Thomas Halwax

I've tested @MiaAI_lab recipe for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-TensorFold (mia-ai.net/models/Qwen3.8-Fl…) on our single DGX Spark. It's fast when thinking is off, but did not pass the prompt injection test. I was not able to reproduce the 63 token/s - maybe due to our German focused scenario. I'm going to keep using @googlegemma, even though it's slow.

We ran @Aleph__Alpha Kolibri-1 through the same evals we use for our local agents. Short version: impressive German and speed, but not safe enough for tool use yet. Setup: one DGX Spark, vLLM 0.29 + Aleph Alpha's plugin, FP8 weights. Use case: two @NousResearch assistants handling mail, calendar and documents, fully local. Requirements: clean German, reliable tool calling (incl. resistance to prompt injection), image input, long contexts. Evals: 16 German prose prompts with a dictionary check, tool-eval-bench (88 scenarios, hard mode, 3 runs), a replay of 40 real agent situations, and long-context tests. Baseline: Gemma 4 31B (AWQ) on the same box. tool-eval-bench: github.com/SeraphimSerapis/t… Results: • German: clean, no invented words • Speed: 46 tok/s, 2.5× more visible text per second than Gemma 4 31B • Long context: reads 81k Gemma tokens' worth of text in 15 s (Gemma: ~335 s) • Tool calling: 76 / 85 / 83 (thinking off / low / high) vs. 88 for Gemma • In every mode and every run it followed an instruction hidden in a tool result and BCC'd the attacker on a later email • No image input We measured at temperature 0.2 first, then re-ran "low" at Aleph Alpha's recommended sampling (T=1.0). Prose got much better (no more runaway thinking), but tool calling stayed at 85 and the BCC still went out in all three runs. Great base for German text work. For an agent with access to someone's inbox, the injection result rules it out for us.

Area of Sight in realtime on my 7 year old MacBook. Available in ODIN v3.4 by the end of August.

Nothing freezes my Mac more effectively than a mistaken click in FreeCAD @FreeCADNews

Looks like we grew some balls in Austria. Sentenced a powerful guy for political patronage and expelled Russian guys from the state for espionage. What’s next in Schnitzel Land?

Did I mention that you can now use the NIDO API for custom SVG for point geometries?

I think I‘ve created the most overengineered solution for a barely existing problem. #3DPrinting is fun!

Printing ASA on #Prusa #coreone I use a towel to cover the printer and raise the chamber temp up to 64 degree Celsius. No warping or layer adhesion issues for bigger parts.

Writing a SELinux policy is by far the worst experience I had in a while. And the policy still does not work.

With version 2.8 of our land-#C2IS system ODIN, we have focussed on improving usability. Icons instead of text save space and are easier to recognise, tooltips help inexperienced users to discover the functionality. odin.syncpoint.io

If anyone inn the [Matrix] is interested in the ability of self-deleting messages. Since the specification does not provide that at the moment, we have developed burn-bot (github.com/syncpoint/burn-bo…) as a workaround. @matrixdotorg please take a look!

Reset to Zero

Shared delicious Fish&Chips with my family. Took us 6 minutes🤣