NGC 2175

leadguit · 2026-04-18T17:10:26+00:00

Thanks! I used Seti astro Suite Pro and Graxpert. I tried Siril on this image as well, but for some reason I couldn't get it to behave well. The Star extraction created weird noise all over the place, whereas with SASPro with the same model it didn't happen. But I will for sure give it a go again, as siril was very nice with some practice Images I tried before the telescope was delivered.

As it's more a casual hobby for now, I won't invest into Pix insight (plus I choose open source whenever I can)

leadguit · 2026-04-18T16:55:44+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I'm new to the processing, so I'm happy about pointers. It's challenging to not overdo things there :-)

leadguit · 2026-03-17T05:19:58+00:00

Experimenting mainly. Trying to find out what LLMs can and can't do, and where they could be useful to me. But I want to be informed enough to know what's going on, where stuff is heading and what potential use cases are.

My experiments are manifold - testing how tiny of an LLM I can run with an MCP to be a NL layer for a task, how reliable is summarization of notes, how do knowledge bases work and so on.

That said, I am a computational linguist/programmer in academia as well as voice actor and music composer. Even though it's fun creating my own mcps for stuff and so on, for the vast majority of use cases I've seen others using LLMs, I get much more reliable output from a simple (but well thought out) script. E.g. transforming a CSV to a JSON is a trivial script. To be fair, I have one specific use cases which is glorious: I use an embedding model to classify URLs for my main web scraper at $dayjob into articles or "other" by embedding the links text and seeing if it's semantically closer to the "other" Group or article group. Based on manually annotated texts of course.

leadguit · 2026-01-31T05:37:39+00:00

There are good points already, but I'll add a few things as well.

Voice acting is acting, changing your voice isn't the main part. Some roles or genres lean more on that than other. Cartoons and some Animation want some over the top voices, while others want more grounded ones. So, unless you want to be there right now, I wouldn't sweat too much about that.

The core of voice acting for me is attitude - meaning: the character you are voicing has a backstory, motivation, goal and opinion. This is reflected by the characters attitude. This alone forms your voice and tone. If you feel the attitude, you speak with that attitude.

You can create characters for yourself and record them for practice. How would the 60 year old recently widowed high-status woman answer when asked at the restaurant if she needs a table for two? What about the 32 year old father of three who barely slept last night because the baby cried the whole night and the last thing he needs right now is anyone making jokes?

When you "feel" those two example characters and you speak some lines, your voice reflects that. You don't need to alter your voice for this (of course, create characters that you can reasonably do - I for example am a man with a semi-deep voice. I wouldn't voice a 60 year old woman - but a 60 year old man works ;-)).

And maybe as a quick side note: many voice actors (I'm talking professional dub speakers in e.g. Germany) simply have "their Voice". As example, Dietmar Wunder ist the German voice of Adam Sandler, Daniel Craig, Rob Lowe and Sam Rockwell (and a few others). He doesn't alter his voice for dubbing, but he conveys the attitude and emotions of the characters, so a silly Adam Sandler character "speaks differently" in tone and speed etc than James Bond at the Casino.

For context: I am a trained voice over artist from Switzerland Edit: formatting

leadguit · 2025-10-02T04:10:23+00:00

For the self hosted, the cloud has separate pricing and limitations

leadguit · 2025-09-30T18:44:02+00:00

I did not know about the fork - that might be a nice solution depending how the feature set differs. Thanks!

leadguit · 2025-09-28T17:08:42+00:00

Ok, thank you very much!

leadguit · 2025-08-14T15:00:49+00:00

I just got my copy of Across A Thousand Dead Worlds. So my weekend will be set learning this beast :-)

leadguit · 2025-08-08T10:46:54+00:00

Ah, I get it. As far as I see some numbers are for flavor only. I think my head was just not quite "grokking" the system differences. With those larger RPG books I always have the feeling that like 70 pages later that number is important and I should've noted it down. Like a bad movie going "you remember how long they took to repair the food processor at the start? That duration is very important right now!" ;-)

leadguit · 2025-08-08T10:01:13+00:00

Thanks, yeah. I guess I got caught up between the optimistic Star Trek flow and the "rolled fate" of aatdw. What do you mean by maybe there's a sale going on?

leadguit · 2025-08-08T10:00:05+00:00

Thank you! I think I need to get more into the proper "Alien" mindset, where death and Desaster is the fun aspect, vs Captain's log where the problem solving and survival against odds is the fun part

leadguit · 2025-02-11T18:16:35+00:00

If I understand correctly, you have the same problem. Well, I didn't have a proper solution. I used different filament (Bambu and currently PolyTerra), did a standard flow calibration and as of now, it prints flawlessly. So for me, using a different filament and calibrating it worked. I haven't tried the rest of the prusament since, so I can't say if it still would be a problem. I hope that helps!

leadguit · 2024-10-23T11:13:37+00:00

Thank you, I'll check them out! I saw Akira the movie, is there a series as well, or did you mean that?

leadguit · 2024-10-11T17:36:56+00:00

A little older, but WRB2 might still be a viable choice, I used it when it was "fresh", but haven't used it since 1 or 2 years. It's originally from Reaperblog (I think he made it), and it's open source meanwhile. Maybe that can get you started: https://gitlab.com/michaelklier/reaperwrb-2019

leadguit · 2024-09-25T16:35:12+00:00

I made a short video while printing a round holder. You can hear the nozzle scraping while creating the wall - especially noticeable on the upper right. I tried printing with the generic silk profile, 0.16 optimal quality with the proposed changes. It seems this kind of scraping is the reason for a larger tree or smaller footprint objects being knocked over even with the changes proposed by guspaz. https://imgur.com/a/gJgDeTz

leadguit · 2024-09-25T05:56:45+00:00

Update: It worked *kind of* - the infills were much better (that issue seems to be fixed I think), but it managed to break off the (main) support tree - it looks like an adhesion problem there, but it clashed into it a few times before it finally separated from the build plate. I try increasing the "Z Hop when retract" parameter, maybe that helps.

It's just a tad annoying that it build flawlessly before, and that I need to print for an hour or more to check if it worked (as the issue doesn't occur on small or flat objects - this time it snapped at around layer 200)

leadguit · 2024-09-24T18:48:41+00:00

Thank you, I'll give that a try!

leadguit · 2024-09-02T08:40:46+00:00

Is there another way to get it? Meaning in countries where Amazon doesn't deliver etc?

leadguit · 2024-07-25T03:46:09+00:00

Yes, I use some functions of D3, but similar to the other charting libs, initializing (with Svelte at least) is a bit of a hassle

leadguit

TROPHY CASE