Vancurious Blog

Vancurious Wanderings

Vancurious wanders through the World; following Fancy and Folly.   Join as as we find Art, Beer, Coffee, Diversions, Events, and Flavours. 

This site is still shedding its Wordpress vestiges. If you see broken picture links - I am working on fixing them.

Geek Gathering

AI Image to Video: using comfyUI for IMG to VID

In one of the previous posts, I described how to use stable diffusion and Forge.  Much has changed since then - it is unbelievable how quickly new models and tools come out.  In this post, I'll be using the "ComfyUI" workflow and nodal graph type interface to drive the parameter setting for the generation, instead of Forge.  
ComfyUI can do everything Forge can, plus more:

  • Text to Image
  • Text to Voice
  • Image to Video
  • etc

There's a couple of amazing things about ComfyUI:

Story

Story: No skin off my back

To whoever reads this.    Take it seriously.  I hope this has reached you in time. 

At first, like you, I thought I just needed to choose more oversized clothing.  And I had enough of those, from my grunge phase.  Big, roomy, plaid flannel shirts in the 'this may just come back into fashion' part of the closet.

Diversions

Europe: 5 days in Paris, France

If you have a few days in Paris, here are some things to do!
Paris is one of my favourite cities, and I never tire of walking without a plan just following my curiosity.  

-- WORDS IN PROGRESS -- (article under construction)

Geek Gathering

Bye-bye Meta, Microsoft and Musk; Welcome to NextCloud!

Speak "Friend", and enter!  Your journey to the Next Cloud is about to take off! 

This Cloud is by invitation only and you have found staring down the rabbit hole!  So go ahead and take that leap.  This post is written for my mum to get her started on NextCloud.

We host NextCloud in our own data center, and therefore your data is private and shared with no one other than us. 

Getting Started

If you get added to a NextCloud server, you will receive a welcome email as follows:

Geek Gathering

Drupal 10: how to get rid of spam unapproved comments in bulk

In case anyone was wondering, no: I do not want to try hemp products, your CBD oil, your business partnership, or offers for sexy meetings, just click here.  

I would like to keep this site open for any real person wanting to post a comment!  However, the thousands of - scripted, I am sure - weird comments I keep receiving are a bit of a pain.