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A$AP Rocky’s “Helicopter” music video was created using full‑body volumetric capture and dynamic Gaussian splatting. Director Dan Strait selected the technique to give unrestricted post‑production freedom that conventional filming could not provide. Evercoast recorded all performers, including Rocky, with a 56‑camera RGB‑D array in Los Angeles (August), capturing over 10 TB of raw data and producing roughly 30 minutes of splatted footage (≈1 TB of PLY sequences). The raw captures were processed in Houdini using CG Nomads GSOPs and rendered with OTOY’s OctaneRender, which allowed relighting and shadowing of the splats. Blender was used for layout and preview, while WildCapture’s tools supplied primitive pose estimations for motion transfer and simulation of rigid/soft bodies. The workflow enabled live on‑set previews, rapid creative decisions, and extensive recomposition of physically performed stunts (wire rigs, props) without additional filming. The final aesthetic appears synthetic, but all motion is captured from real performances rather than AI‑generated content.

The page is titled “GitHub – antirez/flux2.c: Flux 2 image generation model pure C inference,” indicating a repository that hosts a C implementation for running inference with the Flux 2 image‑generation model. The site currently displays a notice stating “You can’t perform that action at this time,” suggesting that a requested operation (e.g., viewing or downloading content) is blocked or unavailable. Three visual elements are listed with alternative text only: the first image is described as “Woman with sunglasses,” the second as “@antirez,” and the third as “@claude.” No additional code, documentation, or technical details are provided in the captured text.

The post argues that social platforms should treat user‑generated data as files in an app‑agnostic “everything folder,” mirroring the traditional filesystem model where files belong to users, not apps. By defining social actions (posts, follows, likes) as JSON records stored in uniquely named collections—e.g., com.twitter.post—apps become reactive views over these files, while the files remain the source of truth. Formats (lexicons) describe each record’s schema; validation occurs on read, allowing multiple apps with differing schemas to coexist. Record identifiers combine timestamps with randomness to avoid collisions, and domain‑based namespaces prevent naming conflicts. Persistent, host‑independent links require a user identifier (e.g., @dril) resolved via a registry, enabling content to move between hosts without breaking references. The AT protocol implements this model at scale in projects like Bluesky, providing a distributed social filesystem that separates data ownership from application logic.

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The page is a GitLab repository listing for Wine version 11.0, indicating that the source code and related project materials for this release are hosted on the GitLab platform under the “wine / wine” project namespace.

The article treats sandboxing of agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) as a networking isolation problem. It outlines three security questions: untrusted input exposure, external communication, and secret exposure. Claude Code inherits environment variables, API keys, and directory files, so sandboxing must restrict network access and secret propagation. A provided devcontainer firewall uses `iptables` to allow only specific IPs, but IP‑level allowlists are coarse; domain fronting and prompt‑injection can still exfiltrate data. The recommended mitigation is to route Claude Code traffic through HTTP proxies (e.g., mitmproxy) that can replace dummy API keys with real ones after leaving the sandbox, thereby keeping secrets out of the sandbox’s environment. Mitmproxy add‑ons can rewrite hostnames, headers, or inject credentials. Formal’s Connectors and Resources enable fine‑grained, least‑privilege policies by decoupling human and machine identities, ensuring Claude Code never directly sees admin Anthropic keys. Combined proxy and policy controls limit external communication and credential exposure while preserving necessary functionality.

The author reflects on encounters on Hacker News where an open‑source project's code and its author’s comments appear AI‑generated—evidenced by unusual em‑dash usage, formulaic phrases (“you are absolutely right”), and templated offers. This prompted suspicion that the author, despite denying AI assistance, might be a bot. Extending this observation, the piece cites the “Dead Internet Theory,” which argues that since ~2016 most online interactions and content are produced by automated agents to drive sales or manipulate SEO. The writer contrasts this with early‑2000s experiences on IRC and phpBB forums, where human discourse was commonplace and learning was peer‑driven. Additional examples include AI‑altered corporate photos on LinkedIn and fabricated multimedia on platforms such as Facebook, X, and TikTok. The overall concern is that widespread, inexpensive AI tools enable mass generation of code, comments, and media, eroding authentic human contribution and threatening the internet’s role as a collaborative knowledge hub.

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The post reviews Steve Yegge’s “Welcome to Gas Town,” a newly released AI‑agent orchestration framework described in a chaotic style and illustrated with AI‑generated images of a fictional industrial city. The announcement generated rapid reaction due to the system’s claimed scale, high cost, and extensive proprietary terminology. To make the concept accessible, Andrew Lilley Brinker provides a concise decoder that translates Yegge’s internal jargon into more conventional terms, noting that the original definitions are recursive and that the architecture includes layered supervisory agents (e.g., a Maintenance Manager Checker Agent). While acknowledging the tool’s complexity and potential redundancy, the decoder aims to clarify the core idea that agent orchestration—coordinating multiple AI agents to perform tasks—will become an important capability despite the system’s perceived wastefulness and expense.

- Human expedition on Chelicer 14d established farms to harvest a native “Farmer” species (spider‑like chelicerates) that cultivated a nutrient‑rich tuber used for superconductors. - An unknown apex predator, a large armored chelicerate (“death‑flea”), appeared, leaping up to half a kilometre and killing crew members, including Merrit, before being temporarily disabled by targeting a joint. - The team recorded the creature’s anatomy, noting a rigid exoskeleton, articulated legs, and scissor‑blade mouthparts. Repeated attacks damaged infrastructure, including the planet‑to‑orbit elevator cable, forcing evacuation. - Concern leadership authorized a large‑scale culling using hunter drones, prioritizing the Farmers and resource extraction over ecosystem preservation. - Over subsequent years, extensive exploitation and predator removal triggered a cascade of species transformations and extinctions, ultimately collapsing the planet’s biota. - The final crew, including biologists Greffin and FenJuan, left the planet as a failed commercial venture, noting the Concerns’ focus on profit and expansion despite the ecological collapse.