> A leading scientist is welcoming the end to a gene technology ban, saying New Zealand has missed opportunities because of outdated rules.

cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/739915

> WHAKAARI / WHITE ISLAND > The Volcanic Alert Level has been raised to Level 3 at White Island and the Aviation Colour Code raised to orange. > > Aviation Colour Code Orange indicates that a volcanic eruption is underway but with little or no ash being produced. > > On Geonet's website, duty volcanologist Geoff Kilgour said the volcano had produced "a more vigorous plume" on Friday afternoon, moving volcanic ash to the east of the island. > > Today, 10th August, Whakaari exhibited vigorous activity at the vent, which maintained a constant plume that was visibly depositing ash into the sea. > The latest official information is available from GeoNet at https://www.geonet.org.nz/mbl/news/6C... > > Just to clarify, a drone has no sound, from the brief times we could hear the sound it was identical to Dukono in Indonesia. This was the sound used in this video.

With much of Europe glowing pink will we get to see a good display here in NZ?

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

Hi all

I'm looking to replace my old IBM M3 an M4 servers with something more modern

Use case:

• Proxmox:
  • OPNsense
  • TrueNAS
  • Plex/Jellyfin
  • Reverse proxy
  • Web servers for blogs etc
  • QBT
  • Nextcloud
  • IoT/home automation
  • A heap of linux VMs/Containers of odds and ends
  • Docker
    • arr stack
    • Dashboards
  • etc

Maybe replace the 3/4s dead laptop that is currently driving the lounge TV as well

I'm looking to hopefully replace the diskshelf at the same time and have a mix of sata and sas drives (I can carry over the HBAs for the sas)

I've not built a pc for nigh on 15 years so I'm a tad out of the loop.

From reading it looks like intel may be the best route and I was thinking of something like:

• Core i5 12400 or Core i5 14400
• B760M DS3H AX mATX or B660M Pro RS

I'm open to thoughts and ideas of what id doable

Edit: The IBM M4 runs E5-2650 v2 and 96GB ram

The M3 runs dual xeon 5xxx and has about 60BG ram and is only used for testing/play and is seldom powered up

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Credit to @philo@lemmy.ca for the idea Edit 1:

Hint:

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Edit 2:

Thanks for all the guesses, the correct answer was The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel

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Oh well good by:

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After the post the other day , this is the price I have to pay for 2 visits to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, about 10 to 12 X-rays, a CT scan, two nights in hospital (so far) and all the drugs

Glad to not live in the ‘land of the free’

Just tidying up my music collection and stumbled on this that I had forgotten about

Started to move off Google's services to proton:

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cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/275253

> "Streetpunk Sexy" - Visualize a portrait of Neo. Neo is a young 22 year old woman. Neo is on an medieval street in a small village where the (second stories jut over the street)+++. The streets are cobbled.it is rainy afternoon,The shot, taken from a distance, captures Neo walking away in the golden hour. Neo is wearing a long and flowing red riding cape with detailed leaf and vine patterns stitched into it over a (black gothic dress:2) .The humid atmosphere ads mist to the street and the (mountains in the distance):2. Long dark messy hair escapes the red hood of Neo's cape, The image showcases the natural late afternoon light, in hyperrealistic detail under soft lighting. The depth of field focuses on her against a backdrop of soothing,muted tones and high contrast,creating a dark,yet gorgeous (1.2) and immersive evening scene. > > > Negative prompt: text, watermark, low-quality, signature, moiré pattern, downsampling, aliasing, distorted, blurry, glossy, blur, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, poorly drawn, low-resolution, bad, distortion, twisted, excessive, exaggerated pose, exaggerated limbs, grainy, symmetrical, duplicate, error, pattern, beginner, pixelated, fake, hyper, glitch, overexposed, high-contrast, bad-contrast > > Steps: 26, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 995203940, Face restoration: CodeFormer, Size: 1024x512, Model hash: a19b862e79, Model: fullyREALXL_v30ForREAL, Pad conds: True, Version: v1.7.0 > > > ! > !

"Streetpunk Sexy" - Visualize a portrait of Neo. Neo is a young 22 year old woman. Neo is on an medieval street in a small village where the (second stories jut over the street)+++. The streets are cobbled.it is rainy afternoon,The shot, taken from a distance, captures Neo walking away in the golden hour. Neo is wearing a long and flowing red riding cape with detailed leaf and vine patterns stitched into it over a (black gothic dress:2) .The humid atmosphere ads mist to the street and the (mountains in the distance):2. Long dark messy hair escapes the red hood of Neo's cape, The image showcases the natural late afternoon light, in hyperrealistic detail under soft lighting. The depth of field focuses on her against a backdrop of soothing,muted tones and high contrast,creating a dark,yet gorgeous (1.2) and immersive evening scene.

Negative prompt: text, watermark, low-quality, signature, moiré pattern, downsampling, aliasing, distorted, blurry, glossy, blur, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, poorly drawn, low-resolution, bad, distortion, twisted, excessive, exaggerated pose, exaggerated limbs, grainy, symmetrical, duplicate, error, pattern, beginner, pixelated, fake, hyper, glitch, overexposed, high-contrast, bad-contrast

Steps: 26, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 995203940, Face restoration: CodeFormer, Size: 1024x512, Model hash: a19b862e79, Model: fullyREALXL_v30ForREAL, Pad conds: True, Version: v1.7.0

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I'm aiming to get better at telling the story to generate the images I really envisioned. Taking @krank Star@lemmy.world \'s post as a aid to describe the image

Reference

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Early attempts:

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Back at the Holy Library his exploits were recorded and catalogued for those that will come in a latter time

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It's not as good as some of the other Kermit images, I just cant get SD turbo to do him well