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  • Stable Diffusion Models are Too Biased

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    If I asked a human to draw a woman with a phone in her hand explaining something to a man then they would attempt to draw exactly that. If it's a white human, I'd expect the output skin color to be white same with any other human biased towards their environment unless they themselves are biased toward other skin colors. Skin color isn't the problem with Stable diffusion.

    Stable diffusion will instead draw up a man with a phone explaining it to a woman. WTF? Same with African doctor treating European or Asia...

  • SPA Search Engine Crawler Friendliness Idea Update

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    I tried out my "SPA Search Engine Crawler Friendliness Idea" (https://www.normansoven.com/post/spa-search-engine-crawler-friendliness-idea) and preliminary results are better than expected. Astronomical results, really. It's more work to have a search engine friendly server side page, also technically print friendly, alongside a client side website, but it's worth it if you care for organic search results.

    I think going multi page for consumer facing apps is the way to go whenever you care for SEO, but servi...

  • SPA Search Engine Crawler Friendliness Idea

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    The idea is pretty much have the server render a lightweight web page with all the meta information needed.

    When one thinks SPA, you think well how's the search engine supposed to view it. Well, search engines are actually pretty good about rendering SPA these days, but only to an extent.

    Like let's day it takes too long to render your dynamic content, well how's a crawler supposed to know that? You also may change the title and meta tags to make sure the crawler has the correct information.

    Essentially render...

  • Banning TikTok or The RESTRICT Act is... Incompetence

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    Sigh. Like SOPA and all the other overbroad bills before it that caused internet companies to protest with blackouts. This entire bill to not just counter social communications software, but a whole lot more.

    Article, Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

    “The RESTRICT Act could lead to apps and other ICT services with connections to certain foreign countries being banned in the United States. Any bill that would allow the US government to ban an online s...

  • VR Puking or Sickness, I can understand

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    I've never puked or had sickness, but have definitely felt queasy when things felt off.

    I downloaded a drum game demo for PS VR2 and I guess because it is buggy, it put me almost below the floor which felt really weird. I think that would make people feel sick. I ended up restarting the game because there was no other way to fix that. The positioning was weird, but some adjustment can make it somewhat comfortable. It was a fun game.

    With PS VR1, I played Ace Combat and felt fine. I guess since I like playing ...

  • PS VR2 is a Great 4K Monitor. Cheap price too.

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    Great piece of technology. $550 for a 4k Monitor with eye tracking, haptic feedback, 3d audio earphones and 2 wireless controllers (technically one whole controller).

    As long as you can use the VR headset for non-vr games, it is a monitor.

    It's a value buy, not expensive as it could be though, which is good for consumers.

    Zombieland is an easy fun casual arcade-like VR game.

    Swordsman VR is fun and a slight workout, but repetitive.

    Gran Turismo 7 VR mode was immersive, but not too compelling to make VR a must bu...

  • Is Using ChatGPT Cheating or a Productivity Boost?

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    Reading articles from professors who want to find who is using ChatGPT and education departments who ban ChatGPT from the environments they have authority would make one think using AI is a cheat and is bad for learning. I don't think so.

    If I can use AI to do the work that you are giving me then it means your work is fuuuuuuuucking boring and drudgery. The work you are giving is not thoughtful for students and it is so bad that AI can give generate reasonably acceptable work or even drafts for students to w...

  • MacOS .pkg Installer "Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=110"

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    Apparently, "Installer" software can fail repeatedly, for no apparent reason, because it doesn't have "full disk access" permission, so you'll have to go to System Utilities > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access and turn on the one for "Installer"

    Insane that it even needs permission, wow.

    Ugh.

  • Reshuffled Projects for 2023

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    With Elon Musk doing stupid shit with Twitter, I've decided to move up the timeline for Dayolog. The next generation social discussion software. The mission is to bring stability and control of forums, communities small and large back to users as well as giving them an actual town square without the overbearing central overlord moderator. This is combined with my initial desire to bring comments back to websites and the details of how will be more clear soon. I have high motivation and really great ideas on...

  • Very Close to Releasing NoMo FoMo. My Last Product for the Year.

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    NoMo FoMo is a Chrome extension, Firefox and Edge some day, to filter out distracting content on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

    Feels good to finally get this out there. I had the thought in February of this year because of a bullshit Youtuber's video. Just felt so disgusted by his zero calorie video that I wanted to block his channel. Hell I wanted to make sure my browser with never fucking see the guy on any social media. I built the extension to solve that problem only.

    Now I feel the problem is rage induc...