Hey, I'm Silvano!

I started writing this as a simple thought, it quickly evolved into a rant of sort.

These past week OpenAI released their new image generation model, indeed amazing stuff, it can create and reason about images in way that classic diffusion models really can't.

Quickly people started generating slop upon slop of Studio Ghibli styled images.

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I've been working on this Obsidian plugin for quite some time and I'm really happy to say that it's finally been included in the list of community plugins!

You can find the sources and the install instructions in my GitHub profile over here. But let's delve a bit into how I came up with the idea for the plugin.

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I have a small PC at home that I use as a server to run some personal services of mine, Jellyfin, Sonarr, QBitTorrent, and others. This is an outline of the current setup and some of the problems I faced.

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Some times it might be necessary to limit the number of processes running at the same time for a certain application. There might be several reasons for this, to prevent data corruption for example. This is a simple cross-platform way to do it.

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