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News / Re: Old Message Forum
« Last post by diddly on November 06, 2022, 04:31:05 PM »
It's alive!  I got the old message forum (read-only) working again by another means.  All the old content is back online.
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News / Old Message Forum
« Last post by diddly on October 30, 2022, 10:12:13 PM »
Time marches on, and the ability to run our old message forum has been lost with recent system updates.  If there were posts you want to revisit, there does exist a snapshot on the wayback machine at archive.org.

The current message forum is still fine though since it's much more recent software.
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News / Re: Stable Diffusion
« Last post by diddly on September 13, 2022, 10:08:47 PM »
surrealist painting of a duck wearing a top hat on its head while standing on the bank of a river
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News / Re: Stable Diffusion
« Last post by diddly on September 13, 2022, 09:21:32 PM »
a crayon drawing of Donald Trump eating a cheeseburger at his desk in the oval office of the white house, with food dripping onto papers on the desk
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News / Re: Stable Diffusion
« Last post by diddly on September 11, 2022, 10:36:02 PM »
A woman walks her dog, in the style of Monet
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News / Re: Stable Diffusion
« Last post by diddly on September 11, 2022, 10:35:27 PM »
Predator steps through the Stargate
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News / Stable Diffusion
« Last post by diddly on September 11, 2022, 10:34:28 PM »
You might have heard recently of an AI called Stable Diffusion that can generate images from text prompts.  I just installed it on my M1 Mac Mini tonight using a tool called DiffusionBee and put it to work.

Among the images I had it create were "The Predator steps through The Stargate", "Two Galleons battling at sea during sunset", and "a woman walking her dog, in the style of Monet".

It takes a while to run, since I have only 8GB of RAM instead of the recommended 16GB.  It does still work though, as you can see.
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News / Re: Netflix Considering Ads
« Last post by diddly on April 22, 2022, 01:25:38 PM »
Interesting point to consider: People have learned to jump between streaming services and binge, rather than pay a regular monthly rate.
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Why pay $20 a month for Netflix when you can pay $20 every four months and watch the final season of Ozark, the second seasons of Bridgerton and Witcher and Squid Game in one month, and move to another streamer the next month and watch all of their offerings?
- The Bottom Is Dropping Out of Netflix By Dustin Rowles
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News / Netflix Considering Ads
« Last post by diddly on April 20, 2022, 09:48:43 AM »
Due to a dramatic drop in their stock price, Netflix is considering adding Ads to lower level subscriptions.  If you're concerned about 200,000 subscribers suddenly leaving, adding advertisements doesn't sound to me like a way to entice others to stay.
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News / Two Year Ban on Foreign Buyers
« Last post by diddly on April 19, 2022, 04:41:36 PM »
In an effort to calm soaring house prices, Canada has banned foreign buyers for two years.  Now, apparently foreign purchases account for only 3.4% of property buyers, so will this change make much difference?
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