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Joined 3 months ago
Cake day: July 29th, 2026
  • https://piefed.social/comment/13343280

    PieFed has the concept of silencing another instance. A silenced instance is not defederated from but their posts do not show in the Popular or All feeds and their communities are not shown during onboarding. Their communities can still be found in the communities list (if you unblock the instance first) and joined in the normal way. Once joined, posts in there show up in the Subscribed feed of the joiner as usual.

    Since I added silencing functionality I feel like there’s almost no need for (more) defederation. I can offer protection to newbies who don’t yet know which places to avoid and they can explore the dark corners when they’re ready. It’s a low-drama way to put a bit of distance between groups that rub each other the wrong way.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB is a vision-language model (VLM) designed to run everyday agentic tasks locally, using a native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB of memory and run alongside other applications. It optimizes intelligence and speed per GB. It aims to achieve the optimal balance between speed and intelligence, being faster than most popular dense models while smarter than most popular MoE models with a similar memory footprint.

This might actually work in 8GB VRAM? 74B parameters at 24GB means about 3GB for the 9b active parameters.

Some changes I picked out, you may need to change your configs

  • Removed deprecated --mmap/–mlock/–direct-io args in favor of --load-mode
  • Made mmproj and draft devices default to the global --device selection
  • Enabled --reasoning-preserve by default