It was released (read: forcibly shoved down our throats) by Google and came out of nowhere when there were zero problems with the decades old and extremely well researched incumbent image/video formats that the web was already using (i.e. jpg, png, gif, mp4, etc)

I don’t agree with this. There are many things wrong with those file formats. GIF, for example, is over 35 years old and has a 256 color pallete. Now, if it’s good enough for your purposes and it “ain’t broke” for that, fine, but compare these formats to JPEG-XL and it’s clear that they deserve to be surpassed. WebM/WebP, despite my many issues with it (WebP and AVIF are bullshit formats), they did serve a legitimate purpose, and quite frankly you can even say it was good for the environment due to lowering filesizes at an actually meaningful scale.

In fact, if I’m reading Mitre correctly, there are libjpeg vulns still being found since WebP was launched. I’m not saying this to equivocate the two from a security standpoint, hell no, but to critisize the common view I see online claiming the older formats are unbackable.

Seeing the previous krita-ai-diffusion demo and the skill of the demonstrator in selecting and img2img’ing encouraged me to give Krita a second try (it turns out my laptop+Mint had a keyboard setting which made the panning shortcut break, so I’ve fixed that and now it’s far more usable. It was ‘disable touchpad when typing’, so Space wouldn’t pan with the touchpad).

As for this video, it’s great to see the ComfyUI integration (and with a logo on the node too!). The tool was already powerful and impressive, and this seems like a huge step up.

I wanted to give it a proper try before replying. This is what I was looking for. Detailed searches, custom tags (I can use them as various quality ratings) and more. It’s also nice to know it can run as a standalone executable in case I want to try out AuraFlow before it becomes available in A1111/Forge. Thank you!

The schnell live demo is impressive. My decade-old rig takes minutes per step on Flux, so this is actually a useful way for me to check for known concepts in almost real-time. It even had time to show me a quick Phở when I was typing in photo.

I didn’t even think of dual cards, because I have an old & budget motherboard with one slot. But 2 x 16GB GPUs and a new motherboard (and if necessary, new CPU) and PSU and it might even still be cheaper than a 24GB NVIDIA for me. Of course I’d have to explore the trade-offs in detail because I’ve never looked into how dual cards work.

(but truth be told, I just as easily could settle for a 1x16 GB if I’m confident it would be able to train, even if slowly, AuraFlow or FLEX LoRas for the upcoming Pony v7 model. It’s just a hobby.)

I am using a lot of Pony* models at the moment and Pony v7 looks like it will switch to AuraFlow or FLUX [1] so it’s useful to hear your experience with it on a 3080Ti.

Good to know about CUDA/Direct ML.

I found a couple of 2022 posts recommending 3090s, especially since cryptocoin miners were selling lots of them cheap. Thanks for the heads up about the 5000 release, I suspect it will be above my budget but it will net me better deals on a 4090 :P

Do you know how much wattage those GPUs use, even if I disconnected my solar panels and ran the card 100% 24/7? Protip: it rounds down to zero.

If you’re serious about the global environmental crisis, comrade, organize with others to fight industrial-scale culprits instead of wasting your valuable time blaming trivial people.

Changed my mind lol

I haven’t determined that. I only have one device set up to run SD and haven’t organized any test with someone else.

I mean, if the concern is that tiling is a factor relative to non-tiling, okay, but if someone else is tiling, l’d think that they’d get the same output.

That’s true, I’ll check to see if the metadata mentions the tiling was used.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a lemon

Good call-out. My (naïve) understanding is that tools like tiling VAE to handle low VRAM, and lowing steps in the more stable of the samplers, are going to have a generally negative impact on the result, and a very similar image with better detail could be remade using similar variables on better hardware. Maybe that’s a bit idealistic. Like you said, the seed mode usually changes images with size. (You said ‘usually’, is there a way to minimize this?)

edit: I’m aware ‘better’ and ‘higher quality’ are vague and even subjective terms. But I’m trying to convey something beyond merely higher resolution.

Carl and the Aqua Team make their position on piracy very clear.

https://inv.us.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=MCTlcJMCSpM

Reminder to be aware of darknet mirrors like I2P sites and Tor .onion services - domains aren’t controlled by a company so they can’t just be taken down by a legal request.

For z-lib, the Wikipedia article lists their .onion and I2P addresses (I haven’t verified them so check before bookmarking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

This was interesting. I know two of the small communist sites I use are hosted on these services so it’s good to know how stable the ground is.

Thanks for the detailed reply :)

I agree with all your points, it is misleading and potentially harmful to use a strong term like spyware to refer to all of those things, without further context. I guess I’m still used to a couple of tech circles where people would jokingly throw ‘spyware’ around to describe anything and everything, so I didn’t realize how misleading it really is. Especially when it’s applied to things like automatic updates, which only the most extreme security models consider more of a risk than a security feature.

That website has a very strict, unusual interpretation of ‘spyware’. Even if all the telemetry and unprompted connections made by Mozilla Firefox are in good faith and legitimate features, that website still labels it ‘spyware’, as it is revealing unnecessary information without your consent.

The same website gives Tor Browser a ‘Not Spyware’ rating, as it (necessarily!) removed the default features of Firefox that concerned them.

Side note - I think you may have accidentally marked your account as a ‘bot account’ in the settings.

It’s Chromium-based, so I don’t understand how it could be “configured in the same way”.

That website is […] full of verifiably false information

Could you please provide and example or two? I wish to verify it, since I didn’t notice any last time I checked the site.

they act as if any and all [unprompted] connections a browser makes are automatically bad and “spying”.

They’re very clear that this is their approach (bold text on the home page). Even if you disagree with their definition, that doesn’t make the site bad. And there are many valid situations where a threat model should be this strict, consider anti-government activists in any country.

They even claim that Tor Browser is a “spyware”.

It says “Not Spyware”. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/tor

Firefox gets a high rating on default configuration.

The next line explains that with custom configuration, it becomes Not Spyware.