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  1. Comment on Generative AI for Krita in ~tech

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    Krita is more digital art oriented with advanced brushes and workflow tailored for tablet use, but at this point it can do most thing GIMP can with a better interface, maybe some filters are not...

    Krita is more digital art oriented with advanced brushes and workflow tailored for tablet use, but at this point it can do most thing GIMP can with a better interface, maybe some filters are not available but I'm not totally sure.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Generative AI for Krita in ~tech

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    This plugin for SD in Krita is awesome, it allows you to draw and get "instant" (pretty quick) generations from your drawing. I find having it in a full fledge art software instead of a hacky web...

    This plugin for SD in Krita is awesome, it allows you to draw and get "instant" (pretty quick) generations from your drawing. I find having it in a full fledge art software instead of a hacky web control center really change the dynamic, you can use the generation just to refine your drawing, it will fix your pose and proportion, show you the muscle, it's fun and makes you want to draw, etc. It's a great learning tool and it makes you feel much more in control than prompt based systems. It's also very well integrated in Krita and easy to setup. I think we're getting pretty close to the "end-product" for that type of models with this.

    Some quick sketches I've made :

    https://imgur.com/a/QFMJsHj

    15 votes

  4. Comment on Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985) in ~music

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    I've been blessed by youtube's algorithm today.

    I've been blessed by youtube's algorithm today.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Is Tildes failing to thrive? in ~tildes

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    Given that it's still in "invite-only alpha" with very little development, no promotion and no clear future plan it's not surprising it's not thriving. If anything it's surprising it's still so...

    Given that it's still in "invite-only alpha" with very little development, no promotion and no clear future plan it's not surprising it's not thriving. If anything it's surprising it's still so active, although reddit being so bad certainly helps (some lost users randomly end up here via word of mouth).

    13 votes

  7. Comment on The Assist - Thoughts on AI coding assistants in ~comp

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    I think another aspect is short time vs long term, I feel like LLM can help you to go quick early on at the price of long term learning. E.g. compare starting from code LLM snippet and toying with...

    I think another aspect is short time vs long term, I feel like LLM can help you to go quick early on at the price of long term learning. E.g. compare starting from code LLM snippet and toying with them vs reading the doc.

  8. Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech

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    I've played with Stable Diffusion and local LLMs but I find them too limited still, I have zero trust in LLMs (too many mistakes) so I have to double check everything and it's not really saving...

    I've played with Stable Diffusion and local LLMs but I find them too limited still, I have zero trust in LLMs (too many mistakes) so I have to double check everything and it's not really saving time. Although for code translation from one language to another it was marginally useful. Document retrieval was useless. Stable diffusion is great for one shot images but you can't do much more that (e.g. I tried to train a lora for a character but it's pretty limited). Audio stuff is also quite limited and sounds so so. Unironically the best use case is erotica.

    If I have some boring admin letter to write I might use a GPT though.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Jacques - Porte s'ouvre (2022) in ~music

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    Yeah youtube recommended it to me, that's how I know him.

    Yeah youtube recommended it to me, that's how I know him.

  10. Comment on Jacques - Porte s'ouvre (2022) in ~music

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    Some good French pop that didn't had much success it seems, even though it's better that most of the country's production.

    Some good French pop that didn't had much success it seems, even though it's better that most of the country's production.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Learning new programming languages with limited time: Rust, golang, or otherwise? in ~comp

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    You could try Julia : ++ Somewhat different paradigm with multiple dispatch, something new to learn compared to other language ++ Package/environment manager (you can organize your code into...

    You could try Julia :

    ++ Somewhat different paradigm with multiple dispatch, something new to learn compared to other language
    ++ Package/environment manager (you can organize your code into packages and even have a local package registry)
    ++ Interactivity (REPL is super good)
    ++ Fun and easy (to some extend)

    -- Limited compilation capabilities at the moment
    -- Lack of libraries outside of scientific computing

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Generative AI - We aren’t ready in ~tech

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    I think at the end we will need some kind of "internet security number" given by a governmental agency (like a social security number) that needs to be provided to register, comment, etc. The main...

    I think at the end we will need some kind of "internet security number" given by a governmental agency (like a social security number) that needs to be provided to register, comment, etc. The main worry is privacy but I think there's ways to double blind things.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    Julia, people say Python is easy but I find Julia much more consistent and easy to use (looking at you conda/pip).

    Julia, people say Python is easy but I find Julia much more consistent and easy to use (looking at you conda/pip).

    1 vote

  15. Comment on AI is ruining the Internet in ~tech

  16. Comment on 'Barbie' review: Sometimes corporate propaganda can be fun as hell in ~movies

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    Felt like insincere purple-washing to me (the movie even tells you so at the end ; it's all about selling shit). And I found it quite boring as well. Barbie character progression didn't made much...

    Felt like insincere purple-washing to me (the movie even tells you so at the end ; it's all about selling shit). And I found it quite boring as well. Barbie character progression didn't made much sense (just sit on bench 10 seconds with your eyes closed ?), the mother-daughter relation went nowhere, and Ken was just too dumb & cliché to care about. Given the success of the operation I can't wait for an avatar style movie by ExxonMobil or a Babe sequel by the American Meat Institute.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Share your favourite short animated films with me! in ~movies

  18. Comment on Is it possible to build a sustainable image and video hosting service? in ~comp

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    Maybe severely limiting what gets saved would help. I imagine that a large portion of these media are garbage, reposts, etc. Not too sure how that would be done technically though.

    Maybe severely limiting what gets saved would help. I imagine that a large portion of these media are garbage, reposts, etc. Not too sure how that would be done technically though.

  19. Comment on I wanna hear your music! in ~creative

  20. Comment on Apple Vision Pro – Hardware issues in ~tech

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    Yeah it's a bit expensive, although the Rokid max has OLED panels that apparently looks better than most VR googles.

    Yeah it's a bit expensive, although the Rokid max has OLED panels that apparently looks better than most VR googles.

    3 votes