Did you find it better than GPT-OSS 120B? The public rankings are contradictory.
I haven't used GPT-OSS 120B, or other GPT-OSS models, and I mostly go on personal recommendations rather than benchmarks directly.
Readit NewshalyconWays commented on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] huggingface.co/deepseek-a... · Posted by u/pretext
I'm confused by your statement. I'm a serious gamer and I've been on Linux for years. It's there, and it's been there for a while.
I feel you on liking things about Windows though. I'm a Windows guy by nature. I genuinely like the OS, and if Microsoft wasn't being so absurdly user-hostile I would switch back in a heartbeat.
VR on Linux is buggy and worse than on Windows in some important ways.
It's awesome that stuff like this is open source, but even if you have a basement rig with 4 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphic cards ($15-20k machine), can it even run with any reasonable context window that isn't like a crawling 10/tps?
Frontier models are far exceeding even the most hardcore consumer hobbyist requirements. This is even further
As someone with a basement rig of 6x 3090s, not really. It's quite slow, as with that many params (685B) it's offloading basically all of it into system RAM. I limit myself to models with <144B params, then it's quite an enjoyable experience. GLM 4.5 Air has been great in particular
I had a Matrox Millenium card with a breakout box for capturing RCA, S-Video, and Cable TV; I'd watch TV on my Windows 98 SE2 computer, which was the craziest thing back then, but I always felt like the green-screen like effect was some kind of mysterious bug that I'd better not mess with, or video capture would break. Windows 98 was barely working on a good day, so it felt like the computer was in the process of failing in a graceful and useful way, so I'd better not push my luck.
Every so often you could get a glimpse of the man behind the curtain, by dragging the window quickly or the drivers stuttering, which would momentarily reveal the green color (or whatever color it was) before the video card resumed doing its thing. Switching between full screen and windowed mode probably also revealed the magic, or starting a game that attempted to grab the video hardware context. And of course sometimes other graphical content would have the exact right shade of color, and have video-displaying pixels.
halyconWays commented on 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board nand2mario.github.io/post... · Posted by u/bitbrewer
I'd pay a decent price for a non-emulated 486 on a credit card sized board, or in a cute little case, with useful peripherals. Something like those Aliexpress mini pocket 386 computers, but 486 is significantly more useful for gaming.
halyconWays commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
The weakness was carefully going through the menus and manually adding a reporter to your group chat. There's not much the Signal team could have done about that.
AKA deliberate or a compromised device
halyconWays commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
While I understand (and share) your criticism, it does sound like they'll continue to support local backups:
From your link, I wish they would answer this, and they've been asked numerous times, and to my knowledge have avoided the question (which is very concerning to me):
>This is excellent news! Will there also be official documentation on the backup format, potentially even official tooling like signalbackup-tools[0] to access/parse backups offline? I'm asking because, having used Signal/TextSecure for 10 years now, my backups are worth a lot to me (obviously) and there have been times when I would have liked to mine & process my backed-up data. (Extract media from conversations in an automated manner, build a more elaborate search, …)
I'm like that poster and backup all my chats obsessively, since way back in the day, and experienced a period with Signal where it was impossible for me to access my own data because of their position.
halyconWays commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
> This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents--
--or, of course, Joint Chiefs military coordination. I bet that was a fun surprise for the team.
And in that case it turns out the weakness was the device itself and the rest of the stack
halyconWays commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
Yeah, didn't see it mentioned, I trust it will still be available?
I bet they'll phase it out and try to force their worse service, wherein your data is stored on their servers, like they tried to do with PINs. It took enormous pushback to get them to stop mandatory PINs, and even then they made it nagware for a year or two.
I didn't trust their rationale about PINs and remote attestation somehow meaning your data is secured by a small passphrase, just like I won't trust them to not remove a useful and existing feature I already rely on for backups.
Also not mentioned, they designed their existing backup solution to require reverse-engineered community solutions to actually access your data; I have to use a Github project to unencrypt the backup and export my chats, which is something I've never had to do with any other messenger.
halyconWays commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Evaluating a 270M model on encyclopedic knowledge is like opening a heavily compressed JPG image and saying "it looks blocky"
Me: "List the second word in your comment reply"
You: "I'm sorry, I don't have an encyclopedia."
I'm starting to think you're 270M.