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.
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.
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.
Large, explicitly general-purpose communities shouldn’t be defederating with such trigger-happiness. It’s damaging to its own users ability to join communities they like, and for other instances’ users to constructively post and support their own communities. The point of federation isn’t to form cliques.
Also, it’s in pretty bad faith to assert that most of the people complaining must be from Hexbear. Most of the posts I’ve seen so far pointing out the contradictions in this announcement are from long-time active accounts from all around the place. (Your account, on the other hand, is literally one post old…)
If this was a specific-purpose non-politics instance like many are, I’d say power to you. But for an general-purpose instance that advertises itself as being:
A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.
Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use.
…then there’s a need for some serious self-examination. Preemptively blocking thousands of users, and talking about blocking another long-lasting substantial community because some other community made comments about them? This is disappointing, this does not sound properly thought-out.
You’re right, defederation should only be considered as a last resort. Not as a broad-spectrum discriminatory first action.
This is true, politics is not something distinct which can be considered separate from or optionally added to society, culture or economics, although Lemmy is also explicitly political. That might be more what I intended to say.
(The real kicker is realizing that abstaining is not politically neutral.)
Yes. This is a different platform, I’d rather we don’t just transplant all the reddit problems here.
Lemmy is inherently political. It was and is a revolt against reddit’s staff, their business model and the influence of US politics, media and corporations on their platform due to their advertising model. This place wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t political differences.
We’re not here to impress people who were banned for spreading Nazism. Go to all the reddit-clones that started in the early 2010s when reddit got called out for hosting toxic racist-or-fascist hate communities and communities sexualizing minors (e.g. /r/jailbait).
Changed my mind lol