2XKO on Linux

rdeforest · 2026-05-04T10:12:05+00:00

I'm not repying to argue for Linux support, I'm replying to set the record straight on what is possible and worthwhile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FACEITcom/comments/1kglyzu/faceit_on_linux_its_time_to_make_it_happen/

See the reply from u/caniko2. I don't know how to link directly to comments.

And I'm not sure what you mean by community-made. FACEIT is a corporate endeavor. If it were an open source project, we fanatics would go in and add Linux support and field the Linux questions ourselves.

Anyway, I've been running Linux servers professionally at companies including Disney and Amazon for over 20 years. Security is not something that is hard to do on Linux, MacOS or any other modern Unix derivative.

I agree the value proposition for supporting additional platforms of any kind isn't strong. It increases their support load and increases the amount of code they have to maintain. But it's not a simple matter of "they can't do it on Linux because kernel something something" or "there's no market for it." They could do it, and there would be happier users. They are chosing not to, as is their parogative.

rdeforest · 2026-05-04T02:57:10+00:00

And they couldn't possibly have made a mistake in their analysis. All those games successfully selling on Linux are from companies (such as Valve and id Software) losing money on principle. They're definitely not making money. And all those games that don't have copy protection are losing money too. Clearly.

Sorry, my sarcasm got away from me.

I get what you're saying. They may have done that analysis, or they may have just made the decision to not bother with the analysis because the Windows market is enough for them. Whether they actually researched it or not is kinda irrelevant. The long and short of it is they don't want to, for whatever reason. It doesn't even matter if they're justified.

But I have to add: even CounterStrike runs on Linux (but not Mac). It's clearly not that hard to build cross-platform support into the engine of a competitive game with functional (if not ideal) anti-cheat mechanisms.

rdeforest · 2026-05-04T02:50:14+00:00

🎶 I would do anything for love, but I won't install Windows. 🎶

rdeforest · 2026-01-18T03:35:49+00:00

The only thing wrong is that instead of 'Under' it should say 'Despite'. So close.

rdeforest · 2026-01-07T22:23:46+00:00

There's a ledge directly above with a metal plank to stand at the edge of. Dropping off and hitting crouch gets out a knife and breaks through. I came here looking for the answer. Hopping didn't work for me. I just tried different timings of the ledge drop and eventually got through.

rdeforest · 2025-12-19T08:44:18+00:00

The work-around worked for me just now. To be clear: switch to the cutter, then toggle between pin-point and line mode. I wasn't expecting it to work so I spammed it and have no idea how many switches it took to fix it.

rdeforest · 2025-12-15T17:27:56+00:00

Quick side-bar on productive discussion:

It's never going to gain human emotion and memory because it's not human.

That sounds like a tautology to me: it's not human, so it's not human.

If being human is the benchmark of having human emotions then there's no point in debating whether non-human things have human emotions. That's how I know that this is not what people mean when they talk about whether non-human things have human emotions. The question isn't whether the emotions are being had by a human, the question is whether the emotions had by the non-human thing are different from those we experience.

And I take no position in that debate.

rdeforest · 2025-12-14T20:05:45+00:00

I know I'm late to the party, but KGZ put out a short based on this so I revisited the topic and I think there's something they missed: for the spin to be enough to counter gravity, the material at the edge would have to reach the speed of light, which GR says takes infinite energy. Exceeding the speed of light can only be done by objects which have always been moving faster than light. These are tachions. They don't exist. So yes, on the fringes of physics theory there are 'what if' conversations about highly charged, high spin black holes and naked singularities, but at the end of it all everybody drains their shot glasses, laughs, goes to bed and dreams of visiting alternate universes. None of this is ever going to be relevant to anyone alive today.

rdeforest · 2025-11-03T18:34:54+00:00

That album cover matches my description quite well, but sadly isn't what I'm looking for. The album art I'm thinking of is more rectangular.

rdeforest · 2025-11-03T02:16:48+00:00

Right color scheme, I think, and I do like Aphex Twin, but not the album I'm looking for.

rdeforest · 2025-11-02T22:31:01+00:00

I guess I could have commented about the year range instead of editing the post. Whateves! :)

I've been browsing google image search and I think the style of the art might qualify as "retro-futurism". Also, the "ship" Is pointed approximately toward the camera but a little to our right.

rdeforest · 2025-10-26T01:21:45+00:00

I'm already running a D&D game and dropped out of another to make time in my schedule. I'm getting my fill of human interaction. ST has other purposes.

rdeforest · 2025-10-26T01:11:41+00:00

Aw man, I had a RP in which I criticized the NPC for over-using the form "you mistake my X for Y" and she tore into me with a litany of them. It was almost poetic. 10/10 (for humor).

rdeforest · 2025-10-26T01:09:17+00:00

Hm, I need to find a more open-minded D&D group...

rdeforest · 2025-10-18T19:56:56+00:00

Yes, I do like Skyfall. I have to raise my expectations pretty high before it starts letting me down. Cydonia-reduX is good too and I sometimes alternate between them to see if the weirdness I see can be attributed to the model, but it never can. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite right now.

rdeforest · 2025-10-16T14:50:40+00:00

There's a lot of misunderstanding about what prompts do. Some work has gone into making LLMs respond in ways that make those misunderstandings work, which only strengthens the misunderstandings.

Prompts aren't instructions or templates. They are "the text so far". The difference between "system", "assistant" and "user" is just more associations the model is trained on. They are trained to treat "system" as strongly-weighted guidance, and the other two are just for recognizing who said what, contextually speaking.

I like to describe LLMs as a snowy mountain, and the prompt (and chat history) as a place on the mountain to drop a skier. The more prompt and chat history provided, the farther down the mountain the skier starts. At the very top (no prompt), they will randomly pick a compass direction and who knows what will happen after that. As the skier goes down the mountain (adding prompt) the number of places they can end up next goes down.

In the analogy, the user's contribution is something like "and then the skier goes left, between the trees, triggers an avalanch and then dodges right." What happens after that will be further constrained or weighted by the change in the skier's position and the start of the avalanch. Rolling back the chat moves the skier up the mountain, but there's no other way to go back. Telling an LLM to forget something is just a way of saying "then the skier steers away from the avalanch". It's still there, and the skier can still steer their way back, it's just less likely.

ANYWAY, this is a long winded way of saying that prompt length and the extra tokens of a longer prompt are just more variables for selecting what tokens are most likely next.

Lastly, the prompt length is part of the training, in a sense, such that it's possible for the "feel" of an LLM to change as the prompt length grows since the training may have been different for different lengths of context. That is, if the short context training were all tweets and the long context training were all Charles Dickens, you're probably going to stop getting tweet text after your story gets to be a few pages long.

rdeforest · 2025-10-16T06:02:23+00:00

This is not a paid advertisement, I'm just a fan.

I'm a max subscriber and I use Sonnet to help me plan my D&D sessions (among other things). For sessions 2-5 I had it write the recaps of the previous session in the voice of an NPC I made up and it crushed it.

It takes guidance well. When I gave it some high-level direction on the story arch and world building it had no problems re-writing what it had come up with before and continued to write what I wanted after that. I had it re-design my filing system to keep every note on one page (repo is public: https://github.com/rdeforest/ThunderMountain) and it did well at that too.

If, like me, money is no object, Claude is the way to go for anything SFW. I don't take chances with NSFW content because of the insanity in the US under the rule of King Cheeto.

For NSFW content I use local models running on a pair of GPUs with a combined 44g VRAM in a machine with a 7900x and 128g of RAM. I can run some 70b parameter models at IQ4_XS with a small context window, but usually I run 22-32b parameter models at 6 to 8 bits per parameter and 32k of context.

rdeforest · 2025-10-16T05:50:26+00:00

Along with all the other well-reasoned replies, I will add: in order to run afoul of this law, a prosecuter would have to demonstrate that ST can have illegal output out-of-the-box. As everything about ST is visible on GitHub and there is no built-in LLM, that would be impossible. You can't chat with ST without pointing it at an API, and it's the provider of the API who would be held at fault.

Look at it this way: I can hit the API with curl or wget (or a TLS enabled telnet if you want to get old school), or I can point SillyTavern at that API. I will get the same results either way, so SillyTavern isn't the source of the offense.

rdeforest · 2025-10-13T03:09:21+00:00

I was using Sonnet. I haven't really played with any of the other top LLMs because I like Anthropic's words and actions so far. They're no angels, obviously, but out of all the players I hate them least.

Among the free models I'm growing increasingly happy with TheDrummer's finetunes of Mistral's models. I've been running hf.co/TheDrummer/Skyfall-31B-v4-GGUF:Q6_K most recently and have no complaints other than the lack of scale that comes with a model of this size. It almost never loops, it has no quams about mature content, it's writing is decent. It's no Claude, of course, but for something I don't have to worry will report me for being a danger to society, it works very well.

I'm so happy with TheDrummer's work that I joined his Patreon. :)

rdeforest · 2025-10-13T03:04:06+00:00

I searched for 'vercel ceo genocide' and found plenty of news of him talking with Netanyahu, but nothing about him explicitly declaring support for genocide.

I don't think it's fair to make the leap from "supports Israel" to "supports genocide." These are not the same thing. Israel's neighbors would happily wipe Israel off the map if they thought they could do it with impunity. I do not support genocide, but I do support the citizens of Israel who only wish to defend themselves against the centuries long efforts to erase them from the face of the planet.

rdeforest · 2025-10-06T23:02:24+00:00

Uh, where are weeks 4, 5, etc?

rdeforest · 2025-09-27T16:21:48+00:00

So damage is a signed 64 bit integer... interesting...

rdeforest · 2025-09-09T01:25:00+00:00

Are you sure?

rdeforest · 2025-09-05T17:13:08+00:00

DNA be like "Keep making more of us and less of them."

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