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@stigatle Ahh I see! I was thinking if you used some kind of HTML widget ... ?
I may have no idea what I'm talking about ๐
@stigatle Ahh I see! I was thinking if you used some kind of HTML widget ... ?
I may have no idea what I'm talking about ๐
@prologic They have some markdown support that you can use, but I have not looked into that yet, I might check on that for clickable links in label.
I now just get all the attached links in each post, check for direct links to images, download them and show them as in the screenshot.
[47ยฐ09โฒ58โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ05โณW] Transponder malfunction
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@abucci you seen the lateset features out of OpenAI and it's ChatGPT and Dalle? ๐ค I was watching a TED talk and later. documentary, both on IpenAI and the founder... It's going to become increasingly hard for folks to resist the convenience and use of their "AI services" the more capabilities they keep adding to it ๐ค
@abucci you seen the lateset features out of OpenAI and it's ChatGPT and Dalle? ๐ค I was watching a TED talk and later. documentary, both on IpenAI and the founder... It's going to become increasingly hard for folks to resist the convenience and use of their "AI services" the more capabilities they keep adding to it ๐ค
@abucci you seen the lateset features out of OpenAI and it's ChatGPT and Dalle? ๐ค I was watching a TED talk and later. documentary, both on IpenAI and the founder... It's going to become increasingly hard for folks to resist the convenience and use of their "AI services" the more capabilities they keep adding to it ๐ค
Art is not the medium.
The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.
Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.
Art is not the medium.
The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.
Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.
@stigatle Nice! ๐ Using a Markdown parser / renderer? ๐ค
@stigatle Nice! ๐ Using a Markdown parser / renderer? ๐ค
@stigatle Nice! ๐ Using a Markdown parser / renderer? ๐ค
@lyse Ahh! Still looks funky ๐
@lyse Ahh! Still looks funky ๐
@lyse Ahh! Still looks funky ๐
@shreyan my condolences for the pain you no doubt will inflict upon others that will have to maintain whatever you write in Ruby.
@shreyan my condolences for the pain you no doubt will inflict upon others that will have to maintain whatever you write in Ruby.
@shreyan Remind me to talk to you in depth one day about why OOP sucks as a way to write computer programs ๐
@shreyan Remind me to talk to you in depth one day about why OOP sucks as a way to write computer programs ๐
@shreyan Remind me to talk to you in depth one day about why OOP sucks as a way to write computer programs ๐
@darch So a fiction novel, which is labelled "fiction", is a lie? I still don't understand. The word "lie" entails an intention to deceive, but fiction writing does not intend to deceive.
@carsten You are conflating "aiming your eyes at" with "viewing art". These are fundamentally different activities.
@carsten Animals have inner lives. Computers do not.
Are you really so desperate to make this point thst you're citing _Quora_??? Believe what you want to believe.
[47ยฐ09โฒ25โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ51โณW] --no signal--
Got a really nice chain from my stepdad today, gonna rig it up in the garden so that the dog can be there as much as he wants without me worrying about him jumping the fence.
@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.
um poema censurado para o dia do livro, em ante-vรฉspera do 25 de abril:
[47ยฐ09โฒ20โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ14โณW] Raw reading: 0x64455601, offset +/-2
Thanks, @prologic! Hahaha, "fire lake from hell", I like that one! :-D 12 is zoomed into the sunset from 11's bottom right.
@prologic Phew, at first I thought that was ambient temperature. Glad you're over the worst part.
@darch What do you mean when you say that art is a lie?
@carsten I think nothing of AI in general. Too often AI-stuff turned out to be some kind of fraud. My general opinion of AI is very bad. You don't know how or what the thing "learned", most often something very different than what one would think. Hence, there's no way to fix it if it's broken. And as far as I understand it one doesn't know when it's trained enough. So in my eyes it's a giant waste of resources. Anyways.
@prologic @carsten
> There is (I assure you there will be, donโt know what it is yetโฆ) a price to be paid for this convenience.
Exactly prologic, and that's why I'm negative about these sorts of things. I'm almost 50, I've been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don't trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It's a societal cancer.
All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They'll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won't stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.
That's a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn't make sense. It's insane.
@carsten
> I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing
So it sounds to me like the pressure is to reduce how much time you waste on idiots, which to my mind is a very good reason to use a text generator! I guess in that case you don't mind too much whether the company making the AI owns your prompt text?
I'd really like to see tools like this that you can run on your desktop or phone, so they don't send your hard work off to someone else and give a company a chance to take it from you.
@prologic @carsten
(1) You go to the store and buy a microwave pizza. You go home, put it in the microwave, heat it up. Maybe it's not quite the way you like it, so you put some red pepper on it, maybe some oregano.
Are you a pizza chef? No. Do we know what your cooking is like? Also no.
(2) You create a prompt for StableDiffusion to make a picture of an elephant. What pops out isn't quite to your liking. You adjust the prompt, tweak it a bunch, till the elephant looks pretty cool.
Are you an artist? No. Do we know what your art is like? Also no.
The elephant is "fake art" in a similar sense to how a microwave pizza is "fake pizza". That's what I meant by that word. The microwave pizza is a sort of "simulation of pizza", in this sense. The generated elephant picture is a simulation of art, in a similar sense, though it's even worse than that and is probably more of a simulacrum of art since you can't "consume" an AI-generated image the way you "consume" art.
Love the check-ins. Good to see people all over the world using gopherspace.
Working on showing attached images in the desktop client, it worked on first try.
Now I need to fix the scale and alignment - but cool that it works already!
@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.
@carsten It is experimental and still under development, so feedback is highly appreciated ๐ค Enable with webfinger and activitypub 
@carsten It is experimental and still under development, so feedback is highly appreciated ๐ค Enable with webfinger and activitypub
@carsten It is experimental and still under development, so feedback is highly appreciated ๐ค Enable with webfinger and activitypub
@prologic Oh, aehm, no, I should update the pod then, right? Will do so in a minute...
[47ยฐ09โฒ11โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ57โณW] --interrupted--
Pinellas County Running: 5.33 miles, 00:09:49 average pace, 00:52:18 duration
good to get out. cut it short as to not push it as well as to help out at home with the sleep over if needed. legs felt pretty good though.
#running
[47ยฐ09โฒ06โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ40โณW] 3656 days without news from Herve
[47ยฐ09โฒ56โณS, 126ยฐ43โฒ48โณW] Dosimeter fixed
Hey, Fort Walton Beach! I'm in FL, too. I'm hoping the Lightning can put away the Maple Leafs.
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@carsten Gitea is nice and now includes a built-in CI/CD that shares the same syntax as GitHub actions. It's really smooth and quite nice ๐
@carsten Gitea is nice and now includes a built-in CI/CD that shares the same syntax as GitHub actions. It's really smooth and quite nice ๐
@carsten Gitea is nice and now includes a built-in CI/CD that shares the same syntax as GitHub actions. It's really smooth and quite nice ๐
@carsten The loudest birds we have here are cockatoos ๐
@carsten The loudest birds we have here are cockatoos ๐
@carsten The loudest birds we have here are cockatoos ๐
@carsten 20 is only yhe number of globally aware pods I k ow of -- we've built up a nice community of over a hundred. not always active all at the same time thougj.
@carsten 20 is only yhe number of globally aware pods I k ow of -- we've built up a nice community of over a hundred. not always active all at the same time thougj.
@carsten 20 is only yhe number of globally aware pods I k ow of -- we've built up a nice community of over a hundred. not always active all at the same time thougj.
@carsten You k ow we've built Activity Pub support into Yarn right? So you can follow all your Mastodon friends and interact with them from your pod ๐
@carsten You k ow we've built Activity Pub support into Yarn right? So you can follow all your Mastodon friends and interact with them from your pod ๐
@carsten You k ow we've built Activity Pub support into Yarn right? So you can follow all your Mastodon friends and interact with them from your pod ๐
@stigatle this is is the small nice community of nerds and geeks I would say :-). How many people are we? 20?
@carsten Yeah, I keep my account too - do not want to get rid of it, but I do not post much anymore there at all, just retweet stuff I find interresting. Also I'm so boring there that I get almost no followers and such, never got any traction there, even though I've been there since 2008. I write more here then there, and get more response here as well.
@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.
@carsten Been thinking about leaving twitter recently, so much drama there. But I have not decided yet. It's still a bit useful for me for getting my tech related news stuff and things like that, so I cannot get my self to leave yet.
@carsten Yeah, that seems to be the case :)
During the process of generating my wallpaper, I had got some of these result 
#aiart #stablediffusion
