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floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’English
46·9 hours agoGenericide refers to the gradual process of a trademarked term becoming generic through use by the common individual. When a term becomes generic, the term cannot receive a trademark nor can current trademarks be enforced.
This case isn’t that though. The term “bnb” or “BnB” was common before Airbnb incorporated it into their company name. So this is a company taking an already common term and trying to trademark it and make it their own.
floofloof@lemmy.caOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reportsEnglish
3·18 hours agoThe Canadian government has denied this, saying the reporter overstated what Carney was looking for:
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2026/09/13/canada-not-seeking-eu-membership-in-any-capacity-source/
floofloof@lemmy.caOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Elon Musk Spends $100 Million on Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems in Midterm Races
7·1 day agoHey, you left out no food and water and everything either on fire or under the sea.
floofloof@lemmy.caOPto
Privacy@lemmy.world•Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after allEnglish
13·2 days agoThey know people lack better alternatives, since all the other tech companies are doing the same.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Lunges at Female Reporter Asking About Those Supposed $5K Checks
403·3 days agoIt will be deemed an official action and therefore legal.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalizationEnglish
36·4 days agoWhen you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•Trump congratulates AfD party for its victory: 'Make Germany Great Again'English
61·4 days agoUnfortunately they’ll repeat them on the rest of us.
floofloof@lemmy.caOPto
World News@lemmy.ml•The Americans are very serious about annexing Canada
251·5 days agoThe problem is, the overwhelming majority of Americans has far less power than the handful of rich Americans who want to own the world.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•City ends banner program after pastor displays anti-trans flags across downtown
2·5 days agoIt’s the conservative mindset where there is normal (which means the ways they are and see things) opposed to political or ideological. They never consider that their own outlook on the world might be political or ideological. This lack of self-awareness and self-reflection is intrinsic to conservatism. It’s related to how, for them, every problem is someone else’s fault, even as they preach to everyone about personal responsibility. They assume they are personally doing the responsible and right thing all the time, so any difficulty that comes up must be due to someone else being less responsible and doing the wrong thing.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•City ends banner program after pastor displays anti-trans flags across downtown
42·5 days agoThis vapid phrase “gender ideology” has so much right-wing ignorance packed into it. Conservatives abuse language as casually as they abuse people.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapsesEnglish
1·5 days agoThanks. I did get it working on the 3090 alone with reduced context and KV cache quantized to 4 bits, but it was getting itself muddled up and going round in circles more. Once I got it up to the full 262K context and 8-bit KV cache, it seemed noticeably less confused and more useful, but it needed the extra 10GB for that.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapsesEnglish
2·6 days agoIt’s llama.cpp. If you know where I could find those recipes I’d appreciate a link.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapsesEnglish
3·6 days agoI don’t know if I’m doing this right, but this is what llama-bench just gave me:
>llama-bench -m 'C:\...\models\unsloth\Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF\Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf' -p 2048 -n 128 ggml_cuda_init: found 2 CUDA devices (Total VRAM: 34815 MiB): Device 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, compute capability 8.6, VMM: yes, VRAM: 24575 MiB Device 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, compute capability 8.6, VMM: yes, VRAM: 10239 MiB load_backend: loaded CUDA backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-cuda.dll load_backend: loaded RPC backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-rpc.dll load_backend: loaded CPU backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-cpu-haswell.dll | model | size | params | backend | ngl | test | t/s | | ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | --------------: | -------------------: | | qwen35 27B Q4_K - Medium | 16.34 GiB | 27.32 B | CUDA | -1 | pp2048 | 1599.03 ± 3.30 | | qwen35 27B Q4_K - Medium | 16.34 GiB | 27.32 B | CUDA | -1 | tg128 | 37.11 ± 0.76 | build: 3d3d7c818 (10764)The motherboard is pretty basic (Asus Prime X570-P) so the 3090 is connected to PCIe at 16x speed and the 3080 at 4x speed, which will slow things down a bit. The OS is Windows. I have Linux on the machine too but I haven’t tried it under Linux yet.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapsesEnglish
2·6 days agoSo I heard, but I couldn’t get it to fit. I’m really fumbling my way around this stuff so it’s possible I’m just not doing it right.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapsesEnglish
4·6 days agoI hooked up a 3090 24GB and a 3080 10GB for a total of 34GB VRAM, and this setup will run the 4-bit quantization with 8-bit KV cache and the full 262K context at a satisfyingly good speed, and it’s smart enough to be useful.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Voters Have a Message for Democrats: Fight Harder
202·6 days agoApostates are those who turned away from the faith. Mainstream Democrats never believed in left politics in the first place.
The other part is that DHH has a reputation as a fascist. The fact that he, of all people, is receiving a ton of money for his half-assed Linux distro makes a lot of people uncomfortable.





















So AI is dangerous only when it’s Chinese? What a load of nonsense. Anthropic and OpenAI are just realizing they’re out-competed in the market, so they’re running to the US Government to get the competition outlawed.