I wouldn’t use Copilot for this, as it may be using some older info on you that it already has. There are lots of “whatismyip” type sites that can try to guess your location. Failing that, see what region Google serves you ads from—any YouTube ads I get are always from my VPN endpoint country/region.
Also, just try plain old Tor Browser to compare with your setup.
I’m still trying out combinations of hardware and models, but even my old Intel 8500T CPU will run around reading speed with a stock version of Meta’s Llama 3.2 3b (maybe the one you tried) with mostly good output—fine for rewriting content, answering questions about uploaded document stores etc.
There are thousands of models tuned for various purposes, so one of the key questions is your purpose. If you want to use your setup for something specific (e.g., coding SQL) you are going to be able to find a much more efficient model.
Ollama and Open WebUI, as far as I know, are just open source software projects created to run pre-trained models, and have the same business model as many other open source projects on Github.
The models themselves come from Google, Meta and others. Have a look at all the models available on Hugging Face. The models themselves are just binary files. They’ve been trained and there are no ongoing costs to use them apart from energy your computer uses to run them.
I run Ollama with Open WebUI at home.
A) the containers they run in by default can’t access the Internet, but they are provided access if we turn on web search or want to download new models. Ollama and Open WebUI are fairly popular products and I haven’t seen any evidence of nefarious activity so far.
B) they create a profile on me and my family members that use them, by design. We can add sensitive documents that the models can use.
C) they are restricted by what we type and the documents we provide.
The high res version is https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/50-Years-of-Video-Game-Revenue-Dec-31.jpg
Nice chart. Surprising about VR. Wonder where the Steam Deck fits, as handheld looks like it died.
More people drive a car than understand how it works. They push the pedal and turn the wheel and get where they want to go. Of course that’s fine most of the time and we can’t all understand everything like a mechanic does. But when it’s something like a car or a computer that you use so, so much in your daily life and you don’t care to have even the most basic understanding of how it works… seems strange to me.
Yes, agreed, it’s a matter of degrees. It’s chipping away at the identifying information we’re allowing out. It’s sad that it’s being abused for profit, but here we are.
It depends on the mask in this case e.g., a full face mask is going to be more effective than a half face mask. Walking around under a sheet with holes in it will also hamper gait analysis, but then you’re the only one walking around in a sheet.
Edit: the answer is clearly free burqas for all.
But imagine if someone did want to use it, what would be your recommended approach? You seem quite knowledgeable in this area and I’m sure we could all learn something.