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rebuild trust around you

the whole point of open source is to have a system that encourages people to share patches. these people are threatening the soup kitchen with a food safety inspection unless they get seconds.

donations to open source are donations, they aren't anything else. software is not a business by default, but this fills some people with impotence as they can't get coerce or bankroll the project. there's no implicit social contract other than what is stated in the license.

there are many layers to the ffmpeg hate situation but fundamentally it's entitled corporate employees that treat open source as free or low cost consulting. you have no power over volunteers and it destroys entitled people.

the metaverse as a shared google sheets

@henlojseam return to tradition, the dark rituals our ancestors did to install graphic drivers on linux

If audits, formal verification, fuzzing aren’t sufficient to prevent hacks? What else can you do tbh? I’m feeling that some kind of sanity checking gatekeeper might help

this has to be THE wordcel quote.

instead of having a chatbot stop by pressing ⏹️ it could work by stopping if you let go the enter key. like when picard tells data to state his point.

@henlojseam lead poisoning from cardboard straws

I’m convinced that the AI doomer and AGI believer phenomenon are a result of lead poisoning from protein shakes

@dmarcos what is the alternative? I believe in image based rendering + ai but any hardware that can do that fast will also do triangles very fast.

Confidence that we’ll move away from triangles / polygons next decade for most 3D content increasing. Meshes will still be around but not default.

XR needs failures to improve. A steady slow growth is terrible for learning about something so fundamental like this. We need more people taking efforts seriously and disregarding the "best practices" or "what people like". Be the author of your failures or successes.

@Heaney555 @Aidan_Wolf this is not true, if that was the case then launchers would be much simpler. we are in a bad middle ground. both systems can exist but none are being taken seriously nor custom launchers are allowed.

@Aidan_Wolf There's a reason that no major XR platform does that. It's really cool the first 15 times, kinda fun the next 50 times, and then downright tedious. Most people just want to launch the game they want to play, or app they want to use, as quickly as possible.

the fact the doorway to the metaverse is still floating app icons and not a 3d blockbuster where I can take games off of shelves and pay for them with fully vr-ified zuckerbucks is a tragedy

i don't know how theybmanaged to propagandize the water argument everywhere so fast. datacenters are nothing new yet suddenly people talk about "spending water"

@pmarca the downfall of pdfs is the lack of music and transitions

The fact that nobody reads the PDFs I send them in no way dissuades me from sending more.

multiuser vibe coding is worth exploring. pair programming can be very good to get over a hurdle.

do ads have any future if the browser is integrated with an AI sided with the user?

the samsung xr headset comes with controllers and depth sensor. that's it, samsung won, they listened.

spotify is a symptom of bad browsing experiences in music, not a final destination that condemns it as a commoditizing feed to starve artists.