Josh

Singer of @chesterdoom

[Josh @joshrbest]

AWS outage yesterday, chatgpt today. Gonna be a wild time

[Josh @joshrbest]

@MorganWillianns @PolymarketMoney Least they could do for stealing property 🤷‍♂️

50% of $0 is still $0 though

[Josh @joshrbest]

@aight_cun @om_patel5 Are you actually this angry in real life?

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED

it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas

to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text

its called asciline, and here's the trick:

> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet

since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm

however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

[Josh @joshrbest]

@burkov @LeeMcClymont Do you think 3 years is long?

[Josh @joshrbest]

@phidelictruth @HarshithLucky3 SEVERELY

This has been eye opening to me and everyone should be paying very close attention to the models.

They have lost all of my trust

[Josh @joshrbest]

And just like Netflix, I will be cancelling EVERY subscription I have with @Google

It's been fun.

Welcome to the techno hellscape everyone

[Josh @joshrbest]

Gemini is an absolute travesty.
FlashLite won't even stay on topic if using it in a notebook

Working on a bug, gave it the output, starts talking about another random conversation in the notebook that has nothing to do with the code.

I'm floored by how fast it regressed

[Josh @joshrbest]

Stole our data to train models and charge through the nose to consolidate and run a glorified Google search on it 😂

We're in trouble.

[Josh @joshrbest]

Nvm, just missing it...
You have scroll the top icons horizontally

[Josh @joshrbest]

Just realized I can no longer upload audio files to @GeminiApp... Is this real or am I missing where it's located now?

[Josh @joshrbest]

@evowizz @Android @GeminiApp From what I saw on the Google io, most of them use iPhone

[Josh @joshrbest]

@killedbygoogle "when user makes request through Google search input, treat as Google search"

ftfy

[Josh @joshrbest]

@mayorxbt @sharbel What's funny is it thinks you're talking to it rather than acting as an actual search engine 😂

The regression of Google search will be studied for millennia

[Josh @joshrbest]

@Lloyd56ebone @mil000 Not "made their money" because they're hemorrhaging, more like "they're cemented their place"

[Josh @joshrbest]

@Lloyd56ebone @mil000 💯 expect the same treatment from the others as well. They've made their money

[Josh @joshrbest]

The absolute nerve to charge more for this... We should all be ashamed of ourselves for even humoring the idea that these companies deserve trillion dollar valuations

[Milo Smith @mil000]

Gemini 3.5 Flash needs to be recalled and reworked or else Google will lose so much brand trust

[Josh @joshrbest]

Sometimes I think "ya know, these corporations have so much data on us. They probably know what I'm going to eat before I buy it...🤔"

Then Google I/O drops and I realize they don't pay attention to the consumer's at all 😂

[Josh @joshrbest]

@HenedyVP @foley_seo There is no corporation beholden to shareholders that cares about its customers. It cares about squeezing the most amount of money for the least amount of service.

[Daniel Foley Carter @foley_seo]

Mass content theft at scale.

Google wins, YOU lose.

Google dated SEOs for 20+ years, then they went for a divorce and now are taking clicks with them.

Gemini was trained off of billions of documents across the web with no repurcussions for Google but massive repurcussions for the people who relied on clicks to their website to generate an income.

This isn't exciting or fun, it's downright offensive.

If Gettyimages can come after you for a single unlicensed image, what would happen to Google for the 100bn+ documents it has used to train gemini on?