DadOfFan

I have spent a while scrolling through civitai and I am trying to find which combinations of loras and models work together.

It seems to be very confusing, The only way I have found is to look for an image or video that looks like what I want and then check out what they used to create it. this is slow and I never seem to find anything for the models I have on disk. downloading new models everytime is slooow in this backwater I live in.

However I'd love to find a list of checkpoints and matching lora's I never seem to have the right combination!

I am using deepseek v4 pro to create a structured interview process for developing new software projects.

During the building of this "harness" I am constantly asking it to review what it has done so far.

This morning I literally laughed out loud when it said this within the thinking process completely unprompted by me.

It had corrected a similar error in another session and seemed rather upset with itself.

"Again with the typo! old_str instead of oldString. Let me fix this properly."

Sorry if that seems banal but it certainly made me laugh.

I access civitai very rarely maybe once or twice a week or even less. However lately I have been unable to access it.

I looked at multiple proxy services to help with this problem. While they work, of course they want you to pay for their services, which is all fine, Except when you use it rarely like I do. You end up paying a monthly fee to get more than their bandwidth limits on the free accounts and this starts to add up.

So I wrote some software that can help if you already have an AWS cloud account, or don't mind setting one up.

Its pretty much plug and play (once setup) you just start the service before your session and tear it down afterwards. you are only paying cents (to AWS) for

To set the scene...

We are retired and we sold some investments off this hear to help pay for our retirement (self funded).

It meant I had a capital gain therefore our advisor told us we should do a concessional contribution to our super fund. we are well below all our limits.

So I went into the online portal to see what I could contribute and found it very confusing, my wife's was simple as she has had contributions from her employer for every year including this FY as she retired just on 12 months ago

Mine however was not so straight forward. No contributions in the last two years. Seems simple, but that's the basis (IMHO) for this problem.

The problem...

I rang the tax office to fin

Recently I was derided and chided in this forum for going against the push to send everything including bank statements by email.

With some people even boasting they are too smart to be caught by email fraud.

As a retired cyber security specialist I can assure you No-one is too smart. Cyber crime is a massive industry stealing some $30 Billion Dollars from Australians annually.

That's 30 with a B.

With AI becoming prevalent and much more cunning this number will rise dramatically.

Email is the number one method used to defraud Australians.

You may say "isn't data theft the biggest cause?"

No, Data theft is where they get some details about you and your email address and then they cra

Every month I go through the process of paying bills by referring to my statements and paying them and filing them as paid. I have done this for decades it is muscle memory at this point.

NAB has nagged about going paperless which I refuse as email is UNRELIABLE and INSECURE delivery, far less reliable than Australia post and open to abuse and exploitation, enough Australians are falling prey to cyber fraud I do not want to count myself amongst that lot.

So I ignore it.

Recently they force changed it. I went in and changed my settings back to the way I want it. They can go to hell the profiteering money grubbing bastards.

Unfortunately as one of our accounts is in my wife's name we did n

I entered the search phrase

moving thunderbird from windows to linux should I move the local cache files as well and where to

resulted in

Yes, you should move your cache files! While IMAP messages and offline cache will re-download, moving the ImapMail folders and cache ensures your offline folders and local folders remain perfectly intact.

I then added quotes to "local cache" as in

moving thunderbird from windows to linux should I move the "local cache" files as well and where to

And the response was...

Skip the local cache files. Because most of your data (like your emails and calendars) is safely stored on your mail server via IMAP, your cache is regenerated automati

I received an email this morning from Netflix updating their privacy policy.

In it were these paragraphs

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More insight about ads We updated the language about advertising so we can bring you more ways to enjoy Netflix, like podcasts, live shows and other new experiences, across all plans. Our advertising partners may also use your personal information to show you behavioural ads.

More detail about data from advertisers We may receive information about interactions and purchases made through advertisers' websites and other sites and apps.

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Not only are they constantly increasing membership costs, they are now apparently going to