Category: Computers

  • Understanding the Linux Boot System

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    Background If you’ve ever tried to install Linux from scratch or with a distribution such as Arch or Gentoo you would have found the partitioning and boot loader setup to be a rather confusing mess of different standards, compatibility problems and issues, particularly with dual booting, even when using an installer there is still a…

  • Stable Diffusion Turbo – Comfy UI Workflows

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    Recently Stability AI released two new models called SDXL Turbo and SD Turbo, these are designed to drastically reduce the number of steps required to as low as one step, this allows for rapid testing and real time applications, SD Turbo is specifically trained on SD 2.1 which is a bit of a poor choice…

  • Avoiding UK Government Censorship & Spying

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    As you may or may not be aware the United Kingdom government recently passed the highly controversial Online Safety Bill, at this time it’s awaiting royal assent before it becomes law, this law will severely impact freedom of speech in the UK, but more importantly, it will risk undermining the safety of every single person…

  • Stable Diffusion XL Tutorial

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    Stable diffusion XL is Stability AI’s latest AI image generator released in July 2023, it gives a significant improvement to image quality compared to prior versions at a modest performance cost, a number of popular frontends have at least partial support for SDXL which should improve over time. In this tutorial I’m going to assume…

  • Guide to Online Privacy & Security

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    Now days keeping your information private online is becoming more important that ever, multiple governments are attempting to push legislation that will weaken security measures such as encryption, that is a vital part of keeping your information safe, not just the information on your own computer either, this directly effects other organizations that hold personal…