On Tuesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) greeted roughly 140 carnival revelers from all German states at the Chancellery. "Man, this place could always be a... https://news.osna.fm/?p=32873 | #news #blending #carnivalists #chancellor #festive
German Chancellor Merz Hosts 140 Carnivalists at the Kanzleramt, Blending Politics with Festive Spirit - Osna.FM

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz greets 140 carnivalists at the Chancellery, celebrating the festive spirit across Germany.

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Back on line. I suffer from #SAD exacerbated by spending the '#festive season on my Jack. Just peeking over the rim of the 'black hole' to see wots occuring.
Just now in a #Turkish cafe in #Pembroke #Wales eating #Shakshuka and looking at free #Palestine.
Peace, love and solidarity.
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xPalky
One year ago today I opened my Pixelfed profile 🎉

Time for a short retrospective of how it all began.

Late 2024, 2 a.m.: I was manually integrating peaks from chromatograms in Chromeleon when I thought: why can’t an AI do this?
The idea didn’t go anywhere, but I started exploring AI frameworks and ended up with image generation. ROCm on Debian, EasyDiffusion, and then Pixelfed.

Later Debian and ROCm drifted apart, so I posted some real-life photos. With an Ubuntu chroot, everything ran cleanly again, even AUTOMATIC1111. SD 1.5 was my standard for a long time. Early this year I tried FLUX in ComfyUI but had to drop it: RDNA2 + no FP8 + incomplete HIP → FLUX-VAE not practical. Mid-January I finally fixed the NaNs in SDXL VAE in A1111.

Now I’m fully on ComfyUI, can render 1024×1024, and 512+ px no longer OOMs.

End of 2025, I used Pixelfed for IT/FOSS networking: the FOSS Advent Calendar. Posts were seen thanks to ActivityPub, and I even started my own dev blog xD

Thanks 💜 to everyone who follows me, especially my regular viewers and those I really exchange with.
Pixelfed remains my place to share, experiment, and learn.

1 year on Pixelfed, and it all started with peaks at 2 a.m.

tl;dr: Thanks so much to everyone who follows me, especially my regular viewers and those I really exchange with, you are awesome (in Austrian slang: Ihr seid ur leiwand 💜)

#Pixelfed #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #Anniversary #1Year #Celebration #Birthday #Milestone #BirthdayCake #Fireworks #Festive #Colorful #AI #AIArt #GenerativeArt #ComfyUI #SDXL #StableDiffusion #ROCm #Linux #ThankYou #AiCommunity
Animal‑welfare commissioner Silvia Breher (CDU) has called on carnival revelers to keep their pets out of parade and festive events. Speaking to the "Rheinische... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31813 | #news #animal #festive #german #officer
German Animal Welfare Officer Warns Pets About Festive Stress - Osna.FM

Learn why the German animal welfare chief urges carnival revelers to leave pets out of processions and festive events.

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