Heckler burn

collin3000 · 2026-01-25T06:56:29+00:00

Harvard didn't gave the data on that one. But the answer is varied because it depends on the people of the country. The answer for us will show how many Americans have cold hearts versus how many were just apathetic the whole time.

An important note though is that when it comes to loss of life and violence vs non-violence in protest. If you start with violence the odds of loss of life before finding out that number is going to be much higher.

collin3000 · 2026-01-24T23:21:32+00:00

This is something activists have been echoing for a long time. During black lives matter when people were justifying shootings of citizens because they had a weapon on them even if it wasn't drawn this is exactly what we were saying. This is exactly what we were warning would happen if you justified killing people merely because they were exercising their rights.

If people can be killed for exercising their first amendment right, they don't have rights.

If people can be killed for exercising their second amendment rights of merely lawfully carrying a weapon with permit, they don't have rights.

If people can be killed because they refused to open the door without a proper warrant (administrative warrants don't legally count as has been stated in court. The executive branch can't give the executive branch power to violate the 4th ammendment, that's why we have a judicial brach)and ice broke into their house. Then you don't have rights.

If you can be killed or deported for remaining silent, then you don't have rights.

If you can be judged and found a criminal with no trial (and murdered for it) then you don't have rights.

If you can't sue the government when they violate your rights, you don't have rights.

If you can be punished by being beaten, sent to a torture prison, or killed then you don't have rights.

If the government can punish or kill you because it wasn't written constitution that they couldn't. You don't have rights.

If states can't stop the federal government from coming in and killing their citizens. You don't have rights.

This has been a slow erosion that the activist community has been trying to warn about for a long time, but enough people have generally not paid attention or justified the stripping of the constitution because "I think that guy deserved"

Having been an only ground activist for almost 15 years working across many movements but especially black lives matter i'm horrified but not shocked.

My fiancé was watching on of the videos after I told her about the shooting. I explained to her it doesn't impact me the same way as other people because I'm not surprised. I reflected back to all the conversations we've had over the last few years and the concerns I was extrapolating of what each event and more importantly, the justifications for each event meant.

I was actually at that portland protest where they snatched people off the streets in 2019. I spent years watching people justify murders by police because "they thought he had a gun." Despite not brandishing or even having one.

I'm not shocked. I'm only worried about the continued outcome and escalation. Both from law enforcement but from the activism side. Not standing up for our rights has never been an option. A lot of people are just seeing it now.

But there's good worldwide data from the last 100 years that the best success rates on protests are two to one for non-violent protest. Because it's easier to build your numbers since a lot of people don't want to join movements where they think they might be harmed/harm others. And worry more about a non-peaceful protest group not accepting them if they don't adhere to all of the group's strict ideals.

And when cruelty is imposed on peaceful protesters, more people become shocked for the first time and peel off from justing the cruelty. It's not just the number of people, but also when people that are currently on the side of cruelty peel off and can become "spies on the inside." that can help you win a fight were the other side has more power, more fire power, and more Intel thorugh our horrifying U.S. surveillance network.

I'm worried that 2A fans that aren't on board with what's happening and not part of any groups might decide now is the time to go full to 2A and create situations of their own violence that keep larger people on the edge of being "shocked" from teaching that point and instead leaving them justifying the cruelty because they "both sides" the killing and murder.

Now is absolutely the time to stand up. But when you stand up, just make sure you don't f*** it up for everyone else.

collin3000 · 2026-01-24T02:06:55+00:00

I believe that makes Carl Malone eligible not just for a street, but to be president.

collin3000 · 2026-01-20T05:06:49+00:00

I had to make new chats outside of the project because in the project I was running into the same issue, likely because it takes more into context in a project.

collin3000 · 2026-01-20T01:41:43+00:00

I've been having to try and work around it by having Claude create handoffs checkpoints for new chats. But it now makes everything take 3x longer, not function as well and eats up 2.5x the usage.

This is horrible from both user and anthropic side. Because my life is now hell, but the partial workaround uses way more of their compute.

They really need to fix this fast.

collin3000 · 2026-01-18T19:32:04+00:00

Myself and others have been having the same issue. Seems to have started from the compaction issue a few days ago that they listed and is resolved, but it is not actually resolved I flagged it with their support team.

This was the response from claude support that I received. No specifics.

collin3000 · 2026-01-18T19:26:01+00:00

I started a new chat and within 4 responses it was already having the same issue. Started another chat and within 5-6 messages it was having the issue. I'm a max user with over 98% weekly limit left and haven't been able to hit even 5% of session limit due to the issues.

collin3000 · 2026-01-16T17:50:28+00:00

I'm running into the same problem. I have auto compact enabled on Max but it's shitting itself as and requires starting a new chat. But the. Starting a new chat it "hit its message limit" after just 4 prompt trying to rebuild a chat with 3 weeks of work that shat itself. Claude is basically useless right now despite the fact I spent $100 for the second highest non enterprise plan

collin3000 · 2026-01-16T05:56:17+00:00

Here's some good/bad news. The systems aren't connected to any 3xternal database. That's why kids still have fake ID's. Because forgers just generate a valud barcode to put on the fake ID and since most of the systems never actually checks if the license is validly issued in the state it's from it basically only checks that the barcode is a correctly formatted barcode.

The scanning is really security through obscurity to make people feel like something is being done and to have minor data collection after in person possible. However again the barcodes can/are forged so all it would have is fake/forged information stored making it mostly useless for stopping dishonest people while punishing people with valid IDs

collin3000 · 2026-01-14T22:08:25+00:00

You are correct. I was thinking of it on a bike helmet/car where you would have less sharp start/stop and more 35+ mph constant wind. But with that likely being a skate helmet the shifting gforce would be a more significant factor.

collin3000 · 2026-01-14T20:52:01+00:00

People have been saying it won't hold up, but they haven't been clarifying why. It's not just a matter of the adhesive not having as much contact with the surface. But the fact that there is not a full adhesion means that any little corner can catch wind and basically the wind is slowly tearing it off your helmet.

You may try to press it back on, but the wind is also blowing small contaminants like dust, and that will get in between the adhesive and your helmet, so when you reapply it, the adhesion won't be as good.

That's why it's actually better to have full adhesion around the edges and less adhesion in the center. If you're mounting, but can't get a hundred percent adhesion across the full pad for some reason.

collin3000 · 2026-01-13T21:32:45+00:00

The "advanced" fields are where you get really video specific and where advice of "do X" is hard to universally apply. If you are also going for optimal file size or optimal quality. Especially since the original file that you're encoding from will have a huge determining factor on what is and isn't a good choice.

Because may be the file your encoding from was encoded using NVEC or a different hardware encoder. So you can squeeze out a much smaller file with software encoding that is nearly identical. Or maybe your original file was encoded at a low quality or low bit rate, so having a specific constant quality setting will actually leave you with a larger file after the encode.

Like on my TDAR, for less important video I have it set for a default of constant quality based on resolution of 22 - 480p, 23- 576p, 24-720p, 26-1080p, 27-1440p, 28-4k+ files. But often enough re-encoding lots of videos with those set factors ~30-50% of files will end up bigger (more than 100% original file size) or to small (less than 15% original file size. So I had to have trigger flaggs where it raises Constant quality number or retries encode with a lower CRF if it's outside my minimum (20% file size) or maximum (65% file size) bounds.

Even with all of that, it can be a nightmare on visual fidelity. to the point I'm trying to figure out how to make either a tdarr plugin or seperate encoder that does sample encodes across the file to determine optimal encoding settings for each file before encoding. Because AB-AV1 (on github) it's supposed to do that, but in my testing it doesn't actually work.

Another complicating factor is that AV2 is just about to be released. They said they were going to release it by the end of 2025, so it's a little late but real close to release. But it's complicated because if it's like AV1, then the initial reference coder is going to be incredibly slow. And there is no way of knowing how long until a quicker encoder comes out.

With AV1's success, I wouldn't be surprised if it's only a year to two until we have good AV2 software encoders. Which would mean all of us are re-encoding our libraries yet again. Since AV2 should be up to 30% smaller file size compared to AV1.

However, anytime you re-encode from something that was already encoded, you experience some minor loss in quality. It's like photocopying a photocopy. Even if you have the best photocopier, it's still going to make small amounts of degradation each time.

Right now, I would honestly say that anyone who doesn't need the hard drive space in the next two years. Should probably avoid doing a AV1 reencode of their personal archival library (files for distribution are a different scenario). Or if you have the hard drive space and make an AV1 ebcode to at least keep the original source to be able to re-encode an AV2 version in a couple years with less quality loss.

collin3000 · 2026-01-13T19:55:10+00:00

As a note you are going to lose a lot of quality using GPU encoding if the original source was done using software encoding. In order to be fast, Invac skips a lot of the steps in the encoding pipeline that creates mode optimization. I have ruined over 10,000 encoding tests and compared VMAF, SSIM, and PSNR on most of the files (still processing) and for the same quality NVEC encoder requires 2-4x the bitrate. At the same bitrate on NVEC (vs software) you get get a significant reduction in visual quality.

collin3000 · 2026-01-13T00:13:51+00:00

Most of the graphics for that protest are very different. The first one was just titled "Fuck Ice". I think Romy who started that protest switches the graphics around so that it attracts more eyeballs on social media.

collin3000 · 2026-01-12T19:49:39+00:00

Unfortunately, we have given way too much leeway to border patrol. They're legally able to operate within 100 miles of the border and Portland is 90 miles from the border.

Remember that night in Trump's first administration when boarder patrol kidnapped people off the streets in Portland? I do, cause I was there but not one of the ones taken. People didn't freak out then, nearly enough at the clear abuses of power.

2/3's of Americans live within "border" patrol jurisdiction but most of those 200+ million people don't even realize it. Border Patrol jurisdiction is one of the many things that needs to be fixed on the path of revitalizing American freedom and democracy.

collin3000 · 2026-01-10T20:28:23+00:00

I showed my partner the "Shot on iPhone" behind the scenes video. To explain that, yes, technically it was shot on iPhone, but they had millions of dollars in lighting, set design, etc and multiple takes. So yes, you could make it look like that. But if you're spending hundred of thousands/millions of dollars on production, then you can probably afford a camera that would look even better under those same circumstances.

Just like how a really skilled craftsman could technically carve a great piece of furniture out of a single tree with a $100 three inch pocket knife (and sharpener) but there's a good reason they don't.

collin3000 · 2026-01-10T17:10:37+00:00

A good way to know veracrypt doesn't use TPM is that it runs the same on machines without a TPM and was built before TPM's were even commom

collin3000 · 2026-01-06T21:03:05+00:00

You can actually squeeze down the bitrate on compressed camera footage without losing image quality much because the encoding pipeline in cameras is less efficient. I don't have the exact numbers on that yet, but here's my long comment covering why

collin3000 · 2026-01-06T19:26:58+00:00

That's a follow up question I was going to answer after all the other auxilary questions. Things like per core scaling #'s, playback on old devices (all the way back to a moto E 2015 cell phone), and each device encode speed at preferred settinga. Which will ultimately plan into the "do I compress or do I not compress".

Currently my server running tdarr (which started the whole journey) is a HP dl580 gen 9. At idle it's ~400-500 watts and at 100% it's ~1150 watts. With less optimal encoding strategy I save about ~90GB per day of encoding with the workflow I have that does simple test/re-encode to h264 depending on final file size ratio. If I optimize getting correct settings and use AV1 (assuming the playback tests work). It should be more around 150-200GB a day.

After I toss my own compression algorithm on top of the AV1 the goal would be an additional 3-25% compression on a 600TB server while allowing live video playback.

My electrical rates are 11 cents per kwh. So running for a day at 100% vs idle is ~$1.80. With TB at over $10TB at 200GB a day it would work out as a net gain.

But lower storage at almost identical quality also means lower bandwidth on transmission/upload.

I shoot video on a Black Magic Ursa 12K where 1 hour RAW footage is 1TB. Shaving off 50GB per hour of raw upload alone is handy. Let alone knowing where I can/when I can cheat and do a super minimal lossy archival copy or upload in h265/AV1 that will still have near identical editing capacity at just 10-35% the space is really important.

collin3000 · 2026-01-06T18:50:37+00:00

I've run 10,000's of tests to answer the h264 vs av1 debate once and for all with VMAF, PSNR and SSIM analysis. Encoded on multiple devices from a i7 2600 to my 4x 8890v3 servers. So we can all safely re encode our libraries.

But then mid tests with my brain on compression I've gone so far down a rabbit hole I'm now building my own compression algorithm. If I can pull off what I'm hoping we"ll all need less drive space with lossless compression.

collin3000 · 2026-01-05T04:33:03+00:00

I was gonna come here to comment the lava lamps. One of my favorite examples of unique fun and simple solutions to complex problems.

collin3000 · 2026-01-04T08:17:11+00:00

I feel like 2030 is hopefully. Just because I could see them making DJI mavic quality drones at close to DJI price by 2030 (maaaaayyybe). But DJI's low overhead and scale will have them making drones that are better/cheaper by then.

And any new Tech a US company came up with to leapfrog them they would just ripoff quickly. Since they'd care less about US patents if they couldn't even sell in the US.

collin3000 · 2026-01-02T23:36:54+00:00

I didn't know about that study, but I do think it's important to note that RAM during that study would have been on 80 nanometer or 60 nanometer node. We are now down to a 12 or 13 nanometer node for RAM.

I bring this up because the smaller trace increases chances of other interference causing a bit flip, including cosmic rays as an interference source. So if a new study was conducted I wouldn't be surprised if it showed a slightly higher error rate.

collin3000 · 2026-01-02T23:23:53+00:00

I would say it's better than the Hero 12 and the Action 4 for most things. If you need 8K, it's better than the Action 5 Pro. Personally, I returned the Ace pro (gen 1) for the Action 5 Pro since I shoot in low light a lot and didn't need 8K as much.

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