Dec 27, 2022
How to install (and run) Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion (SD) is the most flexible, and open way to generate AI artwork, simply because it can be installed locally - compared to other solutions like artbreeder, or midJourney which are proprietary version - stable diffusion is open for the public.
The hardware requirements though is quite demanding, as you will need a recent computer with a modern AMD or Intel processor, 16 GB of RAM, a good video card like NVIDIA RTX GPU (8 GB of memory), and a minimum of 15 GB of free storage space available.
You could theoretically install SD into a virtual machine, but then it will run in a lower speed (not being able to access the video card), generating a simple image of 512x512 will take up to 30mn.
The installer (tested and working as of Dec, 26 2022) is located here (for Linux and Windows) the installation process is pretty long, Python 3 will be installed, then many other python packages...
Once the download is finished, access the extracted zip file and run ./start.sh (which is the way you will later run the SD as well).
In case you get errors, most of the scenarios are covered on this page
https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui/wiki/Troubleshooting
As for example, I had this scenario:
- the installation went fine, and once it was ended, the internet browser popped up with the address localhost:9000 and then this error would occur:
Killed uvicorn server:app --app-dir ... --port 9000 --host 0.0.0.0
The reason I had this error was that my setup for the virtual machine had too little memory (4GB), and unless I setup up to 12GB that error would appear.
Dec 23, 2022
First steps with Midjourney
Dec 22, 2022
First steps with AI learning
Since AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all over the place right now, I started to look into that topic and found a few interesting websites.
First, AI is really a revolutionary step forward, why am I saying this?
Well, just look at the music, images that are now generated by a simple text prompt, this is insane, this technology is close to magic, really - it is advanced mathematics, but it feels like magic.
You say the word, and the picture appears in seconds, with visual that can be compared to the most talented artist creation. That is magic.
How does it work, in the background, I have tried to get into the basic of 'Stable Diffusion' (SD for short) and basically it comes to Machine learning, there is a very extensive data set of images, or collection of similar photos, that will be the starting point, then a model is made that is the part which is traditionally called the software, the algorithm, thanks to that part SD will be able to produce an artwork that looks like a painting, or in the style of a particular artist, or a visual style.
To summarize:
- Dataset, that will train the machine learning
- model, that will be interfaced with the program to produce a particular 'style'
and then running the whole thing into a browser
The picture above is 'Black widow' using a style byMarvel Studio, quite decent result
Dec 6, 2022
Next level instagram effect with lensa.ai
Remember my post about 'reface, prequel' filters application back in September 2022?
Well, this is old news, the new filters are now artificial intelligence boosted with lensa.ai (developer, Prisma labs, inc.)
The Lensa AI app is currnetly (Dec, 2022) the No. 1 spot on the iOS App Store's "Photo & Video" charts. "
Lensa AI works by inviting users to upload 10-20 photos of themselves.
Using the open source Stable Diffusion model, the app processes your photos to generate avatars of you that look like they were created by a digital artist.
Dec 5, 2022
Z-library down past Nov. 4 2022
Z-library was a database of e-books and scholarly articles operational from 2009 to November 2022.
The site was an important resource for many people, most of them college students.
The website was shut down on Nov. 4 2022 after the U.S. federal government seized its domains.
The domain has been seized, but Z-Library website is still available via Tor and I2P network.
Nov 20, 2022
Twitter Saga continue
Elon twitter saga as of November, 18 2022
In a nutshell: One of the world's richest men asking his staff to work unpaid overtime (and at high stress level) so he can recoup some of the billions he lost, when he overpaid for the company. Elon Musk is not an idiot, he is just a complete narcissist.
Can you imagine how many staff were just slacking off at work over the last couple weeks?
Elon has slashed the workforce by 50% and the rest would do overwork to compensate?
For Elon this is a cultural backslash, because Engineers who went to work at Tesla and SpaceX (even though they are paid below market rate) were true believers.
Their idea was to work for a pioneer company with futuristic products, top notch technologies ... and these engineers worshiped Elon.
For Twitter this is another story entirely, the company has a different culture to begin with, and they were acquired ...
and when you take over a different company full of people who are not already part of the personality cult of Mister Musk, then the clash was inevitable.
Now I am sure Musk is very surprised that after he laid off half the workforce, fired people who criticized or corrected him, cut all remote work, told people they must work long and hard hours (and weekends), and gave out tons of mixed messaging as to who would actually have a job when all was said and done, some employees might not actually want to stay.
The real question is, when will Twitter implode completely, and which tech giant is going to swoop in, buy what's left, and combine Twitter with their own offerings? Google? Microsoft? Apple?
Some would like to see Elon acquire Facebook, or Instagram just to see these other 2 platforms implodes ...
but that is just mean.
Nov 4, 2022
The Twitter buzz
This month (Nov 2022) Elon Musk bought Twitter at $44 billion (an estimation of Twitter 'real value' would be around $10-20 billion)
When Musk realized that mistake (buying something that isn't profitable)
Then having started the buzz around this new acquisition, and in the name of "free speech" Elon's next logical step was getting ready to dump 50% of the office staff and also planning on making a blue check mark (you know the one for verified government, journalists, celebrities) - well that 'check mark' is now for sale by anyone for $18 per month.
After this Stephen King called it a joke and Elon replied asking if $8 would be better.
In the end Twitter is about to get rid of its moderation team,
and anyone (gullible enough to buy that 'blue check mark') can appear as a "reputable source"
Will this save this investment financially? not sure
But there was a massive exodus, and now people are kind of hating Twitter.
Oct 8, 2022
Could this be the end of copyright music, photo, movies?
Oct 7, 2022
ImageAssistant Batch Image Downloader
Pullywood ImageAssistant
It Is a chrome extension for sniffing, analyzing and downloading images from web page,
it's good compatibility allows users to easily extract images loaded by flash or ajax.
You can get it from Chrome App Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjbempljhcmhlfpfacalomonjpalpko
http://www.pullywood.com/ImageAssistant/shortcut.html
Enjoyed by 300K users to this day
currently in Version 1.66.6
Updated July 16, 2022
Size 3.27MiB
It works wonder for bulk downloading pinterest, instagram feeds
and in its basic feature you can restrict the download from a certain size (to avoid getting lower resolution pictures)
ImageAssistant is a browser extension running on chromium (developed in the chrome environment) and its derivative browsers
the extensions provides a variety of filtering methods to assist users in selecting and bulk downloading pictures from a selected page.
The extension includes 3 extraction modes:
- the basic mode "Extract the picture on this page" (default shortcut key: )
Only for picture labels, label background pictures and pictures loaded in other ways on this page
- the enhanced mode "Prefetch link"
Will prefetch the links in the page on this basis
- the "Analyze prefetch data",
To get more this mode will further analyze the prefetched data on the basis of "Prefetch Link" and try to obtain the image data in the DOM (if the link is a web page)
Sep 26, 2022
Sep 23, 2022
Amazing Instagram artists : David Amyot
Sep 22, 2022
Nathan W. Pyle on the start of "Strange Planet"
@nathanwpylestrangeplanet 6.5M followers on Instagram
The simple idea of questioning everything as we would be an alien looking at us (on Earth) and thinking 'why are they doing it this way? why are they living like this? why are these humans accepting this?'
Pretty fun, and brain tickling
Sep 21, 2022
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Sep 15, 2022
Looking for 'Out of space' issue #1 on the web
As an search practice, here is a little hands-on search training
the goal is to find the 'golden comics' issue of "Out of this world" number 1 published in 1950
What we know about this issue is that it features the first appearance of Crom.
Go ...
Step 1:
- google https://www.google.com/search?q=out%20of%20this%20world%20issue%201
will return a lot of information on the magazine itself
it was drawn partly by Joe Kubert
contains an adventure called 'Lunar Station' for 10 pages
but where is the comics itself?
Step 2:
- google https://www.google.com/search?q=out+of+this+world+issue+1+pdf+download
from there switch to https://digitalcomicmuseum.com
Step 3:
From there we discover that there was another book called 'Out of this World adventures' but this one is not featuring Crom
and lower we found the comic
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=12606
Bingo!
Sep 13, 2022
Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 2
Sep 12, 2022
Instagram top 10 - September 2022
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4th | Leo Messi | 358M | 296 | 894 |
5th | Selena Gomez | 343M | 227 | 1,831 |
6th | Dwayne Johnson | 333M | 593 | 6,744 |
7th | Kim Kardashian | 328M | 197 | 5,600 |
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9th | Beyoncé | 273M | 0 | 2,039 |
10th | Khloé Kardashian | 268M | 103 | 4,112 |
Sep 6, 2022
WALLY WOOD - 22 Panels That Always Work - Part 2
Sep 5, 2022
Comics: WALLY WOOD - 22 Panels That Always Work
Sep 1, 2022
reface, prequel and werbleapp to add fun to your instagram feed
Remember ToonApp? Well, it is old story now
If you want to turbo boost your Instagram with crazy animation, style conversion, and face swap ; there are plenty of fresh apps to do just that, see for yourself and these apps are still free.
werbleapp
Adding some peps on photos, by transforming them into mini looping animation
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4A4IHJymL/
Pretty amazing result
Aug 26, 2022
New DCSS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) version 0.29.0 is out
Stone Soup 0.29.0 (20220823)
Highlights
New Meteoran species - powerful, but with heavy time pressure.
Ranged weapons have been extensively redesigned and streamlined.
Necromancy and Kikubaaqudgha have been overhauled and powered up.
Many backgrounds have extra consumables to handle early tricky situations.
The Abyss is deeper and more rewarding.
Branches, Environment
The Abyss has been reworked.
Piety and experience are once again awarded in the Abyss. When the abyssal rune generates, it's announced and appears on the map. New decorative 'runelight' features now indicate the rune is close by. The Abyss is now 7 levels deep, with the depths beyond A:5 continuously swarming the player with dangerous foes. When entering the abyss by any means, the player is sent at least as deep as their previous deepest abyss depth.
Dungeon shafts try not to send the player directly into monsters' sight.
All descents of new stairs and hatches are now fast, not just one per floor.
The Lair is now 5 levels long (was 6).
Zombies and skeletons are removed from normal Dungeon spawns.
Temple sizes now range from 6 to 21 altars, with a small chance of rare temples with 0, 1, or 22 temple-god altars.
The Zot clock now only instantly kills the player if they're extremely badly drained. Otherwise, it applies very heavy draining and refreshes the clock.
'Hell effect' events fire on entering floors, instead of on a timer.
Character
New species: Meteoran, stars fallen to earth in human form. Features:
Strong attributes and very strong skill aptitudes.
Exploration healing, regaining HP and MP when viewing new territory.
Passive mapping of the dungeon around them.
Hunted by darkness: only 600 turns per floor until Zot catches them (instead of the usual 6,000).
Many backgrounds start with new consumable items:
All 'mage' backgrounds now start with a potion of magic.
Gladiators add a single throwing weapon (javelin, large rock, or boomerang) to their starting kit.
Monks start with a potion of ambrosia.
Hunters gain a scroll of immolation.
Brigands get an additional poisoned & curare dart.
Chaos Knights start with a piece from Xom's chessboard.
Artificers trade their chesspiece for five iceblast charges.
Wanderers get an additional random potion or scroll.
Abyssal Knights start with more piety and standing on the abyss exit.
Transmuters start with a potion of lignification.
Warpers start with two more dispersal boomerangs (a total of 7).
Enchanters start with a second potion of invisibility.
Ranged weapon skills and starts are streamlined (see also "Items" below):
The Bows, Crossbows, and Slings skills are combined into a single Ranged Combat skill. Most species have aptitudes equal to their best previous ranged aptitude.
Hunters always start with a shortbow, and no longer have a short sword. They have higher dexterity and lower strength and intelligence.
Arcane Marksmen always start with a +1 sling.
Necromancers start with the new spell Necrotize instead of Animate Skeleton and Pain.
Some species were tweaked:
Merfolk polearms aptitude is decreased to +3, and long blades aptitude increased to +2.
Mummy necromancy enhancers now arrive at XL 3 and 13.
Demonspawn demonic touch damage is doubled.
Formicids' base dexterity is increased by 3.
Formicids can again wield giant (spiked) clubs.
Palentongas' base strength is increased by 2, and their roll attack noise is reduced by two-thirds.
Spriggans can no longer wield triple crossbows.
Some mutations were tweaked:
Positive stat mutations now give +4 to the primary stat and -1 to the other two, instead of only giving +2 to the primary.
The -Scroll and -Potion mutations are now regular 2-tier mutations in the bad mutation pool. The Ru sacrifice corresponds to the 2nd tier.
Teleportitis and Berserkitis are reduced to 2-tier mutations
Deep Dwarves are removed.
Gods
Kikubaaqudgha is overhauled:
Corpse Delivery is removed and replaced with Unearth Wretches, which summons paralysed, 1 HP, 0 Will monsters that die in a few turns. Necromantic fodder...
Torment no longer requires a corpse sacrifice.
The pain brand can be applied to ranged weapons.
Lugonu's Bend Space is adjusted. It no longer does damage, and makes a better effort to blink monsters away from the destination.
Uskayaw grants piety for damaging enemy summons.
Ru's Sacrifice Experience now only takes one XL (was two).
Various Ru sacrifices (including Experience) have their piety values tweaked.
Interface and Options
Common menu navigation commands are mapped via CMD_MENU_... commands, and can be rebound by bindkey options (local tiles/console only)
Keycodes for rebinding keys are now the same across all builds.
Keybinds, macros, and keymaps now accept human-readable key names for many special keys (e.g. "F1", "NP." for numpad ., etc.)
Numpad keys can now be bound separately in all builds.
Improvements to specific menus:
The Fire menu now allows selecting any item with a targeter. This includes items that don't show the targeter by default but do have a useful targeter, such as scrolls of fear.
In menus for equipping and using items, a toggle allows switching between item type.
In most menus that list items, or allow describing a menu entry, entries can be described without changing the menu mode by using the ' key, or by right clicking (tiles only).
Item type hotkeys in the inventory now scroll, instead of select.
The * menu for Firing is now used to select items to toss away.
The branch overview menu now shows zot clock values when they are low.
tile_sidebar_pixels option: allows resizing local tiles sidebar icons.
Items
Ranged weapons are streamlined (see also "Character" above):
Launchers no longer use ammunition.
Launcher attack delay is increased by armour penalties.
Fustibali are removed. Hunting slings are renamed to slings.
Launchers have had their stats adjusted across the board. In particular, hand crossbows are made much rarer and more powerful.
Launchers all use the Ranged Combat skill.
Launcher, long blade, and short blade damage scale with Dex instead of Str.
New concept: "alternate items". Some item types are grouped into 'sets', and only one type from each 'set' can generate in a game. Background starting items ignore this.
New item: scroll of butterflies, which summons a large cloud of butterflies. Alternates with scrolls of fog.
New wand: Light. Fires a damaging bolt of blinding light, blinding on hit. Alternates with acid and quicksilver.
New wand: Quicksilver: Fires a quicksilver bolt, dispelling magical effects from targets it hits. Alternates with acid and light.
New wand: Roots: Fires a 3x3 ball of roots, constricting enemies in the radius. Alternates with iceblast.
Wands of paralysis now alternate with wands of charming.
New item: scroll of poison. When read the scroll of poison fills every unoccupied space on the screen with poison clouds for 10-20 turns.
New unrands:
The +8 trishula "Condemnation" {holy, Anguish Fly rN+}. Inflicts 4-8 turns of Anguish on those hit, making them take damage when dealing it.
The +3 mountain boots {steadfast, rC+}. Prevents the player from being involuntarily moved by physical means (trampling, shafts, harpoons, etc.).
New unrand: the +5 lochaber axe, which cleaves through all foes in reaching range. Uses the higher of the player's Polearms and Axes skill.
Items can have vault-redefined skins. Yuif now has hammers again (renamed maces). Sigmund and Reapers' scythes are now renamed halberds.
+MP items remove MP when they are taken off.
Stones always mulch when thrown.
Unrandart tweaks:
the Glaive of the Guard is reduced to +5.
the arbalest "Damnation"'s explosions now do 2d14 damage (was 3d14).
Gyre & Gimble are increased to +12.
The Woodcutter's axe is now a battleaxe.
the amulet of Vitality now gives two pips each of Regen and RegenMP, and is now evil.
Scrolls of holy word are removed.
Monsters
New uniques:
Amaemon the Diabolical Poisoner, a poison-themed demonspawn unique appearing with a band of orange demons in mid-D, early Lair, and Orc:1.
Lodul the Thundrous, an ironbound thunderhulk sent to patrol outside the Vaults. Appears in late D with a band of fellow ogres.
Zenata, Seeker of Sheza. Summons dancing weapons and casts Resonance Strike, doing extra damage when constructs are adjacent to the target. Wields a valuable weapon. Appears searching Vaults:1-4, Elf, and Crypt.
Parghit the Mighty, an "alt-timeline" version of Pargi with extremely high regeneration and enchanted golden dragon scales. Appears in late Depths and Zot.
Josephina the Ice-Lich, an "alt-timeline" version of Josephine with Seracfall and a band of simulacra along side Ghostly Fireball. Appears in Depths, Zot, and Crypt.
Grunn the Punished, an "alt-timeline" undead version of Grum, with a pack of doom hounds. Appears in Depths, Crypt, and Zot.
Vv the Exile, an fire/ice spellcaster with Creeping Frost, Eruption, and Pyroclastic Surge. Appears in Depths, Crypt, and Zot.
Monster move energy is no longer randomized.
Monsters gain a 1/3 chance to gain a free attack on a player moving away from them. Wu Jian martial attacks & rampaging give immunity, and monsters that don't move fast enough to follow you can't attack.
New monster: starflower, a stationary plant with harpoon shot and reaching distortion melee. Found guarding valuable places in the abyss.
Gnoll shamans are renamed gnoll bouda, and have a new spell set.
Animated Armour now flies.
Monster wand power is reduced.
Spells
Necromancy reworked:
New Spell: Necrotize (L1 Necromancy). Necrotize deals damage identically to the old Pain spell, but additionally gives the monster a short-lived status that causes it to animate as a skeleton on death (if it has a skeleton).
Animate Dead reworked: for a duration after being cast, the dead have a power-dependent chance of rising as allied zombies. The zombies are permanent until the player leaves the level or re-casts Animate Dead.
Simulacrum is now a smite-targeted spell that gives an irresistable status. Monsters that die with this status spawn a power-dependent number of simulacra.
Corpse Rot is now Level 4 Necromancy/Poison/Air. For a duration after being cast, dead monsters have a chance of producing deadly miasma.
Death Channel cannot be re-cast while active.
Sandblast no longer uses stones as ammo. Instead, it takes half again as long to cast as a normal spell. Its range and accuracy are increased.
Airstrike's damage bonus from empty space around the target is doubled.
Irradiate now causes dangerous contamination in 3-4 casts (was 4-5).
Flame Wave and Sticky Flame now do roughly 25% more damage.
Ozocubu's Refrigeration and Freezing Ramparts now check AC, but do more damage. Refrigeration also now does reduced damage to creatures adjacent to others, but no longer applies -Potion to the caster.
Hex miscasts now only slow the player, instead of also cancelling effects.
Removed: Animate Skeleton, Pain, Excruciating Wounds.
Tiles
Some mutations now have associated art.
Many more status effects (e.g. Dazed, rF-) now have associated icons.
Monsters with Reflect (e.g. from a shield) now display an icon.
All species now have new statue form tiles.
Many new alternate tiles for Djinni and Nagas.
The Lernaean Hydra now has unique tiles when skeletonized.
Borgnjor's Mausoleum and Tukima's Studio have new environmental art.
Runed door tiles have been reworked for greater visibility.
Aug 24, 2022
How to use google lens
From a previous post
right-click on the image and select
'search for image'
This will open https://lens.google.com
Aug 23, 2022
Mr Bison Cammy
This picture does not exist elsewhere,
Google search will never find any other match for it
This is a doctored photo of Cammy
Trivia question on Cammy scar on the cheek:
From many sources Vega gave her that scar on her cheek. Vega being so vain, didn't want Cammy to be more beautiful than him, so he scarred her face.
Jul 28, 2022
Monkey Island 2 as a Flash animation
Remember this announcement?
It is still a work in progress
what could be cool, would be to have a nice little animation of Monkey Island 2 as it would be a cartoon, that would be really cool!
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
Trending search with Pinterest
Here is an example of trending search
https://trends.pinterest.com/detail/?country=US&topTrends=-1&terms=lady%20death%2Bcosplay%20makeup
As of today (2022) about half of the devices used to browse the internet are Android Mobile
cosplay trend is lower than 'home office idea'
Jul 19, 2022
Playing with cards - guess red or black card trick
I found this nice article in another blog
that got me interested in card tricks
And I found this little magic trick that is pretty fun to do, and requires a little preparation
Here is how it is done:
With a deck in card, select one red card, and one black card
put them in front of the audience, and point the red card then pick from the pile 2 cards
and ask the audience to 'guess' which one is red
once the audience has selected one card, show it to the audience and then proceed with the next 2 cards in the pile.
And once 4 cards have been added to each red of black revealed card
then return the entire stack of cards, and it surprise the audience as they will discover that all cards on the left are red, and on the right are black
See the demonstration here https://youtu.be/d7g4jQ3_Uu4
Jul 8, 2022
Indoor fun times with D&D
Bring your inner child out to play
In 2022, Gen X and Boomers will be all over playful pastimes like indoor board games, battles with miniature trolls, goblins and barbarians and toys keep the big kids young at heart.
Why not going back to play Dungeons & Dragons?
Compared to old times, now all the D&D resources are available on the net, more often than not totally free as pdf files.
And if you don't like D&D then try Dungeon World,
or other time period like Apocalypse World for Mad Max themed role-play
Jul 1, 2022
Amazing Instagram artists series: @rincityofficial
1,640 posts >> 147K followers >> 2,049 following
Las Vegas Model / SuicideGirl / Instagram Famous
allmylinks.com/rincityofficial
Jun 21, 2022
Amazing Instagram artists series: @Sykosan 最高さん
Check out Sykosan portfolio, #tutorials, Patreon etc.
#sykosan #2danimation
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- 288 posts
- 94.2K followers
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