theterrasque
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- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 5 days ago:
Since I already use ZFS for my data storage, I just created a private dataset for sensitive data. I also have my services split based on if it’s sensitive or not, so the non sensitive stuff comes up automatically and the sensitive stuff waits for me to log in and unlock the dataset.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 6 days ago:
I’m sorry, but what is ill informed or opinion about it? Fact is it can do things no other image generator can do, open source or not. It can also effortlessly do things that would require a lot of tinkering with controlnet in comfyui, or even making custom lora’s. It’s a multimodal model that can do image and text both input and output, and does it well. All other useful image generators are diffusion based, which doesn’t read a prompt in the same way, and is more about weighting patterns based on keywords rather than any real understanding of the prompt. That’s why they’re struggling with relatively simple things like “a full glass of wine” or “a horse riding an astronaut on the moon”. If I’m wrong about this, please prove me wrong. Nothing would make me happier than finding an open source model that can do what openai’s new image model can do, really. I already run llama.cpp servers and comfyui locally, I have my own AI server in the basement with graphics cards. Please, please prove me wrong here.
I love open models, and been running them locally since first llama model, but that doesn’t mean I willfully ignore and pretend what claude and openai and google develops doesn’t exist. Rather I want awareness about it, that it does exist, and I want an open source version of it.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 6 days ago:
ah yes, I forgot we live in post-truth society where reality doesn’t matter and only your feelings are important. And since your feelings say AI bad, proprietary bad, and reddit bad, you don’t have to actually think or take into consideration reality.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 week ago:
I know them, and used them a bit. I even mentioned them in an earlier comment. The capabilities of OpenAI’s new model is on a different level in my experience.
www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/…/4o_vs_flux/ - read the comments there. That’s a community dedicated to running local diffusion models. They’re familiar with all the tricks. They’re pretty damn impressed too.
I can’t help but feel that people here either haven’t tried the new openai image model, or have never actually used any of the existing ai image generators before.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 week ago:
No other model on market can do anything like that. The closest is diffusion based where you could train a lora with a person’s look or a specific clothing, then generate multiple times and / or use controlnet to sorta control the output. That’s fast hours or days of work, plus it’s quite technical to set it up and use.
OpenAI’s new model is a paradigm shift in both what the model can do and how you use it, and can easily and effortlessly produce things that was extremely difficult or impossible without complicated procedures and post processing in Photoshop.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 week ago:
- Autoregressive model
- Multimodal with the LLM
- Can keep consistency between images
- Much better at text rendering
- Can combine images, like you have one image and you upload a picture of a jacket and say “put this on him” and it does it
- Can upload a picture of yourself and say “put me on the beach”, and then for example if you don’t like it you can tell it to do a different type of beach, and then say “and put me on a white horse and give me some nice beach wear” for example.
It understands what you’re telling it, and can generate images from vague descriptions, combine things from different images just by telling it, modify it and understand the context - like knowing that “me” is the person in the image, for example.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 week ago:
OpenAI is so lagging behind in terms of image generation it is comical at this point.
You’re the one lagging behind. OpenAI’s new image model is on a different level, way ahead of the competition
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
“You don’t have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the other guy”
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
The quote was originally on news and journalists.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
And then they can brand a version of chromium, call it shiny or something
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
When I had to get up to speed on a new language, it was very helpful. It’s also great to write low to medium complexity scripts in python, powershell, bash, and making ansible tasks. That said I’ve been programming for ~30 years, and could have done those things myself if I needed, but it would take some time (a lot of it being looking up documentation and writing boilerplate code). It’s also nice to write C# unit tests.
However, the times I’ve been stuck on my main languages, it’s been utterly useless.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 4 months ago:
With chatgpt’s new web search it’s pretty good for more specialized searches too. And it links to the source, so you can check yourself.
It’s been able to answer some very specific niche questions accurately and give link to relevant information.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 months ago:
