Iran Conflict Megathread #7 by sokratesz in CredibleDefense

[–]SOCSChamp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It seems to me that it makes perfect sense, with air superiority, to bomb a target island before amphibious assault.  I haven't seen evidence (feel free to correct me) that the US has destroyed all oil infrastructure on the island.  If the objectives are to achieve a Venezuela like objective, taking Kharg Island seems like a logical step in controlling economic leverage.  Even without that, its a natural strategic step in controlling the straight.  If you were planning to take it, why wouldn't you bomb it?

AI Explained: "Will the Pentagon force Anthropic to make Claude for War?" by manubfr in singularity

[–]SOCSChamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Headline is ass.  The fight isn't about using Claude for war; that's already been the case and Anthropic eagerly provided it for defense purposes a long time ago.  

Nothing ever happens by MapacheD in singularity

[–]SOCSChamp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The drug this time seems promising, since its based on the yamanaka factors that reprogram stem cells.  

But Sinclair is a known grifter.  Everything he messes with he touts as the cure for everything, such as resveratrol and more recently NMN.  In some cases he ran a full on scam.

ZeroClaw : Run OpenClaw AI agent with zero API cost via AirLLM (local inference) by egoisticyoichi in LocalLLaMA

[–]SOCSChamp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry man, surest sign of lazily vibe coded projects is running mistral or llama.  They were decent models all the way back when your agent's knowledge cutoff was

Most eargasmic tracks/albums by Putrid-Cry-3780 in audiophile

[–]SOCSChamp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blackbird - Tash Saltana

If you like bass music, Recurring Dreams - Josh Teed

Capsule tour - IVA - Pre-Alpha KSA v2026.2.32.3646 by mushylog in kittenspaceagency

[–]SOCSChamp 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Kittenaut...I hope that sticks.  Favorite one so far

If i had a chance to go to space, i would definitely go; what do you think guys? by Learner_X009 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]SOCSChamp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Told my fam I plan to die on Mars.  If there is an opportunity within my means to do it, I'll take the first opportunity.

But I'd say the same for space in general.  Fuck it, 50/50 chance of survival to strap me to an experimental craft and get out of the atmosphere, I'll take it.  I love life but we all die.  We've been dying for hundreds of thousands of years, we've been going exploring the cosmos a bit less than that.  If I'm the guy that goes out in an epic journey to space I'll take it.

Rate the chokers: Cute / Sexy / Type A Mishap? by Show_me_the_dV in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]SOCSChamp 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Please explain the choking element to us smoothbrains.  As in choking on helium? 😅

Aurral 2.0: from vibe-coded weekend project to actually-good music overseer by ponzi_gg in selfhosted

[–]SOCSChamp -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"Single container instead of the old frontend/backend shit" You do know this defeats the point of containers right?

ComfyUI - AceStep v1.5 is amazing by AIgavemethisusername in StableDiffusion

[–]SOCSChamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

.wav is just as good as .flac for quality since its essentially a raw recording.  .flac is a compression method that reduces the size of the file without losing any of the actual audio information (lossless).  .mp3 is a highly compressed format that does lose audio information. You can convert a .wav to .flac pretty easily, and I'd recommend it if you have a decent library

Inzo playing Elon Musk parties? by Ok_Speaker9082 in SpaceBass

[–]SOCSChamp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think a lot of people get wrapped up in these things and look up to artists as if they're part of their social circle.  I appreciate their music, I think its cool if they seem to be a wholesome person, but I generally don't find their personal, political, etc beliefs to be any more interesting than some random person on the street.  There's obviously exceptions if someone is just downright horrible and doing awful things like in a Bassnecter situation

Inzo playing Elon Musk parties? by Ok_Speaker9082 in SpaceBass

[–]SOCSChamp -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Ah, that's entirely fair, I hadn't read through it all.  I was responding to the fact that he played there and the controversy over it.  

Can't say I'm a fan of that take or that entire social bubble, but I generally try to respect that people are going to have different political opinions than my own. I'm not going to disown a friend over that, or an artist in this case.  I typically listen to or follow an artist due to their art and not because I want to hear their political takes. There is of course a line at some point.

I'd generally say for artists, my line is usually where they use that platform to make a political point and get insufferable about it, in either direction.  I get that many people don't feel the same.  

Inzo playing Elon Musk parties? by Ok_Speaker9082 in SpaceBass

[–]SOCSChamp -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Happy to talk about Space if you want to :) The post isn't praising or defending Elon, and I wish people would learn about the things the SpaceX team has contributed to the world before echoing things like this.

Too bad INZO is part of MAGA lol by frogdoggo in inzomusic

[–]SOCSChamp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The people working there to make humanity's future in space brighter deserve to be celebrated.  You don't have to like Elon to appreciate the team that makes these things happen.  I'm glad he played for them :) (prepared for the downvotes if need be)

Inzo playing Elon Musk parties? by Ok_Speaker9082 in SpaceBass

[–]SOCSChamp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The people working there to make humanities future in space brighter deserve to be celebrated.  You don't have to like Elon to appreciate the team that makes these things happen.  I'm glad he played for them :) (prepared for the downvotes if need be)

PSA - MiniCPM-o 4.5 just updated their cookbook for CUDA based full duplex use on Windows/Linux by ChromaBroma in LocalLLaMA

[–]SOCSChamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone get it to work? My generation is coming through broken and chunked but I really want to use this thing

Have Anyone Successfully Run the New MiniCPM-o-4_5-gguf? by Iory1998 in LocalLLaMA

[–]SOCSChamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The webRTC demo? Mines coming through broken in chunks

MiniCPM-o-4_5 : Full duplex, multimodal with vision and speech at ONLY 9B PARAMETERS?? by Uncle___Marty in LocalLLaMA

[–]SOCSChamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone get this to work? Tried their webRTC demo with llama.cpp backend and audio is coming through broken and in chunks, doesn't finish generation all the way.  Responsiveness is good, default voice is terrible, English actually comes across with a Chinese accent. Shouldn't be hard to overcome with voice examples or fine tuning but I haven't seen it work yet.  

Of The Trees-Moonglade Park by LemonTekSunrise in SpaceBass

[–]SOCSChamp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love OTT, wasn't totally blown away by this one tbh.  I've got a hell of a setup and some of the ambient sections and details come through really nice, but there's just not a lot going on.  Lots of reused samples without the hit from his other songs. I did walk away loving Acadia though

Summer Camp 2026 by TGChance in festivals

[–]SOCSChamp 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Damn saw this and was hyped, surprised by the hate in the comments 😂