cragsand

cragsand, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) 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

cragsand, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to kbin

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

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

• https://kbin.social/m/thegoldengator ✅

Lemmy:

• https://beehaw.org/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://lemmy.ml/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://infosec.pub/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://lemmy.world/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://infosec.pub/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://u.fail/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ❌ (shut down)
• https://geddit.social/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://startrek.website/c/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅

Kbin:

• https://fedia.io/m/thegoldengator@kbin.social ❓️
• https://readit.buzz/m/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://forum.fail/m/thegoldengator@kbin.social ✅
• https://thebrainbin.org/m/thegoldengator@kbin.social ❓️

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
#RedditMigration #Fediverse

cragsand, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to firefox

Figured out a way to make #BirdUI by @rolle compatible on #Firefox on #Android for any #Mastodon instance!

Instructions:

1. Install the approved extension #TamperMonkey from the Firefox addon menu.
2. Add the #UserScript 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.
#MastodonBirdUI #Universeodon #FirefoxAndroid

cragsand, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediverse

Doing my part :blobcatfingerguns:
Convincing mutuals to join the #fediverse :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.

#twitter #twittermigration #twitterprison #prisonbreak #birdsite #twitterdown

cragsand, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to vrchat

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

So happy to see you all here :ablobcathyper: ❤️

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

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

#twittermigration #Twitter

cragsand, 10 months ago to fediverse

No gator's daily on the #fediverse :fedi: (yet at least)
Rolling the clip...funkier version!

Happy Friday! 🐊
#gators #friday #happyfriday #flatfuckfriday #meme #gatorsdaily

Music video with an image of a very flat and fat gator. Laying in the sand, frolicking and riding a water-slide.

cragsand, 1 year ago to fediverse

No gator's daily on the #fediverse :fedi: (yet)
Guess I'll roll the clip...!

Happy Friday!! 🐊
#gators #friday #happyfriday #flatfuckfriday #meme #gatorsdaily

video/mp4

cragsand, 10 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to mastodon

Welcome new 🐘 people!
Some #feditips 👇:fedi:

To disable the #notification sounds in #mastodon:

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

If you miss the #twitter look try the custom user interface called #elk #elkapp:

• 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 #searchable by others:

• Use #hashtags
• Only a few servers like https://infosec.exchange and https://mastodon.social support #FullTextSearch
• This feature is coming for all servers soon in V4.2.0

Cheers!

cragsand, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to neondivide

Neon Divide Podcast EP13 - Announcing Season 3.5!
VOD for those who missed it 👇

You can keep up with the podcast 🎙 by adding this RSS feed to your favorite podcast app of choice:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeonDivide

This episode is presented by

• NicNac
• Chandler Riggs aka Chairhandler
• Bucky aka Bucky_loves_it
• Skizerz

#NeonDivide #VRChat #VRRP #VRChatRP
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1831421183

cragsand, 11 months ago to random

Happy Sweden day! 🇸🇪
#sweden #SverigesNationaldag

cragsand, 10 months ago to fediverse

Gonna retire for tonight. It's been a busy day inviting so many new people to the #fediverse and #Mastodon :ablobcathyper:

Will check any questions you have tomorrow and go through and respond to them all!

Welcome again 🐘 👏 :fedi: :ablobwave:
And goodnight :blobcatsleep:

cragsand, 1 year ago to music

This catchy tune by @randulo deserves some more appreciation 😎
How can it just have 61 views?
#johnmastodon #music #mastodon #federate #fedi #fediverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDH4UanrdI

cragsand, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) 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.
#twitter #twittermigration #twitterdown

cragsand, 1 year ago to space

Beautiful #SpaceEngine
#space #art #spaceart

cragsand, 11 months ago to vrchat

To fellow #vrchat #world creators 🔔

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

cragsand, 9 months ago 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!💜😢
#NeonDivide #VRChatRP #VRChat #Twitch

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

cragsand, 9 months ago to random

Will they come over?
I hope! 😊

cragsand, 9 months ago 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
#Agony #KronosWoW #Sandsten #WoW #WorldOfWarcraft
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, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fallout

So glad to see this modding project still going! I'm always amazed at what people with passion can create without any profit incentive!
#fallout #games #mods #FalloutLondon
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSoCTHJvEbM

wild1145, 8 months ago 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 :)

malwaretech, 8 months ago 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.

JustDalek_, 8 months ago to vrchat

YEEEES

W feature

#VRChat #vrc

Content Gating

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

rolle, 8 months ago to ai

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/ #AI #GenerativeAI #GooglePixel #Pixel

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."