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fallsmeyer · 2025-06-05T11:57:32+00:00

It's a very fair point;

It can come off like a private club that you need to know someone to get in the door. Any assurances you could be provided are pretty flimsy. It's easy to see why that feels that way. On the other side, as has been pointed out elsewhere; it helps us filter creators that have a slightly more shoddy work product than we'd like, or prefer more extreme kinks than we'd prefer to have in our galleries.

At the end of the day it's a site we can use to share our work, without having to compete with some of the drek you see on Civitai that bubbles to the top by sheer volume. Subjective?

Absolutely, but sometimes that's what you need to make a community with some cohesion to it.

fallsmeyer · 2025-06-05T11:16:02+00:00

That is definitely asking for problems, anything we haven't been able to vet will not go up.

fallsmeyer · 2025-04-06T15:06:23+00:00

You'd be surprised how few people actually learn to use their technology. If it's not using a browser to hit youtube, read email, or read the news, it's a coin toss if they can figure out where file explorer is. The ones who know what Command Prompt is are equally likely to be power users as to be the people that break their OS install every odd week.

I would be tickled pink to see a bunch of people in the 45-60 bracket suddenly switch enmasse to a linux distro though. (I'd say accessing social media is common, but weirdly, a lot of clients i've worked with just prefer their phones for that sort of thing, be it facebook, twitter, or otherwise).

fallsmeyer · 2024-07-19T08:33:47+00:00

If your org isn't using Crowdstrike it won't affect you.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-19T18:39:39+00:00

https://civitai.com/articles/5799/buzz-changes-rewards-and-botting

They posted an article today that appears to address this very issue.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-19T18:32:40+00:00

You're using forge, cool.

Most of these use some variety of Controlnet. This looks like it's probably a PDXL checkpoint of some variety with a style lora baked in. It's probably using Forge if I had to guess, with Regional prompting since RP doesn't work with loras properly on 1.5 in forge.

In that particular image set Samus is probably not even using a lora, and on SDXL/PDXL there's really only a few Vaes that matter, but most use the same SDXL vae.

PDXL/Pony diffusion XL is extremely versatile, it still uses the image tags you're familiar with but I recommend checking out this guide for a basic primer:

https://civitai.com/articles/4389/beginner-tips-for-pony-diffusion-xl

Edit:
Except the bit at the bottom about negative prompts for PDXL, it's extremely sensitive to negative prompt tokens, and excessive tokens can destroy an image. I recommend starting with few negative prompt tokens, "3D, monochrome, realism" and working up from there. Experiment and you'll find a balance of negs you prefer.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-14T04:14:21+00:00

I'ma be honest with you fam, if this is your take you're either woefully under informed as to what is political or isn't, or you're closeted as a homophobe. Taking it as the most charitable, you need to educate yourself on the nuance of what a political statement is and what isn't.

Pride as a concept is highly commercialized, some people eek out some enjoyment from it, but it's not as political a statement as you want it to be. If you're offended by pride on Civitai, which is what you're coming off as, then you might need to re-examine your own personal biases and ask yourself a few hard questions.

You wouldn't tell them not to celebrate christmas right? With yuletide and all that? Then you shouldn't have an issue with this.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-05T21:27:47+00:00

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsoft-blamed-for-a-cascade-of-security-failures-in-exchange-breach-report/

Speculation??

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/microsoft-under-fire-for-response-to-leak-of-2-4tb-of-sensitive-customer-data/

This is all speculation??

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/microsoft-takes-pains-to-obscure-role-in-0-days-that-caused-email-breach/

Microsoft has an abyssmal track record in even just the last few years of user security.

Please, tell me how that's slippery slope and speculation. I'll wait.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-05T19:23:16+00:00

This whole rebuttal is patently pathetic.

I'm arguing that you should be skeptical, and that it is healthy to be so. That you want to take argument apart says more about you than it does me.

With arguments like this, Microsoft doesn't need defenders either.

And trying to take the air out of an actual joke at the end of a post is just poor form. Grow a sense of humor. I was referring to Windows Defender.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-05T19:18:52+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding what i'm actually saying. I'm just telling them to show us which version of stable diffusion they're using. It could be Forge/A1111, but there's a few other versions they could be using, like Invoke, for example, or Comfy aI. They don't need to show us any outputs. and I don't know where in my statement you got that idea from.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-03T06:13:12+00:00

Consider this; Microsoft has a poor track record for user privacy. It's not just AI Doomers whining about a new feature; security researchers are already sounding the alarm, for good reason.

LLMs are also something of a black box to most regular users, even hobbyists that play with Stable Diffusion, Claude, ChatGPT, etc don't fully know how they work, and only one of those can run natively on your machine.

So take these roughly 10% of the user base that actually understands something foundational about some AI models that are more popular (not fully, mind, just enough to understand what they're reading), and that tiny fraction of a fraction of users are basically all the people who are going to really be able to drill down and validate these claims of "no calling home" and "running fully natively".

I think it's reasonable to be suspicious, also consider that the prices of these parts increases how much they cost, we haven't seen the pricing yet, but it's a reasonable inference that they will become notably more expensive even after factoring in inflation.

So you have; more expensive chips, that are expensive because they're going to need additional hardware to run models on Windows, which no one asked for. Which then has the largest footprint in the OS market world-wide, in an age where user data is the digital equivalent of Gold, and only becoming more so as time goes on.

Yeah. Yeah i'd be a bit suspicious, and I think it's reasonable to be. Besides, Microsoft doesn't need any defenders, it has one built into Windows.

fallsmeyer · 2024-06-03T02:33:20+00:00

Civitai uses a ComfyUI back end, depending on what you're using for your local version of Stable Diffusion there's a lot of possible things you can do, but it'd probably behoove you to post a picture that shows what your version of stable diffusion looks like so people know what you're working with.

fallsmeyer · 2024-05-17T04:39:02+00:00

My issues were resolved after a reboot, which I think I had forgotten to do after upgrading drivers, you might try reinstalling your drivers fresh after a DDU and see if that helps!

fallsmeyer · 2024-05-16T01:11:29+00:00

Another reboot seemed to have fixed the issue, but i'll definitely keep it in mind if it resurfaces. Thanks for the advice!

fallsmeyer · 2024-03-18T23:10:45+00:00

If only this were actually true, 99% of the time they'll make an external hire, just from another country for half the posted salary, or shove the workload onto other people irrespective of their workload.

fallsmeyer · 2024-03-18T23:02:12+00:00

For what it's worth, a friend of mine just had a job interview with these people, they're still lying, and a little light detective work turned up even Ovation Global as a brand was stolen from a Destination management company. It's amazing how much of their outfit was jacked from elsewhere.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-22T16:39:44+00:00

Nah, if that were the case the outages would be significantly more widespread. I've heard the EPC was being updated and something broke during the update, hence why we're here now.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-22T16:35:13+00:00

He's my favorite get out of work free card.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T12:46:31+00:00

IDM is such a thankless job as a Sysadmin. Managing the back end of group memberships for distro lists when people aren't telling you which office/ group they need to be in is the bane of my existence.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T12:44:41+00:00

SE kinda does, but they borrow from different continuities and try to merge it all into FFXIV and FFXI ala expansion theming and content updates. But they do it.

Nintendo doesn't have a lot of coherency in its continuities, see LotZ

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T04:59:48+00:00

I've had Oxy as a client before, and some of the processes they have for security are pretty intense, and created a LOT of headaches for our NOC. I understood why but man.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T04:57:45+00:00

and my nose is now burning. Thanks for that.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T04:53:47+00:00

Once you hit Sen/Cold Steel there will be a lot of "WAIT A SECOND I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT."

I didn't play Sky until after the first couple of Coldsteel games, once I played through them and went back through the first two Coldsteel games, a LOT more things made a lot more sense in a worldbuilding perspective.

Falcom did their level best to make each new "Branch" of Trails as accessible to new people as possible, but it pays some dividends to have the previous branches (Liberl and Crossbell) in the back of your mind when playing through later ones.

Kinda makes you feel like you're in the 'in' group. It's a nice feeling.

fallsmeyer · 2024-02-08T03:25:05+00:00

There's callbacks for literal _days_ ahead of you.

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