"Grok summarize this comment"

I kid you not, I've had people ask Grok to summarize a 3-4 tweet thread I posted.

Oh ha! It's loading now, and just noticed the reference. Nice!

Can't get the page to load but agree with the sentiment ;)

Too bad, because you are referenced in the post! He was inspired by https://youtu.be/4VkY1vTpCJY

I have, I was going to go for a more extreme example but couldn't find one quickly on their channel.

It's not perfect, by any means, but you can get intelligible speech from a pretty terrible recording at least. Adobe has their AI assist tool too, it works pretty well though I've found it can't isolate a speaker when there are a lot of other people talking nearby.

Someone's already emailed me the depixelated version of the paper I'm holding in the video attached to this blog post.

Even today most cameras have some amount of rolling shutter—the readout on a high-megapixel sensor is too slow/can't hold the entire sensor in memory instantaneously, so you get a vertical shift to the lines as they're read from top to bottom.

Global shutter sensors of similar resolution are usually a bit more expensive.

With my old film cameras, at higher shutter speeds, instead of opening the entire frame, it would pass a slit of the front/rear shutter curtain over the film to just expose in a thousandth of a second or less time.

That's another good way to do it.

I wonder if it might be good for the blur/censor tools (like on YouTube's editor even) to do an average color match and then add in some random noise to the area that's selected...

Would definitely save people from some hassle.

The part that might take some work is matching the motion correctly, with a pixelated area or blacked out rectangle it doesn't matter if it's exactly sized or moving pixel perfectly with the window. I haven't done any video editing in 20 years, so maybe that's not very difficult today?

That moving pixelation look is definitely cooler though. If you wanted to keep it without leaking data you could do the motion tracked screenshot step first (not pixelated, but text all replaced by lorem ipsum or similar) and then run the pixelation over top of that.

If any of you nerds reading this are into video editing, please steal this idea and automate it.

Ha! I name most of my shares after celestial bodies... Jupiter is the big 100 TB volume for all my archives. Mercury is an all-NVMe volume for speed, for my video editing mostly.

Heh, mine is actually called mercury because I took to naming all of my homelab systems after Roman and Greek mythology, so the server was called “minerva” because of the knowledge it stores, and the share name was “mercury” because it was the messenger between myself and minerva… I swear I was going for something with this, LOL!

A long flat nose screwdriver is actually recommended in Apple's manuals. Just... don't touch the metal part, and maybe consider wearing some insulating gloves.

Thunderbolt is too new to have decent cheap open source cable/accessories available, but too old (and not popular enough when new) to have many actually useful cheap used accessories.

A lot of those old Macs would make decent little random servers if you could attach faster storage or networking without spending a ton.