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TechSquidTVon I am leaving the AI party after one drink

Im hearing a lot of opinion, but nothing convincing.

TechSquidTVon Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

As others have said, that's just not the reality of a modern work machine. If I need a new GPU or more RAM, I'm positive I need everything else upgraded too

TechSquidTVon Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia

I guess they can't afford it, but my ego is telling me I could do this.

TechSquidTVon Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

I am always on the lookout for a tool that can replace Premiere first of all, but that that is easy to do. Replacing After Effects, no one has ever accomplished, even remotely close. I have actually been able to somewhat (big asterisk here) use Remotion in some instances as an AE replacement.

I can use Remotion for example, to design any kind of animation in code, and overlay it on video, which, especially with AI, lets me do quite a lot.

One thing I did for a while, was render some assets, and then with remotion I created a template, and a script, that would pump out videos automatically. Think similar in concept to like, a Daily Mail news video, where its just some music, some footage, and some text overlayed. Every video is the same, they just need to drag and drop some assets in and click Go. Remotion was great for that.

Still, I made the actual assets for the graphics in after effects. In mine, a date would "glitch" onto the screen and then glitch out. Probably possible to do with code, obviously, but was much more complicated than using AE to design that.

TechSquidTVon Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

I like the promise, but the hill is very steep and I don't see much on delivery here. Very hopeful, but I would rather see this kind of thing launch significantly further than where it is at. This appears to be a good base, now let's see it again when there is Text support, animations, transitions, filters, etc.

TechSquidTVon Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

So to be clear. You have no tangible complaints about the software or its quality, but you are dismissing it because of the potential for poor quality, because AI was assisting?

TechSquidTVon I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites

I have been developing an OpenClaw-like agent that automates exactly this type of attack.

TechSquidTVon Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

this

TechSquidTVon Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

The American people will be robbed blind and beaten into submission until there is a reason not to. It's that simple. They have NEVER been punished, why would they stop?

TechSquidTVon Biggest French Tracker YGG shuts down by hacker that leaked database

Already listed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242434

TechSquidTVon Microslop Manifesto

"Clawdbot, make me a website about how evil AI is. And make it snappy!"

TechSquidTVon WebMCP is available for early preview

While you absolutely should, I would argue that MCP access would be the OPTIMAL level of accessibility.

TechSquidTVon Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

Please let me plan Sim Theme Park. I can't seem to run it on Crossover on my mac.

TechSquidTVon Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

I'll admit to knowingly taking advantage of Google's pricing, but I had assumed it was within a gray area. No warning bans are insane.

TechSquidTVon Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games

Man. I miss this Hitman multiplayer mode. I can't believe they killed it. So quickly too. The game launched with it and it was gone within three years I think.

TechSquidTVon Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

Ahhh damn it. Intel! Come back!

TechSquidTVon Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Using a proxy to switch accounts

TechSquidTVon Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

My alt Google accounts were all banned from Gemini access. Luckily Google left my main account alone. They are all cracking down.

TechSquidTVon NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

No this is just an excuse. Not all content creators are full time or have audiences. Sometimes people just make valuable content, and deserve to be paid under the agreement that they give you free content, you watch an ad. If you don't like the service, do not use the service.

TechSquidTVon NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

Please just buy YouTube Premium and support content creators on the only platform that gives a fair deal.

TechSquidTVon Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

I thought the same. But it is necessary for the vast majority of games. It is not just an emulator for the .swf (and other formats) content you need, you often need bespoke proxy servers and server emulators to bypass some of the old DRM.

TechSquidTVon Discord Alternatives, Ranked

They dont just not care that it's centralized, that's the only option they would ever entertain. A very sad truth is people HATE decentralization.

TechSquidTVon Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

Well I notice that one is $36

TechSquidTVon Data centers in space makes no sense

I have no idea how it compares to the heat being generated, but one advantage of space would be totally efficient radiative cooling, I believe. Assuming you can pump the heat, and can deploy a large enough surface area (the key question I assume), then you have that at least.

TechSquidTVon Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

But they want to was the point.

TechSquidTVon SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

A lot of "rap gods" are about to be exposed as "Kevin" from suburbia.

TechSquidTVon cURL removes bug bounties

I couldn't possibly disagree more. AI has created an entirely new way to contribute to open source. You can not, in addition to donating to the maintainers, donate your _tokens_ to fix bugs.

TechSquidTVon RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web

This goes really well with my RSS reader Tuvix :D https://tuvix.app/

TechSquidTVon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://techsquidtv.com/blog/

I have so many things to write about but I rarely ever finish a post.

This would also be a great time to share my RSS app. https://tuvix.app/

TechSquidTVon Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text

Absolutely, but usually when working with a bespoke format for optimization, it's paired with an LLM specifically trained on that format.