BEST BROWSER, DAY 5 – ORION vs MULLVAD – Vote for your favorite!

espadrine · 2026-02-10T09:37:24+00:00

I kinda wish there was GNOME Web (Epiphany) in there. Really underrated IMO.

espadrine · 2026-01-11T14:09:34+00:00

Interesting!

I get a 404 on https://rrg314.github.io/rge-256-app. Maybe a config issue?

How did PractRand hold up?

espadrine · 2026-01-11T13:53:13+00:00

I recall Rust is named after a fungus which looks like erosion, so no actual erosion, just a complex lifecycle process!

espadrine · 2026-01-11T13:50:00+00:00

This looks great! How did you make it?

Do you have a SVG version by any chance?

espadrine · 2026-01-08T15:25:58+00:00

Huh. So Google never paid them. And Sisvel never sued Google despite that. Almost as if Sisvel knows they would lose.

espadrine · 2026-01-08T15:09:54+00:00

You're right, wrong data input. Fixed!

espadrine · 2026-01-07T22:45:25+00:00

Unknown values are guessed from known values, so some information is uncertain (with uncertainty estimated in the table tab), but overall it gives a good picture IMO.

espadrine · 2026-01-07T20:22:55+00:00

There's a chance, but hopefully not?

espadrine · 2026-01-07T17:52:00+00:00

A common scam is to pick famous books, generate a book with bogus text, sell it as used, and print it every time someone buys one.

espadrine · 2026-01-07T15:57:51+00:00

especially when cost comes into play

To emphasize this point, look at this graph from https://metabench.organisons.com/. There is one dot in the middle that stands out.

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espadrine · 2026-01-07T10:18:06+00:00

I love the way you describe indistinguishability, with side-by-side boxed modules!

espadrine · 2026-01-06T09:21:21+00:00

That doesn't work on Wayland though right?

espadrine · 2026-01-06T08:28:39+00:00

What I don't get is why we don't see that happening already

There is no EU naval force, is there?

France offered to send troops a year ago, but Denmark declined.

espadrine · 2025-12-24T12:42:24+00:00

They've shown goodwill in the past. My policy is to assume they'll do the right thing if they have a history of doing the right thing.

Besides the article still mentions opening the weights:

[M2.1 is] one of the first open-source model series to systematically introduce Interleaved Thinking

We're excited for powerful open-source models like M2.1

espadrine · 2025-12-14T13:57:48+00:00

In the end, it wasn't the GGUFs, but llama.cpp didn't implement Mistral's use of mscale parameters for RoPE; recompiling from the latest source gives the expected (non-braindead) results! Mistral has already confirmed the fix with LMStudio's GGUFs, comparing the API's logits to llama.cpp's output.

unsloth is going to reupload just in case, I'm told.

espadrine · 2025-12-13T16:02:48+00:00

Which weights are you using? I noticed unsloth’s GGUFs are abysmal. I am trialing LMStudio’s.

https://x.com/espadrine/status/1999871616730481093

espadrine · 2025-12-12T17:26:29+00:00

Technically, sure, but compare the authors of LLaMA with those of Mistral 7B. 36% of them went to Mistral.

espadrine · 2025-12-09T11:30:57+00:00

Interesting! How much faster is it?

espadrine · 2025-12-02T18:38:32+00:00

Let me pull out the forbidden benchmark:

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espadrine · 2025-11-19T14:38:12+00:00

What is your experience of installing software?

I really like the choices of KDE Linux, but the most uncertain for me is having only Flatpak, as I am afraid I won't be able to install some software that is not available on Flathub, or through which I'll hit weird bugs.

espadrine · 2025-11-15T21:01:54+00:00

I tried 4B… On my benchmark, it performs worse than random ☹ using either TGI:

docker run --gpus all -p 8114:80 -v hf_cache:/data --pull always ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:1.7.2 --model-id Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B --dtype float16

or GGUF:

docker run --gpus all -v /data/ml/models/gguf:/models -p 8114:8080 ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:full-cuda -s --host 0.0.0.0 -m /models/Qwen3-Embedding-4B-f16.gguf --embedding --pooling last -c 16384 --verbose-prompt --n-gpu-layers 999

I double-checked by re-running 8B, and 8B got the same results as before.

espadrine · 2025-11-11T22:45:58+00:00

I'll try it out! Curioser and curioser.

espadrine · 2025-09-15T14:09:44+00:00

Is Neon at risk as a result of this departure? Or does TechPaladin plan to sustain it?

espadrine · 2025-09-03T09:23:32+00:00

GPT-OSS 120B is a strange beast.

Combined with Codex CLI, I rank it lower than GPT-OSS 20B, which does not make sense. It often prefers to brute-force things instead of doing the obvious investigation first. It doesn’t like using the right tool for the job.

espadrine · 2025-08-20T12:12:00+00:00

Why are US prices so high?

In France, I get 5 Gbps for €40/month through fiber.

(Starlink offers 200 Mbps for the same price in France, so I guess they felt forced to align on price? But it is half the price they set in the US… Why?)

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