Tag: opensource
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HyCanvas Stops Renting You Your Own Files: What Changes When the Canvas Lives on Your Box
Open a design tool and press export. That is where you find out who owns what you just made. Usually the answer is a watermark, a font that quietly reverts, or a box offering the full-size file for 12 dollars a month. The toll booth was never the editor. The editor is the demo, and…
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Strafe Wants to Be the Third Federated Chat That Sticks. Read Its Licence First.
The licence file Strafe did not have on Tuesday appeared on Thursday. It is not the licence its maintainer promised. The code is better than the launch page deserves: a Discord clone with E2EE and a peering layer, so separate servers can talk. It reached Hacker News on 14 October. Nothing here ran in my…
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BentoPDF: 42 PDF Tools That Never Leave Your Browser
Picture a signed contract, a bank statement, a scan of your passport, and a website offering PDF services to merge them for free. No account, no upload limit, no fuss. You drag the file in, it does the work, you download the result, and you close the tab. The file did not go anywhere. Except…
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I Built an Autonomous Trading Bot in Four Hours for Twenty Bucks. Here’s the Honest Ledger.
My AI agent team shipped a crypto trading bot yesterday. Four hours from green light to a live soak on Binance's testnet. Total model spend: about twenty US dollars. Let me tell you what actually happened, because the gap between the press release version of "AI agents build software" and the reality is where all…
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The 11.8 Gigabyte 27B
A 27-billion-parameter model in an 11.8 gigabyte file, scoring the same as the 54-gigabyte original. Which size fits your card, how to run it, and why the method itself is the bigger story.
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From Chatting to Delegating: Why Professionals Should Learn OpenWork
21st Aug 2026 Let’s be honest about where most professional AI use actually lives. You’ve got ChatGPT or Claude open in a tab, you type a prompt, it hands you back text. You draft the email, it summarises the doc, you brainstorm, it throws out an idea. Useful. But it’s still a chatbot. It talks…
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OpenWork: The Claude Cowork Alternative
Aug 18th, 2026 I Pointed an AI at My Homelab. Setup Was One Line. It Still Hasn’t Broken Anything. Every AI app is an island. You connect your Google account in one, teach it a skill in another, and the moment you switch apps, you’re back to square one. For most people that’s an annoyance.…
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The Truth About Open-Source Chinese AI Models
Are They Secretly “Calling Home”? I had to write this out to get it off my chest right now, just because most recently in the midst of a conversation, a client declared that all Chinese AI models have ‘backdoors’ for the China government to access, a notion picked up from his ‘social networking’ with local…
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AI Guide: How to Install Llama.cpp onto your Desktop PC for Local AI
June 16th, 2026 After some weeks of research, trials and errors, I managed to successfully install Llama.cpp and have it working with my AMD GPU using vulkan instead of RoCm on Linux Mint v22.3 OS. Learnt many lessons from the experience, and happy to share that here. The next thing now would be to install…
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Vote NO to Add Age-Verification to Software!
FB Posting on Mar 24th 2026 When I read about the news of mandatory age verification laws, such as those emerging in California, Brazil, and the UK, I got all flustered and angry cuz’ that is in my very honest opinion, is certainly posing as a highly significant threat to the open-source software (FOSS) ecosystem…