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> You mean besides stable-diffusion.cpp ?

Yes, thanks, I didn't know about that. Will try it.

Additional question is what kind of local hardware would be required for this? 7B parameters sounds very light weight, but I'm not sure. (Edit: The download is 33 GB).

Edit x2: As usual I'm in a twisty maze of pip packages that don't work together, with obscure errors about missing modules, even though I followed the instructions on the page to the letter. I really wish people didn't use Python for this stuff. A simple C/C++ program would be so much better.

rwmjon AI Protest in Montreal

There's a rather large difference in scale for a start.

rwmjon Jemalloc 5.4.0

(Not an expert but ...) unless you pin threads to cores, which is not the default and somewhat awkward in Linux for user applications, having a per-thread cache doesn't really make sense as your thread could be moved to another core and then your cache will no longer be local to the physical cache.

rwmjon The scourge of x86 emulation

I don't know, but assumed that Valve doesn't require studios to recompile their software or use any special tooling, it's basically just packaging of existing executables. This is also why they do Windows on Linux emulation.

rwmjon Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

It's Arm based, although they barely mention that.

rwmjon Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

I've paid to drive a train simulator (in fact, I have a collection of several train simulators).

rwmjon Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Good for car manufacturers, not necessarily for cars or their owners. As a car owner I quite like manufacturers to be forced to produce source code.

rwmjon Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

They eventually fixed the one where it didn't sort properly, but it tooks months: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/12253 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/12912

rwmjon A 386 PC for Your RP2350

I definitely remember installing it off 20+ floppies onto a 386 back in the day. Most of the disks contained packages and you didn't need to install all of them though.

rwmjon Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

For compilers yes, but if you look at the 8086 demoscene where presumably most things are hand-coded, 8087 instructions allow incredible code compression. eg https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78045

rwmjon Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

I remember getting a 80387 (coprocessor for the 80386) and POVRAY renders going from running for days to still many minutes but you could sit and watch it.

rwmjon Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

Knowing how to go from whatever is fresh today in the garden to a meal is a cooking skill, yes. And how to preserve gluts of fruit, also a skill.

rwmjon Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

Shush there! Don't ask any difficult questions!

rwmjon Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

In a very narrow sense it may be true that Nvidia expects to make some multiple of the money invested (unlikely to be 100x but whatever). But you can't talk about that without talking about the wider economy. If the wider economy, and especially the pension funds putting money into the scheme, cannot sustain this, it'll eventually collapse and then everyone including Nvidia will lose lots and lots of money.

rwmjon Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

I haven't been schooled in farming, but my understanding of food has greatly increased since we started growing our own vegetables.

rwmjon Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

We know that use of AI has a negative result for students: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-...

rwmjon Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

That doesn't change that programs doing this can be shady (or very useful).

rwmjon I refuse to let SPICE die

You mean the closed source code that Red Hat acquired when we bought Qumranet for $100 million, then open sourced, maintained at a loss for many years, and is now (still) open source and available to everyone to use as they wish?

rwmjon I refuse to let SPICE die

Yes, Red Hat dropped SPICE support quite some time ago. Apparently in RHEL 8.3: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5414901 It's definitely not part of any current Red Hat product. See my other reply for why this is.

I don't think we have a VDI product as such, assuming you discount VNC which we do support but is hardly a full VDI solution.

rwmjon I refuse to let SPICE die

Not enough people want to pay for VDI basically, certainly compared to how much it costs to maintain it. SPICE at the time that we abandoned it "only" supported 2D and video compression, which is complicated enough, but everyone wanted 3D support which would have added another labyrinthine stack on top.

Also the code at the time was a massive security nightmare, written with no validation of fields in the network protocol. It was unmarshalling stuff off the network and sending it directly to X11 libs without even bounds checking. (I sincerely hope this has improved.)

With that said, I wish the project well. SPICE is a much better user experience than VNC, especially if you're looking for something that supports audio, video and USB passthru.

rwmjon The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London

GTA in real life.

rwmjon Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

I'm a Fedora developer and I can assure you that Fedora's behaviour when it runs out of memory is still terrible.

rwmjon Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

All I want is the oomkiller to always kill firefox. Somehow that's very difficult to achieve.

rwmjon Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived

Next up: Hard working romance scammers out of work after police shut down operations.

rwmjon Remember Hong Kong

One good thing is that we've extended UK residency and a path to citizenship to anyone who was born in Hong Kong before the handover (so everyone over about 30 y.o). It's pretty much the extent of what the UK could do under the circumstances - not much chance of changing the CCP to respect human rights.

rwmjon Following complaints, Dyson is withdrawing its $500 toothbrush from sale

So in other words, they're not withdrawing the toothbrush from sale.

rwmjon Following complaints, Dyson is withdrawing its $500 toothbrush from sale

I can find no other news sites corroborating this article. However I can find plenty of places still selling the toothbrush. It seems like nonsense.

rwmjon I have a theory that software drives people insane

> than the monkeys I sometimes work with who commit way too much code, or just plain commit the wrong code

We've managed to emulate this behaviour in silicon now.

rwmjon The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London

"I assure you I'm not, officer. Honestly. I've only had a few ales."