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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I just need AV2 to not blow chunks on VR/Streaming.

    AV1 is currently hamstrung by decode compute costs, I’m sending 6K video @ 120 FPS and at 200 Mbits (25 MB/s) it looks like pea soup.

    At 400-500 Mbps (62.5 MB/s), you have twice as much network overhead but somehow H.264 still decodes faster even though it’s twice as much raw data per second.

    For straight up video file compression, AV1 seems to be absolutely unmatched if you use “peak framerate” (say 120) and then VFQ / variable quality set to like 35.

    I was able to convert a 900 MB (!!) H264 video of VR gameplay (6K across, 3K/eye!) into 96 MB, and slide right under Discord’s idiotic 100 MB limit.


















  • I think there’s a tangible difference between entertaining and addicting, with a detriment to the consumer.

    If you think about something like slot machines, and gambling addiction, many people are addicted, losing money, and can’t stop:

    Arguably, addiction is bad and should be regulated (see: cigarettes).

    The detriment instead of money (in this particular case) was teens’ mental health, and from what I can recall, the algorithm was explicitly predatory and would serve them up advertisements for things when it detected low or turbulent emotional states, encouraging them to keep using the application and feeling shitty about themselves.

    Meta was given a slap on the wrist, it’s a fine of $300M ($0.3B) on a company sitting on $217.24 billion.

    I doubt they’ll change their behavior but legal outcomes are about setting precedents.