tal

joined 1 year ago
[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I can't imagine that it'd be possible to do that and conform to building code without some kind of special exemption.

Honestly, I'd think that if there's demand for a leaning pub like that -- and I think there is...I mean, I've heard about that thing repeatedly, seen video in it, and I live in the US -- it'd be easier to just build one whose owners want to run one, let them gave whatever building code exemptions are required. IIRC, that pub is kind of out of the way, not really where one would expect to put a new pub, given the choice.

[–] tal@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

AGI is not a new term. It’s been in use since the 90s and the concept has been around for much longer.

It's not new today, but it post-dates "AI" and hit the same problem then.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

VS Code is going to require a newer version of glibc than Ubuntu 18.04 comes with. One does not simply upgrade glibc.

One might have an application-private newer build of glibc and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory containing it prior to launching VS Code.

 

Apologies for the noise, but I am trying to track down why new posts on this community are not propagating and visible to an account on lemmy.today. I will delete this post momentsrily after having checked whether it is visible.

 

Apologies for the noise, but I'm trying to track down why new posts from this community are not visible to an account on lemmy.today. I will delete this post after checking whether it propagates correctly.

[–] tal@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If she's the only alternative in the primary race and he has a heart attack or something, I would assume that she winds up becoming the Republican nominee.

20
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tal@kbin.social to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
 

A reference to the custom of kissing under the mistletoe.

Two stage; creation then upscaling.

dog, beneath a sprig of mistletoe

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 12, Size: 1280x768, Model hash: ebf42d1fae, Model: realmixXL_v15, Version: v1.7.0-133-gde03882d

dog, beneath a sprig of mistletoe

Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1974861696, Size: 2560x1536, Model hash: ebf42d1fae, Model: realmixXL_v15, Denoising strength: 0.16, Ultimate SD upscale upscaler: ESRGAN_4x, Ultimate SD upscale tile_width: 512, Ultimate SD upscale tile_height: 512, Ultimate SD upscale mask_blur: 8, Ultimate SD upscale padding: 32, Version: v1.7.0-133-gde03882d

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the Lemmy Web UI, beneath a post or comment from a user, click the three dots and choose "Block User".

In the Jerboa Android client, tap the three dots beneath a post or comment by the user and choose "Block".

If you're using a different client, it'll depend on that client.

I'd point out, though, that @Track_Shovel doesn't just do gross-out AI art. He also submits stuff that you may (or may not) like more, like this series of Warhammer 40k images in various media:

https://lemmy.today/post/3476458

So even if you really don't like gross-out art -- I myself am not a fan of the genre -- you might just want to downvote stuff that you don't like and upvote stuff that you do, or you could miss future stuff that he submits that's more up your alley.

Consider that you've submitted a broad range of stuff yourself:

That spans a lot of types of image; someone might like one but not another.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

checks Lemmy Explorer

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=eyebl

@eyebleach looks to be the Threadiverse analog.

Or, I mean, we are an AI art generation community and all. This is like someone at an Olympic swimmer convention asking "can someone be a lifeguard?"

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0ba12f67-d700-41d4-98a0-8f955e3ef20b.png

dog, beagle, heroic painting

Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 14, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: ebf42d1fae, Model: realmixXL_v15, Version: v1.7.0-133-gde03882d

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

If you compare what it used to take to ship a package and the kind of selection that a local store might have, it's pretty great.

Also, a lot of that is automated to take a bunch of the drudge work out. Twenty years back, I remember that a guy I worked with at a research lab was working on some of the in-production-back-then automated-sorting-and-aligning-of-boxes-on-conveyor-belt stuff, which was done in a pretty clever way, by just activating and deactivating rollers on a conveyor belt, no robotic hands or anything mechanically-fancy needed.

googles

Not the system in question, but an example of another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLYhhV7u7Y

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I believe that it is, in fact, an area of focus right now. I see Stable Diffusion papers coming out on the SD community and the Midjourney guys were putting in text synthesis work in their most recent update.

https://www.greataiprompts.com/guide/midjourney/how-to-get-midjourney-to-write-text-in-image/

[–] tal@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It depends on the definition of "support ended". Like, there are various forms of extended support that you can pay for for versions of Windows, and some companies do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle

Support for the original release of Windows XP (without a service pack) ended on August 30, 2005.[4] Both Windows XP Service Pack 1 and 1a were retired on October 10, 2006,[4] and both Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 reached their end of support on July 13, 2010, about 24 months after the launch of Windows XP Service Pack 3.[4] The company stopped general licensing of Windows XP to OEMs and terminated retail sales of the operating system on June 30, 2008, 17 months after the release of Windows Vista.[114] However, an exception was announced on April 3, 2008, for OEMs producing what it defined as "ultra low-cost personal computers", particularly netbooks, until one year after the availability of Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. Analysts felt that the move was primarily intended to compete against Linux-based netbooks, although Microsoft's Kevin Hutz stated that the decision was due to apparent market demand for low-end computers with Windows.[115]

So for those, we're all definitely a decade past the end of normal support. However, they have their extended support packages that can be purchased, and we aren't a decade past the end of those...but most users probably aren't actually getting those:

On April 14, 2009, Windows XP exited mainstream support and entered the extended support phase; Microsoft continued to provide security updates every month for Windows XP, however, free technical support, warranty claims, and design changes were no longer being offered. Extended support ended on April 8, 2014, over 12 years after the release of Windows XP; normally Microsoft products have a support life cycle of only 10 years.[118] Beyond the final security updates released on April 8, no more security patches or support information are provided for XP free-of-charge; "critical patches" will still be created, and made available only to customers subscribing to a paid "Custom Support" plan.[119] As it is a Windows component, all versions of Internet Explorer for Windows XP also became unsupported.[120]

In January 2014, it was estimated that more than 95% of the 3 million automated teller machines in the world were still running Windows XP (which largely replaced IBM's OS/2 as the predominant operating system on ATMs); ATMs have an average lifecycle of between seven and ten years, but some have had lifecycles as long as 15. Plans were being made by several ATM vendors and their customers to migrate to Windows 7-based systems over the course of 2014, while vendors have also considered the possibility of using Linux-based platforms in the future to give them more flexibility for support lifecycles, and the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) has since endorsed Windows 10 as a further replacement.[121] However, ATMs typically run the embedded variant of Windows XP, which was supported through January 2016.[122] As of May 2017, around 60% of the 220,000 ATMs in India still run Windows XP.[123]

Furthermore, at least 49% of all computers in China still ran XP at the beginning of 2014. These holdouts were influenced by several factors; prices of genuine copies of later versions of Windows in the country are high, while Ni Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warned that Windows 8 could allegedly expose users to surveillance by the United States government,[124] and the Chinese government banned the purchase of Windows 8 products for government use in May 2014 in protest of Microsoft's inability to provide "guaranteed" support.[125] The government also had concerns that the impending end of support could affect their anti-piracy initiatives with Microsoft, as users would simply pirate newer versions rather than purchasing them legally. As such, government officials formally requested that Microsoft extend the support period for XP for these reasons. While Microsoft did not comply with their requests, a number of major Chinese software developers, such as Lenovo, Kingsoft and Tencent, will provide free support and resources for Chinese users migrating from XP.[126] Several governments, in particular those of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, elected to negotiate "Custom Support" plans with Microsoft for their continued, internal use of Windows XP; the British government's deal lasted for a year, and also covered support for Office 2003 (which reached end-of-life the same day) and cost £5.5 million.[127]

For the typical, individual end user, one probably wants to have been off Windows XP by 2008.

 

Artyom Sheikin, a member of the Russian parliament's Federation Council, said on October 3 that the country’s Roskomnadzor media watchdog plans to block virtual private networks (VPNs) across the country as of March 1, 2024.

 

France wants to make it harder to access and punish illegal behaviour online, according to a text on securing and regulating the digital environment that lawmakers agreed in committee.

 

The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine surging numbers of reported bedbug cases, which are being increasingly seen as a major potential public health…

 

The newly identified titanosaur, Garumbatitan morellensis, roamed what is now Spain around 122 million years ago. The unusual shape of some of its bones could hold clues about the evolutionary history of a unique group of sauropods.

 

UK chancellor argued successfully for a Euston terminus as Rishi Sunak prepares to axe the route’s northern leg

 

UK Windows and Doors enters administration, with hundreds of jobs to go at four sites in Wales.

 

The Vulcan 20-20 will help scientists working on nuclear fusion, understanding plasma, new renewable energy sources and studying electromagnetic fields.

 

Energy network operator to run a trial to reduce gas demand if shortages loom

view more: next ›