Author: Evan Menogue
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Google AI video generation advancements
With the new ‘Veo 3’ engine — much more coherent frame-frame, and physics, and 4K, and sound including dialogue. 8 second shots. Veo 2 engine now added to YouTube app for generating Shorts from still images.
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Microsoft data sovereignty concerns
Would this suggest that our additional M365 licence for ‘Advanced Data Residency’ (i.e. store our data in Australia) is not worth the pixels it’s written on? And as the referenced article points out, all other US-based cloud service providers have similar legislative compliance frameworks, so what does this mean for Amazon AWS, OpenAI and other US-based cloud services we use? -
Making software
A beautifully written and illustrated technical guide covering the details that needs to be appreciated when crafting good software.
Making Software by Dan Hollick
<via Kottke>
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Removing links from Microsoft Word documents on Mac
Go to System Preferences->Keyboard, where you’ll find an option called “Use F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys”. Tick that box. Use Command-A to select all. Use Command-6 to remove all hyperlinks.
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Lethal trifecta for AI agents
Simon Wilison explains security holes in LLM AI agents that are impossible to fill.
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
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MPV video player config
Configuration settings for MPV video player that I use — put into mpv.conf alongside the executable.
pause idle=yes keep-open=yes
If installed from the Microsoft Store, need to seek out putting the mpv.conf into the user profile folder.
On win32 (if compiled with MinGW, but not Cygwin), the default config file locations are different. They are generally located under %APPDATA%/mpv/. For example, the path to mpv.conf is %APPDATA%/mpv/mpv.conf, which maps to a system and user-specific path, for example
C:\users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\mpv\mpv.conf
You can find the exact path by running echo %APPDATA%\mpv\mpv.conf in cmd.exe.
Other config files (such as input.conf) are in the same directory. See the FILES section above.
The cache directory is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/mpv/cache.
The watch_later directory is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/mpv/watch_later.
The environment variable $MPV_HOME completely overrides these, like on UNIX.
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LLM AI agents for coding – perspective of a senior dev
Advocating not just LLM to generate code, but agents that can prepare projects and do much of the drudgery. Also: future of the developer profession.
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Model context protocol (MCP) for LLM integration
Would this help unlock ways to access data stores?