Manager wants to roll out a password manager without a browser extension. They'll just sign in to the website to manually copy paste passwords. 😭

I transplanted this maple from my neighbors yard about 2 years ago. It was originally planted very poorly: compacted subsoil, hole just big enough for the root ball, didn't take the burlap off, and covered the surface with landscape fabric right up to the trunk. I didn't think it had much of a chance to survive. Something damaged the bark around the trunk severely, and it has this white stuff that might be a fungal disease? There are some dead branches that I'm leaving in to deter the deer from eating leaves in those areas. There were also plenty of bad pruning cuts that still need to be cleaned up. Overall, this has been a great success. I made sure the root zone got some good quality compost, and also gave it a few doses of compost extract to get the life going in the soil. I put another layer of compost on top as mulch, and the seeds it contained made a nice cover crop.

Wan2.1 released first frame last frame to video:

GitHub

GitHub - Wan-Video/Wan2.1: Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models

Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models - Wan-Video/Wan2.1

New AI video model, FramePack. Longer videos, great frame to frame consistency. * Diffuse thousands of frames at full fps-30 with 13B models using 6GB laptop GPU memory. * Finetune 13B video model at batch size 64 on a single 8xA100/H100 node for personal/lab experiments. * Personal RTX 4090 generates at speed 2.5 seconds/frame (unoptimized) or 1.5 seconds/frame (teacache). * No timestep distillation. * Video diffusion, but feels like image diffusion.

FramePack

second addition to this pile after 36 hours View quoted note →

Grass grows fast here this time of year and another bag of clippings was waiting for me tonight. So I had to a second stage to this rocket.

ignition and liftoff View quoted note →

Gm frens, fuck the state

First pile of the season, time to cook

Nope, not eating ze bugs

UK Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

Quakers

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

RE: Fw: Re: FW: Email was a mistake

They spent 50 years "maintaining" a retired power line instead of removing it. And that line appears to have caused the fire that destroyed Altadena. "The line under scrutiny due to the Eaton Fire is owned by Edison International’s Southern California utility and was retired in 1971." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/useless-high-voltage-power-lines-140007621.html

I just finished watching this and can highly recommend it to anyone that wants to understand what "AI" is, how it's made, the strengths and weaknesses, and more. I have a much better understanding now of pre-training, post-training (supervised fine tuning), reinforcement learning, tokenization, and reasoning models. I learned a few tricks too, like how to have AI use tools to get better results. This technology is extremely important, like Bitcoin, and the better you understand it the more you'll be able to benefit from it.