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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

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Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Today one more talk for #FOSDEM was accepted: What translating Thunderbird taught me.
It's in the #translation room at Sunday.

FOSDEM 2026 - What translating Thunderbird taught me

Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser

Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
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Does anyone have experience boarding in Brussels with a #Eurostar (#Thalys) ticket to Paris with an earlier departure point (NL)? The monopoly prohibits it and naturally charges a premium for rebooking... Should I take the risk or not? (I have to travel further after Paris, so I'd rather not ris…

Hey gang - I am looking for the episode of Ruby (the Galactic Gumshoe) in which she is in a hotel room where every appliance (including the water faucets) are voice actuated and talk back. (And, of course, everything goes wrong in a great cacophony of appliances shouting out alarms, like "toast is burning!")
???
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Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M (Adriana Lee/Skift)
https://skift.com/2025/12/09/duve-60-million-series-b-hotels-guest-management/

Duve Raises $60 Million to Expand AI Guest Management Platform for Hotels
Duve raised a $60 million Series B to expand its AI-powered guest management platform for hotels worldwide, the company announced Tuesday, bringing total

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

@… The most obvious candidates would be BZip2 (Method 12) or XZ (Method 95). BZip2 is pretty widespread, well supported by a range of tools and was first introduced into the Zip APPNOTE.TXT (the official Specification) in 2001. Despite being around for almost 25 years in the spec, MS be like 🤷. Indeed for a long time Apple did not even support Deflate…