There are many efforts around De-Googling all over the internet, but I personally find those are not realisitic for the majority of the people. Many people have no problems sacrificing privacy for convenience. Or they aren’t tech savvy enough to find stuff out themselves. What many in communities for degoogling, or the ones that will read this blog post forget sometimes, is the masses are very technically illiterate still. Many of them don’t know the difference between the Browser, the Internet, and their Operating System. Read more

Yesterday, Stability.ai finally released their Stable Diffusion model to the public. Having played with NightCafe, Midjourney, and getting access to Dall-E 2, I was excited to be able to run this locally on my own computer. I have a AMD Threadripper 2990WX with an AMD Radeon 6750XT video card. I figured this was plenty powerful enough to get local generation so I didn’t have to pay others when I have plenty of horsepower at home eating up electricity as it is. Read more

So TILs didn’t work out for me, I prefer longer form writing. But I might gather up TILs like this and add them in groups to a post like this. TIL 2 2021-02-16 Update 8/24/2022: This is no longer needed, there is now official programmatic way to do this using a header GCP providers for IAP using the Proxy-Authorization header. Official IAP Documentation The original post is at the more link. Read more

This post has moved to my Disc Golf focused blog. You can find it here: https://throwingplastic.com/overmold-vs-single-mold/ Read more

Many that conversed with me in the cryptocurrency world know that I am a huge fan and supporter of SONM. After reading their whitepaper, I quickly saw that they had a very adoptable design to their tech. Now, its not purely blockchain. It uses the blockchain to distributed tasks, send messaging, and other things like that, the actual tasks get run on standard compute devices using Docker. So to put it long story short, SONM is a distributed docker runner with blockchain to handle distribution. Read more