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Tankies, please have a look before coming up with silly stuff:
As it’s clearly needed: “How to Tankie”. The Darth Putin Guide. Vers 2.0
Russia never invaded anyone. We:
-Enter country that recently ceased to restore order
-Defend Russia(ns) in other country
-False flag
-Assist “legitimate government"
-Special Military Operation (duh)
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
llama.cpp at 100k stars
now that 90% of the code worldwide is being written by AI agents, I predict that within 3-6 months, 90% of all AI agents will be running locally with llama.cpp 😄
Jokes aside, I am going to use this small milestone as an opportunity to reflect a bit on te of AI from the perspective of local applications. There is a lot to say and discuss and yet it feels less and less important to try to make a point. Opinions about viability of local LLMs are strongly polarized, details are overlooked, the scientific approach is lacking. Arguments are predominantly based on vibes and hype waves.
One thing is clear though - local LLMs are used more and more. I expect this trend to continue and likely 2026 will end up being one of the most important years for the local AI movement.
I admit that I didn't expect the agentic era to come so quickly to the local LLM space. One year ago, the available models were too computationally expensive for doing long-context tasks. There wasn't an obvious path towards meaningful agentic applications. The memory and compute requirements were huge. Last summer, with the release of gpt-oss, things started to change. It was the first time we saw a glimpse of tool calling that actually works well within the resource constraints of our daily devices. Later in the year, even better models were released and by now, useful local agentic workflows are a reality.
Comparing local vs hosted capabilities at a given moment of time is pointless. To try put things into perspective:
- We don't need frontier intelligence to automate searches and sending emails
- We don't need trillion parameter models to be able to summarize articles or technical documents
- We don't need massive GPU data centers to control our home appliances or turn the lights off in the garage
I believe that there is a certain level of intelligence we as humans can comprehend and meaningfully utilize to improve our working process. Beyond that level, access to more intelligence becomes unnecessary at best and counterproductive at worst. I also believe that that level of useful artificial intelligence is completely within reach locally and it has always been just a matter of implementing the right software stack to bring it to the end user.
With llama.cpp, I am confident that we continue to be on the right track of building that software stack!
The llama.cpp project is going stronger than ever. With more than 1500 contributors, the project keeps growing steadily.
From technical point of view, I think that llama.cpp + ggml is the only solution that actually makes sense. That is, the software stack must run efficiently on every possible device, hardware and operating system. The technology is too important to be vendor-locked. It has to be developed in the open, by the community, together with the independent hardware vendors. This is the only right way to build something that will truly make a difference in the long run.
I won't try to convince you about what is currently and will be possible with local AI. We will just continue to build as usual. I am confident that after the smoke clears and we look objectively at what we have built together, the benefits will be obvious to everyone.
Big shoutout to all llama.cpp maintainers. I feel extremely lucky to be able to work together with so many talented contributors. Every day I learn something new and I feel there is so much more cool stuff that we are going to build. Also, I am really thankful that the project continues to have reliable partners to support it!
Cheers!
now that 90% of the code worldwide is being written by AI agents, I predict that within 3-6 months, 90% of all AI agents will be running locally with llama.cpp 😄
Jokes aside, I am going to use this small milestone as an opportunity to reflect a bit on te of AI from the perspective of local applications. There is a lot to say and discuss and yet it feels less and less important to try to make a point. Opinions about viability of local LLMs are strongly polarized, details are overlooked, the scientific approach is lacking. Arguments are predominantly based on vibes and hype waves.
One thing is clear though - local LLMs are used more and more. I expect this trend to continue and likely 2026 will end up being one of the most important years for the local AI movement.
I admit that I didn't expect the agentic era to come so quickly to the local LLM space. One year ago, the available models were too computationally expensive for doing long-context tasks. There wasn't an obvious path towards meaningful agentic applications. The memory and compute requirements were huge. Last summer, with the release of gpt-oss, things started to change. It was the first time we saw a glimpse of tool calling that actually works well within the resource constraints of our daily devices. Later in the year, even better models were released and by now, useful local agentic workflows are a reality.
Comparing local vs hosted capabilities at a given moment of time is pointless. To try put things into perspective:
- We don't need frontier intelligence to automate searches and sending emails
- We don't need trillion parameter models to be able to summarize articles or technical documents
- We don't need massive GPU data centers to control our home appliances or turn the lights off in the garage
I believe that there is a certain level of intelligence we as humans can comprehend and meaningfully utilize to improve our working process. Beyond that level, access to more intelligence becomes unnecessary at best and counterproductive at worst. I also believe that that level of useful artificial intelligence is completely within reach locally and it has always been just a matter of implementing the right software stack to bring it to the end user.
With llama.cpp, I am confident that we continue to be on the right track of building that software stack!
The llama.cpp project is going stronger than ever. With more than 1500 contributors, the project keeps growing steadily.
From technical point of view, I think that llama.cpp + ggml is the only solution that actually makes sense. That is, the software stack must run efficiently on every possible device, hardware and operating system. The technology is too important to be vendor-locked. It has to be developed in the open, by the community, together with the independent hardware vendors. This is the only right way to build something that will truly make a difference in the long run.
I won't try to convince you about what is currently and will be possible with local AI. We will just continue to build as usual. I am confident that after the smoke clears and we look objectively at what we have built together, the benefits will be obvious to everyone.
Big shoutout to all llama.cpp maintainers. I feel extremely lucky to be able to work together with so many talented contributors. Every day I learn something new and I feel there is so much more cool stuff that we are going to build. Also, I am really thankful that the project continues to have reliable partners to support it!
Cheers!
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones:
1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack.
2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.
1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack.
2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.
@EylonALevy @ShMMor @eylontherecord Can you list just five of such laws invented by Israel's critics?
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
The Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trump’s eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender is the idea that a lot of people close to him can make a lot of money doing business and deals in Russia.
If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of this and the huge geopolitical risks that it creates, none of these people salivating over their future riches are going to make a penny, and perhaps do a lot worse.
I was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and I can say with certainty that the Russians aren’t going to let anyone profit in any way. They will talk nice at the outset to attract the investment, but once it’s there, they will steal, defraud, arrest, torture or even kill to make sure that no American makes any money. I’ve seen it so many times it’s almost universal.
So, this shocking initiative is not only terrible policy, it’s spectacularly stupid business.
wsj.com/world/russia/r…
If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of this and the huge geopolitical risks that it creates, none of these people salivating over their future riches are going to make a penny, and perhaps do a lot worse.
I was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and I can say with certainty that the Russians aren’t going to let anyone profit in any way. They will talk nice at the outset to attract the investment, but once it’s there, they will steal, defraud, arrest, torture or even kill to make sure that no American makes any money. I’ve seen it so many times it’s almost universal.
So, this shocking initiative is not only terrible policy, it’s spectacularly stupid business.
wsj.com/world/russia/r…
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
Let’s say this clearly: Hamas to Palestinians is what Nazism was to Germans. Both were born from pain, humiliation, and real suffering. But both turned that pain into hate, not healing. They promised “honor,” but brought only death. They claimed to defend the people and destroyed them instead.
The Nazis convinced Germans that salvation comes through annihilating another people.
Hamas did the same, wrapping it in religion instead of nationalism.
Both replaced logic with rage, education with propaganda, and compassion with martyrdom.
Both used their own civilians as fuel for a holy war they never intended to win - only to rule through fear.
We Palestinians cannot build a future while worshipping death.
We cannot speak of liberation while following an ideology that murders dissent, silences women, and glorifies blood.
If we ever want real freedom - moral, political, and human - Hamas must be banned, dismantled, and buried with the same moral clarity with which the world buried Nazism.
Germany was reborn only after it faced its demons.
Our rebirth, too, will begin the day we stop confusing resistance with self-destruction.
The Nazis convinced Germans that salvation comes through annihilating another people.
Hamas did the same, wrapping it in religion instead of nationalism.
Both replaced logic with rage, education with propaganda, and compassion with martyrdom.
Both used their own civilians as fuel for a holy war they never intended to win - only to rule through fear.
We Palestinians cannot build a future while worshipping death.
We cannot speak of liberation while following an ideology that murders dissent, silences women, and glorifies blood.
If we ever want real freedom - moral, political, and human - Hamas must be banned, dismantled, and buried with the same moral clarity with which the world buried Nazism.
Germany was reborn only after it faced its demons.
Our rebirth, too, will begin the day we stop confusing resistance with self-destruction.
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
⚡️🇵🇱🇷🇺 Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN Security Council meeting:
"To the representatives of Russia, I have this to say: we know you don't care for the international law and you're incapable of living in peace with your neighbours. Your insane nationalism ination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over, and that your empire will not be rebuilt. Every drone strike by the heroes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - may God bless them - brings this day closer. Your 'three-day Special Military Operation' can't even conquer Donbas for ten years now. But the potential for criminal, catastrophic Russian mistakes is still there. By ordering mobilization in 1914, you precipitated the start of World War I, which bleed Europe white, and led to your Bolshevik revolution. By signing the Hitler-Stalin pact, you helped launch World War II - the bloodiest in history. By sovietising central Europe, you caused the Cold War. Don't start another one. We are peaceful democracies, who have studiously avoided actively joining your attempt to re-conquer Ukraine. But we will not be intimidated. I have only one request to the Russian government: if another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission - deliberately or 'by mistake' - and gets shot down, and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned. Thank you."
"To the representatives of Russia, I have this to say: we know you don't care for the international law and you're incapable of living in peace with your neighbours. Your insane nationalism ination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over, and that your empire will not be rebuilt. Every drone strike by the heroes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - may God bless them - brings this day closer. Your 'three-day Special Military Operation' can't even conquer Donbas for ten years now. But the potential for criminal, catastrophic Russian mistakes is still there. By ordering mobilization in 1914, you precipitated the start of World War I, which bleed Europe white, and led to your Bolshevik revolution. By signing the Hitler-Stalin pact, you helped launch World War II - the bloodiest in history. By sovietising central Europe, you caused the Cold War. Don't start another one. We are peaceful democracies, who have studiously avoided actively joining your attempt to re-conquer Ukraine. But we will not be intimidated. I have only one request to the Russian government: if another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission - deliberately or 'by mistake' - and gets shot down, and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned. Thank you."
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
Except, it is.
I’ll give you the technical answer first, and the personal one second.
1. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a contained conflict - it’s an attack on the international order the U.S. helped build after WWII. If aggression goes unchecked in Europe, it signals to China, Iran, and North Korea that military force pays. That makes future wars more likely, including those that could directly involve U.S. troops.
2. NATO’s credibility is on the line. America’s security guarantees - what keeps allies aligned and adversaries deterred -mean less if Russia can invade, annex, and brutalize without consequence.
3. Instability in Europe drives up global energy and food prices, which hit Americans directly at the pump and in the grocery store. Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain exporters, and Russia has weaponized food supply.
4. A destabilized Europe means disrupted trade with America’s largest economic partner and more costly defense commitments in the long run.
5. Supporting Ukraine now, with money, weapons, and intelligence - not American troops - is cheaper and less risky than fighting a broader war later if Russia pushes beyond Ukraine.
6. History shows appeasement of aggressors doesn’t buy peace, it breeds escalation. Ukraine is the proving ground of whether deterrence still works.
7. Russia’s campaign is not just military - it includes the systematic deportation of Ukrainian children, widespread sexual violence, and targeting of civilians. The U.S. has long defined itself as a defender of human rights and freedom, turning away would betray that legacy.
8. The struggle of Ukrainians resonates with America’s own founding ideals: free people resisting tyranny.
9. Ukraine is also about the West versus authoritarian blocs. Russia and China are aligned in trying to rewrite the global order against democracy. Supporting Ukraine is not charity - it’s strategy in the broader contest for the 21st century.
10. If Russia “wins,” China will take lessons for Taiwan. If Ukraine stands, America’s deterrence is strengthened everywhere.
On the personal side:
The courage of Ukrainians reminds me why I’m proud to be an American.
Americans know what it means to fight for independence, to defend family, to resist tyranny.
Ukraine’s struggle is a mirror held up to our own history - the same yearning for liberty, the same courage in the face of overwhelming odds. To turn away would be to forget who we are.
We may live thousands of miles apart, but the principle is the same: if might makes right, if children can be stolen, women brutalized, and cities reduced to ash without consequence, then no one’s freedom is safe.
Not theirs, and not ours.
Supporting Ukraine isn’t about politics or party. It’s about remembering that America has always been strongest when we stood with the oppressed against the oppressor, when we recognized that our blessings of liberty come with the burden to defend them.
If Ukraine falls, the world grows darker and America smaller.
But if Ukraine endures, so too does the belief that freedom is worth any sacrifice, and that America still has the courage to stand for something greater than itself.
I’ll give you the technical answer first, and the personal one second.
1. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a contained conflict - it’s an attack on the international order the U.S. helped build after WWII. If aggression goes unchecked in Europe, it signals to China, Iran, and North Korea that military force pays. That makes future wars more likely, including those that could directly involve U.S. troops.
2. NATO’s credibility is on the line. America’s security guarantees - what keeps allies aligned and adversaries deterred -mean less if Russia can invade, annex, and brutalize without consequence.
3. Instability in Europe drives up global energy and food prices, which hit Americans directly at the pump and in the grocery store. Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain exporters, and Russia has weaponized food supply.
4. A destabilized Europe means disrupted trade with America’s largest economic partner and more costly defense commitments in the long run.
5. Supporting Ukraine now, with money, weapons, and intelligence - not American troops - is cheaper and less risky than fighting a broader war later if Russia pushes beyond Ukraine.
6. History shows appeasement of aggressors doesn’t buy peace, it breeds escalation. Ukraine is the proving ground of whether deterrence still works.
7. Russia’s campaign is not just military - it includes the systematic deportation of Ukrainian children, widespread sexual violence, and targeting of civilians. The U.S. has long defined itself as a defender of human rights and freedom, turning away would betray that legacy.
8. The struggle of Ukrainians resonates with America’s own founding ideals: free people resisting tyranny.
9. Ukraine is also about the West versus authoritarian blocs. Russia and China are aligned in trying to rewrite the global order against democracy. Supporting Ukraine is not charity - it’s strategy in the broader contest for the 21st century.
10. If Russia “wins,” China will take lessons for Taiwan. If Ukraine stands, America’s deterrence is strengthened everywhere.
On the personal side:
The courage of Ukrainians reminds me why I’m proud to be an American.
Americans know what it means to fight for independence, to defend family, to resist tyranny.
Ukraine’s struggle is a mirror held up to our own history - the same yearning for liberty, the same courage in the face of overwhelming odds. To turn away would be to forget who we are.
We may live thousands of miles apart, but the principle is the same: if might makes right, if children can be stolen, women brutalized, and cities reduced to ash without consequence, then no one’s freedom is safe.
Not theirs, and not ours.
Supporting Ukraine isn’t about politics or party. It’s about remembering that America has always been strongest when we stood with the oppressed against the oppressor, when we recognized that our blessings of liberty come with the burden to defend them.
If Ukraine falls, the world grows darker and America smaller.
But if Ukraine endures, so too does the belief that freedom is worth any sacrifice, and that America still has the courage to stand for something greater than itself.
@mobbs_mentality Ukraine is not american issue.
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That’s what you get if your vendor combines marked lock-in with profit maxing through user hostility.
@fr_g_rs @Microsoft To be fair, can ANYONE truly understand the tech they are changing when that tech is by Microsoft and the docs for things like this are several thousand pages long & often contradictory? I'll forgive them given what I'm learning about the disconnect between user risk & Defender.
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Once the economical fallout of Trump‘s policy hits his voter base so hard they‘d revolt, he‘ll start a big war to distract them.
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Listen to the man.
Also an option in healthcare, where people accept abysmal stability and interrupting workflows every week.
Also an option in healthcare, where people accept abysmal stability and interrupting workflows every week.
If you’re a Windows user, I can help you switch to Linux. Please stop supporting an insecure and privacy-intrusive operating system. What’s stopping you from switching to Linux/macOS? Ask all your questions, and I’ll answer everything.
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X just introduced the new Grok logo in the side bar.
It‘s exactly the logo of Deutsche Bank.
That‘s going to be fun.
It‘s exactly the logo of Deutsche Bank.
That‘s going to be fun.
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
Syrians just opened up Assad’s presidential garage. Why did Assad own so many Ferraris and Aston Martins in such a wartorn impoverished country? Well Assad had to drive a Ferrari in the name of anti-Zionist resistance you see. The Syrian people sacrifice themselves so that the worthy chariot to deliver him to victory on the holy road to Al Quds.
Seriously though, every single leftist who supported Assad driving Ferraris in the name of a “multipolar world” is fucking retarded and should be shamed for all history. This is what they defend when they defend the clownish Russia-China-Iran axis. The vast majority of citizens will live in poverty far below Western living standards so the regime elites can buy Ferraris. And if the citizens ever ask for anything better they throw you into a gulag to rape and murder you. Anyone who defends this abominable system of government, this “vision for the world” is just utter scum who crave the boot. They want to return to feudal times to live as slaves
Seriously though, every single leftist who supported Assad driving Ferraris in the name of a “multipolar world” is fucking retarded and should be shamed for all history. This is what they defend when they defend the clownish Russia-China-Iran axis. The vast majority of citizens will live in poverty far below Western living standards so the regime elites can buy Ferraris. And if the citizens ever ask for anything better they throw you into a gulag to rape and murder you. Anyone who defends this abominable system of government, this “vision for the world” is just utter scum who crave the boot. They want to return to feudal times to live as slaves
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
Wer im Team Putin spielt darf in einer Bundesregierung nicht auch nur in die Nähe von Verantwortung kommen.
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
This wasn’t necessarily the most diplomatic of speeches at the OSCE Ministerial in 🇲🇹 , but it was certainly truthful, to the point and effective. @radeksikorski 🇵🇱
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Ekkehard Endruweit retweeted
Ich würde es begrüßen, wenn der deutsche Bundeskanzler aufhört, dem deutschen Volk mit russischen Atomwaffen zu drohen.
Am 23. Februar entscheidet sich, welcher Kurs sich durchsetzt:
@_FriedrichMerz will der Nuklearmacht Russland ein Ultimatum stellen. Ich kann da nur sagen: In Fragen von Krieg und Frieden braucht es keinen unberechenbaren Oppositionsführer, sondern einen kühlen Kopf.Community noteMerz hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, Putin für den Fall weiterer Angriffe auf zivile Infrastruktur in der Ukraine wie Krankenhäuser die Freigabe der Nutzung der Verteidigungswaffen und die Taurus-Lieferung für die Ukraine anzukündigen - aber nur in Abstimmung mit EU-Partnern.
tagesschau.de/inland/merz-ta…
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