Attention — Nov 8, 2026
What caught my attention on Nov 8 (3 items).
Dust to Dominion - building an NPC generator
NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:20:55) - Published 2026-11-05 18:00 - Discovered 2026-11-08 20:55
In this episode, the developer continues building Dust to Dominion, a specification-driven game project, by creating an external NPC image generator. After a brief update on recent features—a ship editor for placing gun, engine, and collection ports, and language selection with a German translation—the main focus shifts to generating randomized non-player characters for story mode. Rather than usi…
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next vs Kimi K3.1 Pro
NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:20:58) - Published 2026-11-01 18:00 - Discovered 2026-11-08 20:58
In this sponsored episode of “Battle of LLM,” the channel No Place Like Localhost compares a locally hosted model, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, with Kimi K3.1 Pro, a cloud-based model claimed to have frontier-level intelligence. The host frames the test as local AI versus cloud AI, pitting Qwen’s 125 billion parameters against Kimi’s 2.8 trillion parameters.
The first task is intentionally open-ended: bo…
AI voice cloning with no VRAM
NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:21:00) - Published 2026-10-27 18:00 - Discovered 2026-11-08 21:00
The video reviews two text-to-speech engines: Pocket TTS and Ming 3 TTS. Pocket TTS is presented as an extremely lightweight, CPU-only system that can run without any VRAM, even for voice cloning. Its models are separated by language and come in very small sizes, from about 2 million parameters and 46 MB up to a full-size 219 MB model. The creator notes that setup is awkward because models require…