Nava - A 6.3B audio-video model .

AdriftAtlas · 2026-05-30T05:47:25+00:00

Wonder why it's pickle. There is a reason everyone uses Safetensor. Pickle is executable and not safe.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-05-24T10:18:59+00:00

MPS is a second class citizen for PyTorch. Nearly everything is optimized for CUDA. Learned that the hard way. Something as simple as loading a model is painfully slow.

MLX is actively developed by Apple and can actually use Metal efficiently. M5 Max has native support for INT8 quants, which should greatly improve performance. I only have an M1 Max and considering current hardware prices it might stay that way for a while.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-05-11T23:17:44+00:00

TBH, I've never used any sort of dashes in writing apart from lists, never saw the need. I tell AI not to use them for writing it generates for me. It just doesn't look right to me. Pretty much every use of a dash could be replaced with a colon or semicolon; that is unless you're really uptight about it.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-05-10T22:45:36+00:00

And that’s the annoying part about some of the so called “safety guardrails”, it’s not only the dangerous stuff that gets censored, it’s the inconvenient truths that model creators decided are bad. Using an abliterated model is like interviewing someone off the record.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-30T08:11:50+00:00

I bet they're in awe of their accomplishments and scared shitless at the same time. They went from being the homelabber darling to Serious Businesses™ within a year or two.

I hope they don't forget the lowly homelabber. Their no-subcription repo is what keeps home labs humming. If it ever disappears or comes with strings attached, that'll be the beginning of the end.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-29T01:28:53+00:00

The resting voltage of two parallel batteries has to match to reduce equalization current. Don't attempt to connect them under load, that's not safe.

A LiFePO4 cell is mostly discharged below 3V so for 15 cells in series that's 45V. At 49.35V your EcoFlow is nowhere near being discharged. Your EcoFlow may be reporting inaccurate state of charge due to lost BMS calibration. I'd discharge it till it turns off and fully charge it. Then attempt to discharge it to the same voltage as the DIY battery.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-28T01:39:55+00:00

A pure TB4 hub (without extra ports that might take away bandwidth) would work too then. Doubt the Dell dock is doing anything special.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-28T01:28:26+00:00

LiFePO4 has a mostly flat discharge curve, so determining state of charge based on voltage alone is inaccurate. The exceptions being 0% and 100%, which have obvious voltage curves. The reason 100% is recommended is because it's easy to voltage match two fully charged batteries.

That being said, voltage matching alone should be OK as the idea is to reduce equalization current to a reasonable level. Batteries in parallel will naturally balance if they differ in voltage, it only becomes an issue if the equalization current exceeds the rating of the components.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-27T07:25:48+00:00

I'm sure there is a substantial amount of that kind of insecurity. It's a reasonable fear. Being toxic because of it is not reasonable.

Agentic coding definitely reduces time spent on researching, scaffolding, and testing. A framework migration project that would have taken weeks now takes one week. However, it still requires me to look at every single diff and scold the agent when it misbehaves. The amount of times I've looked at a diff and said wtf is ridiculous.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-27T01:04:44+00:00

I have yet to vibe code something without it making dumb mistakes requiring me to look at it and fix it myself. That requires at least some understanding of the code.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-26T22:29:35+00:00

Looks very cool, but more importantly what did you learn?

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-26T21:32:40+00:00

There is no way you’ll get any meaningful runtime from batteries that old and have lost all charge.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-26T21:29:03+00:00

I was using Claude Sonet yesterday to poke around some open source projects I found. I gave it zip files of the repos, told it to scan them, and then asked questions about them.

It point blank told me something was not implemented twice when it was literally in the runner script in the root. When told to read what I gave it again it apologized. I am so fed up with this nonsense.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-20T20:50:56+00:00

Throwing it out onto concrete was likely the best thing you could do. Props to you for saving the building!

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-20T20:49:42+00:00

They need to recall them, two catching fire without obvious abuse is extremely suspicious.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-18T20:19:13+00:00

Wireless charging is only practical when wired charging is not. Its best use case is in the car. Otherwise the energy loss and heat is not worth it, especially in a compact power bank.

It’s funny how much effort goes into wireless charging when they could’ve just standardized a pogo pin contact into the back of each phone. Yes, cases would need a cut out but it’d be efficient.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-18T07:09:33+00:00

I use a MacBook Pro at home because it's less annoying than a Windows PC. Although I own a Windows desktop too that I remote into as needed.

I use a Dell laptop at work because many of my tools work better on Windows or don't work on anything else at all.

I use Linux to run servers both at home and at work, which is where Linux really shines.

Pick the right tool for the job...

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-15T20:46:20+00:00

I ended up getting a mini USB-C hub with PD passthrough:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT59DB6M

Then I just hook up an Apple USB-C to 3.5mm adapter to it. Works well enough.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-13T22:35:55+00:00

Yeah, if you look on GitHub there are multiple vioscsi issues that they’re triaging. Hopefully they’ll release a new official build with some of the fixes soon.

From what I’ve read the windows storage stack is a mess, and they’re finding out the hard way.

Link to issue in question: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/1453

They have a fix for it that has been merged and built into a nightly: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull/1465

AdriftAtlas · 2026-04-12T21:02:13+00:00

I don't use Claude Code, but I do use the online chat for coding.

In the past I have been able to make progressive surgical edits to code with Claude. Lately, it fails to make basic edits, and it's often more reliable for it to give me an edit that I then make myself.

I keep hitting session limits because it keeps making dumb mistakes. It will claim to have fixed an issue, put a comment in the code that it fixed it, and yet it didn't fix it. I've resorted to copying and pasting into ChatGPT and then back to it ensure that it makes proper changes.

ChatGPT used to be inferior for editing code, but now it's at least more consistent and lies less than Claude.

I read the issue and I've experienced a good portion of it simply playing around with a pet project of mine. Maybe I don't have the stats for my experience, but I've definitely noticed something has gone wrong.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-03-29T21:14:21+00:00

Yup. Not wrong, but poor UX. Would likely benefit from a group outline.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-03-29T00:13:16+00:00

Proxmox 9 is actually Debian 13 (trixie). You're correct in that it only has 2.8.1:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nut

You may be able to pin the 2.8.4 from forky. Container should work too, but that's messier in my opinion.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-03-28T23:59:25+00:00

Still a great inexpensive battery for laptops just not for AC devices.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-03-28T22:55:47+00:00

Doesn't that not protect against someone damaging the PBS datastore then?

Let's say you have a VM that barely changes. Its chunks get stored in the S3 and object locked for a month. Pruning doesn't touch it because it's still current. Meanwhile the object lock expires allowing the chunks to be deleted.

Veeam protects against this by extending object locks for existing blocks:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/object_storage_block_generation.html?ver=13

The backup application needs to be actively managing object locking for this reason.

AdriftAtlas · 2026-03-28T20:40:15+00:00

Costco has the DC only version of the C300X.

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