 1980s.

DaVinci Resolve has not one NLE interface, but TWO-- the traditional Avid-like Edit page, and a new "Cut Page" (the one that appears in the iPad demo videos), which I think first showed up in DaVinci Resolve 17 (18 is current) and that is meant as a faster UI for doing a rough assembly that heavily integrates with the "Speed Editor" specialized hardware. For a while, there were deals where the Speed Editor came free with a ($300) Studio License. Now, I think it's $400 maybe (?) The paid Studio version includes extra features like more plugins (many of which use neural networks to, say, infer depth or separate objects from backgrounds), headless python scripting, 3d audio, 8k export, and pro stuff like that.

I'm presuming the iPad version will also work with the Speed Editor (it can connect via bluetooth or USB).

And since you mentioned it, the Fusion-style node system is considered superior by many pros to the older layers-based system used by After Effects, which is why it has been adopted by newer software from Unreal to Blender to nuke, etc. Also, you can drop effects "on" clips and layers-- this can be done in the Edit page as per tradition, and works as expected.

Since DaVinci Resolve is meant to run in CentOS, I've helped collaborate on a method for running it in a Linux container as well for anyone who might be interested:

https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve

New comment by fattire in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

fattire — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:23:21 +0000

Of course it's a non-linear editor roughly on par with Avid, Final Cut, or Premiere. With all due respect, this person has no idea what they're talking about.

The Cut page (as opposed to the Edit page) is what's apparently to be included on iPad, but it's 100% as legit a NLE as any other. I wouldn't call After Effects a NLE per se, but the node-based corollary to AE in Resolve is called Fusion and doesn't appear to be (initially) included on iPad.

New comment by fattire in "America Has Lost Its Oil Buffer"

fattire — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:33:43 +0000

Ana Kasparian examined this right-wing talking point at length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zIOMp0RSA

She addresses additional related misrepresentations from conservative media.

One source she cites is here:

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/u-s-selling-oil-from-the-s...

New comment by fattire in "Apple AMX instruction set (M1/M2 matrix coprocessor)"

fattire — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:15:05 +0000

> TCP/IP and HTML became dominant because they were open standards. Should they have been proprietary, they would have floundered and something else would have emerged instead.

Anyone remember AppleTalk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk

New comment by fattire in "‎Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30"

fattire — Sat, 14 May 2022 21:43:02 +0000

I thought it was about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUHT773gnPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1981_video_game)

New comment by fattire in "Is Mark Twain’s old age best forgotten?"

fattire — Mon, 09 May 2022 07:51:40 +0000

This article reminds me of how critics said Carlin was getting dark and cynical and unfunnny in his last few specials. Now I see clips from these same specials celebrated daily on Twitter.

New comment by fattire in "Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles"

fattire — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:10:40 +0000

Leaving aside "sitting for an hour" (?), isn't it much safer to charge 99% of the time in your own garage and never have to regularly step out of your car alone at a dark gas station on the corner?

Even on a long drive you leave home with a "full tank" without having that first stop to gas up.

New comment by fattire in "Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles"

fattire — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:05:26 +0000

Why would it take decades?

New comment by fattire in "Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit"

fattire — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 06:28:37 +0000

NPR asked why taxes are so complicated. Ted might want to have a chat with his libertarian friends at Americans for Tax Reform (Grover Norquist).

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...