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Lantau and Po Lin Monastery
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Setting file and directory properties separately and recursively
ByGarfSometimes in GNU/Linux one needs to set file and directory permissions separately and recursively. This is a way to do it. Set file permissions:- find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 ; Set directory permissions- find . -type d -exec chmod 755 \{\} \; Note these are powerful commands with which you…
More fun with AI – “expensive exotic radios”
ByGarfAnother little AI image generation project using Stable Diffusion, via perhance.org. The original idea was to create some fantasy communications receivers as header or “hero” images for our various radio frequencies and internet radio stream pages. My concept was to create well-engineered, expensive, exotic, fantasy communications receivers in retro futuristic settings. However, I got a…
Trabant Spotting in Pécs, Hungary
ByGarfSpent the day Trabant Spotting in Pécs, Hungary. Actually I was looking for any Soviet era stuff that probably won’t be around for very much longer. And I actually got to drive a Trabi! Though to be honest, having actually driven a Trabant, I’m not really in much of a hurry to drive another one!
Unflattering AI images of Donald Trump
ByGarfFor reasons I will never understand, it seems the United States has just re-elected 34-times convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist Donald J Trump as its president. As a Brit, sadly there is nothing I can do about this. All I can offer the world is a few futile acts of defiance, whilst mercilessly ridiculing jumped-up…
