I got an update for the YT Plugin yesterday evening. Also; I’m in Europe, maybe it’s a regional change?

I just tested it again, it still works here.

GrayJay still seems to work

Unlike fusion reactors AI has a pretty convincing “demo” in my opinion.

On a first glance the output of LLMs and image / video generator models is very convincing and the artifacts and mistakes appear “small” for people that don’t know much about the technical details. So it’s easy to be convinced by “we’ll just fix those little bugs and be done in half a year” promises.

EV is a similar story: electric bikes and radio controlled cars and drones work great so it’s conceivable that bigger cars and trucks would work too with a “little” battery and motor tweaking.

Nuclear fusion though isn’t really tangible yet. For laypeople or seems there is no progress at all. Every now and then some scientists report that they can hold a fusion reaction a little longer or more effective but it’s not “tangible”. That’s probably also holding back a lot of investors which with all their resources mostly still seem to invest based on a gut feeling.

As far as I know fusion energy never got that level of hype and amount of money thrown at it. I mean the research reactors are super expensive but still on another level.

I was hoping that it’s some kind of piratey alternative to Netflix.

I’ve stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and “buying” content is getting worse and worse.

Now I’m just downloading older movies from YouTube and similar services or look it up on archive.org.

Pirating was quite simple in the olden donkey / emule / kazaar etc times. BitTorrent was simple at the beginning as well. Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.

IRC seemed complicated as well and I can’t bring myself to ever look into usenet because to me it was my first “social media” and it breaks my heart to see what it turned into.

Also it’s super weird because it’s not meant for this purpose. It’s like using twitter to share base64 encoded warez. It kinda works but it’s not meant for it.

But they’re now located in Jülich. Next to some heavily guarded nuclear waste.

I don’t understand it. I know Netflix and pirates but I see no connection. What is TF?