Yeah, the Firefox junk is just noise, the other 4 are the anomaly, especially those two IP addresses. Neither of those addresses are mine (yes I checked).
My monopoly money is on it coming back empty, and failing to deorbit. If I could fly for travel, I wouldn't fly Boeing. I certainly don't want to be on their rocketship. Half the code, labor, and spare parts are sitting in some worthless corporate monkey's bank account.
I just went to use nvcc for the first time and this nonsense hit my firewall. Make won't compile but it has to do with my unwillingness to use the proprietary toolkit. This network activity only happened once on startup.
There are likely automatic checks in the startup script. I don't use A1111 any more in favor of Comfy and I only have a 3080Ti with 16 GB (mobile version). I can run within issues. The only time I have issues with anything AI related is when I need Nvidia's proprietary compiler nvcc. I need nvcc to hack around with things like llama.cpp. With nvcc, it can have issues with the open source driver
A whitelist filtered firewall never gets CAPTCHAs. The only ones I ever see are if they are self hosted on the server of an approved address, and that is like one every few years. The majority of those that you see are not related to the websites you visit. In most instances it is related to 3rd party junk, probably ads' PII.
So in other words, the final outcome is rigged and the supreme court decision is already bought and paid for.
It might have a temperature cutoff for the compressor
You get used to how to find the right way of doing stuff. If you're still in the Windows biased search results space, everything FOSS is made to look sketchy. Those search results are not deterministic. That bias is intentional. Eventually Microsoft stops biasing you or bribing Google to do the same and your search results will be better. Then you stop using the search results all together for the most part. You'll figure out that the ways you did things in the past were inefficient and usually wrong. There are better ways that you'll discover and those repos are self hosted or on gitlab or elsewhere. You eventually just use RPM fusion, or you setup distrobox with Arch and the AUR, or you toss on the Nix package manager and start using flakes. The vast majority of my initial headaches were due to trying to replicate Windows workflows. Then I learned all of that was weird and pretty backwards.
It hints that the model may know both a pool of fasteners and individual types. It wasn't just trained on what fences are or board constructed elements as those would have defacto defined what a fastener means in the context of a fence. This looks more like a mix of hardware types, so on some level it knows about these specific details. There is probably a trained use case where the company is generating media for product, architectural, and/or automotive design.
The latch/hinge/tool looking monstrosity with a pipe/nail, looks like it was in the mid evolutionary stage of iteration. If anyone reading this has never had advanced control of a model it will be hard to understand, but there are steps to the generation process. In some sampling techniques a similar type of object is first generated quickly out of the static noise. Then the model focuses on small areas of the image specifically, evolving these almost in isolation for several iterations before moving to another small area. With this kind of sampler, some part of the image is always in transition. If you have control over the stepping process, it is possible to dial in the steps to a point that the attention is on the background or in a intermediate state that still looks natural.
There are also sampling techniques that make almost video like changes that look more like claymation in an animated stop motion like film where stuff slides into frame and moves with lots of things happening at once.
Muad'Dib rides the Shai Hulud of Catadan
Crazy, out of the box abstract thinking here, but explosives are just highly volatile chemistry. Batteries are all about galvanic potential in slightly less volatile chemistry. Batteries were developed for life cycle reuse. For drones, surely some chemist out there can think of a way to make a single use battery that is also an explosive. Perhaps one that has the structure to mount a small electronics kit with a few motors.
I figure I would share this one more time. The thing is so handy I put it on my desktop but the original is blinding white and 1.5:1 aspect ratio. This is a quick recolor and resize to 16:9. There is a 90px margin on top that is sized for the GNOME header so that the content remains visible. Sorry if this post seems redundant. For me, having this reminder to keep trying to use Emacs is just the motivation I need to open a file in Emacs instead of just using gedit quickly.
::: spoiler bonus tip!
On Fedora 40, if you have darkmode set to the default in GNOME, GNU Emacs does not follow the darkmode styling directive for the menu bar. I spent forever trying to make this work in darkmode. If the app is launched using $ GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs it will start with the menu bar set to dark mode.
However there is a script that actually launches Emacs in /user/bin/emacs-desktop. If you open that file and modify it by adding export GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs just before the last line, it will launch with darkmode enabled. This is the entire contents of that file:
#!/usr/bin/sh
# The pure GTK build of emacs is not supported on X11, so try to avoid
# using if there is an alternative.
if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = 'x11' ]; then
case "$(readlink -f /usr/bin/emacs)" in
*/emacs-*.*-pgtk)
if type emacs-gtk+x11 >/dev/null; then
exec emacs-gtk+x11 "$@"
elif type emacs-lucid >/dev/null; then
exec emacs-lucid "$@"
fi
;;
esac
fi
export GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs
exec emacs "$@"
I'm not claiming it is the right way. It just worked when I tried it.
Seems helpful for noobs like me.
Early wannabe EE aspires to stuff too much into too little and gets carried away. I actually got sidetracked with a dumb idea of making complex animations on a character display, called the thing "Juice Box," set it up to play the Mario theme song on a piezo and did a whole intro thing that kinda took away my motivation to program the voltage monitoring and digital potentiometer, or something like that. I forget what the hiccup was exactly. This was back when I was still willing and naively going through massive physical ups and downs with disability from my broken neck/back. I probably put it away in one of the 3-6 week stretches without much sleep at all and never managed to come back to it. It is the same story with most of my hardware projects, and why I may seem quite capable, but will readily admit I'm pretty much useless in my physical shape overall.
I never did fit it into the final enclosure despite ridiculous plans that were almost as overcomplicated as my etch mask art.
Printed button details for good engagement and function are hard. Didn't have an ideal wiring multi conductor available. Solid proje is maturing well with 2 years of dust.
Does that sound like legitimate behavior for a compiler. I don't consider such stalkerware data theft acceptable.
Both Librewolf and Firefox both have the QoL junk. Even after turning booth booleans off for Detect Portal, they still spam the messages constantly to let the host server know I'm still present and trackable, or whatever spin they try and put on that feature.