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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • FWIW I think detecting VR with Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Pico VR is quite funny. It’s like … hard NOT to detect such devices. You see a huge slab of plastic on the face of someone potentially looking in your direction and the cameras are numerous and visible.

    So… for Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta definitely because they are designed to look like traditional glasses and that’s IMHO very wrong. For others like Snap Spectacles or TCL RayNeo it’s quite obvious but still, OK makes sense.

    Sadly as 404 media and others reported a lot of abuse came from wearing sneakingly such glasses then coercing people with the footage. I hope people who do abuse those tools do get prosecuted properly.



    • there is more content on PeerTube already that you can watch during your lifetime
    • monetization exists on PeerTube exists and is not based on advertising (which has terrible side effect on privacy)

    So I think if one is looking for PeerTube to be a copy of YouTube in terms of both content and monetization they will be disappointed… but also maybe that’s the problem in itself. YouTube monetization is damaging (forcing to be a popularity contest) and bring poor content in. Sure some very few content creator are still on it but a lot already moved away. The assumption though is that there is a link between popularity and quality. It’s time to reconsider.















  • Honestly it’s trickier than most think.

    There are plenty of theoretical use cases, sure, especially for AI because it’s basically just either statistics on very large datasets or heuristics. Most of us, if not all of us, use that pretty much daily.

    LLM though is a lot of less obvious but one can easily imagine public research on language, namely being able to study how language evolved.

    GenAI… also, in itself honestly it might even be the most interesting of all because it’s makes us pragmatically ask what it’s like to be creative.

    Yet… all that is so SO different from the commercialization and the capture of it.

    So public research in AI, I’m 100% behind it. It can be useful. VC backed for-profit systems that extract and capture value, no, nearly nothing legitimate can come out of this… but to be fair it’s not limited to AI, AI just happens to be the last thing they try to capture.