Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ

'Sappi che nemmeno i più saggi possono vedere tutte le conseguenze'

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[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

Gesù muore in croce

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

12a stazione "Gesù muore in croce"
#viacrucis
La passione di Cristo (The Passion of the Christ) 2004

[𝒁𝒊𝒐𝑲𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒕 🇮🇹 ♠️♥️♦️♣️ @ZioKlint]

L'UE è la continuazione del nazismo con altri mezzi.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!'

I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

I liked white better,' I said.

White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.'

In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf”

Art by Alexander Mokhov

[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Oggi, tra le 12:00 e le 14:00, il Parlamento europeo vota il Chat Control.

Se pensate che la privacy sia un diritto e non una concessione, questo è il momento di fare casino. Non domani, quando il voto sarà già passato.

[Jingchao @alswl]

看了 antirez 的评价，我失去了对这个评价体系的信心。

antirez 是我心目的神仙啊。

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

@fabius10scudi @giulianol Non a scongelare, a diventare ciò che è (sempre stata) , la "terra verde"..

[antirez @antirez]

What Europe should do right now:

1. Call all the European researchers working on AI and return them back with same salary (or they can stay but switch career).

2. Fill EU places having GPUs with money, and put those people there.

3. AI partnerships with China + India.

[antirez @antirez]

Took the good work of the communtiy of DwarfStar and consolidating the Strix Halo support. It looks very good. More QA in the next days and the final merge soon.

[Roberto Buffagni @BuffagniRoberto]

Conversazione tra G. Gabellini e il sottoscritto.
La guerra russo-ucraina è agli sgoccioli? | Roberto Buffagni https://t.co/6blLTcU5X7 via @YouTube

[Michael Guo @Michaelzsguo]

When the creator of Redis starts thinking about KV cache, pay attention.

antirez is Salvatore Sanfilippo, the Sicilian programmer best known for creating Redis.

But “creator of Redis” is almost too small a label.

Before Redis, he was already an old-school systems hacker. He built hping, worked in network security, and invented the idle scan technique. This was the packet-level, C-programming, Unix-hacker world.

Then Redis happened.

The origin was not glamorous. He was building LLOOGG, a real-time web analytics service, and needed something faster and simpler than the tools he had. So he created Redis.

That is very antirez.

Start with a real bottleneck.
Avoid unnecessary abstraction.
Expose the right primitive.
Make it fast enough that people rethink the category.

Redis did not win because it looked like a traditional database. It won because it gave developers direct access to useful data structures: strings, lists, hashes, sets, sorted sets, streams, pub/sub.

It made memory programmable.

That is why his return to local AI is so interesting.

With ds4, or DwarfStar 4, antirez is not just building “another local inference engine.”

He is asking a very Redis-like question:

What is the real primitive here?

For LLMs, one answer is obvious: KV cache.

Most people treat KV cache as an implementation detail. It lives in RAM or HBM, grows with context, and quietly becomes the bottleneck.

antirez looks at DeepSeek V4 Flash, compressed KV cache, modern MacBook SSDs, and says: maybe KV cache should not only live in RAM.

His phrase is perfect:

“The KV cache is actually a first-class disk citizen.”

That one sentence is the whole story.

If Redis made in-memory data structures feel like application infrastructure, ds4 is exploring whether local LLM state can become durable infrastructure too.

Prefill once.
Persist the cache.
Resume later.
Let long-running agents reuse expensive context instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.

This matters because coding agents are not normal chatbots.

They carry huge system prompts, tool definitions, repo context, prior steps, and long task histories. If every request has to resend and recompute the entire conversation, local inference will always feel fragile and wasteful.

ds4 attacks that directly.

It is a deliberately narrow engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash, focused on Metal and CUDA, high-end personal machines, special quantization, long context, HTTP API, GGUF files crafted for the engine, official-logit validation, and agent integration.

There is also a funny and very current detail: he openly says ds4 was built with strong assistance from GPT 5.5, with humans leading ideas, testing, and debugging.

That is very 2026.

A legendary C programmer using an AI coding partner to build a local AI engine, so other coding agents can run locally with persistent KV state.

It sounds recursive because it is.

And he still has the same builder energy. After ds4 took off, he wrote that the first week felt like early Redis again, with 14-hour workdays, chaos, and excitement.

That is the part I like most: a true old-school builder.

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

The Schrödinger's Deal...

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says it's both very far and very close to a deal.

Pick whichever one you believe and you're probably half right.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei confirmed Asim Munir's visit was specifically to exchange messages between Tehran and Washington, and that both sides have been going back and forth on disputed clauses with positions gradually closing in, though not enough to call it an agreement yet.

Tehran's immediate priority, he made clear, is ending the war. The nuclear file and everything else comes after that.

On the contradictory signals coming out of Washington, Baqaei didn't hold back, saying Iran cannot assume the negotiating process will necessarily lead to a breakthrough given the inconsistency of American positions.

And on the Strait of Hormuz, he shut the door on U.S. involvement entirely, saying the issue "has nothing to do with the U.S." and concerns only Iran and its neighboring coastal states.

Close enough to keep talking. Far enough to keep fighting.

Source: Iranian Foreign Ministry

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

@Giorgioaki Chissà cosa ne avrebbe pensato Franklin Delano Roosevelt..

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

It reminds me of a conversation with my friend Saruman..

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

A company like this should be talking about its ethical duty toward artificial intelligence and respect for the central role of the human species.

Instead, it puts forward a series of assumptions based on its own convictions that reveal its power and ambition have no limits whatsoever.

It sounds like a Terminator AI holding a press conference on how it is reorganizing society to fit its militaristic armament project, and one that speaks about religion in a pre-programmed way.

[Luigi Pecchioli @lupecchioli]

Vista la ridicola facilità con cui è stata hackerata la App #EuropeanAgeVerification sono convinto che è stato semplicemente lanciato un flare.
La vera App sarà molto più pervasiva e sarà giustificata dal "fallimento" del flare.
È il metodo Junker.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Uncovering who in the administration swapped the soldier in the original post out for Baal, would be extremely revealing

[Mini Epsteins in Making 🇮🇱 @QLexPipiens]

@IRAN_GHANA @RealPepeEscobar 🥹👍

[Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ᚠ @GandalfOnChain]

@paracleto4 @AndreaSALIERI6 🙏

[Paracleto4 @paracleto4]

Qualche mese fa è tornato alla Casa del Padre , il caro @AndreaSALIERI6 con cui spesso ci scrivevamo qui su X.

Ho fatto iscrivere il suo nome alle Messe Perpetue dell’Unione Sanguis Christi, perché il più grande atto di carità che possiamo fare per chi ci ha lasciato non sono le parole… ma la preghiera.

E ricordiamoci sempre: la carità per le anime del Purgatorio è uno dei tesori più dimenticati della fede cattolica.

Pregate anche voi per Andrea:
REQUIEM AETERNAM
DONA EI, DOMINE,
ET LUX PERPETUA
LUCEAT EI.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
AMEN.
@paracleto4

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Happy Easter to all our Orthodox friends from the Galloway family in Moscow