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News / Re: Toots
« Last post by diddly on November 16, 2022, 11:34:23 AM »
It really seems Musk is trying to kill Twitter completely.  Now he's demanding the remaining employees to work long hours at high intensity or be fired.  After also firing employees on Twitter for daring to correct false statements, he's not inspiring any loyalty.
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News / Toots
« Last post by diddly on November 10, 2022, 01:50:49 PM »
Let's face it.  Twitter is done.  Elon Musk has killed it by laying off half the employees, banning remote work, adding a monthly subscription cost, and even considering putting content behind a paywall.

Twitter users are looking for a new home, and many of them are flocking to Mastodon.  This is a distributed social media that's been around for several years, and lets you host your own server.  Darkshade even has an instance!

It's like twitter, but tweets are called toots (following the elephant theme) and accounts are named @user@server.  You can follow me @diddly@darkshade.social
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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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