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CupScale, an OpenSource software for UpScaling Images and Videos

With playing around with local Stable Diffusion it became obvious that upscaling of generated images is needed as generated images are relatively low resolution. Most people online recommend using Topazlab’s gigapixel-ai but you need to pay for it and I wanted to check out if there’s an open-source approach. Holly F* - OneClick Stable Diffusion local install It was never thought that computers would encroach let alone overtake humans in creating art but here we are.

Dad Talks #8 : Jayson Greene

Full disclosure straight from the top: I haven’t read Jayson Greene’s book. I’m not sure I can or ever will be able to because I don’t know if I have to stomach or the emotional strength to read about the loss of a child, which is exactly what Greene’s book, Once More We Saw Stars, is about. Greene and his wife lost their two-year-old daughter Greta after a freak accident in New York City, a tragedy I can’t begin to fathom.

Dear newspaper columnists, youre not Prince Harrys real dad...

Previously: Exiting the vampires' palace: The tabloids are angry because Harry revealed how it works Prince Harry is a 36-year-old married man with one child and one on the way. But in the eyes of the British commentariat, the most cursed collection of nannies this side of a dark Disney film, he’s a child to be chastised and scolded. And that tendency has exploded after Harry dared to talk about parenting on the Armchair Expert podcast.

Death's Game (2023-24) A Recommendation

A young graduate (Seo In-guk) doing it very tough in the existential scramble for jobs has come to the end of his tether. After several years of juggling part-time jobs and not achieving that holy grail — a corporate position at Taekang Group — he concludes that his life has been an absolute failure. From the top of a high rise, he takes the plunge, ends his life, leaving behind a loving single mother and his longtime ex-girlfriend.

Detroit-Style Pizza How-To - by Alexandra Stafford

Hello Pizza Friends, Early last week, when I realized Super Bowl Sunday was upon us, I considered postponing the proposed Tomato Pie post and writing about Detroit-style pizza instead, which I love for these sorts of occasion. If you are unfamiliar, Detroit-style pizza is thick pan pizza characterized by a crisp, exterior cheese frico crust. Traditionally, it’s made with Wisconsin brick cheese, which goes on before the sauce and gets spread all the way to the edges.