OpenRouter has some decently powerful free-to-use models, but I’m afraid as far as LLMs go ‘free’, ‘good’, and ‘private’ are going to be pretty mutually exclusive if you can’t run one locally.

I don’t know if I’d call myself a privacy pioneer but I self-host some stuff and share/trade services with a few friends.

I usually use croc, though it requires the receiving party to be around to receive it immediately.

Yeah, they’ve been doing this sort of thing for quite a while.

Kiwix isn’t a web browser exactly and doesn’t download web pages the way your browser saves them. It uses a specialized file format, and it can be used to back up an entire site. For instance the kiwix library has an offline copy of wikipedia (no images), but it weighs in at more than 100GB last I looked.

OsmAnd usually.

OSM

As much as I’m not terribly fond of the guy, IIRC he’s 36, which makes ‘88’ likely short for 1988, the year he was born.

I just run a shaarli instance on an old laptop and keep all my bookmarks there and just access it from where/whatever.

Nah, I’m good. I’m fine with services being limited to what information they can convince my browser to give them, rather than what they can convince my phone to give them. Or try and convince me to give them permission to access.

I wouldn’t even bring my phone, or if I absolutely needed something like that, I’d buy a cheapass pre-paid burner. And keep it off until you actually need it.

Yep, I and a few friends use it.

I’ve wandered through a bunch of them. Used to use Florisboard. Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good too. The Hacker’s Keyboard for some stuff. Mostly these days Heliboard for general typing.

Ah, my bad. I missed the ‘open-source’ requirement. But yes, I mostly use it because it’s all markdown so I can use it with whatever.

Obsidian here.

I recently (yesterday) discovered a web-based port of Audacity. I haven’t messed with it much and don’t do much audio editing in general, but it’s here FWIW.

Lol…Gab? Not even once, for any purpose.