China testet erfolgreich riesiges fliegendes Kraftwerk https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000309975/china-testet-erfolgreich-riesiges-fliegendes-kraftwerk?ref=mastodon

Wenn der Wärmetransport umkippt: Simulationen erklären die Entstehung der H-Mode
Seit mehr als 40 Jahren gilt die H-Mode als das angestrebte Betriebsszenario für Fusionsanlagen vom Typ Tokamak. Doch warum sie plötzlich entsteht, ist nach wie vor ein Rätsel. Jetzt haben Physiker mit Hilfe von Simulationen erstmals eine Erklärung gefunden, die sich allein aus grundlegenden physikalischen Prinzipien ergibt. Die Arbeit erschien im Fachjournal „Physical Review Letters“. https://www.ipp.mpg.de/zholobenko-h-mode

Schandmaul's "Euch zum Geleit" is a philosophical song of consolation. It is a farewell message from the perspective of a deceased person, speaking to the mourners at their own funeral. The song breaks with the image of a painful parting and replaces it with the image of a completed cycle of life.

It serves as both a memento mori, reminding us to live fully, and a memento vivere for those left behind. Its core message is one of peace: the speaker is at peace, grateful for a beautiful life, and asks to be remembered in joy and in nature.

I tried to translate the profound feelings of this song, the melancholy, peace, and connection to nature, into a visual artwork using SDXL.

Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7kBBptT1Q

#SongInterpretation #FolkRock #GermanMusic #MementoMori #MementoVivere #LifeAndDeath #AIArt #stablediffusion #SDXL #DigitalArt #FantasyArt #LandscapeArt #StarryNight #Mountains #Lake #Forest #NightSky #Melancholy #Peaceful

Verblüffend erdähnlicher, eiskalter Planet in unserer Nachbarschaft entdeckt https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000306558/verblueffend-erdaehnlicher-eiskalter-planet-in-unserer-nachbarschaft-entdeckt?ref=mastodon

YES SUCCEEDED!!!

Just rendered an image at 944×1152 (slightly above 1024×1024) using Flux1-Schnell-FP8 on my 6700 XT, and it works! (Image 1 is the Real-ESRGAN 2× upscaled version)

Workflow 1: Sampling (Image 2)

Prompt executed → UNet generates the latent

Step 1 (model load + latent generation) took 419 seconds

Output: Latent tensor saved to disk

Workflow 2 : VAE Decode (Image 3)

Latent loaded → VAE decodes the image

Duration: 7.5 seconds

Advantage: UNet doesn’t need to stay in VRAM → VRAM freed, even on 12 GB GPUs

The problem with the stock LoadLatent Node

Dropdown only shows files if they were produced / annotated by a previous SaveLatent Node

Node is designed to pass latents inside a graph, not load arbitrary files from disk

Purpose: prevents accidentally loading wrong files

Workaround (Image 4)

Edited /ComfyUI/nodes.py, class LoadLatent

Hardcoded latent path → Node now loads directly from disk

Result: Workflow 2 runs instantly, UNet can be unloaded

Timing

Step 1 (model load + latent generation): 419 s

Step 2 (VAE decode): 7.5 s

Result: High-res images on a 12 GB RDNA2 GPU are now possible on Flux1-Schnell-FP8 without ComfyUI crashing! (Image 5 is the original output)

This might actually become my new Flux workflow: render quick 512×512 previews first (which works perfectly on RDNA2 GPUs), sort out the good ones, extract the seed from the PNG metadata, and then re-render only the selected images with the same seed using the split workflow at higher resolutions. This way, high-resolution Flux1-Schnell-FP8 renders become possible on 12 GB RDNA2 GPUs D:

Question at the end: Has anyone ever done this before? Because I have no clue xD

#ComfyUI #flux #Flux1SchnellFP8 #FP8 #AMD #RDNA2 #VAE #AIArt #Pixelfed #HighResolution #GPUOptimization #LatentWorkflow #AIWorkflow #AIHacks #RealESRGAN #Upscale #AIExperiment #CreativeAI #DigitalArt #AICommunity #python #linux #opensource #foss

5500 Jahre altes Genom wirft neues Licht auf den Ursprung der Syphilis https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000305363/5500-jahre-altes-genom-wirft-neues-licht-auf-den-ursprung-der-syphilis?ref=mastodon

If you can run FLUX and SDXL locally, you really don’t need cloud AI services anymore.
No subscriptions, no prompt logging, no rate limits, just full control.

And no, you don’t need an RTX 5090 or a Radeon AI PRO R9700 (I’d love to have one though xD).
Every image here was rendered on an AMD RX 6700 XT, a mid-range GPU from 2021, not even officially supported by ROCm.

Local models. Local compute. Local freedom.

#SDXL #StableDiffusion #LocalAI #GenerativeArt #OpenSource #FOSS #PrivacyFirst #NoCloud #AMD #RX6700XT #ROCm #Linux #AIArt #DiffusionModels #CreativeCoding #MidrangeGPU #SelfHosted #Decentralized

Neue Erklärung für die merkwürdigen Muster an den Polen von Saturn und Jupiter https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000304688/neue-erklaerung-fuer-die-merkwuerdigen-muster-an-den-polen-von-saturn-und-jupiter?ref=mastodon