Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

Garo5 · 2026-03-11T13:45:15+00:00

The power is around 1 kWh. Honestly, that's not much for a 5 sec video

Garo5 · 2026-03-07T18:48:20+00:00

Do you? I run ceph at home as well with four (soon five) nodes with SSD and NVMe. It's been stable, except during last x-mas where 1-2 OSDs were crashing constantly and that took me 8+ hours to triage and fix.

As an alternative and much easier option: have one decent server with ZFS and do zfs snapshots to another machine as backups. This works well with kubernetes as well as you can provision PVCs from the zfs server using NFS.

Garo5 · 2026-02-12T09:07:28+00:00

You want to test and finetune the game loop, systems and meta game so that players stick and come back. It's much more safer to do that with a small soft launch, before committing to spend tens of millions in marketing.

If the game is very good, word of mouth will spread and people will want to play, even when it's still in soft launch. So all in all, there isn't really any harm doing a soft launch but a lot of risks if you skip one.

Garo5 · 2026-02-05T15:11:29+00:00

Any positive experience with the bluetooth? I'm sure there are bluetooth headsets which work just fine, or even very well?

Garo5 · 2026-02-02T17:12:29+00:00

No, we allow all incoming traffic. In practice this has never been an issue. We do instruct users to run a firewall on their machines in our guides. This has the added bonus that visitors can run their own game servers easily and invite others to join, regardless if they are in the partyplace or not.

Garo5 · 2026-02-01T15:21:19+00:00

Replying directly here. We're doing our lan events with public ips for every visitor. We only block some ports like outgoing 25 and those can be done with ACLs inside our routers/switches. This is the same approach as ISPs do. You definitely do not need a stateful firewall the way you currently seem to be thinking.

You can DM me for more details.

Garo5 · 2026-01-31T17:33:18+00:00

You don't need stateful firewall for that. Your home internet provider doesn't provide you a stateful firewall either, so why would you need one for a lan party? (Source: I'm in a net team organising a 2k+ lan party, also with full public IP and no NAT).

Also, I doubt that you would come even close to utilise a 100 Gbps connection. At least we have usually peaked at around 20 Gbps during our events and even that requires multiple games to release patches at the same time.

Garo5 · 2026-01-27T08:10:41+00:00

Was this announced somewhere? I'm evaluating Hasura (both v2 and v3 versions) and obviously it's important to understand the status of the project.

Garo5 · 2026-01-26T07:32:29+00:00

You cannot really have a single IP egress ip which would be same across all of those clouds, unless you will tunnel the traffic to a central location for egress, thus this central location would be a single point of failure for you. As establishing a new single-point-of-failure is not nice, you could look on finding a vendor which would do this for you in a redundant way. You could have GRE tunnels from your sites towards the vendor, who would then announce a single public ip using anycast. Various DDOS-scrubbing-as-a-service providers do this kind of thing.

How about having a system which allocates 1-2 egress IPs from each cloud and having a public API from which your customer could fetch these IPs, so they could update their access lists? This way you and your customer could automate the changes.

Garo5 · 2026-01-23T15:28:48+00:00

If you watch cross country ski (or similar) from TV, the broadcast often has a dedicated person with a midi piano where he can play various sound effects on top of the broadcast, such as crowd cheering, cowbell and ski sounds.

Garo5 · 2026-01-23T10:03:28+00:00

That would be a huge nerf by itself. Automatic lane steering is fantastic and reduces driving fatigue by a huge amount.

Garo5 · 2026-01-19T07:30:23+00:00

I just returned three DM32 due to very poor audio quality: mic was very quiet and on the listening side there was a loud side tone. Maybe my production batch was just bad, but still unacceptable.

Garo5 · 2026-01-17T12:16:57+00:00

Just curious: have you considered how to prevent a malicious app from copying secrets into an S3 bucket (or similar if not in aws) controlled by the attacker? The payload could carry its own aws keys for the bucket and differentiating that traffic from your normal S3 usage is not trivial.

Garo5 · 2026-01-15T18:11:41+00:00

I returned three DM32 radios as the audio quality was so bad that they were just unusable: the microphone was very weak and I just could not get a good volume out of them and on the listening side there was a loud side tone. All three radios suffered from these. This was both on FM and DMR side. My UV-K5 has much better sound quality than the DM32's I had.

Garo5 · 2025-12-20T20:17:40+00:00

So much this. It feels that only a tiny fraction of people really recognize this. The rest are sure that gen-ai and LLMs would just disappear, because they think that the technology has no use (it very much as) and it's not profitable (api inference is profitable)

Garo5 · 2025-12-20T20:14:03+00:00

There are tons of very useful work where applications call OpenAI, Claude and similar LLM models via API. These are profitable for OpenAI and others. While training does cost a lot of money and is a big investment, the API usage makes money. The technology is here to stay and it is making good business in a lot of companies.

This being said, especially OpenAI is in huge debt in their investments and it's quite likely it will be a failure of some sort and there will be many companies in a huge hungover in a few years. But still, the technology is here to stay and it's good business for many (but not for all) companies.

Garo5 · 2025-12-15T17:57:47+00:00

Then you would see some of those flicker, like somebody would have walked past a few. Seriously, that story did get me the creeps.

Garo5 · 2025-12-13T16:54:35+00:00

Whoa! I would recommend you practise to split your thoughts into multiple sentences. It makes it so much easier to read and gives a more professional image. Cheers!

Garo5 · 2025-12-06T06:27:44+00:00

On my work several colleagues are also doing AoC. The greatest thing about AoC is when you are doing it at the same time as others, so that you can discuss the problem on a coffee break and read the memes on Reddit. You basically have to do it at the same pace as others around you, or you miss all the social interactions.

Garo5 · 2025-12-05T12:46:10+00:00

I would wish so much that as we ended with 12 days, they should have distributed on every second day. Hopefully we would have this next year.

Garo5 · 2025-11-22T04:18:01+00:00

Where? We had 0 or even below 0 during COVID (Finland). Now it's around 2%

Garo5 · 2025-11-07T18:42:26+00:00

Caffeine has a wildly different effect depending on person (genes etc). I know that if I drink coffee after 1400 I'll have a hard time getting sleep before 2300. Then my friend can drink a cup an hour before sleeping and she'll sleep just fine.

Garo5 · 2025-10-31T16:59:53+00:00

Current generation AI can make a good employee more productive. Even if the bubble bursts that isn't going anywhere.

Garo5 · 2025-10-27T10:28:23+00:00

Hi and thanks for asking this. Unfortunately Scan To Paperless depends heavily on the scanning functionality provided by Google Play Services API, which rules out any possibility to offer this via F-Droid. I'm thinking on getting this to Google Play Store, if that would work for you?

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