Trying a switch to tal@lemmy.today, at least for a while, due to recent kbin.social stability problems and to help spread load.
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checks Lemmy Explorer
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=eyebl
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
2·11 months agoIf 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:
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/
What if I have quad 12-core Xeons with 196GB of RAM?
I have a 24-core i9-13900 and 128GB of RAM and I briefly tried it and recall it being what I’d call unusably slow. That being said, I also just discovered that my water cooler’s pump has been broken and the poor CPU had been running with zero cooling for the past six months and throttling the bajesus out of itself, so maybe I’d be possible to improve on that a bit.
If you seriously want to try it, I’d just give it a spin. Won’t cost you more then the time to download and install it, and you’ll know how it performs. And you’ll get to try the UI.
I just don’t want to give the impression to people that they’re gonna be happy with on-CPU performance and then have them be disappointed, hence the qualifiers.
EDIT: Here’s a fork designed specifically for the CPU that uses a bunch of other optimizations (like the turbo “do a generation in only a couple iterations” thing, which I understand has some quality tradeoffs) that says that it can get down into practical times for a CPU, just a couple of seconds. It can’t do 1024x1024 images, though.
https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu
I haven’t used it, though. And I don’t think that that “turbo” approach lets you use arbitrary models.
I dunno. It’s growing pretty quickly globally.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/e-cigarette-vaping-market
The global e-cigarette and vape market size was valued at USD 22.45 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.6% from 2023 to 2030. The public’s growing understanding of e-cigarettes being safer than traditional cigarettes, particularly among younger people, due to numerous studies conducted by medical institutions and associations, is forecasted to fuel market growth. In addition, it is anticipated that the manufacturers’ wide range of customization options, including temperature control and nicotine dosages, will help the product demand. Moreover, growing e-cigarette technologies like pod systems and squonk mods have gained popularity and user adoption in recent years.
Market size value in 2023
USD 28.17 billion
Revenue forecast in 2030
USD 182.84 billion
The anti-smoking movement – at least in the US – didn’t center around nicotine addiction, but around the negative secondary health effects.
Any similar secondary negative effects for vaping are pretty limited. So it’s arguing just against the addiction alone. And I’m not sure that that’s an easy case to make.
Yeah, vaping is growing in the US too.
THE IRON LAW OF MEGAPROJECTS
Performance data for megaprojects speak their own language. Nine out of ten such projects have cost overruns. Overruns of up to 50 percent in real terms are common, over 50 percent not uncommon. Cost overrun for the Channel Tunnel, the longest underwater rail tunnel in Europe, connecting the UK and France, was 80 percent in real terms. For Boston’s Big Dig, 220 percent. The Sydney Opera House, 1,400 percent. Similarly, benefit shortfalls of up to 50 percent are also common, and above 50 percent not uncommon.
One may argue, of course, as was famously done by Albert Hirschman, that if people knew in advance the real costs and challenges involved in delivering a large project, nothing would ever get built — so it is better not to know, because ignorance helps get projects started. A particularly candid articulation of the nothing‐would‐ever‐get‐built argument came from former California State Assembly speaker and mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown, discussing a large cost overrun on the San Francisco Transbay Terminal megaproject in his San Francisco Chronicle column:
News that the Transbay Terminal is something like $300 million over budget should not come as a shock to anyone. We always knew the initial estimate was way under the real cost. Just like we never had a real cost for the [San Francisco] Central Subway or the [San Francisco‐Oakland] Bay Bridge or any other massive construction project. So get off it. In the world of civic projects, the first budget is really just a down payment. If people knew the real cost from the start, nothing would ever be approved. The idea is to get going. Start digging a hole and make it so big, there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to fill it in [emphasis added].
Rarely has the tactical use by project advocates of cost underestimation, sunk costs, and lock‐in to get projects started been expressed by an insider more plainly, if somewhat cynically.
Maybe there needs to be the introduction of new mechanisms to deal with assessing the cost of very large projects.
I don’t like the idea of link taxes myself.
But even setting aside the question of whether link taxes are a good idea, I don’t understand why they’re making a – what to me sounds dubious – antitrust argument. It seems like a simply bizarre angle.
If the Canadian government wants news aggregators to pay a percentage of income to news companies, I would assume that they can just tax news aggregators – not per link to Canadian news source, but for operating in a market at all – take the money and then subsidize Canadian news sources. It may or may not be a good idea economically, but it seems like it’d be on considerably firmer footing than trying to use antitrust law to bludgeon news aggregators into taking actions that would trigger a link tax by aggregating Canadian news sources.
2·1 year agoObviously it has questionable content which is not great to have stored on big servers for legal reasons.
It’s less a function of size and more of location. Burggit serves lolicon, which isn’t legal in a number of places like Canada, but is protected by the First Amendment in the US.
It looks like lemmy.world is in Germany or thereabouts, or at least that that’s where the netblock of the last-hop router between it and me are located.
It sounds like Germany uses a roughly-similar rationale to the US, that the only content that is illegal involves actual abuse of minors or – because it creates problems for enforcement against those – content that looks realistic and is indistinguishable. Hence, lolicon sounds like it’s okay in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors
In principle, the regulations in Chapter 13 of the German Criminal Law for offenses against sexual self-determination also prevent the public advocation and the degradation of minors as sexual objects.[73] The distribution of child pornography, defined as pornography relating to “sexual acts performed by, on or in the presence of a person under 14 years of age (child), the reproduction of a child in a state of full or partial undress in an unnaturally sexual pose, or the sexually provocative reproduction of a child’s bare genitalia or bare buttocks,” is criminalized with a penalty of imprisonment.[74] However, with regards to possession, only material depicting actual or realistic acts is criminalized.[74] For reproductions of persons over 14 but under 18 years (youth pornography), the penalty for distribution is imprisonment or a fine.[75]
Nevertheless, due to the guaranteed freedom of art,[76] fictional works were officially deemed legal or can be checked by a legal opinion.[77] According to German legal information websites, acquisition and possession of fictional pornography depicting minors where it is immediately apparent that the content is purely of fictional nature, such as cartoons and comics or anime and manga, are not prosecuted against unless it is not readily distinguishable whether the depiction is computer generated or real.[78][79][80] The Federal Government also made it clear that the criminal offense “should remain limited” to cases “in which an actual event is reproduced through video film, film or photo”. On the other hand, it did not regard the sanction of the regulation as fulfilled in the case of “child pornographic novels, drawings and cartoons”, because their possession did not contribute to children being abused as “actors” in pornographic recordings. [81]
That being said, given that lemmy.world is the largest lemmy instance and is a common choice for newcomers and presently often the first of what newcomers see of lemmy, setting aside legal concerns for the instance operators, I think that it might be a good idea to not have the default content have lolicon sprinkled through it. Obviously, that’s up to the instance admins, but if that’s not what they want to do, I’d suggest that it might be a good idea to have some instance that acts as a “front door” to recommend people to that does do some level of censorship.
Also, I don’t think that the way to deal with “there is content on a platform that I don’t like” is to run from it. It’s to make better filtering systems to choose what I want. Two reasons:
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First, some people like different things. They shouldn’t have to use different platforms just for that.
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Second, stuff like spam will show up anywhere that has decent size anyway eventually, once there are enough eyeballs for it.
I think that the goal should be to have plenty of content of all sorts on the Threadiverse, and then just have good filtering tools that are hard to subvert.
Reddit didn’t let people build the filtering tools they wanted in and in some cases – like when it came to their own ads – were actively opposed to that. The Threadiverse solves that problem for me.
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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.