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smith7018··on Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
Agreed but this isn't the same as an open source library; it costs A LOT of money to constantly train these models. That money has to come from somewhere, unfortunately.
smith7018··on Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
Then don't use ChatGPT. There are hundreds of other models and ways for you to use an LLM without OpenAI's injected prompt.

> I find the idea of corporations and SV tech bros trying to define my values repulsive.

They're not. They're reflecting _their_ values in their product. You're not entitled to use their product with _your_ values.

smith7018··on Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
Does this system provide the same level of content recommendations as the Youtube homepage? If so then I'll set it up tonight!
smith7018··on Chrome experimental AI features
No but it was (mostly) filled with real people. Sure there was a GPT3-generated article or two but they were pretty easy to spot.
smith7018··on Chrome experimental AI features
I'm on the other end of the spectrum; I'm pretty worried that that feature will make it really easy to automate bot comments in-browser. It's sad that the internet as we knew it 3 years ago is gone forever and changes like this to push some team's OKRs means I won't be able to trust more online comments.
smith7018··on WiFi 7 is officially here, but routers are pricey. Do you need it yet
I just bought a house that doesn't have wired connections. How hard would it be to update the house to have ethernet? Seems daunting.
smith7018··on Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
You can play backup games on a hacked PS5 now. If your PS5 is running an firmware released before March 23, 2022 then you can play backed up games. That means it took roughly 3 years from release to fully hack the PS5. It took a little over a year to be able to run hacked games on the Switch but that was a special circumstance due to the NVIDIA bootrom vulnerability.
smith7018··on Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
As a long term emulator aficionado, I'm really proud of Ryujinx. Initially, Yuzu was much further ahead but Ryujinx really stuck with it and I'd say they're both solid now. I switched to Ryujinx full time last year on my Steam Deck and love it!

Thanks Ryujinx team!

smith7018··on How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
But you haven’t been running it natively which is what we’re talking about
smith7018··on How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
You might have noticed that you can't exactly purchase an ARM build of Windows, right? That's because Microsoft has an exclusivity deal with Qualcomm for Windows on ARM. Until that's over, there's no way for Apple to legally run Windows on their hardware nor make drivers for the platform. The ball has long been in Microsoft's court.
smith7018··on OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design
I would love to buy into OpenWRT but I need a mesh router due to the size of my house. Do you know of the recommended hardware? I couldn't find anything the last time I searched a year or two ago
smith7018··on Fixing Macs door to door
I also did this in the 2000s and while it was fun to peer into their lives, the amount of porn I was forced to see on elderly people's machines was... not great. Especially during those rare occurrences where they wanted to watch what I was doing to "learn how to use the computer." Just awkward all around.
smith7018··on Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames
Fun little project! I worked on a 7 color eInk Arduino-based picture frame two years ago for a gift. My biggest issue was that I had to manually crop, dither, and color index the images to get them to look _okay_ on the display. If FrameOS could handle all of that for me then it would have saved hours of manual editing and testing.

I ended up getting that same person an Aura frame this year because remotely adding photos ended up miserable

smith7018··on Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
Surprised that macOS is gaining more than Linux. For some reason, I imagine there are more Steam Deck sales (Linux) than there are macOS users deciding to download Steam but maybe it's a numbers game.
smith7018··on LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets
One wouldn't think that Twitter and LinkedIn's ad markets are 1:1 but I guess advertisers have to put their budget somewhere for the time being. It would be interesting to see how ad campaigns that targeted Twitter's more general user base fare on the more professionally-minded LinkedIn. I'm far more likely to be interested in an AppleTV ad on Twitter than if I saw it on LinkedIn but that might just be me.
smith7018··on Emoji by Year
I'm always impressed with how the Unicode Consortium decided to expand Emojis. It's cool to see that "head shaking horizontally" is just the smiling face + the left and right arrow unicodes or the new lime emoji is just the lemon and green square unicodes. Really smart and backwards compatible in a way.
smith7018··on NY times is asking that all LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed
"A few hundred million dollars" is not chump change to any organization; especially one that is in its growth phase. They raised $300M [1] in their last round so that would wipe out the all of the investment money they brought in.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-c...

smith7018··on Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
The US average salary is also lower than a California or New York resident but that doesn't mean the metric is bad. It simply means that ~50% of remote workers in America can move to Korea. Unfortunately, that also means ~50% of people can't. The same goes for Europe.
smith7018··on Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
From a quick Google search, the average monthly remote salary in Europe is reportedly $5.3k - $6.9k[1]. That translates to $63.6k - $82.8k. I can't verify these numbers, of course.

[1] https://dynamitejobs.com/continent/remote-jobs-in-europe

smith7018··on Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
That's actually surprisingly low. For reference, the median US remote employee makes $63,323[1] per year which means roughly 50% of US remote employees are eligible for a Korean work visa.

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Remote-Salary#Yearly

smith7018··on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
Agreed that they should be held accountable for creating a platform that elevates these scam supplements to the same level as Apple, GE, Google, GNC, etc. I know some people might argue that Amazon shouldn't be responsible for the products that are listed on its site but I think we can just as easily say Amazon shouldn't be able to offer supplements/vitamins if they can't stand by their safety.

All of this is even more troubling when you consider their purchase of One Medical. So my Amazon doctor tells me to ingest more zinc but buying zinc from Amazon might not actually have zinc in it?

smith7018··on Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
I've used it on my Roborock S5 for at least 4 years now and love it. It used to be a little unstable (something like it uninstalling itself if the battery dies for too long) but hasn't had any issues in years. I, like you, will never buy an unsupported vacuum again :)
smith7018··on Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
Do you know how this is possible? Would decapping the SoC or taking an xray of it provide a physical map of the registers?
smith7018··on Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
I’m sure that’s valid but I’ve worked for mobile app companies and can guarantee features like this are added just to get the entitlement.
smith7018··on Google podcasts is shutting down
It's extremely expensive to store and distribute every video online. Plus, I use it like 10x a day. I dunno, that makes it worth it for me over Netflix which I use maybe once a week.
smith7018··on Fedora Asahi Remix
Congrats Asahi team! I can't wait until Vulkan support is ready; it'll be cool to see what Apple's hardware can achieve when it's no longer restricted by Metal and macOS.
smith7018··on Prompt engineering
She couldn't tell you "we say 'cheeseburger' instead of 'hamburguesa con queso?'" This is a good anecdote on why LLMs are great for translation but a strange example lol
smith7018··on Concept sliders: LoRA adaptors for precise control in diffusion models
You genuinely can’t believe that, right? An “innovative AI image” is created all the time whereas it’s much harder to paint an “innovative painting” due to the skill required and the well-tread medium. That’s not even getting into the fact that you can set up and really learn ComfyUI in a week whereas painting is a life-long pursuit.
smith7018··on MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
That's because the company is more or less in stealth/investigatory mode. It's the same team that built Workflow which was acquired by Apple and then turned into Shortcuts.
smith7018··on GPT-4-turbo produces shorter completions when it "thinks" its December vs. May
Length doesn't mean quality; the data could also be more concise.
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