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FWIW, LM Studio makes it incredibly easy to do this. I’ve been in tech for decades, and there are probably only a couple of suggestions I"d made to the LMS team if they wanted to target a broader, less tech savvy user base, but I think they already have their target demographic covered. I imagine the Ubuntu and Fedora crowds are already tech savvy, but vendors making it easier to ween reliance off tech giants’ LLMs isn’t a bad thing, if LLM’s are here to stay.

Now the one thing that will turn me off to initiatives like this is if these OS vendors restrct which model can be used, or make it more friction not to use their “chosen” default. Like Google just did by pushing What I"m assuming was Gemma 4 E2B to Chrome users. I figure Google wants to offload the LLM usage to local compute to take the load of their data centers, and since Chrome is already a data harvesting tool for them, there was no downside to their operations.

The least they could’ve done is install one of the abliterated models, so people can see how badly Gemini censors them…

For those that’ll go search that later, you’re welcome.

Heh, take my upvote.

I can’t believe they are FAFO with The Mouse ™️

It’s DJT, or course it’s a scam. Just like how the company will somehow be ultra profitable next time they need to quality for a high risk loan (his lifelong playbook).

OpenAI has entered the chat

“We know your IP address”. No kidding, that’s how IPv4 works, even if the browser wasn’t leaking offering it.

Bold of you to assume any of this will be encrypted.

They just use the different techniques to fIngerprint you. It’s an arms race, and we lost it years ago.

They can’t be the only one doing this, though. It’s going to be a game of whack-a-mole as long as the carriers are still allowed to sell this data. The only way that’ll change is if some well connected politician gets outed or arrested because of it, probably.

400kbps would be slow as hell, for all of those use cases. Video would be unusable, but other stuff would still be insanely slow with all the bloat in modern websites and tracking crap in apps.

That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.

What penalty? What illegal thing are they even doing? If the browsers allow this, they should expect it to happen. Prevent it, or expect it. Websites shouldn’t be able to “scan” for these extensions in the first place.

At best, they might get a slap on the wrist fine they pay to the FTC or FCC, and admit no fault.

So does Claude. Just because the user-facing features forget it, doesn’t mean the company does.

forcing

Yeah, those poor capitalists forced to jack up prices to take advantage of shortages.

I was arguing with the point of “repeatedly” being a determining factor for having to have this device. It’s not reality, once is enough.

They lost their license for 2 years. The equipment was required to get it back.

Nice straw man. Murder != drunk driving.

I know someone that did it once and having to have one of these as a result. Suggest you reset your opinions a bit.

Disagree. The fact that these devices are both capable of, and would actively, emphatically, attempt to do any level of data harvesting, is a problem. Can they be defeated? Yes. They should not have to be. We deserve better.