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   Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 07:53:52 JST Dan Morris

   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   @evan I use Ollama locally to scan my own files and server logs. Does that count?

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 07:53:51 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @coldfish you tell me!

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 09:21:43 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @coldfish guess what?

     https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/chrome-silently-installs-a-4-gb-local-llm-on-your-computer/5230893

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     Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 09:21:44 JST Dan Morris

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan I don't know. I think AI is just gonna be here whether we like it or not. I also think that we're going to be roped into it and suddenly it will magically get much more expensive.

     So, I've been on a mission to find the "good" in what's happening here. I think if we get more local AI tools to offset the needs for "big AI" then we may be able to come to some kind of direction that isn't just a horrific dystopian future that I tend to see coming.

     My last project: Do document analysis on Gemini, but handle all the vector embedding on Ollama locally. The thing is, so much can be done locally that it hard to believe that the next versions of Chrome or Office won't have an LLM built in, if only to offset the load on the remote AI.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 03:06:47 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @coldfish so, the poll is over and I would say, if your code is open source, yes, that counts. It's up to you to decide, though.