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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« on: October 18, 2015, 03:44 PM »

I've got a standing desk and I find it best to mix sitting and standing throughout the day. Which is why I think the only good standing desk options are the convertible/adjustable ones, and especially the motorized ones. I was lucky enough to find one at a great discount on Craig's List ($200 for a nearly brand new $1000 desk). I'd have a hard time justifying the full price, admittedly, but I do find the mixed sit/stand throughout the day feels better for me in general.

- Oshyan

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« on: October 18, 2015, 03:41 PM »

Is it possible to have an arrangement where it's possible to make new content available soon and gradually add in older content?

-ewemoa (October 16, 2015, 08:26 PM)

A fine, fine question.

Also, what about auto-conversion ("import") of pages somehow? Maybe more hassle than it's worth, especially at this stage. But it's a thought...

- Oshyan

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Developer's Corner / Re: Code signing certificate?

« on: October 18, 2015, 03:40 PM »

We (Planetside Software LLC) have one from K Software. They seemed to have the best price on a Comodo cert. The process is a little annoying to get any cert, but having dealt with StartSSL before for an SSL cert, I felt it was *less* annoying to deal with K Software. They hand you off to Comodo for verification anyway. And ultimately I don't think there's a way around much of the identity verification hassle. That's sort of the point I guess.

Anyway, I would not say this is a super strong recommendation for K Software, but I can say that it worked fine and the price was right.

- Oshyan

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: October 07, 2015, 11:58 AM »

Hehe, thanks Deo.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 04, 2015, 02:52 PM »

Thanks Deo, you rock!

- Oshyna

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 04, 2015, 01:19 PM »

I want to try this on some images for a private project, but I'm afraid you probably won't find them interesting at all. I keep trying to get an instance going at Terminal.com, but it says no GPU instances available constantly.

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: I have a new found love for taking 360 degree panoramic photos!

« on: October 04, 2015, 11:55 AM »

Yeah, I love 360 degree photos. It seemed like such an amazing revolution to have this tech in my pocket when Google came out with it as a core Android feature a couple years back. It's still pretty awesome. That second one in particular looks really good, though the first (Great Orme) has some stitching errors.

- Oshyan

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: October 03, 2015, 09:46 PM »

Ohhh, I see. Fair 'nuff.

- Oshyan

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: October 03, 2015, 06:57 PM »

Attempting to embed Vimeo video which didn't work in another thread:

OK, nope. So what have I done wrong?

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 03, 2015, 06:55 PM »

And then... some crazy bastard *animated* it!

The video description includes links to instructions for getting it up and running easily with a prebuilt Amazon EC2 instance, which I just might try.

Lots more interesting examples here:
http://www.genekogan.../style-transfer.html

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 03, 2015, 01:52 PM »

He says "nearly", unfortunately. I wish we had @mentions. Tsaint, did you ever get this fully working? Anyone else? I continue to be very intrigued and occasionally very impressed with the results!

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 02, 2015, 05:33 PM »

P.S. If anyone gets the "DeepStyle" software running locally I'd love to send a few image pairs through it. I have some things I want to test.

- Oshyan

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« on: October 02, 2015, 04:33 PM »

Well said 40hz! I was thinking along similar lines but couldn't quite articulate it. Just because some laws are bad and laws don't equal morality or ethics doesn't mean that we shouldn't *try to make laws more ethical and moral*, i.e. try to make them *good* laws.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: October 02, 2015, 04:31 PM »

I'm actually pretty astonished by these new "DeepStyle" images. Unlike "Deepdream" from Google, some of these actually have genuine artistic "merit", or at least aesthetic appeal beyond the "weird", "fascinating", "bizarre", etc. Why just look at that image of flowers transformed into O'Keeffe style!

- Oshyan

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« on: September 21, 2015, 09:48 PM »

I'm not quite sure what I'd do either, but I will say this is exactly why we need protection for whistle-blowers. Not just legal protection but perhaps even basic financial assistance or job assurance for *confirmed* reports of corporate illegal activities.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over

« on: September 18, 2015, 02:21 PM »

If the Pale Moon changes are things that the Mozilla org doesn't want contributed back to trunk, then fair enough. That's a shame though as if their changes really are "improving the code", they really should be contributed back. But if not, at that point they're really just maintaining their own browser and should no longer rely on Mozilla security fixes. They can watch Firefox latest changes/fixes and do eval of their own code for whether it applies, so the FF fix log still gives them a leg-up on potential improvements to their own code, especially if the FF team fixes a legacy issue. But bottom line the choice they made in how they dev this thing is making their workload what it is. I can't imagine them successfully adding the development and maintenance of their own rendering engine on top of that.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over

« on: September 17, 2015, 02:28 PM »

What you suggest is a way to go for developers of forked versions, although it would reset the code base to zero & they'd have to re-integrate all of their tweaks and changes.

-Innuendo (September 17, 2015, 10:05 AM)

Yes, that's what I figured. The question is whether doing that is more work than, er, developing and maintaining their own rendering engine. I suspect it is *less* work, probably by a fair margin. But I am not involved in the project, I don't know what they've done code-wise, so I can't say with any authority. It seems to me though that their fundamental development model needs to be evaluated in light of this ESR expiration issue. The option they provide is useful and appealing for a number of people, so it's clearly worth them continuing to make it available for the long-term if possible. They need a sustainable way to do that, not just for the next 6 months or year or 18 months but for the next 5+ years if possible.

- Oshyan

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 15, 2015 - Codename: Upgrading Everything

« on: September 16, 2015, 03:50 PM »

I saw a big surge in the total number of unread topics, several first-time or not-posted-in-a-while folks, and some very interesting anecdotes!

- Oshyan

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 15, 2015 - Codename: Upgrading Everything

« on: September 15, 2015, 01:26 PM »

Great roundup! Must have been a fair amount of work to do this. Well done.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over

« on: September 14, 2015, 02:18 PM »

I haven't looked into this *at all*, so pardon my ignorance. But why can't the Pale Moon (and other branch) developers fork from a newer dev branch and re-make whatever changes are needed to make Pale Moon what it is? Maybe that's no easier than maintaining their own rendering engine... but given the challenges other bigger companies doing their own browser engines have run into, I doubt it's easier to go that route than to simply do a new fork. After all Pale Moon is basically about removing all the social connectivity and updated UI BS, right? How hard can it be to do that stuff to newer Firefox?

Once again I apologize if this is an idiotic question.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: What online services do you pay for?

« on: September 10, 2015, 10:50 PM »

I have all these gigabytes on Mozy, and I'm not even that crazy about their service, but just can't bear the thought of having to re-upload all that data to another service (I know some can seed it via DVDs, but even making those and mailing them etc. takes time). It's just I prefer to use my free time for something else. So they got me...

-dr_andus (September 10, 2015, 06:51 PM)

Man, putting all your data on DVDs *would* be awful. Fortunately there are at least 2 services I know of that will actually just ship you a large hard drive (2TB+ - the one I got most recently was 5TB!). iDrive does it for *free*, while CrashPlan does it for a one-time fee. The actual backup process is a breeze with both since they both support local backups as well as online (bonus!), you just set the drive as a local backup location and do your full backup. It takes time, sure, but minimal effort. iDrive and CrashPlan both have their downsides, which I've talked about elsewhere here, but I currently use iDrive and overall I'm fairly happy with it. Oh and depending on how complex your file sharing requirements are, iDrive might be able to stand-in for at least some of it. It doesn't act like "live" push/pull storage like Dropbox or GDrive, but you *can* easily link someone online to any file you're backing up, which is pretty cool.

- Oshyan

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 10, 2015, 12:23 AM »

Oh man, I kind of prefer the white... Looks cleaner, possibly easier to read in a way. Is there still room to reconsider the color choices overall? I mean, obviously if it's just a persnickety few of us, we can do our own thing. But if there's some amount of critical mass?

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: September 10, 2015, 12:21 AM »

Hooray! Glad it worked.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: September 09, 2015, 08:20 PM »

I had several done with 10-15 second waits each on deepdreamgenerator.com...

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« on: September 09, 2015, 11:26 AM »

This one doesn't seem to have long queues: http://deepdreamgenerator.com/

- Oshyan