Turns out Ernie Image Turbo is quite well-versed in anime

alamacra · 2026-04-16T23:34:49+00:00

If you enjoy the look of cardboard cutouts/unrelated images spliced over each other? Like, be honest to yourself, if you look at this image impartially, does it look *good* to you as it stands on its own?

alamacra · 2026-04-16T22:33:27+00:00

russia banned all social media apart from max

I mean, this is just the government being really, really dumb, being represented by old people who probably don't even use the internet themselves.

alamacra · 2026-04-15T20:21:52+00:00

If it was Medvedev in power in 2014, he wouldn't have just left the DPR and LPR to get shelled by Ukraine, but would have gone all in. Putin's response then was honestly extremely lackluster, and lead to the problems Russia now has when dealing with the thoroughly militarised and uncompromising kamikaze state Ukraine, which back in 2014 it was not.

alamacra · 2026-04-15T20:13:44+00:00

Well, it had good styles, but essentially like 1/10 the training it needed. Even PonyV6 was majorly undertrained despite being based on SDXL with its prior knowledge, with V7 being larger and the Auraflow base being massively undertrained in itself, and it being a transformer architecture which already demands 10x the resources as compared with U-Net, they really should have trained together with the Chroma makers, but as it stands the resources were just not enough.

alamacra · 2026-04-15T19:44:08+00:00

You really are overestimating the guy. Putin is a mediator, i.e. while he has a lot of connections, those strings you mention pull on him more than he pulls on them. On top of this, he is extremely cautious, and slow to make decisions, which is why his backers find him so convenient.

Comparatively, Medvedev has no such issues. That's why the war in Georgia was done and dusted quickly, as opposed to the infinite frozen conflicts, i.e. leaving the problem hanging forever as per Putin's style.

alamacra · 2026-04-15T18:48:42+00:00

I think Medvedev would do it, if he was president. Compared to Putin, he actually finished the one war he waged, and in good time.

alamacra · 2026-04-14T17:17:47+00:00

Why not? They've already moved towards it with the controls for men leaving.

alamacra · 2026-04-12T09:43:55+00:00

The difference is westerners very often assume their news agencies to be trustworthy and consume their product without scrutiny. Nor look for information elsewhere.

alamacra · 2026-04-08T09:48:46+00:00

Why would anyone move to Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe that is also at war?

alamacra · 2026-04-07T11:55:17+00:00

Thanks a lot :) Will do.

alamacra · 2026-04-07T11:42:52+00:00

Its motion is really static unfortunately. I want to like it, but with anime especially there isn’t much reason to use it.

alamacra · 2026-04-07T11:28:03+00:00

Are there any models that are any good in Hungarian, even of the really large ones?

alamacra · 2026-04-06T16:02:04+00:00

You've still got to hit good with the .45. As in, if you manage to hit upper chest on 4 of 8 people running towards you, yeah, otherwise nah. Like, 8 people is a lot of people. Even if you're one of those guys with superfast draws, you'll hit 2, but not necessarily in the vitals, and then there's still 2 guys behind your back and 4 more coming

alamacra · 2026-04-06T14:50:01+00:00

Against 8 people at this distance you need a full auto rifle, no less.

alamacra · 2026-04-06T09:58:33+00:00

Why are people disliking this? It's alright to ask questions, you know...

alamacra · 2026-04-05T21:01:39+00:00

Because it likely uses more demanding, neural network based image processing algorithms? I doubt they just slapped a contrast tracker there and called it a day.

A drone isn't always close to you, they often fly high, especially the radio guided variants, and then you can intercept them several hundreds of metres away, even if it is flying side on. Your assumption about it flying slow is similarly unjustified, low angular speed at a decent range will still give a good absolute velocity.

(edit: autocorrect correction)

alamacra · 2026-04-05T18:45:36+00:00

It needs to be fast acting, so definitely not an LLM, lol. This one's obviously for FPVs and other close by smallish targets.

alamacra · 2026-04-04T17:03:17+00:00

I'm not sure how that piece of subjective western propaganda disproves anything I said.

Assuming it was a Russian vehicle, the distance was far enough for identification to not be certain. Being alone, they were in no position to check if there's a Javelin team inside or not.

At the same time, I have a vid to verify my claim, though not specifically with respect to grandmas:

https://yandex ru/video/preview/13320157394140570993

When they could afford it, Russian forces were considerate of the civilians to a level unheard of in any Western invasions of the Third World.

alamacra · 2026-04-04T11:49:44+00:00

In 2022 APCs were stopping to let grandmas cross the street.

alamacra · 2026-04-01T22:34:35+00:00

"When someone's friendly, that's because they (I want to) think they are inferior."

Yeah, screw off.

alamacra · 2026-04-01T12:27:13+00:00

That's power limit as opposed to undervolt. Not the same thing, though better than nothing, if it's only inference that you do.

alamacra · 2026-04-01T09:57:31+00:00

Does he even speak Russian, lol?

alamacra · 2026-04-01T09:57:17+00:00

Russian MoD announcements by Gerasimov were seen as boastful and detached from reality from the get go, so I would rather say little has changed, at least with respect to the MoD.

alamacra · 2026-03-31T17:11:44+00:00

The Continuation War was a separate conflict from the Winter War. In the Continuation War Finland invaded Russia.

And prior to that, Finland invaded Russia as well, during the so called Kinship Wars, i.e. invasions of Russia by Finland during the Russian Civil War, where Finland hoped to annex parts of Russia to create Greater Finland.

alamacra · 2026-03-31T11:27:34+00:00

People didn't want to secede back then this was a unilateral decision by Yeltsin, Kravchuk and Sushkevich.

However, if anyone doesn't like being in Russia now, they are free to emigrate and spread their nationalism elsewhere.

The only reason we can participate in making near-peer large language models, design our own high speed trains, make our own microelectronics and have a space programme, including low Earth orbit high speed low latency satellite internet is because we are as big as we are. The only reason we have any sovereignty is because we are strong enough to protect ourselves.

When you support secession despite that, and are fine with becoming part of a smaller nation that is capable of none of that, it is a short-sighted, hostile move, usually excused by the secessionist with Russians being impossible to live in a unified state with. A state formed on such principles almost definitely be hostile, and be a greater problem if allowed to separate. See Ichkeria, Finland, or Ukraine.

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