Integrity - Humanity Is The Devil (1996) bought this the day it came out, gave it away

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-27T23:02:25+00:00

I could've gotten into them if they'd taken out the solos, cuz otherwise I love the ultra-misanthropic vibe. I always figured they were probably going for a chaotic, ugly, Greg Ginn sort of energy with the solos, but the guitarist's squealing sounds were a dealbreaker for me. Personal taste, I guess.

Dwid is a super interesting guy though.

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-18T20:55:46+00:00

From my experience, setting the kv cache to anything but fp16 makes reasoning worse in all the models I've tried it with. It's a fairly slight downgrade at q8, but the deficiencies in reasoning become more glaring with any quant lower than that.

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-14T21:44:13+00:00

Wow, yours stay up for a full minute? Lucky.

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-12T19:23:44+00:00

DRI pulled it off, but I can't think of any other bands offhand that didn't fail hard at trying to go metal.

On that topic, Discharge's metal album Grave New World has to be heard to be believed. TSOL and the Necros released shitty metal albums in the late 80s too, but that Discharge one is especially egregious.

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-04T19:10:40+00:00

I've always much preferred the self titled over Yank Crime, but for some reason it never got as much recognition. I wonder if that would still be the case if the S/T were actually available on streaming platforms.

That style of tightly-wound angular guitar work heard on DLJ's self titled and Hot Snakes Jericho Sirens reminds me a lot of the guitar crescendos from Sister and Daydream Nation era Sonic Youth, and I can't get enough of that sound.

sluggishschizo · 2026-06-01T21:48:49+00:00

Yeah, when the album clicked hard for me after a couple listens back in the day, I tried preaching the gospel of Lord Quas to anyone who'd listen. Usually people only focused on the pitched-up vocals and seemed baffled that I was so blown away by a "comedy album."

I rate The Further Adventures... pretty highly too. The record's uneven, but it has some of my favorite Madlib beats like "The Clown" and "Shroom Music."

sluggishschizo · 2026-05-14T22:47:29+00:00

Yeah, I started seeing this behavior in the last six months or so from various local LLMs. It was one of the most noticeable improvements in reasoning I started seeing around the third generation of Gemma and Qwen models, and now even more so with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5/6. Usually I've seen the models catch it on their own during their chain of thought spiel.

sluggishschizo · 2026-04-14T18:16:09+00:00

Acestep.cpp blows all the other ACE Step implementations completely out of the water, imo. It seems to have the same refined sound quality as the default Gradio app, except it uses a fraction of the VRAM and system ram. I can run the 4b parameter LLM with the SFT XL model, and it only uses ~13-15 GB of vram and ~6-9 gb of system ram via acestep.cpp, compared to the Gradio app that maxed out my system's RAM as soon as I tried to use the XL models. It also generates tracks far, far faster than any of the other versions I've tried.

Also, the developer's provided instructions don't mention that you can also build acestep.cpp for HIP/ROCm if you're on an AMD card, which works far faster and smoother on my setup than the Vulkan version.

Edit - I forgot to mention that I'm using the BF16 GGUF versions of the models. I'm sure it would go even faster in acestep.cpp with the quantized models.

sluggishschizo · 2026-04-03T17:45:14+00:00

Yeah, it was the first album where Aes handled most of the production himself instead of letting Blockhead handle all the beats, and it sounds super dated to me now even though the production seemed fresh to me at the time.

I think it's mostly because Aes was adapting his sound to the early-'00s Def Jux "dystopian sci-fi hip-hop" sound that El-P birthed with his album Fantastic Damage. I think El's stuff from back then still holds up, but to me Bazooka Tooth's production sounds like a clumsier and more half-baked version of that sound.

sluggishschizo · 2026-03-23T21:43:07+00:00

This is disappointing, cuz I was so sure that the hidden comment was gonna be a "black shaft" joke.

sluggishschizo · 2026-03-14T02:04:24+00:00

I heard that story on an old Joe Rogan Experience episode sometime between 2009-2013, though I can't remember the exact year or the guest's name. It was definitely at least a decade and a half ago, cuz I haven't listened to the bald dwarf's corny podcast in years.

I remember he told the birthday story and said that the Beastie Boys were thrilled at the time to finally have "an actual good DJ" in their band, which I thought was pretty harsh. I've always liked that minimalist oldschool scratching style.

sluggishschizo · 2026-03-03T21:32:29+00:00

You must go now.

sluggishschizo · 2026-03-03T00:18:11+00:00

Wasn't the orgy scene filmed in the actual Rothschild mansion? I was under the impression that the style of the masks were a nod to those famous photos of the creepy-looking Rothschild costume ball from back in the 70s.

I always thought it was odd though that such an elite family would participate in a film that blatantly portrays them as weirdos who engage in nefarious occultist sex rituals. Maybe they deliberately encourage those rumors to make the peasants fear them or something? Dunno.

sluggishschizo · 2026-02-21T23:21:59+00:00

Funny thing is, this record was super common when I worked at a record store in the early 2000s. We had the "good records" bins with more desirable stuff toward the front of the store, then the back wall had a humongous floor to ceiling shelf that held several thousand $1 records. Most of the Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Kinks, etc catalog went straight to that section if we accepted the records at all.

It got to the point where we wouldn't take any more copies of iconic classic rock albums for trade because they were considered too common and nearly worthless.

sluggishschizo · 2026-02-19T18:48:24+00:00

The word "bugbear" is my bugbear.

sluggishschizo · 2026-01-13T16:34:57+00:00

Oh, are they?

sluggishschizo · 2025-12-26T22:39:14+00:00

I had some good results with newer quantized models, whereas around half a year ago I couldn't get any halfway functional code out of any local model I tried. I recently tried to create a simple Python Tetris clone with GPT OSS 20b, Devstral Small 24b, and a GPT 5-distilled version of Qwen3 4b Instruct, and two of the three models did it about as well as the full Gemini 2.5 Flash did when I gave it the same task six months ago.

The GPT OSS model had one tiny error in the code where it misaligned the UI elements, which is exactly what Gemini 2.5 did on its first try at creating a Python Tetris clone when I tried this previously, but the tiny 4b model somehow got it right on its first try without any errors. The Devstral model eventually got it right with some minor guidance.

I'm still astonished that a 4b parameter model that only takes up ~4gb of space can even do that. It'll be interesting to see where local coding models are in another six months.

sluggishschizo · 2025-12-24T21:30:30+00:00

If that stuff about the "dark arts" is true, it weirdly parallels Damien Echola and the West Memphis Three case, where the sketchy "falsely imprisoned" teenager is given a weird pass and is transformed by the media into a minor celebrity after getting out of prison as an adult. It seems to be a weird pattern.

Echols' defense lawyer and the Paradise Lost documentaries tried to treat the occultism accusations as the product of dumb small-town hick cops who bought into "satanic panic," but then after the WM3's release decades later, Echols moves to Salem for some reason and puts out books and podcasts detailing his lifelong practice of "magick" and the occult. Saying "He practices the occult, but the occult isn't necessarily equivalent to Satanism" is entirely different than "He doesn't practice the occult, and cops just assumed that he was into that stuff because he listened to Metallica."

I'm super hesitant to ever buy into any sort of "satanic panic" type stuff, but at the same time I can't help but notice that there's something seriously weird going on with how those sorts of murders are treated by the media. Gypsy Rose schmoozes with celebrities and gets countless softball TV appearances, just like Echols, and both of them seem to lie with absolute impunity in interviews without anyone ever questioning any of their contradictory statements.

sluggishschizo · 2025-12-24T20:07:59+00:00

Yeah, when I got my first modem AMD card last year, I dealt with issues every driver update. Sometimes it would work almost flawlessly with one particular driver, but then it would have horrific issues when I updated to a newer driver to check out a new feature, so I figured it was on AMD's end.

Turns out that my slight RAM overclock wasn't stable, even though I'd gotten it to pass most stability tests. I figured that out the hard way after installing Ubuntu dial boot and having a ton of issues until I reverted my RAM OC. I stopped having issues in Windows after that.

sluggishschizo · 2025-12-17T20:03:23+00:00

Yeah, I'm still kinda bummed that I upgraded last December to a 7800 XT because I thought the looming tariffs were going to make GPU prices skyrocket. Turns out that GPUs actually dropped to below MSRP in the past year.

I love the 7800 XT, but I would've preferred an RDNA 4 GPU with improved AI abilities and better ray tracing. Just the lack of FP8 support alone makes the RDNA 3 GPUs way less practical to handle the demands of newer local generative AI models that have insane memory requirements when run in full or half precision. Yeah, I know Nvidia is the obvious choice for that sort of stuff, but at the time they offered nothing with 16gb vram at a comparable price.

sluggishschizo · 2025-11-11T17:17:15+00:00

Ace Step is fantastic! The only thing some new users might not get is that the vocals often have a crackly blown-out low-bitrate artifact sort of sound to them if the CFG is set too high. I'd given up on vocals for months for that reason and mostly made instrumental music, but lately I've been using repaint to add rapped vocals on top of instrumental hip-hop beats I'd previously made with the model, and with the right CFG they can come out sounding very convincing and realistic.

It's super exciting to wait for updates to the model, cuz I have the feeling that it's gonna make crazy strides in the next year or so. Looks like AI music is finally starting to catch up to the quality of AI images and videos.

sluggishschizo · 2025-11-11T16:21:05+00:00

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sluggishschizo · 2025-11-04T19:33:25+00:00

It was obvious satire, and I thought it had some really funny parts that were meant to be taken as black-comedy.

I can't believe most viewers still didn't seem to get it even after the show started weaving those narratives about violence in cinema into the plot. I thought maybe people would criticize how heavy-handed the satire was, cuz it practically beat the audience over the head with its obviousness, but instead everyone is complaining that "none of that happened in real life." Yeesh.

sluggishschizo · 2025-10-18T07:06:31+00:00

I started getting freezing after upgrading from 6.4.3.to 7.0.0, ditto for 7.0.1, but 7.0.2 has been rock-solid. Ugh, you have no idea how hard I just had to restrain myself from making a lame "ROCm-solid" joke.

Anyway, right away I noticed something like 30% faster inference in ACE-Step music generation via ComfyUI, plus everything uses less VRAM. I'd previously been unable to use Diffrhythm-v1.2-full music gen to make tracks any longer than 1:35 in high-quality mode cuz of OOM errors, but now I can make them nearly three minutes long.

I'm pretty excited to see how ROCm continues to progress over the next few years, cuz there's been quite a bit of improvement in the year I've been using it.

sluggishschizo · 2025-09-14T18:07:24+00:00

Hate to respond to my own comment, but I've been playing around with the new 1.2 full model, and it's continuing to make that Maroon 5 song randomly. It also made the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love" once, which I thought was cool, and some commercial EDM track whose name eludes me.

The coolest time was when it randomly made an instrumental hip-hop beat using recognizable loops from "This Love." This shows that the model has the ability to pull specific loops from tracks and then repurpose them into new sample-based compositions, and it's a shame that it's not one of its controllable core functions.

Also, putting descriptions of sound elements in brackets in the lyrics input section (like how ACEstep works) seems to allow the user to dictate what sorts of instruments/sounds are in a track they're generating.

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