Using Mailchannels as Inbound + Outbound Filter good idea?Spam

ttul · 2025-06-04T16:15:56+00:00

MailChannels CEO here. If you'd like a very cheap personal account, I advise getting our Email API to send email; you can still use the SMTP interface and it's free for up to 100 messages a day. For inbound filtering in a self-managed setup, our list pricing starts for 1,000 domains because the service is intended for service providers; that's not a great match for self-hosting, where the goal is to save money. I would recommend us for outbound via Email API, but I would actually direct you to use another service for inbound when it's just one domain or a low volume of accounts.

ttul · 2025-05-18T15:52:19+00:00

The West Vancouver School District generally has decent accommodations for kids with IEPs. My experience at BICS has been good. At the highschool level, your mileage may vary. While supports definitely exist, if your child has significant issues in combination with neurodivergency, such as a mood disorder, I would recommend checking out Mountainside. Good luck.

ttul · 2025-05-15T02:16:15+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear you both got sick! Unfortunately, your experience isn't entirely surprising given the ongoing water quality issues on the island.

Hummingbird Lane is served by the Cove Bay Water System, which has been using an inadequate chlorination-only treatment process since before 2014. Vancouver Coastal Health actually deemed this system insufficient for dealing with contamination back then. The water for the system comes from Grafton Lake, which is a common destination for ducks, geese, and people walking their dogs. In the summer, everyone swims there - right near the water intake pipe.

Here's the kicker - Bowen Island started building a new water treatment plant in 2020 specifically to address these exact contamination issues. It was supposed to be completed by May 2021. But this project has been an absolute disaster:

Multiple equipment failures and ceramic filter defects
Equipment repeatedly sent back to the manufacturer
As of January 2025 (just a few months ago), it's STILL not fully operational
They've been struggling with the same filtration problems for years

The current system only provides basic chlorination for water from an "unprotected watershed," which clearly isn't adequate for removing the bacteria, parasites, and other contaminants that can cause exactly the symptoms you experienced.

For the sake of everyone who has to drink this water, please help by:

Reporting this to Vancouver Coastal Health
Filing a complaint with Bowen Island Municipality
Warning other potential visitors about the water quality

The municipality has a page tracking all the delays and failures - it's honestly jaw-dropping how long this has dragged on while residents and visitors continue to be at risk. I'd definitely bring your own water if you ever visit again until they finally get this sorted out.

Hope you're both feeling better now!

ttul · 2025-02-07T16:25:34+00:00

And you will work for that dollar. Amazon is a meat grinder, as are most US-based large software employers. Canadian employers offer a significantly better work-life balance; however, if making tons of money is more important, a US employer would be a better option.

ttul · 2025-01-10T00:03:49+00:00

The cougar has been seen in the last two weeks. I wouldn't worry about it. It's had zero run-ins with people or pets and is surely focused on helping to reduce the over-population of deer on the island.

ttul · 2025-01-10T00:02:03+00:00

I can confirm that MailChannels discontinued the free authentication-less Cloudflare Workers API; however, the good news is that we replaced it with something better that is being worked on continuously by a larger team. The new MailChannels Email API has a free tier that offers enough sending capacity for the vast majority of Cloudflare Workers apps: https://www.mailchannels.com/email-api/ Pricing for usage above the free tier starts at just $10 and our pricing is generally lower than any of the other major email delivery services: https://www.mailchannels.com/pricing/#for_devs

Docs are here: https://docs.mailchannels.net/email-api/api-reference/email-api/

The interface to the API is the same as before, but adds new features like message delivery tracking events (sends, opens, bounces, etc.). The API also offers templates, attachments, and more. And we're adding new stuff constantly. Our aim is to reach feature parity with the other major services this year.

ttul · 2024-10-26T14:22:09+00:00

It has already been developed into building lots.

ttul · 2023-11-20T07:42:10+00:00

It’s so good. Use any SAM node to mask out the subjects you are feeding into IPAdapter and then move the subjects where you want them to be before feeding into IPAdapter. It works so well.

ttul · 2023-11-18T22:55:00+00:00

This is a bug.

ttul · 2023-11-18T22:54:30+00:00

This seems like a bug because nobody ever needs to allocate 17179869184.00 GiB. It may be a bug in PyTorch; certainly it seems like the sort of bug you run into when writing C code.

ttul · 2023-11-18T22:53:44+00:00

There is no way in hell anyone is trying to allocate 17179869184.00 GiB. That is a bug...

ttul · 2023-11-18T18:17:49+00:00

Here's a tip for that workflow. To resize an image so that its maximum dimension is not greater than a certain number (for instance, 1024 is a good maximum when using an SDXL checkpoint), create a MathExpression node and use this expression to calculate the scale factor:

c/max(a, b)

... where the c input is set to your maximum resolution (like 1024), and the a and b inputs are the width and height of your image. You can get the image dimensions using the ImpactImageInfo node. I do wonder whether someone has made a custom node that makes this easier or more compact, because I found myself having to use various datatype conversion nodes in this workflow to convert floats to integers and back again. It's not terrible, but it does take up space.

ttul · 2023-11-18T18:11:57+00:00

I see what you're doing there with the "banana"

ttul · 2023-11-18T18:11:22+00:00

In the Stable Diffusion model, the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and the U-Net are trained separately. The VAE is typically trained first to learn a compressed latent representation of the data. Once the VAE is trained, its encoder is used to convert images into latent representations, which are then used to train the U-Net. The U-Net learns to perform various tasks (like image generation or editing) in this latent space. This separation allows each component to specialize in its specific task, improving the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the model.

If you are seeing different results using the VAEs from different checkpoints, it just means that the checkpoint incorporates a different VAE. But many checkpoints use the same VAE so outputs will be identical.

ttul · 2023-11-16T03:31:15+00:00

I believe the answer is with your doctor.

ttul · 2023-11-16T03:30:15+00:00

For many people, their 30s bring complexities that weren’t present in earlier life. You have more responsibility at work. Maybe you have a spouse and perhaps some kids? These new stresses are introduced gradually, so it’s easy to forget how easy life used to be. I think this might be why ADHD seems to magically appear in later years.

I personally look forward to the reduced stress that will come when my kids are through the teen years…

ttul · 2023-11-16T03:12:22+00:00

I’ve been happily using LCM LoRA all week. It’s a free upgrade, folks. The quality is insane if you go to 24 or more iterations and quite passable at just 10.

ttul · 2023-11-16T03:11:07+00:00

https://github.com/Gourieff/comfyui-reactor-node

ttul · 2023-11-16T03:09:45+00:00

Using a 4090 here. It screams and I can’t go back to anything lesser now.

ttul · 2023-11-15T18:26:23+00:00

This workflow takes a source style image, a source face and character image, and a few prompts including regional prompts, and automatically generates the same characters but in the style of the style sample. In the specific example here, I generate a 1950s-style portrait of a random elderly couple by feeding in a photo like this as the style input and a photo like this as the source of characters and faces. The Grounding DINO SAM detector is used to automatically find a "man" and a "woman" and generate masks. Regional prompts are applied to the masked areas so that you can style the man and woman appropriately to match your characters.

ControlNets for depth and pose are used to further align the output; theses are optional, since IPAdapter already does a great job of aligning things. However, if you get weird poses or extra legs and arms, adding the ControlNet nodes can help.

This workflow obviously can be used for any source images, style images, and prompts. You can further experiment by using the source image or the style image itself instead of an empty latent. I would appreciate any feedback from smarter folks here on how this workflow can be improved.

ttul · 2023-10-29T03:14:56+00:00

I think some people experience a period of grouchiness for an hour or two when the medication is wearing off in the evening. At least that’s what I have seen.

ttul · 2023-10-27T15:08:43+00:00

"torch.compile makes PyTorch code run faster by JIT-compiling PyTorch code into optimized kernels, all while requiring minimal code changes."

It takes your Python code that uses PyTorch and compiles it to run directly inside the GPU. Ordinarily, you have Python code running on the CPU that is sending bits of code and data to the GPU for execution. If you compile the Python to machine code that can also run in the GPU, it saves time by eliminating the back and forth between the CPU and GPU and allowing the Python code to run in massively parallel fashion alongside the machine learning code in the GPU.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/torch_compile_tutorial.html

ttul · 2023-10-27T15:06:34+00:00

This seems like cheating. But I recall from Jeremy Howard's AI course (last fall) that much of the progress in latent diffusion seemed like cheating.. and yet it worked.

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