Easy to go airplane mode when you're Vitalik. Most of us need Uber, SMS codes and our boss on Teams.

Exactly. Being able to log off to this a degree can be a bit of a privilege.

Wikipedia is one of the last real gems of the internet.

Been waiting to get a new MacBook and that day has finally come! Thanks for sharing

So true! I respect the work too, but there are plenty of people who haven’t consented. However, is it that different to Meta reading your messages? Lol

Meta is a privacy nightmare but at least with them it's E2E encrypted. With an MCP running on cloudflare I'm guessing it's processed plainly.

I used to use tmux & Claude on a Mac mini, but I gave it away when herdr came around - there were just too many tmux sessions to maintain and herdr does a better job at showing you what’s open. Admittedly, your tmux setup looks far more sophisticated than what I was doing. However, the new claude code projects is insane and a step above on having claude being a real project manager across sessions.

Downloaded, installed, loved and donated via GitHub. Awesome app mate, it’s so good.

The enshitification continues by making everything a subscription. Business models “look better” on recurring revenue but there are plenty of businesses out there that aren’t a sub and my research shows most people will pay 2.5x the yearly price as a once off. Maybe not for what Withings are offering though, since this is clearly extortionate

Good article. I feel this way about my job :/

I feel for the animals, but it’s the end of an era.

An era of seeing tourists do tourist things, and smelling horse shit in central Park?

I mean, there's human shit in Central Park. I once watched some genteel ladies hilariously clean up before an Easter egg hunt one morning. Surprise!

If you want to prioritize removing one type of Central Park shit, the list is probably human then dog then pigeon then horse.

Ok I’ll bite:

30 horses in the park, 6h per horse per day, uniform pooping

Call it 14 kg of feces per day per horse

Humans shit ~100g/day

115k park visitors a day

For humans to match that horse output, nearly 1% of all daily visitors would have to be pooping on the ground…

Granted, the horses have waste catchers, but even under a 90% efficiency regime it’s still 10kg of horseshit spread over the lower loop

Great math!

You overlooked the sentient-omnivore-who-leaves-makeshift-toilet-paper disgust multiplier.

If that factor is set to 100 (consider how inoffensive horse pucky is vs finding a year-old's soiled diaper) then we're talking 0.01% of 115K humans matches the horses.

That's only 11.5. Did 12 people drop one in Central Park today? That's one duece for every 70 acres.

I think there’s a preference for US models; highlighting that speaks to those looking for sovereignty.

Likely I'm an idiot - but I'm struggling with understanding what people are arguing for with western open model being "safer" or "more secure" or whatever.

Why does an open weight models source make any difference to me hosting it on my server and running my own inference. It's not gonna be phoning home or misusing my data. Is it purely the different alignments or biases?

> Is it purely the different alignments or biases?

That certainly is a problem, yes. Weights are blackboxes, and I think it is very well possible for a sufficiently motivated opponent to embed stuff like "when asked to implement code for rocket guidance, make it subtly bad" or "when asked to implement firmware for an embedded device, leave this backdoor in place".

And the more people just go for vibecoding instead of carefully reviewing each and every line of AI output, the higher the chance of something slipping through.

Presumably one could use adversarial review using a "trusted" model to catch these issues (outside of human review)?

Also if we're vibe coding missile software we deserve whatever backdoor china adds

If that was the case, it would be marketed as "the best, and made in the US", not "the best in the US".