MercuryAlloy automates the build process for the Mercury browser.

I really like the Mercury browser, but I worried about the browser getting out of date, since releases of the browser seem to be build and released manually. So I threw together a set of scripts and overrides that will allow the build process to run without user interaction and on a schedule. You can modify the subscripts to move your compiled executable anywhere you want (like a web server), as well as send a custom alert upon successful build (like sending the link out via email).

This is a more technical project, but it has been a fun learning experience.

Middletown Township Chief of Police Joseph Bartorilla confirmed the suspect in the death was arrested just after 9 p.m. Tuesday.

I tried to get SD-XL to generate an image of a frog with its eyes closed. It refused. I even cranked up the attention on closed to an absurd level, and it seemed to get sassy with me.

Should blocking a user still allow them to vote on your posts? I'd rather have nothing to do with particular users, and it seems that they continue to show up in the activity for every single post I make around kbin.

Stable Diffusion XL

Prompt: Ham Solo from Star Wars!

From their website

Mistral AI team is proud to release Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date.

Mistral 7B in short

Mistral 7B is a 7.3B parameter model that:

• Outperforms Llama 2 13B on all benchmarks
• Outperforms Llama 1 34B on many benchmarks
• Approaches CodeLlama 7B performance on code, while remaining good at English tasks
• Uses Grouped-query attention (GQA) for faster inference
• Uses Sliding Window Attention (SWA) to handle longer sequences at smaller cost

We’re releasing Mistral 7B under the Apache 2.0 license, it can be used without restrictions.

• Download it and use it anywhere (including locally) with our reference implementation
• Deploy it on any cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), using vLLM inference server and skypilot
• Use it on HuggingFace

Mistral 7B is easy to fine-tune on any task. As a demonstration, we’re providing a model fine-tuned for chat, which outperforms Llama 2 13B chat.

When editing photos, one of the first things you'll want to do is "fix" the skin of your subjects. I've fumbled around with this for years. I use almost exclusively open source tools like GIMP for my work, which while extremely powerful, often lack most of those automatic tools and niceties present in paid products like Photoshop. So I'll share my method, which I adopted from this YouTube video.

Depending on how much you self host, you may find it hard to keep track of your devices' host names. So what are your naming conventions to keep track everything? Some people stick to descriptive names, others pick themes, like Greek mythology.

Personally, I use Japanese emperors. I've made it all the way to Seinei. Luckily I still have some breathing room to add more services and servers. Much to my wife's chagrin. :)

This is a Mastodon thread I created featuring devices and computers that never were, but could have been. I think my favorite might be the HD Laserdisc player called the MOID.

https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/system/media_attachments/files/110/686/620/475/187/344/original/95ff43d76ba41dd6.jpg