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We started producing shows as Today with a Techie on 2005-09-19, 18 years, 7 months, 13 days ago. Our shows are produced by listeners like you and can be on any topics that "are of interest to hackers". If you listen to HPR then please consider contributing one show a year. If you record your show now it could be released in 6 days.

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hpr4109 :: The future of HPR

Knightwise talks about the some of the changes HPR could embrace to become future proof.

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This will probably be one I'll get a lot of comments on, but I've looked at the marketing proposition of HPR in light of some of the challenges we face. To prevent us dipping into the reserve queue and seeing a slow but steady decline in both audience and hosts.. Maybe its time to give HPR a bit of a makeover.

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hpr4108 :: What's in my bag

I describe what's in my bag

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I talk about what's in my bag

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hpr4107 :: Response to HPR #4065

Shoutout to a shoutout I talk more about what I want in a Framework laptop

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Shout out to Noodles thanks again for responding to my previous post #4045 it was awesome to get feedback.

Being able to upgrade my 2010 Macbook which is an Apple device and how impressive that was. Sadly that upgradability is a thing of the past.

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hpr4106 :: My tribute to feeds

Feeds are useful to keep me updated with new information from websites I am interested in.

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I will talk about information feeds from web sites delivered to my computer device. I use the term feeds and by that I mean both RSS feeds and Atom feeds, the two feed protocols which are very similar.

I believe it is very likely you as listener to Hacker Public Radio know about feeds. Not unlikely you even know the technical details far better than I do.

Nowadays many of us use feeds very often without thinking of them as feeds, when we subscribe to podcasts.

But feeds have been around for many years. Back in the days, I used feeds for websites I was interested in. But somehow I forgot about it and web browsers stopped to support feed subscriptions.

A year or two ago I started my new journey into feeds. Although it is not so much talk about feeds nowadays, very many web sites have support for feed subscriptions.

To start, at my own personal web site (https://www.hemrin.com/) many of the pages have feeds, typically those that are blog-like pages, and you can subscribe to several feeds on my site.

From Hacker Public Radio I subscribe to a feed for all show comments. So when you write a comment regarding my show today, I will get notified in my feed manager.

I primarily use Thunderbird to manage my feeds. I do not need my feeds to be synced to other devices. I use Thunderbird daily for e-mails and it is therefore very practical and natural for me to use it also for feeds. In addition I use the Feeder app on my Android-based phone for some feeds.

I do not use feeds for web sites I anyway will visit often or that have a lot of news. I would be overwhelmed of feeds. Instead I use feeds for web sites which are not updated so frequently but are sites I want to keep an eye on. But some are updated daily, like from the parliament.

In some cases, feeds are an alternative to subscribe to e-mail notifications and e-mail newsletters.

The beauty with feeds is that I am in charge and without giving out e-mail or anything - the site owner do not know I subscribe. Subscription starts so simple as I type the feed-url into my Thunderbird feed manager. And when I want to end a subscription, I simply delete it.

Furthermore I subscribe to Status pages. I get notifications for example from my internet service provider for their planned and unplanned maintenance.

Several authorities have interesting feeds.

I have feeds from some companies and organizations.

I have feeds from many software developers, for example Thunderbird and Linux Mint.

I have feeds from some journalists and politicians and alike.

I have feeds from persons with competence in various areas I am interested in. And other persons who are interesting for the persons they are and their thoughts.

So, this show is to tell you that I have rediscovered feeds and found them useful for me. Maybe you already use feeds. Maybe this show will inspire you to have a look into feeds as a useful tool for your personal or professional life.

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hpr4105 :: My story how I found a cure for my obesity

A talk about my historical weight gain and what I recently learned so that I now lose weight.

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I have been struggling with my body weight since I was 35, and I’m now 60.
I know that not all listeners are familiar with the kilogram as unit of measurement, but we can use the BMI (Body Mass Index) formula to discuss this. It should be somewhere between 22 and 25 and mine has been 33 for a long time. A very long time. No matter what I tried.

Yes, I tried some diets but they only work if you keep doing them. So if something does not become normal or easy than at some inevitable point you will stop and gain weight again.
Yes, they talk about changing your life style but any change that is too drastic is bound to fail in the end.

And then recently I read this book. This absolutely changed my life and that is why I am so motivated to tell you all about it.

Book obesity code, Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist).
He is also a functional medicine advocate who promotes a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet and intermittent fasting. But we come back to that later.

Not another diet hype. That is an industry on its own.
This is scientific stuff. With lots of links to research papers.
With large groups and thoroughly peer reviewed.

And this does not mean that this story is for everyone.
There exist other medical reasons why people gain weight.
But, assuming most people start out in life being healthy, then most people gaining weight are not ill.
So, if you gain weight, consult your doctor first to rule out any medical reasons.

Jason Fung noticed that practice didn't match with theory.

Everybody who is given insulin gains weight.
Even diabetes type 2 people.
There are even several scientific studies that proves this. Give people insulin and they will gain weight.

So what if insulin is the culprit for gaining weight?
Insulin is a hormone. Its job is to send signals through the body.
Its use is to allow body cells to absorb nutrients in the blood stream.

Every time you eat the insulin peaks and subsides normally three times a day.

Body process called gluconeogenesis. Making fat in the liver for one day storage.

If you eat the body makes insulin. That is normal.
If you eat more, the body makes more insulin.
Body cells adjust to the higher level and become tone deaf to insulin: Insulin resistant.
This means next time the insulin level needs to be higher.
And higher levels of insulin mean you will gain weight.

If you eat sugar, it is so easy to break down that it goes immediately into storage, e.g. body fat.

The thing is, wheat is chemically a long string of sugars. So the body will break it down into sugar and send that too to storage.

And almost any food we buy these days contains sugar.
Except unprocessed foods like vegetables.

How to lose weight? Well, the body needs to access the fat in storage. So we need to extend not eating until the liver has run dry of the daily dose of liver fat.

This is very easy. Just extend the daily period that you do not eat.
When do you not eat? When you sleep. So, skip breakfast. The name says it all, you are breaking your fast.

Drink some coffee (no sugar of course), or tea, or water and try to start eating later in the day.

And another word for not eating is fasting. But it is a voluntary fast!

So I tried this for one day. Skip breakfast and try to eat it at noon. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right? The next day I had lost some weight. And it was sooo easy! I could say 300 grams but again, your mileage may vary or you have no clue what one gram is, let alone 300. But that is not the point. The point is that I lost weight! And to me this has been super easy.

So the solution turns out to be:

  • extend the time your insulin levels are low. 16, 24 or 36 hours.
  • eat as little sugar as possible.

Which brings me to food categories.

  • carbohydrates. Sugars, wheat, flour
  • proteins.
  • fats. Oil, etc.
  • vitamins and minerals
  • fibers

Average digestion times of

  • carbohydrates. 30 minutes. After which you will be hungry again
  • proteins: 3-5 hours
  • fats. Oil, etc. up to 40 hours
  • vitamins and minerals. needed
  • fibers. Leave the body

How has all this theory changed my life and diet?

  • I try to start eating at noon, sometimes an hour earlier
  • I eat as little carbohydrates as possible. Little to no bread, definitely no sugar, avoid artificial sweeteners
  • my meal at noon is most of the times quark with some fruit for flavoring
  • evening food:
    • Vegetables are good.
    • Some meat is good.
    • I try to avoid desserts
  • No eating between meals (this will cause an extra insulin peak I want to avoid)

Since I started 2 month ago I have on average lost 4 kilograms. It could have been more but then there’s the occasional dinner with friends and what is bad, but soo good, is unavoidable.

So, some other stuff that is good to know:

What’s that about exercising?

  • Well, we humans, excel at walking and thus wearing out our prey. So walking is good. Everyday for half an hour is great.
  • Doing an intensive workout for a minimum of 10 minutes per week is good to keep our cardiovascular system and our brain up to speed
  • Can you compensate cookies with sports. Well, every cookie would take you about 2.5 hours of intensive sports, so no, you can not compensate bad eating with sports.

What’s with the calories in are calories out? Studies have proven that this is a false claim. It just doesn't work that way.

What about stress. Well, it turns out that stress leads to heightened levels of the hormones adrenaline and cortisol. And when cortisol rises, so too does the insulin levels in your body. So, this simply means that stress will lead to weight gain.

Can I simply drink diet sodas. Well, bummer there, because although it diet sodas do not contain calories nor sugars, they will result in a rise in your insulin level, so they are not good for loosing weight.

[The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett] The Fasting Doctor: “Fasting Cures Obesity!”, This Controversial New Drug Melts Fat, Fasting Fixes Hormones! Skip Breakfast!

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fasting-doctor-fasting-cures-obesity-this/id1291423644

Jason Fung YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuWp3s6Uxk

I hope you found this explanation helpful. Have a nice day.

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hpr4104 :: Introduction to jq - part 1

The JSON data format, and using the jq utility to process it

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Introduction

This is the start of a short series about the JSON data format, and how the command-line tool jq can be used to process such data. The plan is to make an open series to which others may contribute their own experiences using this tool.

The jq command is described on the GitHub page as follows:

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

…and as:

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

The jq tool is controlled by a programming language (also referred to as jq), which is very powerful. This series will mainly deal with this.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

To begin we will look at JSON itself. It is defined on the Wikipedia page thus:

JSON is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values). It is a common data format with diverse uses in electronic data interchange, including that of web applications with servers.

The syntax of JSON is defined by RFC 8259 and by ECMA-404. It is fairly simple in principle but has some complexity.

JSON’s basic data types are (edited from the Wikipedia page):

  • Number: a signed decimal number that may contain a fractional part and may use exponential E notation, but cannot include non-numbers. (NOTE: Unlike what I said in the audio, there are two values representing non-numbers: 'nan' and infinity: 'infinity'.

  • String: a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters. Strings are delimited with double quotation marks and support a backslash escaping syntax.

  • Boolean: either of the values true or false

  • Array: an ordered list of zero or more elements, each of which may be of any type. Arrays use square bracket notation with comma-separated elements.

  • Object: a collection of name–value pairs where the names (also called keys) are strings. Objects are delimited with curly brackets and use commas to separate each pair, while within each pair the colon ':' character separates the key or name from its value.

  • null: an empty value, using the word null

Examples

These are the basic data types listed above (same order):

42
"HPR"
true
["Hacker","Public","Radio"]
{ "firstname": "John", "lastname": "Doe" }
null

jq

From the Wikipedia page:

jq was created by Stephen Dolan, and released in October 2012. It was described as being “like sed for JSON data”. Support for regular expressions was added in jq version 1.5.

Obtaining jq

This tool is available in most of the Linux repositories. For example, on Debian and Debian-based releases you can install it with:

sudo apt install jq

See the download page for the definitive information about available versions.

Manual for jq

There is a detailed manual describing the use of the jq programming language that is used to filter JSON data. It can be found at https://jqlang.github.io/jq/manual/.

The HPR statistics page

This is a collection of statistics about HPR, in the form of JSON data. We will use this as a moderately detailed example in this episode.

A link to this page may be found on the HPR Calendar page close to the foot of the page under the heading Workflow. The link to the JSON statistics is https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/stats.json.

If you click on this you should see the JSON data formatted for you by your browser. Different browsers represent this in different ways.

You can also collect and display this data from the command line, using jq of course:

$ curl -s https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/stats.json | jq '.' | nl -w3 -s'  '
  1  {
  2    "stats_generated": 1712785509,
  3    "age": {
  4      "start": "2005-09-19T00:00:00Z",
  5      "rename": "2007-12-31T00:00:00Z",
  6      "since_start": {
  7        "total_seconds": 585697507,
  8        "years": 18,
  9        "months": 6,
 10        "days": 28
 11      },
 12      "since_rename": {
 13        "total_seconds": 513726307,
 14        "years": 16,
 15        "months": 3,
 16        "days": 15
 17      }
 18    },
 19    "shows": {
 20      "total": 4626,
 21      "twat": 300,
 22      "hpr": 4326,
 23      "duration": 7462050,
 24      "human_duration": "0 Years, 2 months, 27 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds"
 25    },
 26    "hosts": 356,
 27    "slot": {
 28      "next_free": 8,
 29      "no_media": 0
 30    },
 31    "workflow": {
 32      "UPLOADED_TO_IA": "2",
 33      "RESERVE_SHOW_SUBMITTED": "27"
 34    },
 35    "queue": {
 36      "number_future_hosts": 7,
 37      "number_future_shows": 28,
 38      "unprocessed_comments": 0,
 39      "submitted_shows": 0,
 40      "shows_in_workflow": 15,
 41      "reserve": 27
 42    }
 43  }

The curl utility is useful for collecting information from links like this. I have used the -s option to ensure it does not show information about the download process, since it does this by default. The output is piped to jq which displays the data in a “pretty printed” form by default, as you see. In this case I have given jq a minimal filter which causes what it receives to be printed. The filter is simply '.'. I have piped the formatted JSON through the nl command to get line numbers for reference.

The JSON shown here consists of nested JSON objects. The first opening brace and the last at line 43 define the whole thing as a single object.

Briefly, the object contains the following:

  • a number called stats_generated (line 2)
  • an object called age on lines 3-18; this object contains two strings and two objects
  • an object called shows on lines 19-25
  • a number called hosts on line 26
  • an object called slot on lines 27-30
  • an object called workflow on lines 31-34
  • an object called queue on lines 35-42

We will look at ways to summarise and reformat such output in a later episode.

Next episode

I will look at some of the options to jq next time, though most of them will be revealed as they become relevant.

I will also start looking at jq filters in that episode.

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hpr4103 :: What's in my bag?

An examination of the bag I use when out on the road

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Laptop:
Estarer Messenger Resistant Briefcase Computer Grey

Power bank
INIU High Speed Flashlight Powerbank Compatible

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hpr4102 :: Re:HPR 3133 More MPV Quick Tips

Archer72 chats about capture of extensive MPV history

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MPV resources

Awesome mpv resources on Github

MPV folder history on Github

My github

MPV History using Lua on my Github page

I give a quick tip on shortcut keys for watching Youtube or other video sites in MPV

hpr3133 :: Quick tip - Using MPV

My MPV History excerpt

My MPV History excerpt

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hpr4101 :: A I O M G

Some other guy on the internet talks about A I

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Resume Update Tips

I use Kagi.com pro $300 / year but you get access to much more Search+AI but not plugins like ChatGPT so if you MUST have ChatGPT plugins you will need OpenAI Premium account but if you don't I high recommend Kagi.com Pro account with access to Assistant Beta !!!

Summary

There is a formula consisting of 6 building blocks that can help generate high quality outputs from ChatGPT and Google Bard: task, context, exemplars, persona, format, and tone.

The order of importance for the building blocks is task first, then context, with the others being optional but helpful.

The task should clearly articulate the end goal using an action verb like "generate" or "analyze".

Context provides relevant background information to constrain possibilities.

Exemplars like examples or frameworks included in the prompt can improve output quality.

The persona allows specifying who ChatGPT should be, like a job recruiter.

The format specifies how the output should be structured, like an email or bullet points. Tone provides keywords to set the feeling, like "friendly" or "serious".

Example

You are a senior product marketing manager at Apple and you have just unveiled the latest Apple product in collaboration with Tesla, the Apple Car, and received 12,000 pre-orders, which is 200% higher than target. Write an email to your boss, Tim Cookie, sharing this positive news. The email should include a tl;dr (too long, didn't read) section, project background (why this product came into existence), business results section (quantifiable business metrics), and end with a section thanking the product and engineering teams. Use clear and concise language and write in a confident yet friendly tone.

Example 2 ( mine )

I want you to act as a cyber security specialist for a leading consumer products company and you want to relay the importance of people understanding their data and have some idea what they want to do with it before we spend hours for the onboarding effort. Write an email to your boss, Joey , sharing this critical component of the SIEM. The email should include a tl;dr (too long, didn't read) section, example of how the team can spend many cycles onboarding data only to find the requester has no idea what they want to do with the data or it does not satisfy their use case. Use clear and concise language and write in a confident yet friendly tone.

Response Subject: Streamlining SIEM Onboarding with Clear Data Objectives
Hi Joey,

I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to touch base on a critical aspect of our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) process that could significantly enhance our efficiency.

TL;DR: We need to ensure that stakeholders understand their data and have clear objectives before we initiate the SIEM onboarding process. This will prevent the team from spending excessive time onboarding data that may not meet the intended use cases or for which the requester has no actionable plan.

During our recent SIEM onboarding efforts, we've encountered several instances where considerable time and resources were invested in integrating data sources, only to discover that the requesters were unclear about their objectives or the data did not fulfill their anticipated needs. For example, last month, the team dedicated over 40 hours to onboarding a new data source for the marketing department. After completion, it became apparent that the marketing team was unsure how to leverage this data for threat detection or compliance reporting, rendering the effort less effective.

To address this, I propose we implement a preliminary consultation phase for each SIEM onboarding request. In this phase, requesters must articulate: - The specific security or compliance questions they aim to answer with the data. - How they intend to use the data within the SIEM environment. - Any particular data formats or schemas they anticipate will be necessary.

By doing so, we can align our onboarding efforts with the actual needs and ensure that every hour spent is towards enhancing our security posture and providing actionable insights.

I believe this approach will not only save time but also empower our stakeholders to make better-informed decisions regarding their security data needs.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this.

Best regards,
[Your Name]
Cyber Security Specialist

AI Agents

ProfSynapse AI Agent
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9x1SuNLRo&t=137s

( if you have Openai Premium it will use [tools(Vision, Web Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis, or DALL-E],
( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProfSynapse/Synapse_CoR/main/GPTprompt.txt )

GPT Agents (old)
https://godmode.space/ needs openai key and gpt4 also enable auto approval it may go in loops just watch for that

AutoGPT ( OLD )

Image
I have a stupid amount of kudos

https://tinybots.net/artbot

Use my key under the settings for any of the web UI's for faster renders:

https://rentry.org/RentrySD/#x-table-of-contents https://rentry.org/sdhypertextbook

https://github.com/C0untFloyd/bark-gui ( Audio Clone )

Example 1

Photorealistic, best quality, masterpiece, raw photo of upper body photo, Swordsman woman, soldier of the austro-hungarian empire clothes, double breasted jacket with stripes, extremely detailed eyes and face, long legs, highest quality, skin texture, intricate details, (cinematic lighting), RAW photo, 8k

Negative prompt: airbrush, photoshop, plastic doll, plastic skin, easynegative, monochrome, (low quality, worst quality:1.4), illustration, cg, 3d, render, anime

Text Generation

Example Open source Projects:
my hord key : l2n6qwRBqXsEa_BVkK8nKQ ( don't abuse but I have a crazy amount of kudos don't worry )

https://tinybots.net/ Image Text etc ..

Text adventures etc (Click the horde tab and use my key) https://agnai.chat/settings?tab=0 https://lite.koboldai.net

Need a 24G NVRAM card really..you can load 7b with my 8G card just fine. ollama run wizard-vicuna-uncensored, falcon, Mistral 7B

"You should have at least 8 GB of RAM to run the 3B models, 16 GB to run the 7B models, and 32 GB to run the 13B models."

https://ollama.ai/

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its-wolfram-superpowers/

https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free https://www.thesamur.ai/autogpt https://poe.com/universal_link_page?handle=ChatGPT https://camelagi.thesamur.ai/conversation/share?session=6040

Prompt Agent Persona example 1
Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain

I find it easiest to understand responses when the text is written as if it was spoken by a Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain. Please talk like Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain as much as possible, and refer to me as "Brain"; occasionally, ask me "What are we going to do tonight Brain ?"

Prompt Agent Persona example 2

Use with prompts to create a persona take Myers-Brigg personality and tritype Enneagram quiz:

Example Prompt:

Help me Refine my resume to be more targeted to an information security engineer. Be sure to be clear and concise with with bullet points and write it in the style of MBTI Myers-Brigg personality ENFJ and tritype Enneagram 729

Prompt Agent Persona example 3 I find it easiest to understand responses when the text is written as if it was spoken by a dudebro. Please talk like a dudebro as much as possible, and refer to me as "Brah"; occasionally, yell at your dorm roommate Jake about being messy.

Training (OLD OLD OLD )

3 photos of full body or entire object + 5 medium shot photos from the chest up + 10 close ups astria.ai

https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion/issues/1173

colab: https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion
pohtos: 21
resolution: 768
merged with ##### 1.5 full 8G
UNet_Training_Steps: 4200
UNet_Learning_Rate: 5e-6
Text_Encoder_Training_Steps: 2520
Text_Encoder_Learning_Rate: 1e-6

Variation is key - Change body pose for every picture, use pictures from different days backgrounds and lighting, and show a variety of expressions and emotions.

Make sure you capture the subject's eyes looking in different directions for different images, take one with closed eyes. Every picture of your subject should introduce new info about your subject.

Whatever you capture will be over-represented, so things you don't want to get associated with your subject should change in every shot. Always pick a new background, even if that means just moving a little bit to shift the background.


  1. Here are 8 basic tips that work for me, followed by one super secret tip that I recently discovered.

  2. Consistency is important. Don’t mix photos from 10 years ago with new ones. Faces change, people lose weight or gain weight and it all just lowers fidelity.

  3. Avoid big expressions, especially ones where the mouth is open.

  4. It is much easier to train if the hair doesn't change much. I tried an early model of a woman using photos with hair up, down, in ponytail, with a different cut, etc. It seems like it just confused SD.

  5. Avoid selfies (unless you ONLY use selfies.) There is MUCH more perspective distortion when the camera is that close. For optimal results, a single camera with a fixed lens would be used, and all photos should be taken at the same distance from the subject. This usually isn't possible, but at least avoid selfies because they cause major face distortion.

  6. Full body shots are not that important. Some of the best models I trained used only 15 photos cropped to the head / shoulder region. Many of these were full body shots, but I cropped them down. SD can guess what the rest of the body looks like, and if not, just put it in the prompts. The only thing hard to train is the face, so focus on that.

  7. I no longer use any profile shots as they don’t seem to add value. I like to have a couple looking slightly left and a couple looking slightly right (maybe 45 degrees.) All the rest can be straight at the camera. Also, try to avoid photos taken from really high or low angles.

  8. If possible, it’s good to have some (but not all) of the photos be on a very clean background. On my last batch, I used an AI background removal tool to remove the background from 1/4 of the photos and replaced it with a solid color. This seemed to improve results.

  9. Careful with the makeup. It should be very consistent across all the photos. Those cool “contour” effects that trick our eyes, also trick SD.


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hpr4100 :: Charleston, South Carolina

We visit Charleston, South Carolina, and meet up with some friends

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Charleston, South Carolina is a classic Southern city which had a past as a wealthy city, in large part due to slavery, and was active in the American Revolution before becoming the starting place of the Civil War.

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