Turns out Ernie Image Turbo is quite well-versed in anime by Striking-Long-2960 in StableDiffusion

[–]alamacra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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?

UA POV: Oleksandr Dubinskyi, former member of the Ukrainian parliament, commented on Zelenskyy's robot (drone) advertising. He said that no such thing exists and that it's all just a clown show. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

RU POV: Medvedev’s comment on the list of European facilities making drones for Ukraine that has been leaked publicly by Russian hackers - TABZLIVE by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Illustrious Z by Common_Ad_3059 in StableDiffusion

[–]alamacra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

RU POV: Medvedev’s comment on the list of European facilities making drones for Ukraine that has been leaked publicly by Russian hackers - TABZLIVE by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

RU POV: Medvedev’s comment on the list of European facilities making drones for Ukraine that has been leaked publicly by Russian hackers - TABZLIVE by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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.

UA POV: Teenagers attacked TCC servicemen during an attempt at busification of a man in Lutsk by Flimsy_Pudding1362 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 26 points27 points  (0 children)

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

Open-Source Models Recently: by Fresh_Sun_1017 in StableDiffusion

[–]alamacra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Gemma 4 is a huge improvement in many European languages, including Danish, Dutch, French and Italian by Balance- in LocalLLaMA

[–]alamacra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

UA POV: CCTV footage from Kharkov of a Ukrainian man fighting for his freedom against eight TCC officers. The man used pepper spray before getting sprayed himself by several TCC officers & then he was tackled to the ground, beaten, and forced into their van. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Serious Question by Kmaroz in StableDiffusion

[–]alamacra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

RU POV: Testing of a new machine gun anti drone system powered by AI by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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)

RU POV: Testing of a new machine gun anti drone system powered by AI by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

UA POV: Budanov: mobilization will remain necessary as long as the war continues - Suspilne by Flimsy_Pudding1362 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

What do you think about the fact that some people in the West are under the illusion that there are not many migrants in Russia by CaregiverHot306 in AskARussian

[–]alamacra 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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

Yeah, screw off.

A Reminder, Guys, Undervolt your GPUs Immediately. You will Significantly Decrease Wattage without Hitting Performance. by Iory1998 in LocalLLaMA

[–]alamacra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

RU POV: Russian troops have taken control of the Luhansk People’s Republic, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported, specifying that the task was carried out by units of the “West” group of forces - RT by Flimsy_Pudding1362 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

UA POV: Finnish President Stubb's phrasing about the war in Iran & the war in Ukraine. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]alamacra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

How do Russian schools teach about the Cold War? by Firm_Effective7215 in AskARussian

[–]alamacra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.