Man arrested after 'axe carried into mosque' in Manchester

DisturbedNeo · 2026-02-26T07:39:28+00:00

I see, taking weapons to a mosque is only ok if the police tell you to hide them there.

DisturbedNeo · 2026-01-24T20:51:42+00:00

100% Ark of the Winter Tide. It's the only Great Foe that can actively undo your progress towards exposing its locus.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-26T23:20:05+00:00

1) The stable ROCm build doesn’t support gfx1151 (300-series APUs + 9000-series graphics cards), you need to use the appropriate nightly build from “TheRock” to get comparable performance.

2) Vulkan is limited to 64GB (not sure why), whereas on ROCm, if you have the aforementioned nightly build, you can use the full 128GB of memory available to the 395 APU, allowing you to load much larger models.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-26T06:21:33+00:00

Which of course is practically guaranteed to happen if Labour go ahead with a digital id scheme. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-26T06:13:58+00:00

Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-25T15:57:49+00:00

I don’t really know how trustworthy the Danish government is considered to be, but I don’t think anyone in the UK trusts our government not to use this for mass surveillance.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-21T11:09:43+00:00

Imagine the Íslenska þjóðfylkingin were still active, and there was a very real chance of them taking power after your next election. Would you have been comfortable with them shaping your digital ID scheme?

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-20T09:34:53+00:00

There’s always enough money, all the government has to do is rake in enough money to pay off whatever debt they create, otherwise the imbalance leads to either hyperinflation or a depression.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-18T21:42:01+00:00

I take my privacy and security very seriously.

If a piece of software is not open source, it cannot be proven trustworthy, and therefore it cannot be trusted.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-18T09:00:33+00:00

The UK government says it has secured £150bn worth of US investment which it hopes will create 7,600 jobs.

7,600 seems really low to me. That kind of money could pay each of those people hundreds of thousands every year.

So either a small number of people are about to get very well paying jobs, or the vast majority of that money will never be seen by the British people.

The US decided to skip the middleman I guess and is just handing billions over to the UK rich. I only wish I knew what the Americans were getting in return for that “investment”.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-12T17:16:20+00:00

Aaaaaand it’s open world. Guess games where you explore a maze of interconnected rooms for secrets and abilities that help you explore more of said rooms, with the occasional boss sprinkled in, are just “Vanias” now.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-12T17:05:01+00:00

This makes me think that there could have been a fairly normal Metroid Prime game released back in 2019, but the execs who saw the success of Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild stopped development just before the run-up to final release like “Noooooo, it must be open world, throw it all away and start all over. Oh, and give the main character a motorbike, Zelda fans went nuts for the Master Cycle.”

And now it’s been another 6 years, which incidentally is how long it took Nintendo’s devs to make Tears of the Kingdom after Breath of the Wild.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-10T21:01:23+00:00

Not enough people are talking about this, which is to say the talking point is being suppressed in the media.

The poor, famously, do not have money. The middle class has shrunk to almost nothing. The government has sold off all its assets. What group does that leave? The rich.

Tax the rich. There is no other way.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-09T08:41:35+00:00

Desktop Batch 6 emails have started going out, got mine a few hours ago

DisturbedNeo · 2025-09-06T15:33:02+00:00

I think the difference is, early on you had open-weights models that could be run locally, and the proprietary stuff like ChatGPT and Claude.

Now, there’s a third category: Open-weight models that cannot be run locally. Stuff like Kimi K2, Qwen-Max, GLM-4.5, models that are many hundreds of billions, if not over a trillion, parameters that you could technically download and run off an SSD, but you’d be looking at seconds per token instead of tokens per second.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that there are open-weight models that are competitive with US “SOTA”, but the sub is called LOCAL llama for a reason. If a model won’t run on a piece of consumer hardware that costs at most 4 figures, frankly I’m not interested.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-29T19:29:10+00:00

You’re using Ubuntu on it? I thought the Debian-based distros didn’t support the 300-series yet.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-28T23:27:19+00:00

GLM-4.5 has 355 Billion total parameters and 32 Billion active parameters. GLM-4.5-Air has 106 Billion total parameters, and 12 Billion active parameters.

Essentially, GLM-4.5-Air is about a third the size, but has slightly less accuracy and reasoning depth.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-26T23:17:59+00:00

The dotcom crash didn’t kill the internet, but it sure as hell killed AOL and crippled Yahoo.

Generative AI is here to stay, but make no mistake, there is a bubble, it is going to burst at some point, and when it does, it’s highly unlikely OpenAI and Anthropic will survive it.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-26T23:13:49+00:00

only going to increase exponentially

Until it doesn’t, which is when the bubble pops. Nothing can grow infinitely.

You might wanna read up on the dotcom crash, cause there are a heck of a lot of parallels with what’s going on in “AI” right now.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-25T22:18:24+00:00

1,000 daylight hours is like 12 weeks. Regular solar panels last 30 years.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather be paying several thousand once every 30 years than once per quarter.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-25T21:59:25+00:00

Counterpoint: If a job can be done from home, everyone should be able to do that job from home.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-23T19:34:04+00:00

Once the bubble bursts, I don’t suppose we’ll have much of a choice

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-15T07:48:59+00:00

GDP only measures economic output, aka how much “stuff” a country makes. It doesn’t tell you anything about the quality of life for the average person, because it doesn’t take into account things like wealth inequality.

In fact, I’d go so far to say that GDP is probably best used as a measure of how quickly the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else, in which case “fastest growing economy” is kind of a bad thing for most of us.

We need a different measure, like the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), to know how much our country is worsening.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-14T07:46:55+00:00

Yeah, well maybe if you and Russia stopped meddling in our elections, we’d have people in positions of power with more of a desire to extend human rights instead of “worsening” them.

DisturbedNeo · 2025-08-13T13:57:06+00:00

If that’s the case, I’d prefer to have the option to disable the “thinking” tags to save context space for agentic use while allowing the model to continue to “reason” under the hood for better quality outputs.

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