BlueEther

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I wonder how location dependent it is?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell we haven't has 1 and 5c for decades here, prices still end in .99. It just the final amount that gets rounded .

Yes it does take an Act to allow the rounding on the final price.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 month ago

I hadn’t seen all that. I may have to move my services again

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 month ago

I run opnsense as a VM and have done for maybe 5 years now, moved across 3 different sets of hardware.

I DO have a hardware router under the ONT for if / when I feck up proxmox.

Snapshots are great when you start to play with the firewall settings or upgrades

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Probably will have a lot depending on the country and how well you know the person at the other end.

I'd be happy to (and do use) some text emoji with people I know well.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 120 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I suspect that the damage (for the most part) has already been done.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 1 month ago

I had/have no trouble here

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe we shouldn't have been giving our power away at cost to a AU multinational for the last years. Maybe we should have been using profits to invest in new wind/wave/solar way befor we actually started...

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If Canada wants to really retaliate then wouldn't the best option be to put on an export tax ON exports to America (like oil/gas/power/Minerals and Heavy equipment)?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 14 points 2 months ago

I suspect that much of lemmy runs on this rule "Lastly, Don’t be a dick", I know that my instance and the other *.nz do.

@prodajvodapavel@aggregatet.org Don't be a dick, and you should be fine - if you want to be then (as @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com said) go kick rocks

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 24 points 2 months ago

having sex work for a lot of people

Having enough sex work for the people is important

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought I read that Trum was sending 000's of trups the the southern border to round up immigrants?

 

After the post the other day , this is the price I have to pay for 2 visits to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, about 10 to 12 X-rays, a CT scan, two nights in hospital (so far) and all the drugs

Glad to not live in the ‘land of the free’

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/6377991

New Zealand's rarest bird looks set for a bumper breeding season this summer with five fledglings already striking out on their own and as many as eight more chicks to follow.

That might not sound like many but given that the total world population of tara iti, or fairy terns, is less than 40, that is a huge boost to the species' chances of survival.

It is also a much-needed morale boost for volunteers and Department of Conservation staff looking after the birds, after the disastrous 2022-23 season in which Cyclone Gabrielle killed five adults and all but one chick.

DOC supervisor Shelley Ogle said the current season was tracking to be the best since 2013-14.

 

Just tidying up my music collection and stumbled on this that I had forgotten about

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/5503861

New Zealand Giant Stick Insect - Argosarchus horridus

Was visited by this not so wee one yesterday. Never seen a stick insect this big outside of the zoo - was probably close to 18cm long (judging size against weatherboards).

My daughter named it Dave.

 

Started to move off Google's services to proton:

 

cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/275253

"Streetpunk Sexy" - Visualize a portrait of Neo. Neo is a young 22 year old woman. Neo is on an medieval street in a small village where the (second stories jut over the street)+++. The streets are cobbled.it is rainy afternoon,The shot, taken from a distance, captures Neo walking away in the golden hour. Neo is wearing a long and flowing red riding cape with detailed leaf and vine patterns stitched into it over a (black gothic dress:2) .The humid atmosphere ads mist to the street and the (mountains in the distance):2. Long dark messy hair escapes the red hood of Neo's cape, The image showcases the natural late afternoon light, in hyperrealistic detail under soft lighting. The depth of field focuses on her against a backdrop of soothing,muted tones and high contrast,creating a dark,yet gorgeous (1.2) and immersive evening scene.

Negative prompt: text, watermark, low-quality, signature, moiré pattern, downsampling, aliasing, distorted, blurry, glossy, blur, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, poorly drawn, low-resolution, bad, distortion, twisted, excessive, exaggerated pose, exaggerated limbs, grainy, symmetrical, duplicate, error, pattern, beginner, pixelated, fake, hyper, glitch, overexposed, high-contrast, bad-contrast

Steps: 26, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 995203940, Face restoration: CodeFormer, Size: 1024x512, Model hash: a19b862e79, Model: fullyREALXL_v30ForREAL, Pad conds: True, Version: v1.7.0

 

"Streetpunk Sexy" - Visualize a portrait of Neo. Neo is a young 22 year old woman. Neo is on an medieval street in a small village where the (second stories jut over the street)+++. The streets are cobbled.it is rainy afternoon,The shot, taken from a distance, captures Neo walking away in the golden hour. Neo is wearing a long and flowing red riding cape with detailed leaf and vine patterns stitched into it over a (black gothic dress:2) .The humid atmosphere ads mist to the street and the (mountains in the distance):2. Long dark messy hair escapes the red hood of Neo's cape, The image showcases the natural late afternoon light, in hyperrealistic detail under soft lighting. The depth of field focuses on her against a backdrop of soothing,muted tones and high contrast,creating a dark,yet gorgeous (1.2) and immersive evening scene.

Negative prompt: text, watermark, low-quality, signature, moiré pattern, downsampling, aliasing, distorted, blurry, glossy, blur, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, poorly drawn, low-resolution, bad, distortion, twisted, excessive, exaggerated pose, exaggerated limbs, grainy, symmetrical, duplicate, error, pattern, beginner, pixelated, fake, hyper, glitch, overexposed, high-contrast, bad-contrast

Steps: 26, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 995203940, Face restoration: CodeFormer, Size: 1024x512, Model hash: a19b862e79, Model: fullyREALXL_v30ForREAL, Pad conds: True, Version: v1.7.0

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BlueEther@no.lastname.nz to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
 

I'm aiming to get better at telling the story to generate the images I really envisioned. Taking @krank Star@lemmy.world 's post as a aid to describe the image

Reference

Early attempts:

 

 

Back at the Holy Library his exploits were recorded and catalogued for those that will come in a latter time

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BlueEther@no.lastname.nz to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
 

It's not as good as some of the other Kermit images, I just cant get SD turbo to do him well

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