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I think it's self-explanatory

Yeah, I'm actually a bot working for the NSA, sorry.

That markup work to try to hide what's on your laptop doesn't work, and someone can easily see what's on your screen from this photo. You should use an actual box or do what you did with the emoji to cover sensitive info.

What specifically do you dislike about zsh?

Now, EPFL researchers... have released new software that allows users to download open-source AI models and use them locally, with no need for the cloud to answer questions or complete tasks.

It's cool that they got LLMs running on local clusters of computers, but with the way it's written, they make it sound like people have not already been using local LLMs for a long time (including GPT-OSS 120B).

Okay, that's a fair reason to use Gemini.

If you are trying to cater to people with a specifically "high threat model" (who are going to want zero-trust privacy protections), then the journals are an issue you'll have to somehow address.

Even if a user does not type full details like their name, small things like "I got banana ice cream today" and "I went for a night drive" can build a detailed profile over time, which even if ephemeral could be correlated using the database if that is sent for every query.

If Gemini truly can't see PII (no way to add "notes" for example) then I don't think that would be too big of a concern for most people, at least for those who don't have a distain for LLMs in the first place. Though I do feel that people with "high threat models" (would be good to be precise about what a "high threat model" is in this instance) would prefer to have a local app that interfaces with a local Ollama API, rather than an internet-connected service.

What precisely is Gemini "calculating" here and why can't its function be replaced on a lightweight local LLM?

Edit: After reading the information from the website, it sounds like there are a lot of opportunities for users to accidentally identify themselves to AI providers or open up de-anonymization attack vectors. If I were very concerned about my identity being linked to my recovery behavior, I would probably not use this service as it is now.

You can run appimages in Tails

I don't think there's stigma. Most users use package managers to get their software. For large operating systems, a torrent does help make downloads faster and less expensive when many people begin to seed it (and many FOSS operating systems do offer torrents), but most projects won't benefit from that.

I personally would not want to go through the hassle of getting the magnet link, putting it in my torrent program, waiting for it to finish, verifying the signature (if there even is one) and the checksum, and only then manually extracting it so that I can use it.

It is impossible to retain memories from the time of birth, so no, you'll never be able to hear that from anyone.

The malicious apps introduce the main payload via an update request and then ask for Device Admin and Accessibility Services permissions, which let it to perform fraudulent activities.

So to get compromised, you have to give an untrusted app full control of your computer? For a moment, I thought another actual permissionless vulnerability might have been discovered, but it seems not.

I don't understand, one moment everything's normal, and then the next day I come back and it's corn everywhere 😭