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#5995: NVIDIA ASR: Parakeet, Canary, and Nemotron Explained
Whisper gives you one dial. NVIDIA gives you five. A practical map of the Parakeet, Canary, and Nemotron speech models.
#5991: Batch Inference on Your Own GPU: vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp
Hosted batch APIs sell you half-price tokens. Here's how to get the same file-in, file-out workflow on your own Linux box.
#5981: Batch Inference: Four Doors, Half Price
Same tokens, half the price — and almost nobody using it properly. A tour of batch inference from OpenAI to OpenRouter.
#5971: Personal CRM in 2026: Dex, Mesh, folk, Monica, Twenty
What actually makes a good personal CRM — and which ones can an AI assistant talk to?
#5970: Swapping Your Linux Kernel: What Actually Changes
Your kernel is swappable without reinstalling anything. But do Liquorix and XanMod actually beat the default? The benchmarks say less than the mark...
#5969: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: Is Staying on LTS Still a Trade-Off?
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS shipped in April. Point releases, HWE kernels, and SRUs have quietly closed most of the freshness gap — but not everywhere.
#5968: Gentoo in 2026: Still Worth Compiling?
Twenty years on Linux and he's never tried Gentoo. In 2026, does the compile-everything reputation still hold?
#5966: How Much of Your Linux Desktop Is Actually Misconfigured?
Most "Linux tweaks" are folklore. A few are real — and one toggle most people never open is worth up to 42%.
#5965: Compiling From Source: What You Actually Get
Source builds aren't faster — they're smaller. What USE flags, compiler flags, and the build feedback loop actually buy you.
#5963: Running One Model Across Mismatched GPUs
Tensor, pipeline, or offload? What actually happens when you run one model across several GPUs — including mismatched ones.
#5957: The Scientific Plugins Hiding in Plain Sight
ChatGPT's plugin directory has 5,723 entries — but the real scientific AI work is happening in arXiv papers, not plugins.
#5956: Will ChatGPT Eat Your Grocery App?
MCP servers, ChatGPT apps, and a prediction that AI vendors will absorb your grocery list one micro-app at a time.
#5950: Self-Hosting Your Search Stack: SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and the Real Bill
Can SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and an open-source aggregator really replace a commercial search API? Yes — with a very large asterisk.
#5944: Keeping the Rollout Engine Fed: Inside RLHF Pipelines
Most of an RLHF run is spent waiting on generation, not gradients. Here's how TRL, OpenRLHF, and verl actually differ.
#5939: Android Notifications: PWA vs Native, What You Actually Get
Push, channels, haptics, and the scheduling gap — what a PWA can and can't do that a native Android build can.
#5925: Plus Codes, Geohash, and the Open Addressing Gap
Google's Plus Codes promise offline, self-contained location — but the shortened form quietly reintroduces a dependency the standard was designed t...
#5915: How Multi-Agent AI Simulations Keep a Shared World State
Concordia keeps the world in a dictionary an LLM writes to. Generative Agents keeps it in a spreadsheet. CAMEL keeps it in the chat log.
#5910: Revit MCP in a VM: What Actually Works
Autodesk's official Revit MCP server is locked down and reliable-ish. The community ones execute arbitrary code on an open port. Neither runs unatt...
#5905: Bare Linux Routing vs OPNsense: What Actually Wins?
You can build a router on plain Debian or Ubuntu. The question is whether you should — and what it costs you over ten years.
#5900: Serving DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Your Own GPU
Five inference engines, one frontier MoE, and a shortlist that collapses depending on which GPU you already bought.
#5898: ROCm 10.1: AMD's Software Stack Finally Grows Up
Three ROCm releases in six months — build system, agentic tooling, data movement. What actually changed for AMD GPU owners.
#5873: Abliteration: How $5 Undoes a Model's Guardrails
A rank-one weight edit costs under $5 and strips refusal behavior from open models. Then an automated tool beat human experts at it.
#5868: Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Um-Free, Hebrish Speech
Parakeet runs great on a phone — but fine-tuning it happens on a GPU. Here's the actual recipe for dropping ums and catching Hebrew.
#5865: Four Pocket Players That Won't Sell You a Device Today
Mono, Fonix One, Sudo, and DuRoBo Krono all promise phone-free podcast listening — and not one of them is ready to ship today.