cragsand

@cragsand@universeodon.com

VR, RP and science nerd
I play in #NeonDivide, an episodic #RP #LARP in #VR

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#VRChat #VRRP #GoldenGator #TheGoldenGator #Twitch #Roleplay #TTRPG #DnD #VirtualReality #Sweden 🇸🇪

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malwaretech, to random

I've lived in the US for so long that I forgot other countries have like semi-serious government that actually do stuff. I just tried to buy a house in the UK and since I was last there they've added a billion new taxes. There's a buying a house tax, a buying a second house tax, a buying a house when you don't live in the UK even though you're a citizen tax, a non-resident landlord tax, UK specific capital gains tax... and they all stack on top of each other. I am going to get absolutely clapped by taxes, but it's nice to see even right-wing governments trying to address the housing crisis.

cragsand, (edited )

@malwaretech Something I observed relatively recently when comparing different housing arrangements in different countries is how Swedens seems more rare when our most common form of housing are a type of regulated "housing-cooperatives" called "bostadsrättsförening".

It doesn't directly translate to the English/UK form of "cooperative-housing" so I'd recommend reading a translated version of the Swedish wikipedia article instead to grasp the regulated implications:
https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Bostadsr%C3%A4ttsf%C3%B6rening?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=English&_x_tr_hl=sv

By having a non-profit, where laws regulate that all profits must return to the co-owners, shared ownership, costs are substantially lowered. It's not perfect and must go hand-in-hand with other regulations but compared to LLCs or companies own housing, especially if it's a public company with shareholders... they're astronomically better in potential to improve housing availability and pricing.

cragsand, (edited ) to fediverse

Doing my part :blobcatfingerguns:
Convincing mutuals to join the :fedi:

The only reason for staying is because everyone else is remaining there.

How does one communicate in a relatable way that they're basically in a prison cage with an open door? A voluntary prison they stay in only because others are there?

I don't have an answer but I applaud every single person who dares to try the alternatives.

rolle, (edited ) to mastodon
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

Oh, the search feature is coming to Mastodon after all: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

This clearly seems to follow up the VyrCossont's idea of the extended search feature that finds public posts.

Gargron: "It is my decision to unite all discovery features in one setting, because all of this stuff is an expected part of a social network and splitting it up into different settings that everyone has to opt-into one by one just to get the same behaviour they get by default on other social media seems like a bad user experience. Also, discoverable is already a federated attribute."

cragsand,

@rolle This is great! for everyone who wants it

cragsand, (edited ) to mastodon

Welcome new 🐘 people!
Some 👇:fedi:

To disable the sounds in :

  • Click the bell 🔔 on the right hand sidebar
  • Then the 3 knobs 🎚 icon and uncheck sound

If you miss the look try the custom user interface called :

  • https://elk.zone
  • Some servers have it locally but it can connect to others as well

Words:

  • Post/Toot = Tweet
  • Boost = Retweet
  • Favorite = Like

Boosting a post shows it on your feed. Favoriting a post will show it to the author:

  • Others can only see your favs by clicking that post
  • You can't lookup others favs so use them freely
  • You can search posts you've fav:ed from the #️⃣ explore button on the right sidebar

Some instances allow longer messages. This depends on each servers settings.

To make posts by others:

Cheers!

cragsand,

Welcome to the @captaincaliansonadora !

Above are some beginner tips ! :parrot_beer:

To add follow someone on another instance, enter their username or message URL into the # Explore section.

cragsand, (edited ) to kbin

Did some testing and seems like federation is working much better between and now! Some instances still don't seem to be federating properly though.

Current federation status from my testing magazine, mirroring our /r/thegoldengator

Lemmy:

Kbin:

Refreshing also seems a bit lazy or never updating previous posts.

Old status post: https://fedia.io/m/thegoldengator/t/3393/The-Golden-Gator-on-the-Fediverse-Test-post

cragsand, (edited ) to ai

I learned how to train LoRa AI models using open source StableDiffusion...

For the purpose of recreating the appearance of my 3D VR roleplaying character the results I got were amazingly good... almost frighteningly so.

I'll go through the process, results and some thoughts.

🧵 part 1of4

#stablediffusion #loramodel #characterart #ai #aiart #aitraining #sd #lora #tech #technews #vr #3d #vrchat #roleplay #neondivide #cragsand

rolle, to ai
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

I used to think AI avatars are cool and look so real. Then, as a perfectionist and the advocate for openness I started to think: It's not real - so it's not good. Why should we vote for fakeness? I don't like the direction we are heading with generative AI. I understand the things that helps us do our jobs faster, like erasers, fine tuners. But faces? Nope.

9to5Google: Pixel 8 camera specs leak, adds manual controls, AI to change faces, Magic Editor, more https://9to5google.com/2023/09/23/pixel-8-camera-manual-controls-ai-features-leak/

Google Pixel's AI feature that lets you switch the faces, looks quite natural. A description from the article: "Perhaps the most wild use of AI in the video, though, is a Google Photos feature on Pixel 8 where the app will literally be able to change people’s faces in a shot to create the shot you want – the Michael Scott treatment, if you will. There’s no explanation on how this works, but it seems like it uses multiple, similar shots to create one final product."

cragsand, (edited )

@rolle I never liked camera filters but this is next level discomfort. When Samsung added face smoothing by default on some of their phones camera apps I was outraged. This is even worse. What's even real anymore...

cragsand, to random

to the @Itahzu !
:mastodon: :ablobwave:

I follow some people you may be familiar with. There are no algorithms here so I recommend following lots of people!

If you miss the Twitter look try out:
https://elk.universeodon.com/home

cragsand, to Discord

Hmm are there any trusted bots who can announce posts into an announcement channel?

I'm thinking this would be really useful for content creator communities.

Considering writing my own but I may be a bit too inexperienced. Using would a timer checking the RSS feed every minute using something like this be appropriate?
https://pypi.org/project/feediverse/0.2.1/

I'm worried that might use too much bandwidth or get seen as a bot in DDoS prevention filters. Maybe there are better ways to do it?

Appreciate advice pointing in the right direction :blobheart:

wild1145, to random

Universeodon.com Update:

I've deployed a lot of the Queue processing now onto a new server, to start to test to see if the new setup will need further capacity I'm going to be disabling the legacy queue processing.

There is a chance there will be backlogs tonight as I balance things. In theory things should be able to self balance a lot better, we have priorities per queue worker but every queue worker will start to pick up other queues. We may need to re-order these if we start to see it doesn't quite work.

We've balanced it and scaled it for now the same way we did MastodonApp.UK and are in the process of building a second machine to run additional queue processing given the load here is significantly increased :)

cragsand,

@wild1145 thank you for all your hard work! I've had some lag loading images and avatars and search not working otherwise it's been running well enough.

cragsand,

@wild1145 :blobheart:

wild1145, to random

I think we're in a better place now with the web tier, I need to build one more node out and normalise some of the infrastructure setup but I think (and with a lot of help from @zach ) we're back up and running a lot more stable now and I haven't been able to reproduce the blank page issue for some time!

cragsand,

@wild1145 @zach Using on has been pretty good the last few days. Not sure if the interface helps with slowness or maybe it's just coincidence. Still, thank you for all your hard work saving the instance! :blobheart:
https://elk.universeodon.com

wild1145, to random

Testing image uploads.

cragsand,

@wild1145 It works! Thanks again for rescuing the server!

With searching becoming a standard mastodon feature I guess the need to stay on the custom fork for becomes less useful?

What other custom features are added than these:

  • Longer message lengths
  • Full text searching
    🤔
cragsand, to random

Does share rate limiting for all accounts using it?

Getting this error for https://elk.universeodon.com
"ERROR: MastoHttpRateLimitError: Too many requests"

@supernovae any clues?
I don't think I overused it more than regular scrolling.

cragsand, (edited ) to random

Can someone please help me with ?
After logging on on firefish.social after the migration from calckey.social the interface for me is in Japanese and I have no clue how to change it back to English.

Some buttons are in Japanese or Swedish which is really confusing 😖

JustDalek_, to vrchat

YEEEES

W feature

Content Gating

https://hello.vrchat.com/blog/content-gating

cragsand,

@JustDalek_
This is great news and something I've been repeating for years. Hopefully it can integrate with Steam and other services for better age verification.

The old feedback from 2019 is now "Tracked" finally. 😎
https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/age-verificationnsfw-content

randulo, to random
@randulo@mastodon.social avatar

I searched for a grape blend on google and duckgo and found links that mostly didn't contain the answer. Then I used Bing "AI-powered" Chat and it immediately gave an exact answer, including links to the sources.

Bing used to be a laughing stock, but for serious questions, it works better than any search I know of.

cragsand,

@randulo Its a double edged sword for sure. In many cases its quite remarkable how good it is, but in others its plain out wrong. Being powered by ChatGPT its probably the most advanced large language model.

What I find it lacking are technical and categorical understanding of concepts. For example asking it engineering questions it will often just "make up" responses and cite something unrelated that has nothing to do with whats being asked.

Another is asking it fantasy or scifi questions where it can't sort categories or distinguish the difference between different concepts like creatures, magic or similar.

cragsand, to space

This is amazing!
"Scientists Unveil a 5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars"

Try zooming in on Valles Marineris. Reminds me of the procedurally generated planets in Space Engine but it's actual streamed accurate data.

Article: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scientists-unveil-a-57-terapixel-global-image-of-mars

Explore the map here: https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCTXmosaic.html

cragsand, to vrchat

To fellow creators 🔔

You can enable the new avatar scaling feature for all your worlds quickly via the vrchat website!

cragsand, (edited ) to vrchat

Welcome all new users I've invited from related communities! :fedi:

So happy to see you all here :ablobcathyper: ❤️

If you have questions about or the feel free to ask! Hit respond to this post.

I'll try to get to them all.
:ablobcatbongo: :elmo_fire:

cragsand, (edited ) to twitter

Twitter is like a cage where you keep getting poked and prodded but where the door is wide open.
You can leave at any time but everyone decides to remain because everyone else is already in the cage.

The only way to break the negative cycle is to encourage more and more to dare to try leaving the cage.

Through slow incremental change, as more and more move out I hope they realize that there is no need to go back into the cage again.

cragsand, (edited ) to firefox

Figured out a way to make by @rolle compatible on on for any instance!

Instructions:

  1. Install the approved extension from the Firefox addon menu.
  2. Add the extension from here https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/470753-mastodon-birdui-style-override

There may be better ways to do this but it seems to work fine. Let me know if I messed something up... 😅
Added Universeodon and Mastodon dot Social for now but easy to add more.

cragsand, to wow

Some days I really miss my old vanilla WoW community

I know you all are busy elsewhere in life but still if you read this know I miss the adventures and challenges that we shared together. It was an honor o7

FeelsStrongMan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4wAHZg3mw

A Tauren druid from Vanilla World of Warcraft walks with the camera looking up at the stars in the night sky

cragsand, to neondivide

It saddens me that because of health and real life obligations I won't be able to attend the schedule for Neon Divide any more.
Timezone differences for EU have always been difficult (2am-sunrise)
Thank you all for making this wonderful RP together!
ND & Scrap Town forever!💜😢

Cragsand's VRChat avatar for the character Sten Berglund in the VRChat roleplay Neon Divide, leans forward and tips his cowboy hat.

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