Problem is our billionaires are all in. And also, their fortune comes from the propaganda machines (social media).

It’s not great.

It would help if we become the next North Korea though.

I had to look it up. The full context is:

So the new communications strategy for Democrats, now that their polling advantage is collapsing in every single state… collapsing in Ohio. It’s collapsing even in Arizona. It is now a race where Blake Masters is in striking distance. Kari Lake is doing very, very well. The new communications strategy is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do, where he would say, “I feel your pain.” Instead, it is to say, “You’re actually not in pain.” So let’s just, little, very short clip. Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It was all about empathy and sympathy. I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That’s a separate topic for a different time.

Later on Twitter:

The same people who lecture you about ‘empathy’ have none for the soldiers discharged for the jab, the children mutilated by Big Medicine, or the lives devastated by fentanyl pouring over the border. Spare me your fake outrage, your fake science, and your fake moral superiority.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/

It’s not as bad as the out-of-context quote, but I’m having trouble even wrapping my head around it. I guess the argument is something like:

How can you claim to have empathy when you actively ignore or dismiss the pain of these specific groups? Your empathy is not real; it’s a political weapon. Fake outrage, fake science, and fake moral superiority used to win arguments and elections.

He’s not wrong about (many) Democrats. But even setting vaccine denialism aside, the core of favoring ‘sympathy over empathy’ is kind of unavoidable. It feels like tankie whataboutism: ‘Democrat’s empathy is fake, therefore, more distanced sympathy is our justified approach’

And any divergence from that is “ruining games” or “being woke” to the point that we don’t even GET those games outside of the rare case of a game nobody cared about becoming popular

I would argue the origin is sales. E.G. the publisher wants the sex appeal to sell, so that’s what they put in the game. Early ‘bro’ devs may be a part of this, but the directive from up top is the crux of it.

And that got so normalized, it became what gamers expect. And now they whine like toddlers when anyone tries to change it, but that just happens to be an existing problem conservative movements jumped on after the fact.

TL;DR the root cause is billionares.

Like aways.

Yeah. But it also messes stuff up from the llama.cpp baseline, and hides or doesn’t support some features/optimizations, and definitely doesn’t support the more efficient iq_k quants of ik_llama.cpp and its specialzied MoE offloading.

And that’s not even getting into the various controversies around ollama (like broken GGUFs or indications they’re going closed source in some form).

…It just depends on how much performance you want to squeeze out, and how much time you want to spend on the endeavor. Small LLMs are kinda marginal though, so IMO its important if you really want to try; otherwise one is probably better off spending a few bucks on an API that doesn’t log requests.

In case I miss your reply, assuming a 3080 + 64 GB of RAM, you want the IQ4_KSS (or IQ3_KS, for more RAM for tabs and stuff) version of this:

https://huggingface.co/ubergarm/GLM-4.5-Air-GGUF

Part of it will run on your GPU, part will live in system RAM, but ik_llama.cpp does the quantizations split and GPU offloading in a particularly efficient way for these kind of ‘MoE’ models. Follow the instructions on that page.

If you ‘only’ have 32GB RAM or less, that’s tricker, and the next question is what kind of speeds do you want. But it’s probably best to wait a few days and see how Qwen3 80B looks when it comes out. Or just go with the IQ4_K version of this: https://huggingface.co/ubergarm/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF

And you don’t strickly need the hyper optimization of ik_llama.cpp for a small model like Qwen3 30B. Something easier like lm studio or the llama.cpp docker image would be fine.

Alternatively, you could try to squeeze Gemma 27B into that 11GB VRAM, but it would be tight.

How much system RAM, and what kind? DDR5?

ik doesn’t have great documentation, so it’d be a lot easier for me to just point you places, heh.

What’s interesting is they file this in the US.

Is there a reason they don’t file patents in Japan instead?

Original source:

https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/

I hate to be nitpicky, but try to link the original, and post where you found it (GameRant) in the description instead.

At risk of getting more technical, ik_llama.cpp has a good built in webui:

https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/

Getting more technical, its also way better than ollama. You can run models way smarter than ollama can on the same hardware.

For reference, I’m running GLM-4 (667 GB of raw weights) on a single RTX 3090/Ryzen gaming rig, at reading speed, with pretty low quantization distortion.

And if you want a ‘look this up on the internet for me’ assistant (which you need for them to be truly useful), you need another docker project as well.

…That’s just how LLM self hosting is now. It’s simply too hardware intense and ad hoc to be easy and smart and cheap. You can indeed host a small ‘default’ LLM without much tinkering, but its going to be pretty dumb, and pretty slow on ollama defaults.

I mean what Wikipedia said:

evaluate Newsweek content on a case-by-case basis

IMO this article seems fine (at a glance). But I also think it’s reasonable to point out one should be wary of Newsweek, and probably avoid it when there are a sea of alternates for a headline like this.

Eh, understood, but I’m a bit puzzled as to why you’d say that, as unreliable sources shouldn’t be linked either. Should they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

Newsweek (2013–present): Unlike articles before 2013, Newsweek articles since 2013 are not generally reliable. From 2013 to 2018, Newsweek was owned and operated by IBT Media, the parent company of International Business Times. IBT Media introduced a number of bad practices to the once reputable magazine and mainly focused on clickbait headlines over quality journalism. Its current relationship with IBT Media is unclear, and Newsweek’s quality has not returned to its status prior to the 2013 purchase. Many editors have noted that there are several exceptions to this standard, so consensus is to evaluate Newsweek content on a case-by-case basis. In addition, as of April 2024, Newsweek has disclosed that they make use of AI assistance to write articles. See also: Newsweek (pre-2013).

It’s in the warning category of ‘no consensus’ per Wikipedia’s source standards.

I point this out all the time in /c/politics and /c/news, but the mods (AFAIK) have never responded to my suggestions of source guidelines (such as generally following Wikipedia’s in the link above).

I see it! It’s low volume it seems, but still cool.

I wish Ford could get back in, if it weren’t for the tariffs and all. I know they made some noise about and Escort tribute, but they mind as well go full crazy and make a high volume RS200-looking EV:

Stubby, almost no space wasted over the front axel, but they could make it a proper hatchback without the engine bay. It’s perfect!

Renault 4 and 5

Those look good!

It’d be awesome if they make a Renault 5 rally-inspired version, with a little more suspension travel.

Peugot should be next with the 205:

It’s like a perfect mix of small, practical, understated, until you squint and realize it’s fast too.

That makes sense, but is weird to me, as their smallest sedan was really good. And cheap, compared to BMW and Mercedes! The others were too.

It feels like a reputation/trendiness problem. And that doesn’t exactly bode well for the outrageously expensive car market.

They can massage them to fit modern aerodynamic and pedestrian safety standards, though.

That’s literally Jaguar’s business approach now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGlTULmheI

I’m not sure others are necessarily doing that on purpose yet, but you are not a conspiracist here, lol.

I’m sorry Europeans, but sitting on your vast catalog of drop dead gorgeous classic cars is a crime.

I mean, people remake them and sell them for a fortune why can’t they just massage the old bodies and put them over there.

This is a shitpost community.

If this was literally any other meme making tech, like website with those cheap 1-click templates or whatever, that would come of as patronizing. And you’re insulting OP over it.

I mean, the image is slop, but chill.

relatively minor efficiencies don’t make up for the compile times lol.

It’s sometimes even a regression. For instance, self-compiled pytorch is way slower than the official releases, and Firefox generally is too unless you are extremely careful about it. Stuff like Python doesn’t get a benefit without patches.

I think the point of Gentoo is supposed to be ‘truly from source’ and utility for embedded stuff, not benchmark performance. Especially since there are distros that offer ‘march’ optimized packages now.