Recently, Codeberg has updated their policy to “restrict LLM-generated content”. This has made a lot of people angry (they also blanket banned cryptocurrency projects, but that one was drowned out by the drama around the LLM part). Those people are completely missing the point in a way that is just funny. The Arguments I have read and have seen multiple arguments, so I’ll try to address the main ones: “doing this will kill their business” ...
Recently I was made aware that a new video codec was released: AV2 And it genuinely annoyed me. I ended up having a discussion/rant about it, and this blog post is basically a summary of that. For reference, I’ve been messing around with/learning about codecs and file formats for nearly 20 years, so my annoyance comes with reasons. It’s Happening yet Again For people not knowing exactly what AV2 is, I’ll try to explain it simply: AV2 is a video codec, a codec is basically a “format” / set of standards in which you store media. ...