Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163961

Points: 178

# Comments: 76

It depends on what's your use case and geopolitics. If a US-based inference provider violates the ZDR agreement for a private Polish citizen like me, my hands are probably tied. But it doesn't mean ZDR policies are a scam overall.

On October 16 I used the Openrouter site when logged in and I noticed a banner about new Safety Retention features for Google models. I thought "hm, good thing they notified me but I'm sure the effect for me will be I will just stop being able to use the Google models". I still went to the privacy settings to double check. I was shocked to find that my privacy settings had been automatically changed to allow Privacy Retention on Google models (other models still require ZDR according to my settings).

The Privacy Retention goes live on October 18.

Imagine using Openrouter for a client and missing this announcement and this date, thinking all data going through Openrouter is still ZDR-only.

I was unable to find a link to an announcement or a documentation page describing these changes. The announcement banner and the (logged-in) privacy page are the only sources of information about this I am seeing as of now.

My trust in Openrouter took a massive hit today.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117290

Points: 5

# Comments: 5

Last time I tried OpenCode was on a tiny VPS which stopped responding when OpenCode tried to eat over 2GB of RAM in launch.

- Jellyfin

- Vaultwarden

- Immich

- pi agent. I use it through tmux and iSH on my iPhone

- librechat. nice UI but honestly I probably jsut use pi more often

- copyparty. to visually inspect whatever I create with pi, and to access my documents, to upload files I need on the server quickly and easily from any device

Not sure if this is specific to mestizo culture, but the shaman that the book describes looks to me much more like a superstitious, opportunistic charlatan than a clerical psychonaut.

Gordon Wasson did not reveal to the west the idea about ethneogens that Maria Sabina represented. He came to her with a preconceived goal of looking for god, which was not what she was using the mushrooms for.

Anyway, my point is that shamanism looks different through the lens of rigorous ethnography than it when conveyed to us by the influencial popcultural figures. I won't be able to explain it well in a comment, but I highly recommend the book, even if you only read fragments.

The description of the actual world of shamanism leaves me feeling massively disillusioned. McKenna et al. did us a disservice by shaping the western popcultural idea of what indigenous shamanism is.

I just wonder if it can survive - is there a business model here? If not, it's just a tech demo and then it doesn't have value as the hosted version, it would have it if the whole processing/indexing pipeline was open sourced so that anyone can host it themselves and pay for their own infrastructure.