And Jimmy Savile. All the BBC knew about it and not one of them bothered to speak up until he was dead.

Ah no I wasn’t joking, I didn’t get that, lol. It was also that the pic showed only for half a sec before a popup appeared to pay for the site.

Thanks!

Ps e-fish-ient lol

Makes sense. Apple’s customers are a lot less price-sensitive. And also, memory and storage are naturally a much larger part is the price in a $150 smartphone than in a $1000 one. Apple doesn’t do the $150 class at all.

You see that kind of smartphone a lot here in Spain where purchasing power is a lot lower than in the US. Still a lot of people using things like wired headphones too.

Why is there a can of salmon in the picture??

Yeah the guardian is a quality news source imo. One of the few good ones left in the world

The same company by the way that recently got hacked by shinyhunters and got massive amounts of customer data exposed :(

Hmm how do you define kinks then?

I really think oral sex is so normal it’s never really been a kink except in the strictest communities.

I agree kinks don’t have to be ‘new’ to be a kink, but I was referring to the link to porn. While it has existed for longer, it’s only really been accessible to everyone for a century or so.

As I understand it, in Holland they also have a thing called predestination, where they think their lives have already been decided for them including any sins they might commit, and including whether they go to heaven or hell. So there’s nothing really they can do about it during their lives. I don’t know if this is a specific branch. It always sounded pretty grim to me, though on the other hand I would think like “hey let’s go wild because whatever I do it won’t matter anyway”. But I probably grossly misunderstand the idea. Friends from that community have assured me that it definitely does not work that way 😅

Community also plays a big role in it, much bigger than I’ve seen in Catholicism. As in more judgmentally so.

I’m neither but I’ve lived in many places :)

Yes I know that oral was not practiced a lot in the past within marriages in particular (though during the war in brothels I’m sure it was). But why do you think it’s particularly kinky?

I agree in terms of deep throating, that’s a bit of a kink and I personally don’t like doing it (even as the one being deep throated). That was popularized by its namesake movie I think.

But normal oral how is that so kinky? I personally love it, it’s a lot more gentle than regular sex. And it tastes so good 🤭 I even love doing that for hours (both ways) and skipping the penetration part altogether. 😋 But oral kinda feels like it’s meant to be done.

It’s not really a modern thing as such either. The kama sutra features a ton of it, including gay and lesbian versions.

I’m not sure if this applies to all denominations. The Calvinists I spoke of don’t do confession and there’s definitely no forgiveness.

I don’t know, I’m very sex-positive and I enjoy porn. Sometimes I even learn new things I like from it. I don’t think for a minute that it’s real and I would not apply it to vanilla people (my more kinky friends however yes if I know they’re into something).

I don’t really think my stepsister will get stuck in the washing machine. Does it form sexual behaviour and practices? Probably yes. I’m sure a lot of people try squirting now, which was popularised in porn. Is that bad? No, I don’t think so at all. Why would it be? Sex knows fashions just like other human behaviour.

I am honestly not surprised.

I knew some people in the calvinist bible-belt regions in Holland (they’re very strict, a bit similar to mormon, almost amish-like in terms of strictness except not having any aversion to technology). For example washing a car on sunday is absolutely out of the question and most people wear black those days. If you don’t show up in church the whole village will hate you.

Anyway so the video rental shops in those regions were buzzing with the worst kinda porn. One of my friends managed video rental shop and he said the relative porn amount was 2-3x bigger than in the city areas.

This is for people for whom porn is highly illegal according to their religion. Somehow it causes some kind of attraction for them.

I’m very atheist and sex-positive and very much into kink, polyamory etc but it was never because of the ‘forbidden’ element for me. So I find it hard to understand that. But I’ve definitely seen it being a big thing yes.

Probably but Jira makes it so hard.

For example if I type 1h 33m it’s ok but 1h33m is not. It’s just a really awkward UI.

We don’t do any of those things. We’re not even developers. We just use Jira to log hours (which is basically one big fantasy obviously)

Nothing. I really hate the agile thing anyway.

Ehhh one thing I’ve learned over the years, it doesn’t matter how much storage I buy. Within a few weeks it’ll be full.

Nothing, personally. Jira at our place only serves the bean counters in the programme management department. The data is a mess anyway, it just gives them the illusion of control.

I work in a large enterprise and most of our work is just stupid red tape satisfying processes and other teams’ rules, many of which just exist to keep those teams employed. There’s so much unnecessary work and BS going on.

I hope they will go down the drain. No more Jira! 🙏

Thank you so much!! I have been putting it off because what I have works but a time will soon come when I’ll want to test new models.

I’m looking for a server but not many parallel calls because I would like to use as much context as I can. When making space for e.g. 4 threads, the context is split and thus 4x as small. With llama 3.1 8b I managed to get 47104 context on the 16GB card (though actually using that much is pretty slow). That’s with KV quant to 8b too. But sometimes I just need that much.

I’ve never tried the llama.cpp directly, thanks for the tip!

Kobold sounds good too but I have some scripts talking to it directly. I’ll read up on that too see if it can do that. I don’t have time now but I’ll do it in the coming days. Thank you!

I don’t think that’s a problem. I live in Spain and speak Spanish daily with real people, many of them my friends. They’ll correct me if needed, they often do. Though most are my own mistakes.

Don’t forget people give wrong answers too. But people aren’t available 24/7 to help me.