Just tell the clanker to use modern practices poof fixed.

Jokes aside a lot of that bad code can be detected by static linting tools and gated on, making it impossible for any of those to reach main.

That is factually incorrect.

Help page from Kagi (I'd understand if you don't trust it), fit for non-techie consumption. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/how-does-privacy-pass-work.html

So here's the RFC, which defined the protocol in the first place (Kagi didn't invent it, just implements it) https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9576/

As such they have absolutely no way of 'deciding' to look up a searchers account based on the token used.

That ofcourse does not reduce other ways anyone can track you like fingerprinting.

You seem to be misinformed. Kagi's privacy pass cryptographically proves that you're allowed to search, without having anything link back to your account. It doesn't get more anonymous than that.

Ikr, think of the shareholder value that is being created.

To expand on this, using tokens as a unit of billing is quite reasonable as it is also the unit of (inference) cost for LLMs.

The inference is essentially nothing but a loop of "Hey if the first X tokens are this, what would token X+1 most likely be?" until the LLM says its done. Every single loop is a ton of math which, on ridiculoudly expensive hardware, uses electricity and produces heat. So its a combination of those costs, and then we haven't even taken into account the cost to train the model.

There still are email clients that allow setting the from: field, in fact there's nothing in the base mailing protocol stopping you from doing so. However there are validation layers on top now that block such shenanigans.

Its even worse when comparing trains vs flying.

I'm guessing about 1kW

Its kept general so everyone hating any group can go 'fuck yeah', whether that be brown people, homeless people, immigrants, gypsies, punk rockers, gingers, kpop-lovers, people-who-wear-dino-suits, etc

We have a few dgx sparks in the office that are gathering dust right now because nobody wants to bother with them (and because IT doesn't allow them on the network because Linux is scary so they're a pain to get set up).

Matching the level of productivity of frontier models on the local models is possible to a limited degree (depending on the exact task), but takes getting used to. For the local models you have to lean into the fact that tokens are 'free' so its fine to burn a lot of them. (Whereas with frontier models the recommendation is to take a higher model for complex tasks because a lower would take more tries to get it right)

On windows there a program called 'Everything' that instantly finds files on your computer. Why windows doesn't use the same method of searching? Who knows