All of which could be solved via a VPN of Seedbox.

The point being, my movements around the homepage aren't tracked and used for pushing more ads. My microphone isn't being recorded for AI training or recommendations algorithms. The intricate ways I use the platform isn't being sold to some third party data company. I just open the film, and it works..

Your IP address being logged in a bittorrent swarm is far less concerning to me than the 100 page privacy policy which explains how they will take rectal scans and sell them to cancer research agencies or something.

Also doesn’t track user and send a bunch of telemetry

Interesting how they censor the word "fuck" like it's going to affect your brain if you read it fully spelled or something

I think I still prefer local but I feel like that's because that most AI inference is kinda slow or comparable to local. But I recently tried out cerebras or (I have heard about groq too) and honestly when you try things at 1000 tk/s or similar, your mental model really shifts and becomes quite impatient. Cerebras does say that they don't log your data or anything in general and you would have to trust me to say that I am not sponsored by them (Wish I was tho) Its just that they are kinda nice.

But I still hope that we can someday actually have some meaningful improvements in speed too. Diffusion models seem to be really fast in architecture.

Laptops??? There weren't gaming-capable laptops in the 90's, and besides that, the ultimate status symbol at a LAN party was lugging in your 80-pound 20" Sony Trinitron CRT.

it's clear in the thread that he got permission to do so

it's also reasonable to assume he had more information about the state of the location given his access as an employee, particularly given that it was a full two months before he actually retrieved them

These investigations are about identifying root causes, not assigning blame.

Out of curiosity, what's your use case for it? Years ago I preferred Sumatra/Foxit to Adobe, but every major browser has supported rendering PDFs for at least a decade and I haven't had needed or wanted a dedicated PDF reader in all that time.