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> But the idea that giving your ID changes anything is a fiction I'd say it's an expansion of the "attack surface". Not to mention: what happens with those IDs after the fact? > I …

> I think there's something a bit funny in worrying about giving a copy of your IDs to companies who already know everything about you from your full social graph to your political…

Disty of SD.Next has made a version in diffusers format. https://huggingface.co/Disty0/Index-anisora-5B-diffusers For the record, the dev branch of SD.Next ( https://github.com/vla…

I have no interest in EM. I joined an anime themed Mastodon instance and left two months later as all I could read was EM hatred. I wasn't interested in EM to begin with! FTR the o…

Also the most recent version is compromised (8.3.42). 8.3.40 is safe.

Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?

I don't get the fad with circos plots. At least in genomics, they offer a high density of information but unfortunately at the price of hard if not impossible interpretation. Like …

Does it still bundle an entire, old version of libclang?

Because it wasn't just the lockdown: it was a pretty complex affair at the job too (including very tense moments; it would've been bad even in the office, mind you) and there was n…

> Some say that "commute helps clear the mind / switch context", but a simple walk does the same IMO No, it doesn't for everyone. Personal experience matters: after a 70-day lockdo…

Actual ovarian cancer researcher here. To be perfectly honest, it is the first time I've heard of talc or asbestos being linked to ovarian cancer. Mesothelioma is one thing. One of…

Then there are the computational biologists, such as myself. Many have a CS background but some (raises hand) actually come from biology itself (I was a wet lab scientist for a num…

I never had anything against WFH and actually did it for three years straight between 2008 and 2011. I actually think that anyone has different preference wrt in the office versus …

Perhaps OT but I see often these comments on HN. How do these devices (I don't own one) lose functionality over time? Features removed through updates?

I got lectured by Bard when I asked about help to improve the description of an action scene, which involves people getting hurt (at least the losing side) even if marginally. I su…

One of the reasons I entered an apparently very focused Mastodon instance and left after two months. I was absolutely not interested in discussing politics, let alone culture wars …

While I currently use SD.Next[1], I have tested ComfyUI locally with my AMD card. The UI can be daunting, but you learn quite a great deal about how a Stable Diffusion pipeline wor…

> Agreed, but you haven't demonstrated that these checks and balances have been violated. I mentioned specifically Italy, because that's where I live and where our freedoms where c…

It is my impression that checks and balances, constitutions etc need to work exactly in times of crisis. If they only work when everything is all right, they are useless. Especiall…

> “Unilaterally” outlawed by elected governments who can be peacefully deposed, that is to say, not unilaterally at all. Well... It took one signature on an administrative act and …

While I won't ever call myself an artist, there are people who do not just click and get an image. My workflow involves getting the right prompt out, then manual touch up of the im…

Which is kind of funny in a way. I am no artist but I'm using Krita with a smallish Wacom tablet to manually refine illustrations generated by Stable Diffusion. But again, some of …

50% for overheads? Is that university serious? Where I live grants that have more than 30% raise many, many eyebrows...