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voluntaryexilecat

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stay a while and dwell in the fediverse or are you afraid you might enjoy it?

  • Open hardware single board computer server recommendations?

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  • APU board? They are going EOL soon, but these devices are built like a tank. Full Linux x86_64 support, coreboot bios. https://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm A few sellers in the EU still have them.

  • How the fuck can I kill 20 hours?

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  • In case you get stuck again and need more games:

    • DevilutionX (free, open source, needs gamedata) lets you play Diablo1 on Android, very good time killer (you might need to fetch the gamedata somewhere)
    • Out There: Omega (paid but one time purchase) is a relaxed starship roguelite
    • Battle For Wesnoth (free, open source) fantasy style tactical game
    • Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella (free, open source, needs gamedata) - Jagged Alliance 2 on Android, tactical RPG, great timekiller like classic UFO or the old Fallout games.

    Notable mentions: WorldOfGoo, Human Resource Machine

  • How do you containerize stuff you install from source in a way that you can completely remove later?

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  • I use a mixture of systemd-nspawn and different user logins. This is sufficient for experimentation, for actual use I try to package (makepkg) those tools to have them organized by my package manager.

    Also LVM thinpools with snapshots are a great tool. You can mount a dedicated LV to each single user home to keep everything separated.

  • Orcas Continue To Target Sea Vessels With No Signs Of Stopping Leaving Experts Baffled

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  • Reminds me of the beginning from the novel "The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing...

  • I feel called out

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  • After many years of using multiple devices and even servers with Archlinux installed it never broke because of an update (spoiler: I use systemd-boot instead of grub). If a system is to be used by a less experienced user, just install linux-lts Kernel instead.

    Unstable does not mean it crashes/breaks often, it just means it does not guarantee to not bump to the newest upstream version and that it does not do backports. This can be a problem when using unmaintaned software that does not like using a recent python/php.

    This is also great because if you find a bug in a software you can report it to upstream directly. Debian maintainers only backport severe bugs, not every one of them. It can take over a year for new features to arrive - especially painful with applications like gimp, krita, blender, etc. You can use debian-unstable of course, which is close to upstream as well.

  • PING 127.0.0.1 I know it is around here somewhere...

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  • where?

  • Does onyone have experience with ComfyUI?

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  • I first tried it a few days ago, I'm still a bit lost. Inpainting, which is the major part of my workflow, feels not as swift as in automatic1111 and I'm still searching for the only-masked-area inpainting in ComfyUI.

    But I can confirm it is much faster and uses less VRAM. And I somehow love the ability to save the entire workflow into a json. I'm missing my prompt-autocomplete plugin the most.

  • Is NextCloud worth it for a company?

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  • Do not expect you can offer this service for a competive price against cloud prices. Caring for a company IT system is a big challenge and requires more work the more users there are.

    For a company this size: make a clear contract. Consider how much time you need for setup/installation, monthly hours for maintenance, monitoring and at least daily(!) backups. Let them choose if they want it with a failover and charge for the required hours and material. Also put in the contract when they can expect support from you, including a clause for a holiday substitute admin (if needed). Then put a pricetag on support hours for holding people's hands when they "can't find that file they uploaded a week ago and it is surely a server issue" and put a pricetag on engineering hours for any modifications they might want, like installing any plugins they deem useful for themselves. Hardware prices, traffic, rack space and power should be included as well. Have a good plan for updates, choose your distro wisely, do not rely on autoupdates.

    Play all this through in your head, add up the hours, choose a fair rate and then you have your pricetag.

    Cloud will always be cheaper, because they have their infrastructure already deployed. Building from the ground up is more expensive, but I think it is worth it. Will they?

  • GitHub - vitoplantamura/OnnxStream: Running Stable Diffusion on a RPI Zero 2 (or in 260MB of RAM)

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  • Yes, I tested it and although it works in its current state it takes 2-3 hours per picture on Pi and 20 minutes per picture on my Desktop CPU.

  • Stable Diffusion @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    voluntaryexilecat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    GitHub - vitoplantamura/OnnxStream: Running Stable Diffusion on a RPI Zero 2 (or in 260MB of RAM)

    github.com /vitoplantamura/OnnxStream

  • AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models

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  • But...isn't unsupervised backfeeding the same as simply overtraining the same dataset? We already know overtraining causes broken models.

    Besides, the next AI models will be fed with the interactions from humans with AI, not just it's own content. ChatGPT already works like this, it learns with every interaction, every chat.

    And the generative image models will be fed with AI-assisted images where humans will have fixed flaws like anatomy (the famous hands) or other glitches.

    So as interesting as this is, as long as humans interact with AI the hybrid output used for training will contain enough new "input" to keep the models on track. There are already refined image generators trained with their own but human-assisted output that are better than their predecessor.

  • Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account

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  • GoogleTalk once federated with XMPP/jabber, good times until their userbase was big enough to deferedate again, crippling the jabber network. It will happen again if we let it.

    Metas plan is to draw users into their network and use the fediverse as an initial catalyst ("look! so much content already there!"). Once their userbase is large enough, they will deferate again claiming protocol difficulties or something equally vague, but they will just want to start rolling out advertising which would not be displayed to users from other instances. Most users will not keep two accounts and jusy stay with the big corp and leave the original fediverse again.

  • The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes

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  • Well, NASA trusts Linux enough to send it to Mars. They build rockets, so it should be good enough for flying busses. Unless you don't trust your software engineers, but then having them build a custom microkernel OS instead sounds not much better.

  • What's your workflow to generate images that come out close to what you've imagined?

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  • For composition I use Semantic Segmentation ControlNet - Sketch loosely, then inpaint or more ControlNet. Of course I use GIMP or any other tool to finetune the image or to "force the model's hand" a little during inpainting.

  • Hardware for reading comics

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  • I still like reading manga on the kindle paperwhite, the eink display is much more easy on the eyes and the weight and battery life are far better than any full blown tablet. Calibre can easily transfer/encode the comics to it, so no proprietary software needed.

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    Request: Old episodes of seasame street?

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  • i never knew! fantastic!

  • [Question] How to "clean up" images?

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  • You mean the step after the ludicrous amount of inpainting one has to do sometimes?

    Apart from the mentioned adddetail lora (works in negative prompt as well), maybe rerunning the image through ultimate sd upscaler with the controlnet extension? (go easy on the denoise level here, or your image becomes a surrealist's dream)

  • package to move and manage folders?

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  • Probably a controversial topic, but A.I and how I feel corporate would abuse it

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  • Pandora's box has been opened. AI will not go away and any attempt to enforce regulation to it will only harm the public and open source development while big corporations will just train their models off-shore in secrecy.

    Society has to adapt to this new technology that is altering our every lives. We did this before, we will do it again. The only thing we must watch out for is for AI to become only available to big corporations; no company (and preferably no government) must be allowed to have sole reign over such a powerful technology. If everybody has access, then everybody will know what to watch out for when they see it.

    Do not fear technology, fear those who do not want to share it.

  • Kindle Paperback setting up tips?

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  • Set it to airplane mode the day it arrives and never let it go online with the stock firmware if you value privacy - these beasts even send amazon the page you are reading currently on. Calibre is the best tool, it autoconverts anything if needed. It also has an RSS-to-newspaper feature that can create a custom newspaperlike magazine from your favorite feeds for you. Reading manga on Kindle is really fun.

  • Stable Diffusion @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    voluntaryexilecat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    DragGAN source code release: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images - derp.foo

    derp.foo /post/18722
  • Stable Diffusion @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    voluntaryexilecat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    SDXL 0.9 release for research, public 1.0 mid-July

    stability.ai /blog/sdxl-09-stable-diffusion
  • Stable Diffusion @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    voluntaryexilecat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    EU parliament agrees to strongly regulate AI; could impact Stable Diffusion and other image generators

    www.europarl.europa.eu /news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96212/meps-ready-to-negotiate-first-ever-rules-for-safe-and-transparent-ai