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Or you could spend $25 a month on a dedicated server and run SearxNG or Yacy? Good lord what an excessive amount of money that is to search the web...

Lori is a she, not a he.

A collection-in-progress of music retailers offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

Felt like sharing this given the massive number of complaints around FireFox denying the ability to install add-ons, in another comment thread... never had an issue like that with ESR releases, or IceCat.

Eh, so far in my experience nobody's been shouting across the restaurant or hole-in-the-wall place; normally it's a hand wave or signal, or often a button or bell.

Maybe I haven't been going to exciting places...

And as for taking my order before reading the menu, depends how fast you can decypher the translation of whatever app you use :) (assuming a non-Japanese speaker)

But it's not 88x31 D:

A series of tubes!

I love these! :D It's so fun looking through all the relics of the old web, and the buttons still relevant to current era internet.

I made one for hetzner: https://jason.nabein.me/buttons/hoh-88.png

and one for Runbox email: https://jason.nabein.me/buttons/runbox-88x31.png

Although I should change Hetzner to Netcup now

I recognize that this is an advisory post, but I have seen a number of people out there that shout this as a valid reason to not use Mastodon, which I hate, and I feel is such a lazy excuse.

You know what other sites don't have encrypted DMs?

- Twitter

- Facebook Messenger

- Instagram

- TikTok

- YouTube

- Reddit

- LinkedIn

- Email

and on and on.

Basically ANY major site that doesn't explicitly advertise DMs as E2E (or encrypted alone) can just be assumed to NOT be encrypted. So why complain about Mastodon alone then (again, directed at the hypothetical person).

Beyond that, yes it's a bit of an issue where the admins of an instance can read your DMs. If that's a problem, then you yourself can self-host an instance, or find a friend to do so, and enjoy peace of mind.

Or, just use an encryption method like PGP, encrypted online text paste services, saltstack, etc new fangled encryption methods, or send pre-encrypted files hosted on external services.

end rant blah

AirBnB works in my opinion best for very remote, or not-tourist travelled places. Where you're going to the island of Sørøya, for example, and there's literally no hotel space or otherwise accommodations available. Unfortunately, big business management companies exist in Norway too... go figure.

Agree with the other commentator, that can happen literally anywhere in the world. Bedbugs are THE human parasite, fuck em but they're everywhere. You should do your due diligence when staying or traveling anywhere, before putting bags down or sleeping in a new space.

So I've been seeing a lot of anti or negative AirBnB reviews and comments recently and honestly, I have to ask... where the hell are people staying?

I've booked about 10 AirBnBs over the past month, while travelling through Europe. I basically had to as my mental and physical health had deteriorated due to staying in hostels, with the never ending cycle of snorers, lights on, late night returns, etc. And hotels were absurdly expensive.

Each AirBnB that I booked, in

* Barcelona, Spain

* Amsterdam, NL

* middle-Germany

* Denmark

* Norway

were all someone's extra space in their house they had; or a side unit to their main house; or their entire place and they were on travel or business outside the country.

Additionally, ALL of them I booked were far, far cheaper than hotels by many margins, and I could cook to my diet in many of the spaces I stayed. That really helped cost wise too.

None of them had ridiculous cleaning requirements OR cleaning fees (and I clean the dishes and pots and pans I use by hand simply because I need them again or otherwise, and I'm not an animal). None of them had ridiculous AirBnB fees, although most were pretty much a good deal, and then AirBnB fees made it a bit less of a good deal.

Sorry for this sounding a bit preachy, I'm well aware of the damage AirBnB does to communities, cities, countries even but I'm baffled how many shitty experiences it sounds like people are having recently.

(there's a BIG anti-tourism/anti-AirBnB mentality and movement in Barcelona, which I experienced first hand not getting any change back for a 10 euro bill on a 2 euro purchase; minor but still, sheesh)

On the other side of that, I'm also fully on board with properties that were bought explicitly to use as AirBnBs or rental homes for tourists, to return to market, and I really hope that does happen. I say that because as evidenced by my experiences, there are still places that sort of follow the original ethos of AirBnBs: rent your extra personal space out.

I typed all this from a small basement area in Norway, that I booked on AirBnB, which is very comfortable, and relaxing. I made some great pasta too, which honestly I can't say I've ever been able to do in hotels. Also, I have far greater concerns with hotels and *bugs than with AirBnBs and similar stuff, but that's just me

Honestly though, I will probably avoid using AirBnB in the future as best I can, especially as it seems unnecessary through Japan.

So, some context for this. Recently a new feature was rolled out to Tumblr, where you can change or add a community label to a post. More details on it here: https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/5436241401239, but the tldr is posts can be flagged based on some possibly troubling or triggering content for some viewers.

Once the general Tumblr-sphere caught on, people thought this meant "Go nuts, show nuts" was back; as in, NSFW is generally allowed again. However, that was definitely not the case, as nothing in the TOS or other site details was updated to reflect allowing NSFW. This was just an addition that we're (Tumblr users) suspecting is one part of possibly allowing NSFW content again.

Thus the above is why I think photomatt put that post up, perhaps in response to all the inquiries and buzz on the site.

Source: daily tumblr user :)

>there are at least three different interfaces/machine styles

Yes!! This drove me nuts.

Not only are there different UIs, but the physical UX differed sometimes too! I really, really want to know who's idea it was to implement the rollbar they have on the machines, because that absolutely does not work well. And the fact it rolled on one machine up and down, and on the next it's reversed??

I hate buying mobile tickets but sometimes it's just so much more convenient.

> Besides the hassle that the paper tickets were (they become unreadable if you look at them wrong)

Or the paper ticket is even slightly bent. Or bent in half. Or mildly wet. Or a corner is folded. Or sometimes it looks fine but just won't work. Or it works at one station but not another.

I say all that because each situation happened to me on my visit to Barcelona this summer :)

I also had a problem where I had to basically rebuy a new 10-trip ticket twice within a day of each other, because the first got folded in a bag, and the other I thought I misplaced (only to find it at the absolute bottom of a heavily packed shopping bag). Oh and the one day I tried to get my folded ticket replaced, the only station I passed through was closed early! How convenient :)

Basically, those paper tickets WERE a pain. But I don't like the new photo ID cards they're introducing either. Good luck I suppose...

First day in my visit to Paris this summer, I passed by a Navigo machine that seemed to be stuck in a locked boot state. I guess the internal IDE drive died if it was stuck searching.

Image: https://i.imgur.com/N3oD09H.jpg

Text ID Transcript

  Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally
  Copyright (C) 1984-2003, Phoenix Technologies, LTD

  **** SOM-4487 BIOS A3.02C (2009/06/02> ****

  Main Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz(100x10.0)
  Memory Testing: 491520K OK +32768K Shared Memory

    Memory Frequency For DDR266
  Detecting IDE drives ...

  Press DEL to enter SETUP
  11/06/2008-i855-W83627HF-6A69YAKEC-00

Just interesting what's powering systems like these!

Wow, that sounds like a good improvement.

I am also wondering, do you follow the general advice of 1 iteration and 1 sample, for example:

--n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 (when referencing commands using txt2img.py)

I figure you could wait a bit for things to process going further, but curious just if you're getting results like that with higher sample/iter settings.

Sorry about that, web link rot sure is real eh.

This is an example of the original file: https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion/blob/79ac0f34...

Which seems to have been renamed, and cleaned up a bit here: https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion/blob/main/doc...

However, per the note on the magnusviri repo, the following repo should be used for a stable set of this SD Toolkit: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

with instructions here https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/blob/main/docs/install...

I know this is HN, but an entire thread about imposters and not one mention of Among Us... maybe that's just my viewpoint :)

But that said, I do wonder if Innersloth actually has to deal with similar issues like this, especially after the boom of interest in the game. Maybe not?

Not M1 comparible but I'm working on testing various GPU vs M1 comparisons, with a few accessible cloud providers. My impression is times should be the same, but it's nice to hear other real-world stats for M1 with SD. Makes me really want to rent the Hetzner M1 now.

Which repo or build are you using BTW, is it the one related to this readme?

https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion/blob/main/REA...

Thank you for sharing! I used their music and art AIs with great success for new suggestions! :)

now THIS is good website design :D

100% agree! Unseen64 unearths some seriously cool stuff. I think an even equal pairing to unseen64, and in the same vein TCRF, is https://hiddenpalace.org/

What Unseen64 and HiddenPalace find and preserve is seriously invaluable in this area of interest.

Really not sure how to describe it but I love the layout of this. It fully reminds of me old print mail-order catalogues which always had all sorts of zany products. Although here, things for sale all seem quite practical to the right person :)

The Cutting Room Floor - Research on unused and cut video game content. Definitely one of my all time favorite sites to spend spare time on. https://tcrf.net

Ken Fern's Plant databases https://theferns.info/

U2-3 - The Famous 1000 copies of U2's first ever release https://www.u2-3.com/

Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art (may contain some albeit low quality NSFW artwork) http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/danacovers.html

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Digging through the Geocities Torrent https://blog.geocities.institute/

and finally, The End Of The Internet https://hmpg.net/

I've kept a bit of a running list on my site here: https://jason.nabein.me/#links

This was a fantastic read! The Bob seems like a very cool device for those in specific situations (small apartment, van-life, etc).

I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for similar write-ups, whether tech related or anything else really? I was thoroughly engaged with this in a way I can't seem to get with books or many other articles and written documentation.

Looks like S3 storage prices are unaffected... for now. C14 is just too convenient.

What are you using instead of plastic jewel cases? I just really can't see any alternative that's as safe, reliable, and easy to replace.

The thing about CDs and LPs is that they're a store of value, similar to older books. I sold my old LPs but definitely got less than I could have, and I'm not gonna make that mistake with my CD and tape collection. Right now there's at least 10 CDs I bought that have gone up in value in the past year alone.

I'm not happy paying scalpers, but I WILL pay a Discogs merchant to sell me specific region-locked media (for example, Japan-only releases which often feature special remasters, or often bonus tracks and extra media). The cost of buying from them is often the same or slightly above paying through the real site (plus translation headaches), and cost of a reshipper.