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ComodoHacker··on CT scan shows there's still lots of toner left in an “empty” cartridge
Ironically, the printer industry is getting off with less scrutiny from regulators because safety isn't involved.
ComodoHacker··on Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
Now you should count keystrokes for your type of solution.
ComodoHacker··on Username cannot contain 'clyde'
I guess Bonnie isn't ready for release yet.)
ComodoHacker··on Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
But you can't use Briar and the like with this Client Isolation, can you?
ComodoHacker··on Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
>> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

That was a really shocking insight for me. We do not own our means of production. And suffer all the textbook consequences that follow.

Maybe unions could help with that. Imagine using union-funded licenses, compute, storage etc. to experiment with your side projects, build your prototypes without risk of losing IP to your current employer.

ComodoHacker··on Starlink User Terminal Modchip
Traffic interception.
ComodoHacker··on Starlink User Terminal Modchip
Russian intel would be very grateful for the possibility to hack into terminals used by Ukrainian troops.
ComodoHacker··on Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
Microsoft Word never had problems with inserting any formatting at any position in the text. It also has some visual style indicators via caret shape and size.
ComodoHacker··on Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
Consumes 85% CPU on my Firefox. I'm sure both Firefox and this tool could do better.
ComodoHacker··on Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption
Tox doesn't leak anything, but it's not widely used.
ComodoHacker··on Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
It's a daily planner, if I'm not mistaken.
ComodoHacker··on Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
More context: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y99yb1/a_s...

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RunwayML, who co-authored the StableDiffusion paper and funded CompVis together with StabilityAI, have unilaterally released the newest model of StableDiffusion, version 1.5. It seems that this was done without StabilityAIs consent, who so far have held the finished model back to supposedly prune it of NSFW stuff. This is criticized by many and accusations exist that they are only doing this to make more money as the 1.5 model has been available for quite some time on their own website against a usage fee. Do note however that the 1.5 model has only very minor improvements over the 1.4 model.

The link to the model can be found here: https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5

The release was accompanied by the following tweet from RunwayML:

https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1583109275643105280

This was followed by an accusing statement by a - now confirmed to be fake - account claiming to be Patrick Esser:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1023643945319792731...

The model was released under the following license which indicates that RunwayML were legally allowed to release the model:

    Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5. This provision does not apply to the use of Complementary Material. You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License; You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files; You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model, Derivatives of the Model. You may add Your own copyright statement to Your modifications and may provide additional or different license terms and conditions - respecting paragraph 4.a. - for use, reproduction, or Distribution of Your modifications, or for any such Derivatives of the Model as a whole, provided Your use, reproduction, and Distribution of the Model otherwise complies with the conditions stated in this License.

    Trademarks and related. Nothing in this License permits You to make use of Licensors’ trademarks, trade names, logos or to otherwise suggest endorsement or misrepresent the relationship between the parties; and any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Licensors.
The license can be found here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/CompVis/stable-diffusion-licen...

This was followed by a takedown notice from StabilityAI:

    Company StabilityAI has requested a takedown of this published model characterizing it as a leak of their IP

    While we are awaiting for a formal legal request, and even though Hugging Face is not knowledgeable of the IP agreements (if any) between this repo owner (RunwayML) and StabilityAI, we are flagging this repository as having potential/disputed IP rights.
The takedown notice can be found here: https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/discus...

This was followed by a statement from RunwayML in that same thread:

    Hi all,

    Cris here - the CEO and Co-founder of Runway. Since our founding in 2018, we’ve been on a mission to empower anyone to create the impossible. So, we’re excited to share this newest version of Stable Diffusion so that we can continue delivering on our mission.

    This version of Stable Diffusion is a continuation of the original High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models work that we created and published (now more commonly referred to as Stable Diffusion). Stable Diffusion is an AI model developed by Patrick Esser from Runway and Robin Rombach from LMU Munich. The research and code behind Stable Diffusion was open-sourced last year. The model was released under the CreativeML Open RAIL M License.

    We confirm there has been no breach of IP as flagged and we thank Stability AI for the compute donation to retrain the original model.
Emad, CEO of StabilityAI, has come forward on the official StableDiffusion discord stating that they are okay with the release and have taken down the takedown notice:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1015751613840883735...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1015751613840883735...

Emad also says they didn't send the takedown request: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1032745835781423234/1...

ComodoHacker··on Website Fidelity
Firefox's reader mode keeps some images, but actually loads less data.
ComodoHacker··on NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
The price is mostly deploying, not building.
ComodoHacker··on The Overflow Offline project
They could actually try to build a Copilot competitor off their data. /s
ComodoHacker··on NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
>Rotate the camera a bit

Not that easy if "the camera" is JWST.

ComodoHacker··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
It's end-to-end, clients store the keys.
ComodoHacker··on A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
> Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience.

I'm sure there was some warning. But you know, users don't read messages...

ComodoHacker··on Select * from cloud
What about joins, are they supported? Can't see them in the examples.

The real power of SQL is locked until you can join different data sources.

ComodoHacker··on KittyHawk air taxi startup is winding down
More like they'll take the luxury cars market. You don't have to drive/fly one regularly, owning is often enough.
ComodoHacker··on An upside-down backup strategy
But do you verify your backups?
ComodoHacker··on Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day
Turns out yes, there were explosions: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/svt-avslojar-tva-explosio...
ComodoHacker··on Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day
Troops could be sent for other purposes, though. Like they were sent to Kazakhstan before Ukraine, without invading. So it's kind of smoothing. I'm not sure was it intentional or not.
ComodoHacker··on Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day
Does it mean there was an explosion?
ComodoHacker··on Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)
It's not insane. I currently live in a house where some older rooms have 0.9 meter adobe brick walls. These were built in mid-XX century, when this was normal. Now we have better materials and don't need that much width.
ComodoHacker··on Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl
> currently, even if you search for kapwing on Google, kapwing.com does not show up in the results

This is false. My first result in Firefox is https://www.kapwing.com/tools

ComodoHacker··on What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
They also don't use Access to store Windows Update catalog. I don't see anything wild here, appropriate tools for different jobs.
ComodoHacker··on BigFAT – Backward compatible FAT extension for unlimited file size
The problem is you can't get there without out-of-the-box support.
ComodoHacker··on DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
You have to wait a little bit more, until HD video synthesis is possible on a mid-range GPU. Then on a mid-range smartphone.
ComodoHacker··on Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme
I find it useful on Telegram. There's a lot of scamming/phishing there too. It has helped a lot during pandemic peak to filter out misinformation.

But if it's for everyone, it won't make much sense. You can legally change your name to match anyone's, get that tag and scam others.

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