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Hello everyone!
This instance will shut down later today! I have to sell the NAS as it is not working properly any more, and I have to switch to another one. I don't know if I come back in the future. It was nice for the moment, and thank you for all the hints and tips and tricks. But sorry. I do not see a benefit of posting here any more. Time to move on.
So please update all your bookmarks and links.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 🖖
We are looking for an automatic dehydrator to dry vegetables. Since the vegetable and beef broth from the supermarket contains too much palm oil and additives, we always make it ourselves. But it seems to use too much electricity in the oven. Besides, I could also dry fruit with the dehydrator. Does anyone have such a machine and can recommend it?
@darch Did nvAlt with SimpleNote in the past. But it lacks the ability to add images. Unfortunately. Also waiting for - I don't know 10 years now - for nvAlt2. Brett is not getting it finished, I think. When will it ever be finished?
@shreyan Can't use it at work. And it is a bit too expansive for me.
@prologic The bigegst issue with HedgeDoc I have is that it does not do search. But for publishing Posts for friends and some link collections for work it is nice.
@ionores I installed it and I like it. It is very nice.
Oh, I forgot Hedgedoc, which I also use as a self-hosted installation on one of my domains. I really like this one too. Tags, markdown, slideshow and more. Nice layout and public sharing when needed, which is very nice. But! It doesn't work on mobile. It doesn't work at all! So I only use it to transfer text during the day to save in Bear later.
I think I am finished. And that was so refreshing. Damn, it feels good to write down some anger.
ChatGPT also thinks that this was a good idea :-)
> I'm glad that writing down your thoughts and feelings was helpful for you! It can be a great way to release pent-up emotions and gain clarity on a situation. If you need any further assistance, feel free to reach out.
Apple Notes I like them. I do. They work well. Text, images, copy and paste, tags, headings, etc. Sync across devices and accessible on the web. But unfortunately, NO markup. And since all my stuff is markdown, I am not going back. I use Apple Notes sporadically here and there, grocery shopping lists that I share with my wife, but that is about it.
StandardNotes - Omg I don't want to get started. It is actually the only solution to all my problems, but self hosting is really difficult and there are so many problems with the clients that I dont even want to think about writing them down. i caues anger and fear to go through the list of bugs. So no thanks. Might work well with online subscription, but so expensive. No!
Some features are still missing. Like an overview of which images are linked in which bog post. A paginated list of images in the file manager module, a tag system and some other little things I cannot remember at the moment.
My blog system. I really like it. I like what I have achieved. It is actually the first (almost finished) product I have ever written myself. It started out as a little twitter clone, but then I rebooted and created a blog. you can register multiple users, but it is actually made for one user only. legacy stuff from the tutorial I guess. I should probably update it to the latest python modules. I also implemented a small file manager so you can upload files and add them to posts.
My blog system. I really like it. I like what I have achieved. It is actually the first (almost finished) product I have ever written myself. It started out as a little twitter clone, but then i rebooted and created a blog. you can register multiple users, but it is actually made for one user only. legacy stuff from the tutorial i guess. I should probably update it to the latest python modules. I also implemented a small file manager so you can upload files and add them to posts.
Memos - nice software, nice interface, now has ChatGPT integration (who needs that?). Works with various DB systems and you can upload/paste files/images into the editor. Nice feature is a heat map showing your memo activity over the last 30 days. Something like github and gitlab have. There are several mobile and desktop clients, it has users and you can choose to publish, private, registered or public. Which is super nice. It is actually the perfect solution as it also has a tagging system. I
Benotes - omg would be nice to use, but I cannot get it to run or install properly. There are so many things you have to do manually that even after two hours of trying I could not get it to work.
Bear would be the perfect match. It has markdown, it has right content, you can insert images and links, it syncs between desktop and mobile, and it is really easy to use. The new version 2.0 should be out soon, but development is really slow and people are desperate for the new editor. I hope it will be block editing like editor.js like Notion. The biggest drawback is: Mac and iOS only. No web (yet) and no Windows. So, I cannot use it from work.
Dokuwiki, on the other hand, is also a mature piece of software. It works on almost all browsers, stores data in plain text files and can be easily migrated, copied or transferred to another hoster as long as you have php. unfortunately the syntax is not markdown and using markdown with it is quite cumbersome and somehow difficult. it is mobile friendly but not really, reading works fine, entering is difficult.
tiddlywiki: good software, runs in your browser, fast searching and an amazing tool for personal brains or digital gardens or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately, it really lacks the ability to upload images. You can, though, using the nodejs browser if you run it server-side. But even with lazy loading, it gets pretty slow after a while. And the biggest disappointment is that it is not mobile friendly. Not even for reading.
But TiddlyWiki does lack proper authentication as well, and I have to hide it behind basic auth. Works nice afaik and I cannot complain. I also cannot see that somebody else got access.
Still undecided between TiddlyWiki, DokuWiki, Bear, Benotes, Memos, my blog software, standardnotes, apple notes and more. I like them all quite a bit, but standardnotes, the only one that has reall multiplatform is so fucking complicated to host on your own and then they have this stupid offline subscription thing that allows rich text or the block editor that works like notion. I also found codex docs which is really really nice. Unfortunately they lack proper authentication. 1 / 2
@movq sounds good to me. But playing on demand sounds also nice to me
And it works super nice after I found out, that a height of not more than 1mm works best.
And this is how it looks when it’s is finished. The text plates have to be glued to template
Ok, first, I created a small python script to generate a QR code with an image inside. I saved it as a PNG and used https://convertio.co to convert it into an SVG. I then used https://svg2stl.com to convert to SVG into an STL file which I was could import into https://tinkercad.com 
After that, I exported each individual part as its own STL file, which I imported into Ultimaker Cura slicer software to print with individual colours.
@movq And? How did you explain it to them?
When I get home, I can share a picture of it, sure. I also want to write blog post about the process. More for myself so i remember but maybe would be nice for others as well. I guess.
This pod got updated to the latest available image... I guess ;-)
Isn't it fantastic when you set the filament change code on the wrong layer? I set it on the layer before the 17, which is the layer before the QR code starts, which is Layer 18. But the filament code gets inserted BEFORE that layer number. So, it was inserted before layer 17 and when I realized, it was too late. Half of the plate went black. Damn it. 3hrs wasted... re-slice, re-uplaod, restart...
Waiting for my 3D printer, I think I can update this pod
Agreed. And I am always amazed that he has one of the oldest armchairs I have ever seen.
Went to the barber shop today. Got a nice talk and, surprisingly, my first "contract" to 3D print something. So, I spent the last hour reading about QR codes, versions and patterns and rescue data to embed an image in the centre of the code. Then it took me some time to convert it from a PNG to an SVG to an STL, so I can put it into Tinkercad to design the new plate. I now have a baseplate, a backplate with the QRCode & two smaller plates which I have to glue into placeholders on the backplate.
@stigatle whooooo cake! I like cake. I love cake! But, the cake is a lie....
@prologic Thanks. I was quite a bit of work to get it on accurately. But, worked out very nice.
🧵 11/11: Overall, the technology of such a transparency search engine can help us get more information about public figures and combine them. But we must be careful to use it responsibly, respecting the values of privacy, fairness and ethics. Only then can we ensure that AI technology helps to improve our society and culture.
🧵 10/11: Moreover, we need to be aware that the technology is not perfect and there can still be limitations and biases. We should use it as a tool to improve our understanding rather than using it as the sole basis for our decisions.
🧵 9/11: There is also a concern that AI could be used to publicly expose and take down people. That's why it's important to be careful with the information gained through AI. We should not simply believe everything the data tells us, but critically examine and analyse it.
🧵 8/11: But the real value of this technology is in creating transparency. With AI, we can access all available information on a topic and ask targeted questions, leading to previously undiscovered insights and knowledge.
🧵 7/11: If we had such a transparency search engine back then, we could have checked the reliability and accuracy of statements to gain trust.
🧵 6/11: At the time, the impact of the Internet was completely underestimated and its rapid development took everyone by surprise. It has brought about a revolutionary change in the economy, society and culture. Today, most people can access more information via the internet than ever before. Moreover, there are now opportunities for collaboration that were unthinkable a few years ago.
🧵 5/11: "The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'-which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants-becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." // Paul Krugman, 1998
🧵 4/11: However, the technology could also be used to attack individuals, examine their contributions and create remarkable representations of their development as a person over time. Especially in the early stages, it is likely to be used to expose people.
🧵 3/11; The technology would allow us to retrieve a complete record on a person and get information on any topic. One could track a person's political views throughout their online career and assess the accuracy of their predictions over time.
🧵 2/11: Over the last few lunches at work, we've been talking more and more about ChatGPT and co. With all the discussions today, we somehow came up with the idea of a "transparency search engine".
A thread about a transparency search engine: 🧵 1/11: Lately, it's all about AI and its applications like ChatGPT and CoPilot. Imagine if you could type in the name of any public figure and instantly have access to everything that person has ever said on a particular topic. What if there was a search engine that allowed us to do that?
@stigatle Congratulations. We had a free day today as well, as we have a free day on Monday. Dutch Kingsday was/is today. Super long weekend for me. Enjoy your longer weekend. Don't drink too much 🤣
My wife cut waves for me out of vinyl foil, and I was then allowed to apply them. It looks cool and can also be removed without residue if necessary.
For the first time, already pretty good and almost without bubbles (Blasen in German). 😜🤪 /BadDadJokes
And this is a PNG created from the project file before the cutting. The colours match almost perfect, as she did not use a colour pipette of a photograph.
#Vinyl foil #MacBookPro #cricutmaker
My wife cut waves for me out of vinyl foil, and I was then allowed to apply them. It looks cool and can also be removed without residue if necessary.
For the first time, already pretty good and almost without bubbles (Blasen in German). 😜🤪 /BadDadJokes
And this is a PNG created from the project file before the cutting. The colours match almost perfect, as she did not use a colour pipette of a photograph.
#Vinyl foil #MacBookPro #cricutmaker
Mmmh how should I bring a longer blogpost onto this platform? Should I create something like a Thread? Or should I paste the translation onto some other markdown service, hedgedoc hosted site and link it?
@abucci That is correct. There is something I am writing about Edge and what the default settings are. But holy cow is it bad sind they introduced this new creator thing wing
I was listening to an event hosted by O'Reilly where the CEO of GitHub, Thomas Dohmke, was talking about CoPilot. I asked about biased systems and copyright issues. He, Thomas Dohmke, said that in the next iteration they will show name, repo and licence information next to the code snippets you see in CoPilot. This should provide a bit more transparency. It is still up to the developer to decide whether they want to comply with the licence. On the other hand, I have to say that he is right about the fact that probably all of us have used a code snippet from Stack Overflow (where 99% of the time no licence or copyright is mentioned) or GitHub repos or some tutorial website without mentioning where the code came from. Of course, CoPilot has been trained with a lot of code from public repos. It is more or less a much faster and better search engine than the existing tools, because how much code has been used from public GitHub repos without adding the source to the code you pasted it into?
I was listening to an O’Reilly hosted event where they had the CEO of GitHub, Thomas Dohmke, talking about CoPilot. I asked about biased systems and copyright problems. He, Thomas Dohmke, said, that in the next iteration they will show name, repo and licence information next to the code snippets you see in CoPilot. This should give a bit more transparency. The developer still has to decide to adhere to the licence. On the other hand, I have to say he is right about the fact, that probably every one of us has used a code snippet from stack overflow (where 99% no licence or copyright is mentioned) or GitHub repos or some tutorial website without mentioning where the code came from. Of course, CoPilot has trained with a lot of code from public repos. It is a more or less a much faster and better search engine that the existing tools have been because how much code has been used from public GitHub repos without adding the source to code you pasted it into?
@darch @prologic
I would be happy if there would be a delta button beside every entry just like you have the reply and fork. maybe it can be put on the right side next to bookmark and mute?
@prologic Oh and I am not using CoPilot. That's too much data collection for me. I try to avoid using MS Products wherever I can.
@prologic Oh and I am not using CoPilot. That's too much data collection for me.
@xuu So, you are saying I should use the hashtag #GeneratedWithAI or #AiGenerated instead of #AiArt? In the End I used a tool to that created something I like by finetuning the parameters. I still don't get why that is wrong? But everybody has a different opinion.
@abucci Ah, not really citing, but this answer was one I liked and instead of copy pasting it here, I left the link to the site.
Regarding your other post (https://yarn.zn80.net/twt/oj4heoq), yes, you might be correct with that. But what Art is to someone is so different from person to person. You might think something is rubbish where I think it is beautiful and vice verse.
Which is the same with websites. Some people like quora, some people like stackoverflow, some people like reddit or ask.com. All of this really depends on the person.
@prologic I know it from envs.net and your site.
I am still a bit struggling with my new NAS from ASUSTOR. I keeps doing weird things from time to time. Still thinking about buying - maybe - a mac mini for all the hosting stuff and using the NAS really ONLY for backup. There are multiple possibilities. Or I just run the service locally? Would that be ok? And then, how do I backup? RSYNC or TimeMachine?
Where have you installed Gitea and how do you back it up? How do you restore it?
@prologic yes. In my personal feed or any feed I publish. Because, sometimes you don't want that thing there.
@prologic Oh, you know the feeling. We have all had those feelings in our working lives. Sometimes we lose and sometimes we can't win.
How do I delete older entries?
Had a cold shower this morning. On purpose. Felt cold but good. Not super cold, but colder than the "normal hot shower". Also saves water as you don't shower for too long and saves energy.
@abucci sure. Sometimes I just send the same email again, with a changed header. But that doesn't work all the time. Some people even respond with "yes, already got your last email, no need to repeat". But thats all they answer. The actual information is not sent.
@ionores thank you. If I use this, do I have to setup CI as well or is it integration into ForgeJo? The documentation only talks about CI Integration.
@abucci You can consume the image as you can consume any other image. If I print it and put it up next to Van Gogh, Goethe poems, Beethoven notes, it is something you can look at and enjoy, or not.
@prologic Oh nice. Did not check Gitea for quite some time. So no need to have Drone installed aside it?
@prologic The prompt for this batch of 4 was:
concept sketch of flying cyberpunk cars, future Cologne at night, view from behind a taxi, 2d, line drawing, thick outlines, neon light, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2),
Negative prompt: ugly, deformed, bad_prompt_version2, bad-artist, bad-artist-anime, EasyNegative, ng_deepnegative_v1_75t,
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2697885862, Size: 768x512, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10
@prologic Not quite. Here is the prompt I used including the model and seed
a concept sketch of a cyberpunk cars flying through a cyberpunk city, view from behind a taxi, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), style by kim jung gi, zabrocki, karlkka, jayison devadas, trending on artstation, 8k, ultra wide angle, pincushion lens effect
Negative prompt: bad_prompt_version2, bad-artist, bad-artist-anime, EasyNegative, ng_deepnegative_v1_75t
Steps: 40, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 135143862, Size: 768x512, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.6
Despite telling it to have flying cars, they don't fly. Properly nothing embedded inside the model.
@prologic Oh, aehm, no, I should update the pod then, right? Will do so in a minute...
@stigatle this is is the small nice community of nerds and geeks I would say :-). How many people are we? 20?
@stigatle I still have my account there. I don't want some other idiot to steal it. Even though I am a nobody on Twitter, I still want my nick to be saved.
@stigatle Yeah, yeah, sometimes I read stuff on Twitter. But 99% of the time, I am on https://nrw.social/@cblte. It is my new home. Being from the area, it was a no-brainer for me to be a part of https://nrw.social instance. Almost ALL the people I have followed on Twitter, I have also found on Mastodon.
During the process of generating my wallpaper, I had got some of these result 
#aiart #stablediffusion
Generated myself a new desktop wallpaper 
#aiart #stablediffusion
@prologic I was not quick enough this morning, but we had about 30 (maybe more) seagulls flying around in our neighbourhood making a lot of noise. Seagulls are so freakin' loud. Unbelievable. In comparison, your bird is super quiet.
@stigatle I think the others are not yet awake. And I just came back here after some off-time. I actually was close to shutting this down and leaving for Mastodon.
@abucci There is no pressure. I just find it very helpful in my daily conversation. I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing. But WE need their input for our work, and we kind of rely on their willingness to give us their data (by contract) in a certain time frame. Often they do not send anything and we run after them a lot. I asked if I could write something called a "brand letter" in German. But my boss refused. So, I have to write nice texts so as not to annoy them. #IfYouSeeThisBossDontFireMe :-)
@prologic: Holy cow, that sounds amazing and scary at the same time.
@prologic Hi there. Makes sense and sounds of logic to me. I will think about it. But then, where should I host my code with nice automatic builds? Can I set up something on my own? Or should I go to gitlab?
@lyse I would not call it fake. It is not drawn by hand, that's sure. But fake?
@abucci naja. It is a good helper tool. German Based Company. And yes, you can also get a paid account. But which text correct should I use then?
@lyse Yes yes, Thunderstorm is gone. The clouds move fast here in The Hague.
DEEPL now has a Writer https://www.deepl.com/write - very nice, fast and available in multiple languages. Write better texts, instantly.
@lyse Kuchen gab es leider nicht.
@lyse Here we now have thunder and lightning...
@lyse Stable Diffusion was the AI that I used to generate this with the MIMIC v1.0 model. https://civitai.com/models/35174/mimic
I wish I could draw like that. But I never learned to draw. I can only do some doodles.
So crazy. Good sunny weather all day long and now big thunderstorm with lightning and thunder direclty above us. No rain yet
Ended up after post processing:
a concept sketch of a full body end-time factory worker on a distant planet, cyberpunk light brown suite, (badass), looking up at the viewer, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), watercolor city sketch,
Negative prompt: EasyNegativ, bad-hands-5, 3d, photo, naked, sexy, disproportionate, ugly
Steps: 60, Sampler: DDIM, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2479087078, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 768x1152, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.2
Postprocess upscale by: 4, Postprocess upscaler: 4x-UltraSharp
Started with
a concept sketch of a full body end-time factory worker on a distant planet, cyberpunk light brown suite, (badass), looking up at the viewer, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), watercolor city sketch,
Negative prompt: EasyNegativ, bad-hands-5, 3d, photo, naked, sexy, disproportionate, ugly
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2479087078, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 512x768, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.7, Hires upscale: 1.5, Hires upscaler: Latent
Some Stable Diffusion Stuff
a concept sketch of a cyberpunk woman in a yellow jacket, multicolored wildly hair, mane, (badass), looking over shoulder, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), watercolor city sketch,
Negative prompt: 3d, photo, disproportionate, ugly, sexy,naked
Steps: 60, Sampler: DDIM, CFG scale: 4, Seed: 1296125785, Size: 512x768, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.7