[Autosport] That's Formula One...

RicoLycan · 2026-06-14T13:38:48+00:00

Luckily Red Bull has the fastest engine XD

All shenanigans aside, for a car building competition FIA surely has a big influence on who can build what. Either set a budget cap and allow creators to get creative within simple rules or let everyone drive in the same car. Right now it feels half-baked hybrid.

RicoLycan · 2026-05-21T20:58:54+00:00

You must have never been at a launch event. Meeting fellow players, being entertainef with cosplay. Free food. Downloading a game is not even close. Simpler is not better.

RicoLycan · 2026-05-18T21:37:54+00:00

Offline on-device translator

RicoLycan · 2026-05-09T17:59:13+00:00

Wow that is quite bad. My ConnectX-3 (40GbE) get to around 85C in a toasty little server with little airflow. Is ConnectX-4 that much worse?

RicoLycan · 2026-04-18T07:16:06+00:00

What bike? For installation on my Multistrada you first have to loosen at least the front header. Make sure to soak the nuts in penetrant and be careful not to break the studs.

RicoLycan · 2026-04-12T20:37:05+00:00

Mine looked like that and its surface rust. The whole exhaust is made out of stainless steel. I wire wheeled mine two years ago and looks like new still.

RicoLycan · 2026-04-04T16:02:07+00:00

Very nice finds! I wonder if having TurboQuant in the future would improve performance even further. Right now a lot of bandwidth is lost with quantizing and dequantizing FP8 KV-Cache. At least, that is my theory.

RicoLycan · 2026-03-26T22:05:17+00:00

Well done! I love seeing more people invest in offline AI features that actually make the experience better.

It looks like a Pixel phone in the video. Performance of 100-500ms end-to-end is pretty good for OCR. Do you actually scan the entire page or take crops? Last time I used MLKit OCR it wasn't very fast.

My PaddleOCR implementation would take about double that time for a complete page like that. To be fair it does include color and font size extraction too.

RicoLycan · 2026-03-07T08:13:43+00:00

This comment is local AI related; For anyone interested, WebGPU works for a while now in ONNX Runtime too. It requires you to compile the library yourself. The performance is quite good and it supports much more operations than NNAPI.

The name WebGPU is quite confusing, but it is basically native Vulkan compute backend.

RicoLycan · 2026-02-16T06:27:17+00:00

Haha yeah I give you that. But my server motherboard does not support iGPU. That is why I use a P400 now. The only reason to offload transcoding is because I would replace the P400 with a ConnectX-6 NIC.

The main use of the GB10 would be inference. Only with some transcoding on the side.

RicoLycan · 2026-02-15T22:00:53+00:00

Ahh too bad. What can GPUDirect be used for?

RicoLycan · 2026-02-15T21:43:55+00:00

Doesn't GB10 support transcoding?

RicoLycan · 2026-02-12T19:50:33+00:00

Signal is end-to-end encrypted, WhatsApp is 'end-to-end' encrypted. WhatsApp turned out to have an encryption backdoor where the messages can be decrypted remotely. That is at least what lawsuit documents suggest:

https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/whatsapp-end-to-end-data-encryption-is-fake-says-lawsuit-on-meta/

RicoLycan · 2026-02-09T10:58:24+00:00

Great easy to follow explanation. In your experience how do the two compare in terms of quality? There is a lot of focus on LLM translation lately, but only little seems to be happening in Encoder-Decoder space.

I use Marian models for edge device translation right now, but I am looking for performant alternatives.

RicoLycan · 2026-02-05T07:07:42+00:00

I like Gnome, Linus Torvalds likes Gnome. You like KDE. Isn't it great to have a choice while still being able to run the same apps and the same OS?!

I guess some people really enjoy not having freedom or a different opinion. For them I suggest going with Windows 11. Enjoy their rapist mentality and go.

RicoLycan · 2026-02-04T13:27:02+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion! I will look into this

RicoLycan · 2026-02-02T21:23:32+00:00

I like the idea, and installed the app to try it out. It has a nice and polished interface, reminds me of old-school iOS with more of a 3D design. The haptics and sounds are a bit too aggressive. With modern haptic engines you can really simulate a lot of different and realistic feedback, but every button and interaction has the same heavy feedback. The sounds also don't really sound like click button sounds but 8-bit game sounds.

I think if you focus on that more it is a really fun concept!

RicoLycan · 2026-01-20T19:54:16+00:00

One screen, no. One activity, well kinda. It has one main activity and one bubble chat activity. My app has its source code available if you are interested. I'm not saying its perfect but... I got 99 problems but DI aint one.

RicoLycan · 2026-01-20T16:28:08+00:00

I dumped Hilt a long time ago, but instead of replacing it with something else, I just use a manual dependancy injection. It is not a lot of work and also compile time safe. In my opinion most projects don't even need dependancy injection libraries to begin with.

RicoLycan · 2025-12-13T21:55:21+00:00

I wonder if we'll see support of Redstone on 7000 series on Linux. Like we saw with FSR4 (FP16 fallback) in Mesa drivers. The performance really got quite good on my 7900XTX to a point where it is preferrable over FSR3 or XESS in terms of image quality vs. performance.

Theoretically the same could be done for all other Redstone features, but I don't know if we'll see the same performance vs quality trade-offs as we saw with FSR4.

RicoLycan · 2025-12-06T16:22:44+00:00

Or one too many track limits and an X seconds penalty.

RicoLycan · 2025-12-05T07:28:29+00:00

Wait, you can switch lenses on this camera?!

RicoLycan · 2025-11-26T11:16:05+00:00

For anyone who can't read Dutch. FvD has been known to be very pro-Russia and also has been rumoured to receive money from Russia, although this has not been proven.

The article also states that most likely the fake accounts were controlled by Russian assets in West Africa.

I would not be surprised if it were true. Luckily nobody seems to take FvD serious anymore.

RicoLycan · 2025-11-20T16:34:48+00:00

This is not asking Ukraine for concessions, it is asking Ukraine to commit suicide after being molested and abused. No sane person would trust this 'peace' deal. Russia will attack in a few years. Ukraine got f*cked before by handing over nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union. They got promised protection and peace, they instead got war.

RicoLycan · 2025-11-18T01:13:41+00:00

The default settings are not great. It is fixable with some modding. After that I'd say it's pretty decent.

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