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>i dont game or mine coinz
>see someone made a Stable Diffusion LoRa for a rare character I like and decide to give it a try
>there are a few tools and workarounds to stop my ~decade-old budget GPU from out-of-memorying, like tiling, although the quality is still ok enough for basic hobby fun
>decide try to make a new embedding for a rare character
>see a guide for [their formatting kept] "VERY LOW VRAM"
>aw sweet
>mfw "VERY LOW VRAM" is now apparently "[12GB/16GB/20GB]"
bitch i aint payin half a thousand for very low vram
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>>26476
If the program has sufficiently local access patterns, you can get decent performances with mostly swap.

Mine has 256M.

>>26478
There's swap for video?

>>26484
I thought VRAM meant virtual RAM/memory, my mistake. The answer to your question depends on how the application manages memory. System level memory access will pass through the virtual memory subsystem, but low-level VRAM access will be bounded by physical size. The program might even implement its own virtual memory layer for obvious reasons. Integrated graphics are a special case, because they often map their VRAM onto a physical memory region, whose size is sometimes governed by dynamic bios settings.

I suggest you take a look at the memory settings of your application. Performancewise the worst-case scenario would be running a virtual machine that emulates a video card.

>>26476
Isn't stable diffusion minimum VRAM like 4Gb?

>>26488
For one, I believe you can run it on CPU/RAM only if you have enough, it will just generally be much slower.
I don't have a 4GB VRAM device and I'm running it. But newer higher-res models trained on larger pics (e.g. 1024x1024 pics instead of 512x512 pics) or any upscaling to a larger output requires using tiling (generating e.g. 4 smaller images to make one big image) or just using CPU mode. So 4GB would be the recommended, at least for whenever model they were talking about.



 

What are some leftypol-approved fedi instances?
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>>26463
it certainly seems like a lot of fediverse users bring twitter baggage with them. like they think they can somehow block specific users from reading their public posts on the federated microblogging network. it boggles the mind

>>26465
what's the G? looks like a sex app lol

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>>26466
GNU Social

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Why is the Plegorra fox missing from OP's picture?

>>26466
OnlyGnus



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General thread for text editors

Have a favorite text editor, or found a funny / interesting one recently? Found a neat feature / trick that's sped up your workflow?

🎨: foxpile.online/@lennox
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y is copy and p is paste, even I know that much.

Visual Studio Code. Everything else I tried was either crappy with shit integration with anything or a memory hogging monster

>>26323
text editor: vim
IDE: VScode (or VS proper for certain languages/environments).

Some resources on text editors and typing in general:
https://texteditors.org
https://www.finseth.com/emacs.html
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html
http://xahlee.info/kbd/how_to_press_control_key.html
>>26325
it reads like something a twitter user would add, because they assume people are too dumb to use reverse image search or feel the need to venerate intellectual property.

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>>26458
Thank you Xah Lee, very cool!



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Hello, consider me a guy who happens to know top secret leakers because I've been interacting with amateur researchers that recovered a computer the US Government hacked. And apparently they declassified federal (glowie) tricks

Here are packages the glowies download on the recovered computer

osinfo-db
osinfo-db-tools
libosinfo
libisofs
libiptcdata
libgsf
libgrss
libcue
libtracker-sparql
tracker-3
tracker-miners-3
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>glowies abuse GNOME Tracker to monitor people's computers
KDE chads win again

>>25920
>libcue
the relevance of security exploits in this library proves once again, that djb was right. most program code, especially parsers and encoders/decoders, should be untrusted and have an explicitly defined dataflow https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

>>25922
https://langsec.org/
most if not all 0days have to do with parsing, especially ignorant programmers implementing their own bespoke parsers

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GEGL guy here (also OP), I don't know what happened to the post I made a few weeks ago, maybe it never posted but in July 2023 it was discovered that tracker's library `libcue` had an active exploit that allowed arbitrary code execution. Which basically means a cracker can run any code on your system they want.

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-10
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/100884806/#100894578

Followed by a unpublished discovery of glowies using tracker3 metadata to spy on users once they hack a machine. This suggest that glowies were involved in the development of tracker3 and intentionally made tracker3 vulnerable because it does two things 1. collect meta data for them, 2. run arbitrary code. Its fixed now but for years they could have exploited this and I believe strongly that glowies were the ones who made the exploits in tracker3.


Anyhow, why are all images here broken?

>>26440
A combination of disk failure and shitty backups.



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Everybody here is saying that smartphones are the worst modern consumer electronics but I'll tell ya hwat: TV is much, much worse. Android and Apple phones at least give you some control over what you do with them. TV is deliberately designed to waste your time and feed you ads constantly. There is only an illusion of choice (switching channels) while everything you watch is made just to fill the TV schedule. Even if YouTube and Netflix are close to mindless TV surfing they at least give you an option to have some actual agency in what content you're watching, and both of them don't have any ads if you pay a fee (or install an adblocker as is the case with YouTube). In order to watch something that's actually worth your time you need to somehow find good programs in a flood of shit in a schedule that's constantly shifting, dedicate time in your schedule to a specific show to not miss it and pray that it isn't plot-driven 'cause then you'll be missing out on everything that happened before. Most of this can be somewhat mitigated with a recorder (not the ads) but you need to know in advance which shows are good and which are shit, and TV subscriptions are split by channel, not by content. And you can't just listen to it in the background, TV shows are LONG and require a lot of attention compared to radio shows.

TV is worse than YouTube, TV is worse than Netflix, TV is worse than DVDs, TV is worse than VHS, TV is worse than radio, TV is worse than GOING TO THEATER. So why, why would anyone want to watch it compared to anything I just mentioned?
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>>26374
>ads 50 years ago: telling you why their product is good to use, and maybe a short little jingle with a cartoon character
>ads now: stock footage of people having fun on the beach, going hiking, laughing at parties, teaching their child how to walk, vaguely being happier or cooler than you, and then the brand name appears at the end with barely any indication of what they sell

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>>26375
50 years ago was the mid 70s, ads were already all 'artsy' then, you're thinking more like the early 50s.

yes I remember the pre-internet era when all people did was watch TV. And it was like a one way propaganda source. At least on the internet literally anyone can share information, and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it. With TV and radio it was nothing but whatever is relayed by whoever has control over the broadcast.

>>26270
ever heard of switching the channel, OP?

>>26425
>and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it

Most people choose not to and choose to believe what they want to believe.
When I was younger I used to think that the internet would basically prevent the populace from being duped into…anything, because theres that two-way sharing of information aspect to it. But now its obvious that it, too, can be subverted and used by the powers that be to make us forget that they are the enemy.



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ADHD anon who post thread about OCD symptoms here a while back.
this:
https://leftypol.org/tech/res/21660.html
i also post this thread:
https://leftypol.org/tech/res/21508.html
i actually deleted all of my archive and all of the inside of my main folder (folder that i use for unimportant stuff like posting in ibs and e-books). i just want you guys to know so nobody have to worry about stuff here being in somebodies hard drive/computer. compass-dichotomy-isms, thread, posts and writings here doesn't get archived, so don't worry.

Hi anon, does that mean you're not worrying about your files anymore? I'm proud of you!



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Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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🎨: scribblewise

>>25863
Is this your OC Anon?

>>25869
Nah I just think they're neat looking. Reminds me of the cover art for Knife Man - AJJ.

The sound doohicky




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Every few months, people come up with an idea to create a new imageboard, since mostly everyone is dissatisfied with the state of vichan/lainchan, or thinks they can do it better. Having better software would greatly enhance the experience for both regular users and mods, and have more crossover appeal to “normies”. The problem is that no one can agree on the technical or more importantly non technical decisions on how one would go about making an actual, usable replacement for lainchan.

In fact, people don't even agree on whether the imageboard replacement should be an imageboard at all. This thread is a merged, consolidated, megathread of all the various attempts at answering this question that people have made.

Previously, there was a thread on outreach to lainchan, including a strawpoll:
https://lainchan.org/%CE%BB/res/26674.html

The poll determined it should be built in Java, but a significant minority wanted to use a functional programming language, esp. Haskell, or Clojure/Lisp.

The only way a new imageboard will be built is if multiple people, technical jannies and lurker-programmers, from here and lainchan and even elsewhere, actually collaborate on a single project and concentrate their efforts on this.

There are important technical and non technical questions to be answered.

Namely, do we even want an imageboard?

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>>26396
>Anon making a board in C++ with a team here, we need name ideas for the imageboard and for the company/organisation that makes it
Chan++ ?

>>26396
>privateware
Seems like some play on anonymous would be the way to go

>>26400
geg, maybe 5chan. However, the fact it's written in C++ is just a detail, this wont be another gochan or jschan. >>26036 is our goal, we still have to make it clearer though.
(at least we hope so)

>>26401
I also proposed "anoncodes" but "priva(te)ware" is my favourite so far

>>26396
Make it something memorably unremarkable, like NGchan, quickboard or anond.



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This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).

Mobile Support:
https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
Thread For Mobile Feedback: >>>/tech/6316

Matrix rooms:
https://matrix.to/#/#leftypolPublic:matrix.org

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible

Archived thread:
>>>/leftypol_archive/903
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>>25851
Works on my reader (Flym)

>https://git.leftypol.org/explore/repos
<https://docs.gitea.com/usage/blocking-user
In light of the recent bot swarm, what is the Dev team's thoughts on closing the Gitea register to stop the spam of bots? Instead perhaps we could allow approved users to make an account.

When are you gonna fix the pdf uploading system!? How can I upload documents and have them look like file rel when uploaded?

When I find out why it's broken

Moved to >>>/meta/34491.



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So Marxism-Leninism is obviously opposed to abstraction since it's idealism, but what will be the fate of programming languages that have their entire root in abstractionism like Python and R? I know biotechnicians base a lot of their technical knowledge in these languages which is basically called for since a large portion of biology nowadays is dominated by mendelian idealists who think lysenkoism is wrong and bad, so clearly programming languages have suffered from the same kind of idealistic penetration as biology itself. Will communism destroy idealistic programming languages like python and R?
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Remember in my math classes constantly looking back to the set theoretical definitions and theorems; there is something to be said for having these abstractions which none the less allow you to trivially bias them to get more work done, and more understanding of the topic.

>>26373
>>26377
>abolish spoken languages
On this point words like "Marxist-Leninism" conveys almost nothing to the average person (it doesn't even have an entomology), and vast quantities of commonly used categories or names are completely misunderstood or are so poorly defined as to barely exist in the first place.


If there was definitive proof communism would destroy Python, R, FP based languages, and stinky CS PHD's, all my friends that are not juniors would support it.

Well instead they support it based on facts and logics. Funny how every one in C++, including me, is some sort of anarchist/libsoc. Freedom from the bourgeoisie, the state, and the compiler, or death!

>>21261
>abstractions are idealist
Vulgar Marxism be like, smh.

Economic classes are themselves abstractions. Our natural languages are based on abstractions. We literally cannot think without using abstractions. Just stop.

Abstract programming languages are compatible with Marxism. And I would claim they're the only truly proletarian languages since they're easier to learn and understand for the non-programmers. And the more abstract they are, the easier they are to understand which means more contributions to FLOSS projects and more eyes on the code.

Now which is better: Python or Lisp?



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