| Nov 12 |
So @SonderStays filed for bankruptcy today
Kicking out its tenants with just 15 minutes notice (!)
You could see Sonder as another one of the casualties of the remote work (and digital nomad) boom and bust cycle that seems to be finally consolidating the winners and losers after a decade
Sonder was a hospitality startup from 2012 that leased apartments and then re-furnished them to hotel quality apartments and then managing them as short-term rentals on Airbnb but also via a partnership with Marriott
A lot of them were used by remote workers who preferred those over hotels
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| Nov 12 |
Interesting they train LoRa's on the top hot IG models
Then you get this kinda average of all their faces
Which makes it slightly too generic to be real, although IG'ers are ofc generic by default too
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Oh damn yes fully AI generated then
Looks like those new Instagram girl LoRa's
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| Nov 12 |
It's an AI generated bot and she literally doesn't exist
1000+ likes
Wild times with AI fembots!
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| Nov 12 |
And you're the least real thing I've ever seen on X
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| Nov 12 |
Portugal mentioned https://t.co/GlkYlSwl57
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| Nov 12 |
Every hotel at some point in the day or night is a love hotel?
No need for the distinction?
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| Nov 12 |
I'd just create an entirely new hotel chain
No front desk, no lobby
Payment and booking via app only
Room keys via Apple / Android Wallet
Hourly rates
Coworking in building
Powerful AC in every room and space
Only cleaning staff
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| Nov 12 |
I agree with this
I think all hotels should be hourly by default
It then defaults to 3pm check in and 12 noon check out
BUT you can modify that to your own hours like 6am check in and 9pm check out
Motels can do it so hotels should too
Makes more sense in a 24/7 economy
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| Nov 12 |
And also this
We're so connected now that the information density has moved the internet (like short videos) and our interfaces (and hardware) has to be minimalist to balance that out
https://t.co/5bPbdkleKz
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| Nov 12 |
I think the answer is it become corporate
Because corporates started to act like startups (have swag stickers) so they could recruit people into startups (to turn them corporate)
https://t.co/4JRsqYLunA
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| Nov 12 |
We must have peaked here with stickers 😂
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| Nov 12 |
Night flights are such a terrible idea usually
You arrive in the morning and you can't check into your hotel unless you booked an extra day before
So you don't even save money
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| Nov 12 |
When I see laptops full of stickers nowadays it looks kinda cringe to me
It was normal though 10 years ago
I wonder what exactly changed in culture to make it cringe? https://t.co/3PzYKv6leE
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| Nov 11 |
💯
Only valid reason to use a VPN is to change your IP location for sites that block countries
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| Nov 11 |
DNS hijacking is close to impossible these days because browsers verify HTTPS certificates, and reject if the SSL cert doesn't match
They can't generate a proper fake SSL cert without compromising a CA (certificate authority)
HTTPS is extremely safe because it's encrypted even on untrusted WiFi
Worst that can happen is NSA has a backdoor in the encryption standards and the US gov can read what you do (probably)
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| Nov 10 |
Your email wasn't hacked because of an unsafe WiFi
HTTPS is fully encrypted
You were hacked for some other reason like no 2FA or having some malware running on your device
Nothing to do with whatever WiFi you were on
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| Nov 10 |
Only problem is it seems to route traffic in Asia via Hong Kong
And ChatGPT is blocked there cause China https://t.co/DQ5Kd394wI
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| Nov 10 |
I love @revolut's Global eSIM
I just flew from Portugal to Netherlands to Qatar to Singapore and now to Japan and I when I land I'm directly connected again to 5G with the same eSIM I can use anywhere
And it auto renews, so no catch-22 where you run out of data and then can't add data because you don't have data
Not affiliated, but it's just a great product and how connectivity should be by default, global as an eSIM!
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| Nov 10 |
Get up 🥹 https://t.co/bsfQK6CI0q
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| Nov 10 |
As usual lots of gaslighting here but we have more proof
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| Nov 10 |
We just came out of @SingaporeAir's biz class lounge at Singapore Airport
We literally had sweat dripping off our face and weren't the only ones
Staff complain it's too hot too but the ACs are "centrally managed"
Guys you know I don't lie about this stuff! It's so fucking wild!!!!!! 🥵 🇸🇬
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| Nov 10 |
China's air quality has gotten A LOT better
Still not great and half the country is 150 (red) but then the other half is 50-100 (yellow) which isn't so far off Europe actually
Thank complete electrification of public transport and I think they banned petrol bikes so only ebikes https://t.co/XqR7Ov27eH
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| Nov 10 |
Literally https://t.co/7BBAjSdj5L
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| Nov 10 |
Ummm guys
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| Nov 10 |
Shave it 🪒
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| Nov 10 |
This is obviously revenge for talking shit about their AC temperature
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https://t.co/B1cHeVBj4Q
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https://t.co/mnAKS4PphZ
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| Nov 10 |
What I asked for at the Singaporean barber
What I got at the Singaporean barber
At least now I can finally join a monastery! 😂🙏 https://t.co/wRngRPFRno
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| Nov 10 |
Germans have a historical tendency to mass psychosis
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| Nov 10 |
Exactly my point
China will keep spending energy and develop regardless https://t.co/yEHPzsbnm1
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| Nov 10 |
Yes I do believe foreign governments are actively trying to sabotage the West's progress and stagnate it
Russia funding climate change activists in Germany to shut down nuclear plants and make them dependent on Russian gas was a big one
There's much more meddling by foreign actors behind the curtain than we can see now (we'll only know in 30-50 years or so when it usually comes out)
And we have been meddling with their countries too (see CIA involvement everywhere in the world since 1950)
So that makes me highly skeptical of the climate change and eco movements, they seem the perfect thing for foreign governments to fund and promote to slowly destroy entire societies while people think they're doing "The Good Thing (tm)"
It's also the perfect thing that can't be fought against easily, if you do, like this tweet you'll hear
"So you don't care about the environment?"
No I do but I'm just saying it's probable your country is being manipulated by foreign actors that have the goal to make you poor and geopolitically irrelevant and you should be very scared of that
Maybe more scared than you should be of climate change
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| Nov 10 |
In this case I should say "developed" instead of Western nations, as Singapore is developed and first world
Although that term is becoming funny because they're less developed than developing nations
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| Nov 10 |
Every single time it's the Germans! https://t.co/CJ5wjCrrZr
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| Nov 10 |
Reducing AC usage, reducing emmissions, paper straws etc., it's all just incredibly performative
Meaning it's an act for show, not something that actually contributes to saving the environment or stopping climate change
Especially in the case of Singapore, a tiny city state with barely any impact on the environment
What's funny is that China keeps using more and more energy while getting richer and richer and nobody is going to stop them
And the Western nations have essentially outsourced their pollution to China, so they go down on the emissions charts while China goes up
Nothing actually changes and it's all one big performative act
So the only effect of putting the AC to 27°C/81°F is your people sleep worse, are less productive and become noticeably dumber
Meanwhile the Chinese keep spending more energy, will sleep better, become more productive, and get smarter and richer!
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| Nov 10 |
https://t.co/gKgEobfHUv
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| Nov 10 |
Similarly it's so crazy you can press a specific combination of keys in a code editor and then you go to the local ATM and internet money comes out
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| Nov 10 |
Average restaurant in Singapore
27°C / 81°F
They used to lead the world in AC use, as a result they became rich and high IQ https://t.co/WiXKrzYMMr
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| Nov 10 |
Grab (the Uber of South East Asia) has so many cool features I discover every time I use it
This one auto records your mic and in case shit goes down you tap [ Emergency SOS ] and it gets streamed to Grab (and police etc)
Very cool https://t.co/Lx5aK4n2hY
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| Nov 10 |
🇸🇬 Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers
The AC in most buildings is now set to a sweaty 25°C/77°F by government recommendation called "Go 25"
Sleep, productivity and learning rapidly decreases once indoor temperature exceeds 23°C/73°F
Lee Kuan Yew would not approve https://t.co/rtUJiSfbcm
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| Nov 10 |
I think it was worth it in the end!
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| Nov 09 |
Holy mother of fuck https://t.co/0jbQko8Lr8
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| Nov 09 |
https://t.co/KrMW8aDhJp
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| Nov 09 |
The credit card form for the high speed train in Japan https://t.co/fO87pzW70F
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| Nov 09 |
Also would love any special hotel recommendations like boutique stuff
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| Nov 09 |
What's everyone's tips for China?
Where to go?
I think I'll fly in from Kyoto to Shanghai?
Then high speed train everywhere?
I like Sichuan hotpot and was also thinking Chengdu (many people say it's great), Shenzhen of course
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| Nov 09 |
What's really crazy here is that boomers seem to have no ability to discern what are AI deepfakes and what are real videos anymore
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| Nov 09 |
Yesterday I flew from Lisbon to Singapore with @qatarairways which everytime is just perfect or close to perfect
And this time we did 12-hour stopover at 🇶🇦 Doha Airport, which everytime is also just an adventure
Apart from everything being so clean, so efficient, so modern and the AC being at the perfect temperature (21C/70F) literally everywhere, it's also just one of the most fun airports to be in anywhere
There's great restaurants, lots of good food and coffee in the lounges, there's a private jacuzzi (!), a public jaccuzi (!!) and even a coworking space that I went this time
And super super fast WiFi everywhere
Flying into Singapore Airport where the AC is now set to 25°C/77F (for eco reasons!), it's sweaty hot and parts of it are very messy with people sitting/lying on the floors and garbage littered, I was even more impressed with Qatar
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| Nov 09 |
These are classic lagging preconceptions about SEA
Czechia has 21% poverty
Thailand has 5% poverty
Just because the cost of living is lower doesn't mean everyone is poor, see purchasing power parity, which means things are cheaper (like rent) which takes people out of poverty https://t.co/eyOpMnpxYn
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| Nov 09 |
This guy is the most fun and wholesome entrepreneur to follow right now @jackfriks
Just all around nice and great to see he finally has a big hit on his hand
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| Nov 09 |
So @afonsolfm asked me how to meet Dutch people in Rotterdam
I said tweet this
I think he could speedrun socializing into Rotterdam this way
Meet one person, go from there etc
Otherwise you'd only meet foreigners in my experience
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| Nov 09 |
I completely missed the opportunity to link planning with communism
"Central planning" of course was the essence of communism
Capitalist abundance and free energy means anything is available instantaneous and scales up to infinite customers instantly
"Fully booked" is the epitome of scarcity and therefore communism
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| Nov 09 |
Yep
South East Asia is as close to abundance you can get
Still now walk into almost any hotel or restaurant in Bangkok or Saigon and just get what you want
Korea and Japan are too Western so no abundance, similarly Europe and US same, even Latin America I've now had capacity issues, things are just fully booked all the time
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| Nov 09 |
Guyssssssss
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| Nov 09 |
But you can choose on the way there
I'd fly in to Bangkok with a one-way flight
We'd use those fake exit ticket generators if the airline ever asked for one (immigration never cared)
Then in the taxi from Bangkok airport book a hostel or hotel
Then find some food
Keep extending hotel until you left (which usually worked although sometimes you'd be forced to check out and on the street that day but then you find the next hotel)
Obviously none of this works with a gf/wife and/or kids for the simple fact that abundance and infinite energy does not exist
If it would there'd be infinite hotels and restaurants and other services manned by infinite robots running on infinite energy
Maybe in 10-20 years though
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| Nov 09 |
I hate planning, I wish I could just walk in anywhere
Planning only exists because there isn't infinite capacity
I believe in abundance and energy being free
So planning to me is a property of scarcity (and degrowth and in that respect communism)
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| Nov 09 |
Exactly
Especially Americans
Which is why I'm visiting China after because nobody ever goes to China
I was there last in 2018 in Qingdao and Beijing and it's really interesting to visit
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| Nov 09 |
Japan of course is also the prime destination for everything to be sold out months in advance by American weeaboos who are exceptionally great and enjoy planning travels years in advance https://t.co/New705SQQ6
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| Nov 09 |
I feel I'm getting to the point I'm too retarded to book travel myself, I'm always too late, everything is always fully booked, so you always end up with some 2nd rate hotels
That is at least, in places with low capacity like Japan etc. Thailand (and I'd bet China too) you can walk into the best places and just get a room any time anywhere, because there's just SO MUCH capacity
I'd 100% outsource this travel planning to someone months in advance if I could
I've always hated planning, which was kinda the point of going nomad, you just book a one way flight and nothing else and see where you end up
That's a solo single man pursuit though, it doesn't really work with most women in my experience, they prefer some PLAN
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| Nov 09 |
Hakone seems fully booked months in advance, any alternatives for Ryokan Onsen style places?
I'm going Tokyo then Osaka later so anywhere near there would be nice
Apparently Japan is so popular you now have to book stuff 6 months in advance??????
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| Nov 09 |
Spent hours in the plane Lisbon to Singapore to get Windows 95 to run inside a browser on https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC
I thought it wasn't possible to run because 32-bit and DOSBox had 16-bit limit, but it's working smoothly (not live yet)
Just need to get networking/internet to work with the dial-up modem
I cheated a bit and set the Win98 grass field wallpaper too
I think this will resonate a bit more with people because Windows 3.11 was even too early for me, most of my memories are Windows 98 and XP actually
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| Nov 08 |
Emdash spotted —
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| Nov 08 |
Definitely NOT in Europe anymore https://t.co/TalU4p4iAe
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| Nov 07 |
https://t.co/C3qGIwN8I6
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| Nov 07 |
My @X followers + @grok are literally planning our trip now, very nice https://t.co/9aDmUDAjtv
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| Nov 07 |
This is really so useful, ask Q then ask @grok to rank the answers https://t.co/qDFbPbQtl1
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| Nov 07 |
@grok rank the top hotels people mentioned, if multiple people mentioned same, add them up etc.
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| Nov 07 |
@grok rank the top ideas people mentioned, if multiple add them up etc.
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| Nov 07 |
What is a good itinerary for 10 days in Japan? Fly in to Tokyo and then?
Last time I did Tokyo -> Kyoto -> Osaka with friends, and we also ended up in this hot spring town Kinosaki Onsen, was nice, but maybe there's another onsen town to go nearer?
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| Nov 07 |
New mood https://t.co/2eLaeDEntd
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| Nov 07 |
Why none of the models can do real top-down views? It's always in an angle?
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| Nov 06 |
Brazil's stock market almost always goes down measured in USD https://t.co/dae7dHmEt0
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| Nov 06 |
I was curious if I'd get this and I do
Airpods Pro 3 in plane, you get what sounds like a feedback loop, high pitched quite loud and uncomfortable ringing
I think the noise cancelling mic records the sound it plays to noise cancel (like inverse waves) and then it goes wrong and you get a loop
It especially happened when I tried my gf's Airpods which have smaller ear tips and don't fit my ears, which makes sense cause it'd close off the wear less well then giving more potential for feedback loop I guess
It only happened when messing around with my Airpods like repositioning them though
@Apple
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| Nov 06 |
Lies, lies and financial charts where you can change the timeline to fit your argument
If you zoom out the Brazil stock exchange it's still down (hint: it always goes down due to the BRL devaluation)
Trump trying to make the USD cheaper by crashing it is helping Brazil a bit though
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| Nov 06 |
Anyone working at Chinese AI companies like Kling and ByteDance?
I'm in China again soon and would be sick to visit their offices and meet the ppl behind the models and tweet about it to all of you
I think of visiting Shanghai now but maybe Shenzhen and Chongqing too? Didn't pick cities yet
Just fun Asia trip but since still nobody visits China, I'm def gonna visit China
Last time was 2018 to Qingdao and Beijing!
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| Nov 06 |
It's that time again X
What hotel you recommend in Tokyo?
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| Nov 05 |
It's not just about the amount of houses I think
It's also about the price of houses, the price is set by the amount
There's been a 21% growth in houses in 20 years, in the same time population has grown by 16.5%, so a bit less
But at the same time:
- families have gotten smaller, people have less kids etc, so households are smaller
- more houses now are used as second-homes for Airbnb, retirees, investment (so less houses available for primary living)
- many houses are in the wrong place, not where the jobs are, which is in expensive cities
So it's not as simple as "houses per capita went up"
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| Nov 05 |
This is 100% it
Mamdani is the left's Trump and he won cause he properly addresses the issues people care about now
And worldwide young people struggle leaving their parent's house because they can't find an affordable place to buy or rent
Almost every issue right now follows back to there's not enough houses and now it's starting to affect society with radical left leaders getting elected
They almost certainly have the wrong solutions, but they 100% address the right issues
Almost everywhere in the world we should be agressively building more homes and making it easier to do so, so everyone can afford a roof above their head
If we don't, they will start electing these leaders everywhere and you really don't want to see where that ends
Build more homes for everybody!!!!
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| Nov 05 |
First block I'm actually sad about
Really cool guy, no idea why
He wrote Chaos Monkeys, a really cool book about startups https://t.co/iOnqj7YDyA
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| Nov 05 |
100%
Every man should move out of their parent's house or they remain a child forever
Move to some tiny place in fucksville if you have to
But you won't start developing if you stay their little baby
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| Nov 04 |
What's the fun in switching gears?
To me it feels a lot like beat matching in DJ'ing which was seen as a skill for years by chinstroking DJs years ago
When it was way more important what songs you actually play or with a car I guess where you drive with it
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| Nov 04 |
✨ Finally upgraded the Remix function on Photo AI to ⚡️ Hyper Realism too so it now supports very high input resolutions
Before it was stuck at ~512px max inputs and would downscale everything, then with some work I got it to ~1024px, but it was still relatively low resolution because of Flux's limitations
Now with Hyper Realism it's about 8x higher resolution, and with @philz1337x's upscaler on top of it, you can make it even sharper
That means you can imitate any photo on the internet you like but with your own AI model to make pics like these
One use case is fashion brands who already have a real photo shoot with one model, but need to see the outfits on other models too (like different ethnicities), Photo AI is perfectly for that now and high quality enough
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| Nov 04 |
Added live 🐭 mouse movement now
So your mouse now moves if you move your mouse (logic) on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq https://t.co/ydX6NCkfQW
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| Nov 04 |
Crazy we went from AI video not even existing to this in just 3 years
I think we're about to escape AI slop levels where the quality of AI video is "good enough"
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| Nov 03 |
Passed my driving exam in Portugal!!! Kinda 20 years late but I can drive now
I did the test in the driving school's Fiat Punto 1995 (a machine I may add), but without AC or airbag so it was a bit sweaty on a ☀️ sunny Lisbon day and in full Portuguese
The examiner had even less clear Portuguese than I imagined:
"Em final fjddoiekaodnrl pois dereita"
So I'd confirm everything "dereita?"
"Sim"
Okay so let's go right
There was lots of trap moments, like a giant wide road where all the road markings were faded out and which looked like a two-way street
The examiner said "esquerda" (left), but I was already as left as I thought I could go (on the half street line, well there was no line but ok), he kept saying "mais esquerda" then started shouting, so I went more left thinking I'd go into traffic but the whole road was one way with like 4 or 5 lanes, anyway not so good
Then at the end he said "Pieter, nao tem errados gravos, aprovada" like I didn't have any fatal mistakes and I was approved!!! 🎉
Then I drove with my Tesla Y from the center of Lisbon in Chiado (which was the real challengeh all the way home to our beach town with @theannalux by my side helping me not crash the car
Upgrading from a Fiat Punto 1995 to a Tesla Y all wheel drive 2025 is an experience, just the gas pedal feels so smooth, the cameras help A LOT and I realized I have no need or interest in only using mirrors anymore and handicapping myself like in the driving school car
Why I didn't get a driving license at 18? Well I did have a few classes but then I moved town to go study in Utrecht and my mom didn't wanna pay for classes because the first time I had class I forgot about it, I got drunk at the Vierdaagsefeesten (my home town festival) and got home 6am and then at 8am the driving instructor was there, I had 2 hours of class while I was still drunk, so my mom permaflagged me as IRRESPONSIBLE back then
And then I never really needed a license living and studying in the Netherlands (I'm Dutch), because we'd bicycle everywhere and if you wanna switch cities like Utrecht to Amsterdam you'd take the 30min train
Then after uni I went to Asia for 10+ years and taxis and Ubers (well they're called Grabs) are so good and clean and friendly (I never had any issue in a decade there) that I'd never need a license there either
The amount of shit I've had with Dutch taxis though, even back in 2010, violent thug drivers, just the trash of society really, generally in Europe taxis have been bad, and now Uber is also going to shit here
So living in Portugal it was time to get my license and @theannalux signed me up for the local village's school 😊
I had to do 28 hours of theory classes too which was funny because you have to sit in a tiny classroom looking at a projector with a quiz, and a Portuguese woman talking in the most unintelligible speech ever "pode estacionar aqui?" like "can you park here" it's an absolutely useless experience but it's legally required to do that 28 times!!!
Then 32 hours of practical driving classes which seems fair and makes sense to learn to drive properly
Anyway nice to finally be able to drive, I also requested the international license so I can drive around when we travel Asia soon!
And yes I really did practice parking in Vice City the night before 😀
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💾 Okay I finally bought a Raspberry Pi 5 to make https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC into a real retro computer as a proof of concept
I love the Raspberry Pi much more than my ESP32 simply because I can SSH into it and it's just like a normal computer or server, the ESP32 required specific software to re-flash it everytime and it was TEDIOUS!!!! I need a fast feedback loop to develop with so all this flashing is too slow for me
The Raspberry Pi 5 instead just runs Linux which then runs DOSBox-X to run https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC's Windows 3.11 install live downloaded from there so it stays fresh
I then also got a Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor by @clusteruk (very indie and Kickstarter-style product) which is like a vintage retro PC monitor but with an OLED and it runs at 1280x1024, and the Raspberry Pi 5 has HDMI out so it works perfectly with it
Then I got an @8bitdo retro IBM keyboard, but the spacebar broke, so I gotta send it back and get a new one, but it was great while it worked, so it's not in this video, and I got the 8BitDo retro mouse
So altogether it's a proof of concept of a real vintage retro PC with internet and it works now
My end goal is to make this into production and SELL it, not for money but more for fun because I think it should exist, just like @PalmerLuckey's ModRetro Chromatic Gameboy-remake
I'd go with something smaller than this 19" checkmate display though, it's great but too big for the Windows 3.11 era I think, more like 14" with a matching sized retro IBM-style keyboard and Windows 3.11 preinstalled (if legally allowed by @satyanadella) with WiFi working out of the box
We could also go with Windows 98/XP, because for me too Windows 3.11 was a very short time, so I too have vague memories of it, most of my computing memories is Windows 98/XP etc.
Inside it could simply run on a Raspberry Pi 5 like here, which is easily powerful enough to run all of these OS'es
I see many SF founders with Apple II's in their living room, and I guess cause Apple was more popular there back then, but in the rest of the world we were mostly IBM PCs and clones that ran Windows, so it's cool to have that as one retro object working with internet in your living room
Anyway, step by step, we're here now 😊
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A tale of how things can go wrong very fast:
Yesterday @philz1337x accidentally charged my Wise card $80,000 via @Stripe
Accidents can happen, and the charge was declined, but then @Wise immediately froze my card
That card was also tied to my @Cloudflare and responsible for all payments, including domain renewals
Cloudflare failed to renew my domain and then emailed me that they "won't attempt to automatically renew the domain again"
Which seems like an excellent domain hit job, you charge someone's card a lot of money around their domain renewal date, get their card frozen, then get their domain renewals failed and scoop up the domain without them noticing
I'd think the fix here would be Cloudflare retrying many times to renew the domain after failed charges until it works
Sometimes cards are frozen for a few hours or a day, but they start working again after
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This is bait but let's bite
Sundar Pichai ran Google into the ground for years
Then Sergey Brin returned to Google, lead the AI department, de facto taking over from Sundar
Because AI was and still is the biggest threat to Google
I still don't know anybody who uses Google Gemini instead of ChatGPT but I do know a lot of people now using their APIs (incl myself)
Nano Banana in particular was a mega hit
And that's thanks to Sergey Brin returning
I also think he should become CEO again
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https://t.co/QcXH2IfufW
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Living somewhere with clean air will soon become the top consideration where to move to as we become more aware of the dangers of air pollution https://t.co/tREyu1i1oo
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Was there money pulled out of the horse economy when cars were introduced?
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I am not autistic I did the test https://t.co/eWj81fd3jW
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So Pieter is Dutch and you pronounce it like Peter in English, not Pie-Eater or Pya-ter, just Peter
There's also literally Peter in Dutch, but you pronounce that as Pay-ter (???)
Of course like usually the English pronunciation is kinda the wrong one here, and most other languages also say Payter if you write Peter, because the Es and As are completely wrongly pronounced in English
There's a few famous Pieters in history:
- Pieter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director of New Netherlands and thus New Amsterdam, current day NYC (later Anglicized his name to Peter)
- Pieter Rubens, a Belgian painter
- Pieter Breugel, also a Belgian painter
- Pieter Nuyts, explorer who charted Australia's coasts in 1600s
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
@pieter
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Correction: if you're a paid X Premium+ (plus!) you get priority
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If that was true slowly you'd run out of usernames because people would forget about theirs, and/or die
You need usernames to keep moving like real estate / homes / land does
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Get yours here https://t.co/8DgOuzVh2k
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✨ I just used the new @XHandles feature to get the 💾@pieter handle on here 🎉😊
Social media usernames have always been the world of shady dealings and X is the first platform to try solve that
(I have so many dodgy stories how big brands and famous people got their usernames, I could write a book, and it's systemic on all social media platforms)
X changes that today with a clean and fair marketplace to help people get inactive social media handles
Any user can now request unused or inactive X handles, and they're put on a waiting list for when they get released
But if you're a paid X Premium or X Business users you get priority and can get them as a complimentary benefit!
The X team are working hard on this, and next features they told me are:
- pre-priced purchases for specific rare handles
- public drops for very rare handles or common words
- peer-to-peer marketplace
- auto redirects from old to new user handles
This feature also reminds me of my favorite chat app @telegram's Fragment platform, that is similar and lets people trade usernames and is blockchain based, also very cool!
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No way 😂
We're schooling an entire generation with degrowth in Europe
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Omg
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