nicgentile

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Her logic is, "I was a bad neglectful parent so now you must pay." Nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
 

Towels should have labels (colour coded even) on each side and quadrants to show which part wipes your face, which part wipes your body, which part wipes your legs and which part wipes your ass. We are all mixing it out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been planning for two years now on how to successfully put this together.

First thing I realised I would have to learn is tools like Blender, Gimp (which I will likely replace with Krita), etc. cause regardless of how well AI produces, you need to tidy things up.

Then there is story boarding. No amount of AI can replace professionalism. So this is an important skill to have.

Then there are the layouts. All that. I learnt how to use Scribus for layouts and Inkscape is always handy.

My main struggle will be maintaining consistency which has improved consistently over the last two years, and I've been reading a ton of comics to learn the sort of views and angles they use.

I can't allow AI to generate text for me, cause that loses the plot. I might as well just prompt a story up and put it on Amazon and move on. I don't want to do that. Instead I let it suggest better phrasing, words, basically a better editor.

I also created my own theme and it, very nicely, points out when I lose the plot. I then ask it to point out where my story sucks and it will also point that out. If I run my text through an AI text detector, I get like 1-2% written by AI which I believe any AI language tool would do. It points out where it detects the AI written text and I work on it and remove the text. GPT has a habit of adding its own text and does not stick to the boundaries set.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So that eventually they create a new terrorist group that flips the script back on them. Sure. I mean, it's never happened before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, if I am going to push this into the project I envision, privacy is going to be key, so everything will be done locally. I have privacy concerns about running on someone else's hardware regardless of the provided guardrails and layers of protection I can provide for myself.

I used to use Languagetool and Scribens but found my current working model as the best for me at the moment. I will definitely look at options as I move to the next chapter so Languagetool is still an option. Also, I believe they went AI too? At least online?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I'm an author working on an online story series. Just finished S04. My editing was shit and I could not afford to pay someone to do it for me.

So I write the story, rewrite the story, put it through GPT to point out irregularities, grammatical errors, inconsistencies etc, then run it through Zoho's Zia for more checks and finally polish it off with a final edit of my own. This whole process takes around a year.

Overall, quality improved, I was able to turn around stuff quicker and it made me a lot more confident about the stuff I am putting out there.

I also use Bing image creator for the artwork and have seen my artwork improve dramatically from what Dream (Wombo) used to generate.

Now I am trying to save up to get a good GPU so that I can run Stable Diffusion so that I can turn it into a graphic novel.

Naturally I would like to work with an artist cause I can't draw but everyone I meet asks for 20 - 30k dollars deposit to do the thing. Collaborations have been discussed and what I've learnt is that as times get tough, people are requesting for greater shares in the project than I, the originator, have. At some point when I was discussing with an artist, he was side lining me and becoming the main character. I'm not saying that all artists are like this, but dang, people can be tough to deal with.

I respect that people have to eat, but I can't afford that and I have had this dream for years so finally I get a chance to pull it off. My dream can't die without me giving it my best so this is where I am with AI.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Vanity projects.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'm not fond of the perpetual tension. Just awful.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren't bad shows, but they did not do it for me.

Game of Thrones

Lost

Better Call Saul

Peaky Blinders

Breaking Bad

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I run Cyanogenmod on my Kindle Fire.

 

I know they are some sort of nail, but I had one in my tire and at the store found a near identical one and now I'm beginning to think my tire guy is playing shell games. I mean, what are the odds?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So this is what I have found as a working solution

Boil about a quarter cup of water. It must be as hot as possible.

Add a heaped tea spoon or two (depending on your preference).

Let it steep for a few minutes, the filter/sieve.

You end up with black liquid as indicated.

I top mine off with hot milk.

That's it. That is what is working for me.

Thanks for the tips.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

My default coffee making is to heat milk, add coffee and steep it for a couple of minutes before I sieve it and voila.

This does not seem to work for this coffee. I have tried water, boiling it with the water or milk and it simply will not mix. What am I missing?

Edit: I know about grinding, I have a burr grinder, a French press and I know the various ways to make coffee. None of the methods I know, work.

Burr grinder = bar grinder. I made that mistake.

 

What makes this your car?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi,

I've selfhosted Grav for two years going to three, but I want to move on to something else. I am looking for a flatfile CMS. I have experimented a bit and the best I found so far is Automad, but it isn't quite there. What alternatives can you recommend? PHP is where I am leaning.

Thanks.

Edit: Given my unclear query, I have struggled themeing. It has always been a pain and for whatever reason, documenting is somewhat unclear.

 

This is test art work from an upcoming project.

 

Above is one of my 2 year old nephew's favourite channels. He watches them everyday. For his parents who work from home, it's the greatest thing. If an ad comes up, he cries and they know something is up.

However, they are clicking the ok button on the TV far too often per video cause of this.

They run that 90+ sponsored content so frequently it's become crap. I've seen Land Rover ads, the one above is a house, and the most annoying is when they run other cartoons like Thomas the Tank Engine or something. If the kid wanted that, no problem. But right now the singing cats are his jam. Cars, property? Someone is paying actual money to get ads in front of 2 year old kids?

Tell me this isn't a scam.

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