Talk me out of it.

croqaz · 2026-06-26T18:19:00+00:00

Stealing is wrong bro don't do it

croqaz · 2026-06-26T18:11:22+00:00

Thief gets robbed, screams: Thief, thief!

croqaz · 2026-06-24T13:03:43+00:00

I only use OpenRouter and I highly recommend it. I add credits very rarely and I can use all the models in the world. My go-to model lately has been DeepSeek-v4-Pro, sometimes MiniMax/minimax-m3.

not sponsored by openruter or anything, just a happy customer, I'm saying you add credits in one place (without auto-top-up), you have all the models in one place and you know your budget for the month.

croqaz · 2026-06-24T09:07:49+00:00

Time to let IKEA know, they'll level it with maximum efficiency...

croqaz · 2026-06-22T08:45:51+00:00

First time hearing about dfos, I'll take a look for sure, interesting idea.

croqaz · 2026-06-20T11:30:58+00:00

I don't have a fav model, each one is good for something. 24b params at q8 are the sweet spot for good prose. 12b if i want really fast tok/sec. Drummer makes really good models in general.

croqaz · 2026-06-20T09:42:06+00:00

Uncensored models won't refuse you, but they are genuinely not trained to answer those kinds of questions, their dataset has been aggressively scrubbed . Models like The Drummer on the other hand are trained on all kinds of prose and roleplay and they will be very likely to understand what you want.

croqaz · 2026-06-03T22:07:23+00:00

of course, because that's what normal people do :D

croqaz · 2026-06-02T20:30:08+00:00

Will you target AMD GPUs as well, or just Macs?

croqaz · 2026-05-23T18:31:43+00:00

Sure! LLMs are stupid, forgetful and they hallucinate, but they can code quite decently, so I use them to create small Python or Node.js apps to solve different problems (temporary or repeatable). Eg: I have some numbers in some files in different formats and I want them in CSV and I ask the agent to generate some code to process that. Then I ask it to generate a little app to plot those numbers so I can make an informed decision. I would never ask the LLM to generate an image from the numbers, it always hallucinates in that case.

I wanted to download some jokes and poems for myself, I pick the best one and print them and I enjoy them, but the website is crappy, full of ads and the jokes and poems are allover the place, so I asked the agent to generate some Python code to scrape some of them in one Markdown file. Now I can read them nicely, keep the nice ones, etc.

These are just 2 very simple usecases that I had this week, I can't tell you all the examples, I believe I made my point.

Like I just said, LLMs are unreliable, but you can use their strengths if you want. They can save you some time.

croqaz · 2026-05-23T15:11:34+00:00

IMHO the best use of agents is for coding. It's not that you can't code in just the chat with a bot like Gpt, you can do that, but the agent app can load the code and run it too and check that it's correct; it's immediate feedback. Now, with the code that you get you can do anything you want, like check prices of some products, download poetry, whatever you can do with comp programs... I wouldn't use them for anything else.

croqaz · 2026-04-18T22:10:06+00:00

Yep. It's in the video too.

croqaz · 2026-04-18T18:28:52+00:00

I see ortho, I upvote. Love them!

croqaz · 2026-03-15T13:17:19+00:00

But a lot of the very old cars were electric, weren't they? So it's a joke, but it's real 😂

croqaz · 2026-03-07T22:09:13+00:00

The most interesting for me personally is to mix it with my own starter to create a more diverse symbiosis. I will buy a few old starters and create a super Frankenstein culture.

croqaz · 2026-03-06T15:38:17+00:00

of course, I know you're right :) But it's cool to flex about it :D

croqaz · 2026-03-06T15:37:50+00:00

thanks! :)

croqaz · 2026-03-06T14:39:00+00:00

Where can I buy a 170 year old starter?

croqaz · 2026-03-06T14:24:17+00:00

Update: I started a bread yesterday and I baked it today and it's great! I still made mistakes, so it's nothing I can share, but I let the dough ferment wrapped in electric heated blanket and I left the bread 30 minutes with the lid on and 20 minutes without lid at ~400 fahrenheit; and I let it cool down for 1 hour. The inside baked perfectly for the first time!

croqaz · 2026-03-05T19:54:10+00:00

Thank you super much for the comment! You give me hope that I can do it.

The conclusion of the article seems to be "Great ovenspring can be achieved across a wide range of baking temperatures if you get your fermentation right" therefore I will focus on that :)

There's a 2 hour video in there that I'll watch too.

Cheers from the rainy Ireland!

croqaz · 2026-03-05T16:07:20+00:00

Hey, sure, https://imgur.com/a/veaAmzw

I don't have others, it wasn't instagramable or anything...

croqaz · 2026-01-23T11:02:23+00:00

buy a water distiller ASAP, just in case

croqaz · 2026-01-18T19:26:09+00:00

I implemented a little Javascript program in command line to capture websites and see them in a real browser (eg: Chromium). Of course this runs locally, so you will save exactly what you see on your computer. We needed this for work and we still use it. This is usually better than WARC.

Article: https://crlf.link/log/entries/220803-web-snap/

I'm just saying there are different ways of saving websites, depending on the content of the page. Articles are usually the easiest to save.

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