You can also contribute to OpenStreetMap in your area using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor. This has a way lower barrier to entry than contributing code in my opinion. And it has the immediate benefit of a better local map for a LOT of services that are built on top of OSM.

I trust them as much as Google, Meta, or any other big tech company. I won’t use their cloud services, but I do run there local models.

I think I saw a similar comment on here last month. It was a user saying that Gemma claimed to send his chats to Google. Which is clearly a hallucination.

I’m not a professional or expert on anything security and/or AI related but this is my take:

• In general there will not be data sent anywhere if you use the big/trustworthy open-source backends.
• Unless there are bigger security issues the model files shouldn’t contain such code.
• Data could be sent using MCP/tool calling but you can see each tool call as it is happening so it can’t be hidden.

If you really don’t trust something you can always try to use a network sniffer

I’m European and had to do the same, so it’s based on something else.

Don’t know about Ubuntu specifically but for all software I actually want to work, I wait for the first point release upon a major release.

AllenAI has released open source models with open training data, code and science. If you value the ‘source’ to actually be open. They’ve also published the multimodal Molmo models.

Such a huge increase compared to previous months, with most of it coming from ‘64 bit’ and ‘0 64 bit’ seems suspicious. Don’t give me false hope…

What features are still missing after this gets merged? Right now, I still use a glitchy adapter that randomly drops out every few minutes and sometimes crashes my whole Hyprland WM due to an unsteady state when no displays are recognised/connected.

I would love to use my GPU and display with the features I paid for.