brianorca

brianorca , 6 months ago to linux in Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator

How long until they stop delivering apps with Intel support, which would break this tool?

brianorca , 6 months ago to technology in Thomas 🔭✨ (@[email protected]) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome

Right, but you have to be in the class to do that. If they didn’t notify you because they don’t think you were in the class, then that shouldn’t reduce you legal options. And if they do think you’re in the class and don’t notify you or send you the settlement, that’s just straight malicious.

brianorca , 6 months ago to asklemmy in If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it?

But the old USB chargers didn’t have high speed charging (2+amps) until much later. Most cell phones can’t charge effectively from the original 0.5A standard USB.

brianorca , 6 months ago to asklemmy in In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off?

There are two kinds of asset forfeiture: civil and criminal. Criminal would be what you describe, if you are convicted they can seize any property involved in the crime. Civil asset forfeiture is something else, and it often abused to take things where the crime is only suspected. (It was originally supposed to be used to take property involved in a crime, such as an empty pirate ship, where the owner is not known.)

brianorca , 6 months ago to asklemmy in In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off?

The mortgage is a type of lien. But there are other kinds of liens, such as when a contractor works on your house, and you didn’t pay them, they can place a lien on the property until you pay. In the worst case, a contractor could forclose and force the sale to cover the debt.

brianorca , 6 months ago to asklemmy in In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off?

The property tax is based on the assessed value of the property. (Which can change over time, even if you bought it years ago.) And the tax ranges from 0.28% in Hawaii up to 2.49% in New Jersey. Most states are around 1%. There may also be local taxes from a county or city, which is typically a small fraction of the above.

brianorca , 6 months ago to technology in Why don’t EVs have standard diagnostic ports—and when will that change? | OBD-II was implemented to monitor emissions, but EVs don't have tailpipes.

Established manufacturers could technically ditch the port on EV models, but they don’t because they have other models which are still ICE, so they need it there. Many of the modules are shared between models, so they use the same bus when it’s ICE, hybrid, or EV.

brianorca , 6 months ago to technology in Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same

Having these gears in the hub instead of a motor would decrease unsprung weight.

brianorca , 6 months ago to technology in Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same

When transmissions are discussed, the acronym CV stands for continuously variable. (As opposed to a transmission with 3-5 discrete gear ratios.) But yes, some CVT designs do use planetary gears, especially for hybrid gas-electric models.

CVJ = constant velocity joint

CVT = continuously variable transmission

brianorca , 6 months ago to technology in Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same

But eliminating the long half shaft that accompanies the CV joint is what allows that space to be used.

brianorca , 7 months ago to technology in Meta’s “overpriced” ad-free subscriptions make privacy a “luxury good”: EU suit

It’s also a question of attention percentage. We’ve had ads on TV for a while, but since the 80’s we also had the ability to fast forward if we used a VCR. There are ads in magazines, but you can turn the page in a fraction of a second. But now with unskippable ads or full page popovers, it’s worse than it used to be in other media.

brianorca , 7 months ago to technology in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

That’s due to trademark, not copyright.

brianorca , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

That is an optional feature, not required to make use of an LLM. And not even a feature of most LLMs. ChatGPT was usable before they added that, but it can help when you need recent data. And they do continue to train It, with the current cutoff being April of this year, at least for some models. (But training is expensive, so we can expect it to be in conjunction with other design changes that require additional training.)

brianorca , 7 months ago to technology in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

Diffusion AI (most image AI) works differently than an LLM. They actually start with noise, and adjust it iteratively to satisfy the prompt. So they don’t tend to reproduce entire images unless they are overtrained (i.e. the same image was trained a thousand times instead of once) or the prompt is overly specific. (i.e you ask for “The Mona Lisa by Leonardo”)

But words don’t work well with diffusion, since dog and God are very different meanings despite using the same letters. So an LLM spits out a specific sequence of word tokens.

brianorca , 7 months ago to world in US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker

The US would have responded the same for a large number of different counties’ ship if they were hijacked in a similar way.