Why “Local” is being discussed
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Where in Germany could one build a new nuclear powerplant without noticeable local opposition (or opposition to new power lines)?
by RandomLensman · Oct 31, 2026
Hex – local voice dictation for Mac
by vpj · Oct 31, 2026 · 1 points
Does this support local sandboxing/isolation of the app/environment you are working on? If not I'd imagine one could figure out how to make that sort of thing work wit…
by indigodaddy · Oct 31, 2026
One of the new threat models of local LLMs, especially abliterated ones, is hidden instructions or activation words that obscured trigger tool calls which exfil data.
by reilly3000 · Oct 31, 2026
> I also became interested in the concept of local world knowledge apps. In principle, the data size of meaningful packs of information about the whole world is not that large.…
by insane_dreamer · Oct 31, 2026
I can heartily recommend switching to private local speech to text voice input with Handy. https://handy.computer/about
by contingencies · Oct 31, 2026
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