Tim

Hey, don’t knock the UK’s traditional recipes. The British should learn to be far more proud of their food.

People who will dismiss Shepherd’s Pie (a tremendous dish when made well) will then go weak-kneed at a bloody moussaka or beef ragu because they’re fancy and exotic… There’s nothing wrong with a steak and kidney pud, or a bloody good roast with all the trimmings, or a corned-beef hash, or a cornish pasty, or a good kedgeree made with leftovers or… Well, point is there is loads of amazing food in the UK culinary tradition. That most of it doesn’t involve salad leaves artfully balanced on top of a cherry tomato owes more to climate than cuisine; nobody wants that shit when it’s winter outside 11 months in 12.

I swear the whole “British cuisine is bad” thing is just a conspiracy cooked up by the French in order to distract everyone from the fact they’ve elevated overcomplicating otherwise thoroughly unremarkable dishes to an artform. If you’ve ever worked in a French factory and had to chew on horsemeat with the texture of a car tire in the canteen, you’d know the caraffe of cooking wine isn’t there to provide a touch of exotic class, it’s to try and numb the tastebuds. (The Italians though, they get to judge tbf.)

The British diet may be awful, but it’s not because British cuisine is awful, it’s mainly because of shovelling junk food - mainly US in origin - instead of the traditional food.

I just realised this is the much more useful link: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic?tab=readme-ov-file

I can see at least one -heretic version of a Qwen3.5 model on Huggingface already; can’t vouch for quality though.

Keep an eye on this: https://huggingface.co/heretic-org

I used to use a -heretic abliterated version of gpt-oss-120b, not for any creative reasons but just to reduce the amount of wasted tokens in its thinking, with good results.

(You can turn off thinking mode with the new Qwen models btw - how you do it will depend on how you’re hosting it, but basically it’s a flag to the chat template. It won’t remove the safety guidelines, but it will stop it telling you all about its internal monologue ;).)

I hate to break it to you, but the diaeresis (two-dots diacritic) is, in fact, a standard part of modern English orthography.

But yes, I was lazy when writing. I’ve slapped myself on the wrist.

Well in that case it should hardly be a concern then.

TIL six year olds use Lemmy.

The Turkish Government decided that they’d like the English translation of their name to be Turkiye, and asked the world nicely.

The world, for whom it is absolutely no inconvenience whatsoever, went “fair enough, sure.”

If the majority of people are now writing Turkiye, it just means the majority of people are not utterly wearisome bellends; consider this a rare good news story.