What would happen if a tanker was destroyed and spilled out there?

Imagine if you showed this to someone in ~2009.

Even not-fully-reproducible open-weights models are extremely important because they’re poison to OpenAI, and they know it. It makes what they’re trying to commodify and control effectively free and utilitarian.

But there are fully open models, too, with public training data.

It’s anticompetitiveness.

They want to squash open models, and anyone too small to comply with this.

I say this in every thread, but the real AI “battle” is open-weights ML vs OpenAI style tech bro AI. And OpenAI wants precisely no one to realize that.

Not me.

I wanna be there to report every attribution-cropped post I can find, at least in subs where it’s applicable. And repost it without the crop, then tell everyone to watch out for your posts.

Ughhh, I could go on forever, but to keep it short:

• Tech bro enshittification: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1p0u8hd/ollamas_enshitification_has_begun_opensource_is/

• Hiding attribution to the actual open source project it’s based on: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1jgh0kd/opinion_ollama_is_overhyped_and_its_unethical/

• A huge support drain on llama.cpp, without a single cent, nor a notable contribution, given back.

• Constant bugs and broken models from “quick and dirty” model support updates, just for hype.

• Breaking standard GGUFs.

• Deliberately misnaming models (like the Deepseek Qwen distills and “Deepseek”) for hype.

• Horrible defaults (like ancient default models, 4096 context, really bad/lazy quantizations).

• A bunch of spam, drama, and abuse on Linkedin, Twitter, Reddit and such.

Basically, the devs are Tech Bros. They’re scammer-adjacent. I’ve been in local inference for years, and wouldn’t touch ollama if you paid me to. I’d trust Gemini API over them any day.

I’d recommend base llama.cpp or ik_llama.cpp or kobold.cpp, but if you must use an “turnkey” and popular UI, LMStudio is way better.

But the problem is, if you want a performant local LLM, nothing about local inference is really turnkey. It’s just too hardware sensitive, and moves too fast.

I’d be fine if these studios just…vanished

Outside mobile, it would honestly be a boon to gaming.

Think how much attention and funding they suck up from smaller studios/publishers making great games. Folks have no idea what they’re missing.

Also, for any interested, desktop inference and quantization is my autistic interest. Ask my anything.

I don’t like Gemma 4 much so far, but if you want to try it anyway:

• On Nvidia with no CPU offloading, watch this PR and run it with TabbyAPI: https://github.com/turboderp-org/exllamav3/pull/185

• With CPU offloading, watch this PR and the mainline llama.cpp issues they link. Once Gemma4 inference isn’t busted, run it in IK or mainline llama.cpp: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/issues/1572

• If you’re on an AMD APU, like a Mini PC server, look at: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade

• On an AMD or Intel GPU, either use llama.cpp or kobold.cpp with the vulkan backend.

• Avoid ollama like it’s the plague.

• Learn chat templating and play with it in mikupad before you use a “easy” frontend, so you understand what its doing internally (and know when/how it goes wrong): https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad

But TBH I’d point most people to Qwen 3.5/3.6 or Step 3.5 instead. They seem big, but being sparse MoEs, they can run quite quickly on single-GPU desktops: https://huggingface.co/models?other=ik_llama.cpp&sort=modified

There’s a whole lot of interest in locally runnable ML. It was there even before ChatGPT 3.5 started the tech bro hype train, when tinkerers were messing with GPT-J 6B and GAN models.

In a nutshell, it’s basically Lemmy vs Reddit. Local and community-developed vs toxic and corporate.

They seem to have held back the “big” locally runnable model.

It’s also kinda conservative/old, architecture wise: 16-bit weights, sliding window attention interleaved with global attention. No MTP, no QAT (yet), no tightly integrated vision, no hybrid mamba like Qwen/Deepseek, nothing weird like that. It’s especially glaring since we know Google is using an exotic architecture for Gemini, and has basically infinite resources for experimentation.

It also feels kinda “deep fried” like GPT-OSS to me, see: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/issues/1572

it is acting crazy. it can’t do anything without the proper chat template, or it goes crazy.

IMO it’s not very interesting, especially with so many other models that run really well on desktops.

it’s a form of private journalism, private opinion, and private art

But without any of the liability hazard.

This is my issue: the big platforms having their cake and eating it. In one breath, they claim to be little open-platform garage startups that can’t possibly be responsible for the content of their users; they’re just a utility. They need protection from Congress. In another breath, they’re the stewards of generations and children, the only ones responsible enough to tame the internet’s criminality. All while making trillions.

They want to be “private content” protected from the government? Fine. Treat them like it, legally.

It is when it warps the behavior of everyone else around you, and everything in charge of your life.

And I’m not just talking about the lost attention. The algorithms are not neutral.

Yeah, that’s going too far, but I understand the reaction to fanning over Valve.

There are a bazillion historical examples of why one should use, not trust, big businesses. They are entities to make transaction with, not people, and they will tighten the screws even if it takes decades.

This is doubly true in the software business.

And if the Valve superfans look at the world in 2026 and somehow don’t see that, I honestly don’t know what to tell them. They’re in such a completely different world than me I don’t know where to start.

Be prepared.

Don’t hate, but don’t trust Valve. Treat your Steam library like you don’t own it, and it could be enshittified at any time, because you don’t, and it could.

In practice, prioritize DRM-free stores when convenient. Or better yet, 1st party game dev stores. Archive any games or saves you actually want to go back to, just in case. Game like your Steam client install could require a subscription at a moment’s notice.

These comments…

Some day, Steam is going to enshittify, eat game devs for breakfast, and all these Steam fans will wonder how anyone could have possibly seen this coming.

Kind of like a certain online bookstore named after a river.

Not that I don’t enjoy Steam. But I trust them as much as any corporation: not at all.

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I think you mean monitor their usage.

And to be fair, this is fairly technical. Many parents aren’t very technical. They’re unaware of parental controls they have access to, and I think that’s by design (as it would be unprofitable for social media).

Yep! Good luck.

Also: I’m not sure if I was clear about this, but you shouldn’t look at this through the lens of conversion.

She’s your sister; you should respect her and meet her in the middle. Any atheist should appreciate morality and family. Buts it’s not going to work if she feels like you’re trying to force her into a ritual that makes her uncomfortable, or coerce her somehow.

Compromise.

Ask her to keep the morale core of Islam in-heart. Charity. Love. Peace. Judging the heart, not actions. Things like that, whatever they may be.

Request, gently and with no pressure, if she would participate in prayer with you when you are together, as a family activity. Because it’s important to you. And acknowledge you would respect her beliefs in the same breath, even if you don’t share them.

My experience is that faith, at its core, is a template for how to live as a good human being. Atheists (IMO) should have no problem with this aspect. Believers in God shouldn’t either.

But you can’t force aspects she doesn’t believe in onto her. And even if you could, you shouldn’t.

Can we not quote a Polymarket tweet? WTF.