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dave

@dave@social.lightbeamapps.com

Developer of GoVJ, a Lightbeam app ✨

One half of Waiting For Review, a podcast about indie iOS development 🎙️

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Interesting to note a few more folks masked up in the supermarket today than in recent weeks. When you’re usually the only one, it’s easy to pick up on.

Also: NZ is currently in another wave. Maybe consider reducing your odds of being part of spreading it folks 😷

dave, to random
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COVID booster done just now.

Pharmacist ran through the details beforehand. I asked “when will the 5G on my phone get better reception?” 😅

dave, to random
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4x iPads linked together with NDI streaming video, over wifi with GoVJ 😅

dave, to random
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Eyes rolling in the back of my head seeing RNZ use the editorial phrase “since COVID”, as if we’ve not also had things reported like school closures and bus cancellations haven’t happened in the last week here, due to COVID.

Which one is it ? 🤔

jaffathecake, to random
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I still don't get the point of animated AVIF. AVIF is an image format derived from a video format, AV1. We don't need an extra video version of image format.

One thing you can do with animated AVIF: Animation with an alpha channel.

But… this really just highlights how dumb it is that AV1 doesn't support transparency.

Also, with animated AVIF, the alpha channel is a separate image per frame. It's really bad for compression.

dave,
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@jaffathecake ok - just wondering if it was to use the encoding but end up with all keyframes

dave,
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@jaffathecake not a format I’ve come across but, is part of the point that it’s not temporally compressed?

dave, to random
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Some days I want to defederate from the world 😅

dave, to random
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Watching the Kotlin Multiplatform ‘24 keynote.

It’s a breath of fresh air after years of Apple’s super-highly-polished WWDC ones.

Specifically: people falter naturally like real humans giving talks, multiple companies involved showing some industry collaboration. Something that’s just not present at WWDC re: Swift.

dave, to random
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A friend asked me if I was voting by post in the UK election. Nearly 7 years in to living in NZ, and it kinda feels wrong. It’s where I’m from, but it’ll never be ‘home’ again.

dave, to random
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Random thought. LLMs, and prompt based interactions, offer a window into their computing power.

How could individuals use them, for running other things outside of their intended use?

I’m thinking:

  • Steganography, encoding information via the output of LLMs to specific prompts
  • Batch processing calculations
  • Multi LLM approaches to these
dave, to random
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Fuck anyone who thinks rocking up to work alongside others when they have COVID is ok (including Lady Gaga).

Also, the idea that she gave support staff the choice with full disclosure? Laughable given the power dynamic and what would likely happen to someone who said no.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/28/lady-gaga-performed-on-stage-with-covid-did-we-learn-nothing-from-the-pandemic

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my conservative neighbor refers to covid as “That Flu” as in “____ also went to the hospital with that same flu that took out ____”

my more progressive friends refer to covid generically. as in “yeah I’m sick again” or “my cold turned into a bad cough” or “I’m the only one in my house who isn’t sick with what’s going around right now”

not only did we scrap masks and tests we legit scrapped the word covid

dave,
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@seachanger yup. I have old friends who if I mention anything about Covid and the remaining risk, they just ghost me out in messages.

I try not to bang on about it too much, but also I suffer with long COVID symptoms… so it very much adds up to feeling like they would rather ignore my disability and me, too.

dave, to random
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Researching things... Looks like only the Pixel 8 Android phones have HDMI output on them, out of that range.

I don't want to buy one yet, but I can envision getting one for cross-platform dev later this year and HDMI output combined with the ability to install Grapheneos or some other more degoogled OS will be what I'm after.

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To whoever it was uploaded a sample of Darude - Sandstorm with subtitles… I salute you 🫡

Darude sandstorm music sample playing in my browser with each beep captioned as “beep beep boop” in time to the music

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At this stage of year 5 of the COVID pandemic, I’m choosing to just lol @ people’s cognitive dissonance showing in realtime.

As the effects of repeated infection of an immune damaging virus become less easy to hide, I’ll be taking this position

dave,
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"But we're fatigued with it all, I can't live in fear all the time, we've got to get on with it..."

Come back to me when you've got chronic fatigue from long covid and tell me how fatigued you were with it all before.

dave,
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And meanwhile: "More classrooms close as teachers fall sick"

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/518868/more-classrooms-close-as-teachers-fall-sick

I mean. It's a good job we invested in clean air in schools when NZ was still mitigating the virus, right? This is just a completely unforeseeable circumstance </s>

dave, to random
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Slacks move on privacy with training AI models on folk’s messages is going to end up with too many people having to use Teams. I really don’t want to have to use Teams.

dave, to random
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Why yes I’ve named all the neighbourhood cats with nicknames. What of it?

dave, to random
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It appears we’re in the breathless adulation of GPT in the Apple tech press, and big PR pushes too.

So many folks are going to lean into it all believing they’ll make good $$.

Some will. Many won’t. Same as every other bubble and hype cycle.

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"So, what is the GOP candidate's stance on crime, and the prison system?"

dave, to music
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Poppy - New way Out

https://songwhip.com/poppy/new-way-out

dave, (edited ) to random
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I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the Trainspotting "Choose Life" monologue to be about COVID risk, and it was too brutal for me to share tbh.

When even auto-complete on steroids 'gets it' I'm not sure what others' excuses really are, to be honest 🤦‍♂️

dave, to gardening
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14C here in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa.

I’ve been weeding, and haven’t needed a jacket, just a t-shirt.

#GardeningNZ #Gardening #ClimateChange

dave, to random
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Playing with networked video and my switcher app 🤩

#iOSDev #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #VJing #NDI

A video of me switching NDI video sources from several iPads connected over ethernet to each other

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