wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
I think you mean John Oliver.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
What country is that?
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
Adorable.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
I think he's talking about that specific account in the group, I think. I've also noticed several other posts with that profile picture of the black guy with a hat and sunglasses sitting in his car.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
This is important. I dunno about scale, but backups. I started out hosting a chat room on a raspberry pi. It was a fun side project. But then, that became where my friends all hung out. That was the place, so it became important to me. And then the SD card got corrupted. I then moved on to a consumer laptop. It was way more stable, much faster. But if I messed up anything about the installation, I was hosed.
I very highly suggest using Proxmox, like you say, and setting up automatic backups. And occasionally transfer them to a hard drive. It doesn't matter what kind of virtual CPUs or services you install, gedaliyah@lemmy.world, as long as you have a plan for when something you host becomes important to you and you lose it.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
Oh fuck, I want that. Gimme gimme.
MercuryAlloy automates the build process for the Mercury browser. I really like the Mercury browser, but I worried about the browser getting out of date, since releases of the browser seem to be build and released manually. So I threw together a set of scripts and overrides that will allow the build process to run without user interaction and on a schedule. You can modify the subscripts to move your compiled executable anywhere you want (like a web server), as well as send a custom alert upon successful build (like sending the link out via email). This is a more technical project, but it has been a fun learning experience.
MercuryAlloy automates the build process for the Mercury browser. I really like the Mercury browser, but I worried about the browser getting out of date, since releases of the browser seem to be build and released manually. So I threw together a set of scripts and overrides that will allow the build process to run without user interaction and on a schedule. You can modify the subscripts to move your compiled executable anywhere you want (like a web server), as well as send a custom alert upon successful build (like sending the link out via email). This is a more technical project, but it has been a fun learning experience.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
The Chlorophyll Queen, hero pose, perfect skin, dramatic lighting, colorful rainbow spectrum cinematography, grand epic, fantastical vista, (Movie Still) (Film Still) (Cinematic) (Cinematic Shot) (Cinematic Lighting) <lora:JuggerCineXL2:1> <lora:xl_more_art-full_v1:1>
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
What makes you think that?
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
Fair. The rest of the site is a lot more normal. More being a relative term, of course.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
Unfortunately the US is just... very right wing. Even the democrats are right of center on most things. This is just a conservative country. The democrats are about as left as you get in this country with any mainstream support, no matter how much we wish it weren't so.
And I know man, I hate it, and I'm not going to lecture anyone that votes their conscious. If you don't want to vote for democrats, and Biden specifically, I can't blame you. It bewilders me that the most we can get from him over a goddamn genocide is "that's a little much, Jack." If you can't vote for that I get it.
Just don't fall into the trap of thinking that the US is more left leaning than it is. We might win on issue-to-issue polls, but when it comes down to it we're a selfish nation that has bought into the temporarily embarrassed millionaire meme. And I don't think that's just the pessimism talking. We have generations worth of work ahead of us.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
wagesj45 7 months ago • 88%
And hundreds of thousands of years of evolution pre-training the base model that their experience was layered on top of.
wagesj45 7 months ago • 100%
Feeling very Clardic Fug today.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 66%
Any reasons why you can't recommend it?
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Interesting, because I saw a 20 point increase between vanilla Firefox and Mercury when testing last night.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
That's not a bad idea. Surely it could be automated within the image. If my ADHD allows me I might take a look at it later. :D
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Makeup Artist
Prompt: anthropomorphized bee working as a (makeup artist:1.2), illustrStyle <lora:illustrStyle:1>
Negative Prompt: ac_neg1 ac_neg2 negativeXL_D unaestheticXL_Sky3.1
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Looking at the installation instructions, it requires you to run database migrations manually with every image docker image update. Does this mean that running watchtower is going to bork this thing?
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
I'm not entirely sure how this would help with that, though. Is the model watermarked with your info or something? If you post the result anonymously, I don't know how you'd track it back to someone that submitted their info here.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 80%
Proxmox on physical servers hosting a variety of vanilla Debian installations. I have a physical router running pfsense as well as two HP miniservers running OpenMediaVault.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
I remember seeing things like this back in my CECS courses.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
And another...
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
I really like this prompt!
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Sorry about the "UPDATE" part if that was unclear, I just used the exact heading on the website due to the "no editing/editorializing" rule.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
The video this guy posted with the severed head has him going on a screen against the federal government and illegal immigrants.
Middletown Township Chief of Police Joseph Bartorilla confirmed the suspect in the death was arrested just after 9 p.m. Tuesday.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
That's never stopped us before.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Do you actually figure that the remainder of the military which doesn’t turn traitor is gonna be outnumbered by the seceding traitors in this civil war scenario?
Not at all.
Did you also account for the metric fuckton of able bodied people who would enlist during an open war to stomp out Fascism at home in the open like that?
I'm sure there would a lot more than fascists willing to actually fight.
It would absolutely lead to much blood shed on both sides.
That was my actual point. Not that New Texas has any chance of actually winning.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 50%
You're probably right, and I used overly broad language. I'm sure there would be targeted strikes. But any strike against infrastructure would be what I would consider a Big Deal™. Everything is so interconnected now that taking out the power grid, for example, would wreak havoc on all the innocent civilians in the area. Just look at how shit hit the fan when Texas lost power in the winter.
I just think it would be a much more complicated situation than either argument of "we have all the guns, libruls" or "we have Predator drones, conservatard". I'm used to conservatives making stupid arguments. It bothers me more when I see my side do it.
But hey, maybe I'm the idiot and it would all work out with targeted strikes. That's why I'm just some guy on the internet and not a general in the Army or whatever.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Anything is possible I guess, even if I personally wouldn't bet money on it. Then again I'm just a guy and no one in power is gonna ask my opinion. They very well may surprise me and bomb Jethrow's compound or downtown Houston.
My original flippant response was triggered from the ease with which people think the US military is some unstoppable force and the Republicans that do this nonsense would easily be put down. I think it is a lot more complicated than that and no course of action would be easy and painless. That's wishful thinking on behalf of us lefties.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
For all his faults, Donald uniquely has the charisma to pull this act off. His children are all rizzless goofs. My personal feeling is that anyone trying to do "The Trump" will fail miserably. What we're more likely to see is someone else come along with a different style but that's also charismatic.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 40%
C# is good. I use Visual Studio on Windows, so I'm not familiar with the tooling in VS Code in Linux, but I've heard good things. .NET is a nice environment to work in, the runtime works on all the OSs, and you can even package it into a self-contained binary with a little finagling.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
And things have changed quite a bit since the civil war. We have a very interconnected country and world. Airplanes exist now. Nuclear submarines and cruise missiles. The destructive power of our weapons has increased ten fold. And we have instant access to 24/7 new media. I don't think we have the appetite for such a thing in this day and age. Not to mention how any number of hostile nations would be foaming at the mouth looking forward to us having our guard down.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 50%
I'm saying that if you rely on having F-16 fighter jets and drones dropping bombs, you're arguing for wholesale destruction. If you don't rely on fighter jets and bombing raids, that means you're fighting a ground war against insurgents that are more or less equally armed, assuming they have weapons like AR-15s.
My point is that cruise missiles don't solve every problem; namely armed local insurgencies. What kind of third use-of-force scenario are you imagining?
wagesj45 8 months ago • 6%
So then the citizenry and army would be fighting on equal footing then and the "we have all the guns here in Texas" argument goes back to making sense. Either the US uses their overwhelming military power or not, you can't choose both.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 25%
Which is exactly why the US isn't going to carpet bomb their own territory. One, ruling over a rubble-laden wasteland isn't very appealing. Destroying your own infrastructure isn't good for GDP. Two, soldiers are going to have a lot harder time bombing their own homeland, regardless of how well trained they are.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
Finally a critique of AI that I can get behind. I've never bought into the idea that the tech itself is bad. And I've also never bought into the idea that training these models was somehow theft. But they are trained on the human compendium, so we should all have rights and a stake in their use more broadly in society and industry.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
The problems I've had with my RPis have all revolved around the fragility of their SD storage. I got burned one too many times trying to host something important in my house with these things, just for them to get corrupted and lose everything. Backing up these systems was its own nightmare, which failed as much as it succeeded.
wagesj45 8 months ago • 100%
What's wrong with that?
I tried to get SD-XL to generate an image of a frog with its eyes closed. It refused. I even cranked up the attention on closed to an absurd level, and it seemed to get sassy with me.
Should blocking a user still allow them to vote on your posts? I'd rather have nothing to do with particular users, and it seems that they continue to show up in the activity for every single post I make around kbin.
Stable Diffusion XL Prompt: `Ham Solo from Star Wars`!
When editing photos, one of the first things you'll want to do is "fix" the skin of your subjects. I've fumbled around with this for years. I use almost exclusively open source tools like [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/) for my work, which while extremely powerful, often lack most of those automatic tools and niceties present in paid products like Photoshop. So I'll share my method, which I adopted from this [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXczatmj19o).
Depending on how much you self host, you may find it hard to keep track of your devices' host names. So what are your naming conventions to keep track everything? Some people stick to descriptive names, others pick themes, like Greek mythology. Personally, I use [Japanese emperors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_Japan). I've made it all the way to Seinei. Luckily I still have some breathing room to add more services and servers. Much to my wife's chagrin. :)
Full Post Text --- **In the spirit of full disclosure**, the content of this post is heavily cribbed from [this post on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zyi24j/how_to_turn_any_model_into_an_inpainting_model/). However, [as we've seen](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/some-redditors-say-theyre-walking-away-after-apollo-app-shuts-down/ar-AA1dillN), the Internet is not forever. It is entirely possible that a wealth of knowledge could be lost at any time due to any number of reasons. Because I have found this particular post so helpful and find myself coming back to it over and over, I thought it would be appropriate to share this method of creating an inpainting model from any custom stable diffusion model. Inpainting models, like the name suggests, are specialized models that excel at "filling in" or replacing sections of an image. They're especially good at decoding what a section of an image should look like based on the section of image that already exists. This is useful when you're generating images and only a small section needs to be corrected, or if you're trying to add something specific to an image that exists. So how is this done? With a model merge. [Automatic1111](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui) has an excellent model merging tool that we'll use. Let's assume that you have a custom model called `my-awesome-model.ckpt` that is based on `stable-diffusion-1.5`. In the A1111 Checkpoint Merger interface, follow these steps: 1. Set "Primary model (A)" to `stable-diffusion-1.5-inpainting.ckpt`. 2. Set "Secondary model (B)" to `my-awesome-model.ckpt`. 3. Set "Tertiary model (C)" to `stable-diffusion-1.5.ckpt`. 4. Set "Multiplier (M)" to `1`. 5. Set "Interpolation Method" to `Add difference`. 6. Give your model a name in the "Custom Name" field, such as `my-awesome-model-inpainting.ckpt`. * Adding "-inpainting" will signal to A1111 that the model is an inpainting model. This is useful for extensions such as [openOutpaint](https://github.com/zero01101/openOutpaint). Also, it's just a good idea to properly label your models. Because we know you're a degenerate that has hundreds of custom waifu models downloaded from [CivitAI](https://civitai.com/). 7. Click `Merge`. And bazinga! You have your own custom inpainting stable diffusion model. Thanks again to [/u/MindInTheDigits](https://www.reddit.com/user/MindInTheDigits) for sharing the process.
This is a Mastodon thread I created featuring devices and computers that never were, but could have been. I think my favorite might be the [HD Laserdisc player called the MOID](https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/@wagesj45/110686626102818960). [https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/system/media\_attachments/files/110/686/620/475/187/344/original/95ff43d76ba41dd6.jpg](https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/system/media_attachments/files/110/686/620/475/187/344/original/95ff43d76ba41dd6.jpg)
I just bought a "new" [homelab server](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095TRGCSX?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) and am considering adding in some used/refurbished [NVIDIA Tesla K80s](https://www.ebay.com/itm/145033307727?epid=218398338&hash=item21c4a8a64f:g:nd4AAOSwNcJko5BX&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4GZbCSkquonxteg1ULCf36L5CtQ%2FCez8IMGR3VjSeDzIZ%2FGb3Ch75%2BmznQH9Nniggowbz5OX940rRmuSeX0BD8Q98MTwwvOYLUy0gHVcUGYyVCMXsL2CXBLE2%2Fm5SLudYEZHnm8TOp1KKPbpNrqIsPAFXaGp4NYULVOzswjIwP9RvWXSWvJvQlvIZSdRSPKdMv33%2BrzD%2F52rsSPHt2UVBWxCMvYf474zxY5EDvOLWfVBIsJSE%2Bz8OXihrRI1Hz8fr0DHcUMv9l9wIPzUILCpFTJg31GmZ9GPd7K7JNc0Nugb%7Ctkp%3ABFBMmuG8pqZi). They have 24 GB of VRAM and tons of compute power for very cheap if you get them used. The issue is that these cards run *super* hot and require extra cooling set ups. I was able to find [this fan adapter kit](https://www.ebay.com/itm/285334670361?hash=item426f458c19:g:K7AAAOSw9~FkjLkg&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwHWTFiwnzr9VR6kmp1lPWhG1ScDcODw8OFU20ZkA8vW41DgQCaMKz3bZaEQWDu2SzPGCFCl3hfnm7H4%2FqQIePvZXr9%2Fyh8L9vdrdb5rMAdXLsacC9qREJcenWHxlm4oS%2Fv1gkgU9urywv0ISS5pddfagukTRWudWV841w%2F3IPxiF%2Bp7u9KJ2iqyPCg28oyLA7okwEbDpFoz0kddi55wxp8le7SQQXNA9MODKCGhlGiXBxtWR4lrImgUJMvPJ6W3LsA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6b80aamYg) on eBay. But I still worry that if I pop one or two of these bad boys in my server that the fan won't be enough to overcome the raw heat put off by the K80. Have any of you run this kind of card in a home lab setting? What kind of temps do you get when running models? Would a fan like this actually be enough to cool the thing? I appreciate any insight you guys might have!
OverClocked ReMix is a video game music community with tons of fan-made ReMixes and information on video game music. --- I figured since we're currently in a reawakening to decentralized and special purpose forums and websites, now might be a good time to remind people of OCRemix. Or help someone discover it for the first time.
> > > Amazon shut off a man’s smart home devices for a week after a delivery driver falsely accused the customer of hurling a racist slur via a doorbell intercom, the tech giant confirmed Thursday. > > --- Seems like a good reason to get a doorbell that you can control yourself.