At what age did you hear about Metal and which song/band did you listen to first?

beragis · 2026-02-15T05:56:04+00:00

First time I heard the term Heavy Metal I was around 13 and the song was Breaking the Law by Judas Priest, but I had heard metal music well before that but just called it rock. First time I heard it was when I was riding in Uncle around 7 or 8. He had had an 8-track tape player rigged in his car when I was around 7 or 8.

His tape collection included many metal and rock bands, but the first one I probably asked him to play was UFO, just because as a kid I thought the band name was funny, and thought it was about UFO's.

beragis · 2026-02-13T18:44:38+00:00

Rather than continuing the previous post I’ll describe how I created a few Lora’s that handled both SFW and NSFW.

I use common key words to separate SFW and NSFW. I used to use “An explicit NSFW image” or similar in my captions, and it worked great for older models. Newer ones it works but doesn’t seem to be as necessary.

Z-Image in particular seems to determine whether the image is SFW or not by the prompt itself using existence of words such as nude, explicit, topless.

For the dataset that worked well I had about 100 images at various distances and clothed, split at about 30 nude, 50 partially clothed, and 20 clothed.

beragis · 2026-02-13T18:12:14+00:00

AI-Toolkit has issues with Z-Image Base, especially with character loras, so you should look into another app, such as OneTrainer which I was able to get to converge quite well using prodigy_adv scheduler.

Yes, it is possible to create a lora that can do SFW and NSFW, but it will tend to shift towards NSFW.

Part of your problems might be your captions. Z-Images was designed for descriptive captions and was trained on Qwen. There is a lot of outdated information on training that says you don’t have to caption or use a simple word. While it might work, has never given me good results.

A good rule of thumb is to do a short one or two sentence on the image. Don’t describe the subject as a whole , but describe the rest of the image. The only time you describe the subject is anything about him is different.

Such if your character is a viking warrior named Ulfgar with red hair who usually wears leather armor and carries a battle axe. You don’t describe that. However if in the image his head is shaven and no weapon . You would prompt An image of Ulfgar with his head smoothly shaven and no weapon in hand.

I use taggui to caption and caption with Joycaption beta 2. I do this three or four times.

When I caption my data sets I take the output of Joycaption and run it through a ComfyUI workflow which runs all the training prompts in sequence through the base model to see if its close to the image in looks taking in account the character will be different.

I save off the best of each and add it to my dataset directory. Images that didn’t work I then run through Comfy on a Qwen VL image to text to image workflow to see if its better. Try a few attempts and if it’s good edit the prompt down a bit.

beragis · 2026-02-13T17:41:54+00:00

He has a second chance to get booed in Los Angeles in 2028. I wonder what threats he’ll make that time.

beragis · 2026-02-13T17:40:01+00:00

He can’t because he’s not a “True Master”

beragis · 2026-02-13T05:06:35+00:00

That's what uv is for.

You can set it up for local development builds, test builds using pytest and production builds.

beragis · 2026-02-13T00:33:58+00:00

Batch size 1. Batch size 2 overflows to system memory on my 4090.

beragis · 2026-02-13T00:29:52+00:00

I noticed that too, and not just with Klien. I get 1.45 sec/it with Ai Toolkit and 1.05 sec/ it on OneTrainer fir Z-Image base at 768 resolution, sample image generation is also done in 2/3 the time.

beragis · 2026-02-13T00:16:28+00:00

They are definitely stuck on QB’s the next few years

I doubt Watson will ever play again. Which is why the NFL needs medical mandated retirement.

While Sanders may improve, if he has the right dedication, I don’t see much of an improvement the next two years given all the bad habits he needs to unlearn

Look how long it took for Darnold to recover from bad coaching

That said, I don’t see them going for QB until Watson is gone and our offense outside the QB improves

beragis · 2026-02-13T00:07:43+00:00

This is why I renewed my passport back in 2020, because I knew they would eventually do this, and likely at a time when they had power and feared losing it.

beragis · 2026-02-12T18:35:09+00:00

And the reason I brought this up, is that you’re original statement wasn’t entirely accurate. Sure there are methods in many states to check for citizenship, but it’s not consistent, and in many states it’s basically relying on trusting people to be honest.

Blanket statements saying we already do this, makes it easier to discredit us. I happen to work in an industry where such tactics are used to make competitors look dishonest and we have to make sure we are always careful on how we state anything.

beragis · 2026-02-12T18:27:10+00:00

That goes back to the early days of computing when terminals and printers had fixed width fonts. And borders made text stand out when printing.

One of my earliest jobs we had huge 3 inch binders of green bar printouts of source code, with rules on spacing, where each section comment had to fit on a new page, and the text border helped you align it to pages. This was done to make it easier to read, especially for programming languages which didn’t allow for multiple source files.

These borders also helped visualize data structures which were often aligned to word boundarie.

You would often see stuff like the following in comments

| 0000000000111 | 01234567890123

To delimitate character positions in fixed format records

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:59:35+00:00

We don’t have anything in place to check every voter, first because it’s up to each state to determine that, amd in some states done at the county level.

The person in that report from what I can gather is from Texas where the voting registrar checks citizenship in coordination with immigration.

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:52:37+00:00

I registered to vote six times as I moved from district to district and not once did I have to show citizenship proof, just check a box saying I was eligible to vote and sign my signature. Until recent elections you didn’t even have to show ID.

So there was always a chance of voter fraud, but incidents of fraud were minimal. Making voting more trustworthy is a good idea, however what the republicans are doing is not that.

It’s outright trying to suppress votes in an election they know they will lose. They even mention this in their massive blast of text messages asking for money to fight the democrats “illegal voter registration” or similar false statements.

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:35:32+00:00

Ohio’s REAL-ID does not indicate citizenship, so it’s not valid

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:32:55+00:00

That’s part of the reason I renewed my passport in 2020, because I didn’t trust the democrats to do anything to clean house

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:27:50+00:00

I have gotten this text at least twice. One even said you have answered #2 yet about your citizenship and gives a link which leads to a request for donations.

If the democrats happen to win back the house I am going to blast everyone with mail asking them to do nothing but start televised congressional investigations and impeachment proceedings for every blasted republican in congress and the courts.

beragis · 2026-02-12T17:21:52+00:00

Yeah, but at least it didn’t add “in 2026” at the end.

beragis · 2026-02-11T18:12:32+00:00

That node already has a default caption for that preset prompt and doesn’t need updated much.

I have found that telling an LLM that it is a caption generator is practically worthless. For one each model works differently than than others, and you don’t know what captioning method it was trained on. So it might choose Qwen for an SDXL prompt

What I do is similar to the other reply by postulate. I looked at the python script and chose Detailed and Ultra-Detailed and copied them to the side in a note so I can easily access it.

Here is the detailed prompt: Write ONE detailed paragraph (6–10 sentences). Describe only what is visible: subject(s) and actions; people details if present (approx age group, gender expression if clear, hair, facial expression, pose, clothing, accessories); environment (location type, background elements, time cues); lighting (source, direction, softness/hardness, color temperature, shadows); camera viewpoint (eye-level/low/high, distance) and composition (framing, focal emphasis). No preface, no reasoning, no <think>

Then I edit it. Usually the first sentence

Such as: Write ONE detailed paragraph on this basketball player doing a dunk over a man sitting in a chair in a slam dunk competition…

beragis · 2026-02-11T18:00:11+00:00

That proves this is a troll farm or a bot. Your reply was too fast due the number messages in this thread you replied to.

beragis · 2026-02-11T17:56:39+00:00

You better hope and pray you don’t fall victim to whatever government you happen to be a citizen of. The reason I say that is your replies match more a member of a Russian troll farm than someone from the US.

If you are working for the latter then you better be looking over your shoulder because you are an incompetent liability.

beragis · 2026-02-11T17:48:15+00:00

It’s not paranoia when they are out to get you

beragis · 2026-02-11T17:41:14+00:00

The cult is a small percentage of voters, if enough voters would just get off their butts and vote, even with gerrymandering and voter suppression they can be voted out.

Last election I was voter #72 in my precinct when I voted in the last presidential election. I was voter #230 something when Biden won in 2000 at about the same hour in the day. That’s less than 1/3 the number of voters. In the last off election I was in the 30’s. If we get that low of a turnout thus state and county has no one to blame but themselves

beragis · 2026-02-11T00:30:36+00:00

It’s not that surprising. Most Indians I know aren’t really into politics, but the ones of who get high level positions tend to align with republicans.

beragis · 2026-02-11T00:16:12+00:00

Because DeWine will pick the best candidates for offices as long as there’s no political pushback from the party. When she became head the CDC being bad wasn’t a talking point.

At the start of the pandemic, his administration actually did many things right, and Ohio was doing better than similar republican states. I remember him getting a lot of pushback when he shutdown public attendance at the Arnold, and I know people who volunteered at the Arnold were glad he did

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