eshep

General love of all things linux and the choice it provides. I prefer to hang my hat in gentoo with e16 but do like to keep up with other stuff.

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2026-07-07 13:10:20 UTC

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And sorry @[url=https://cosocial.ca/users/evan]Evan Prodromou[/url] for startin a long bit'a (unrelated?) chatter under yer video.

2026-07-07 12:54:53 UTC

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Hopefully you get at least a couple of the recommendations I sent you to come on and chat about stuff. I'm really enjoyin the ones you've done so far.

2026-06-19 12:02:56 UTC

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[abstract=apub]re: The next clash between Mastodon and the non-Mastodon Fediverse is imminent[/abstract]
@[url=https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/jupiter_rowland]Jupiter Rowland[/url]
I've not yet seen any posts, attacking or otherwise, taking this stance, but I have seen quite a few Mastodon bios lately that seem to push it; things like [strong]"will block"[/strong] or [strong]"will not boost"[/strong] for posts without alt-text.
I have family who have varying levels of blindness who consume media from all over the internet. All of them have been quite thrilled about the state of these new robot assistants we all now have such easy access to.
Specifically assigned "alt-text" is never necessary. If you could be bothered to type up a meaningful post that accompanies the image, instead of just lazily reposting every shit meme you find without providing any context of what it means to you or why you want people to see it, this wouldn't be an issue that anyone thought needed fixin.
I'm sure there's a better way to describe it, but the word "gentrification" always comes mind when I see this sorta shit. I say fuckem, if that's the way they wanna play here, I prolly don't care read what they post about anyhow.

2024-11-27 10:49:07 UTC

Been playin around with #[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=ComfyUI]ComfyUI[/url] and #[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=SDXL]SDXL[/url] models for a few months now, what a fun tool. Lately I've been rather obsessed with using it to creating some ""paintings"" that I have floating around in my head. I learned most of the technique from a fella on YouTube called Rob Adams, with a bit of side reading to figure out what some of the things were I needed to play with to get what I want from his method.
I start with a basic two-tone mask that I crudely draw to give the model a main direction for the things I describe, then add a noise layer on top of it. From there it moves on to the first pass which takes an overly (#[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=ollama%29]ollama)[/url] complicated series of concatenated input prompts and gives me a very rough (1024²) idea of where I'm headed. Then I crop a 16:9 section from that and scale it up a bit; this is also where the most of the color tweaking is done. Once I'm happy with this ""starting point"", I pass it on to another run through a different set of models to get my final image. Once I adjust the lighting on that one, it get's upscaled again for use as merely a wallpaper, maybe I'll print em out one day ...maybe.
Finally, today I've gotten my image composition layout to work the way I want, so I figure I'd share a few samples.
[url=https://social.trom.tf/photos/eshep/image/19042196166746f368ae8e8989522206][img=https://social.trom.tf/photo/19042196166746f368ae8e8989522206-1.png][/img][/url]
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[url=https://social.trom.tf/photos/eshep/image/96336102526746f12129803010424336][img=https://social.trom.tf/photo/96336102526746f12129803010424336-1.png][/img][/url]
https://social.trom.tf/photo/19042196166746f368ae8e8989522206-0.png
https://social.trom.tf/photo/43079599216746f0f9da927375924619-0.png
https://social.trom.tf/photo/96336102526746f12129803010424336-0.png

2024-10-07 11:37:54 UTC

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I wonder, should I start holding people responsible for not explaining things they didn't write directly to me, in a way that makes it easy for me to understand? 😜