Mastodawn

MakeUseOf: I built a private LLM on my home PC using a USB drive — it only knows what I put on it. “Building your own private, offline AI starts by downloading software that runs open-source language models directly on your computer’s processor. I like GPT4All because it has few requirements and gives you a desktop chat window that works without an internet connection. By using compressed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/makeuseof-i-built-a-private-llm-on-my-home-pc-using-a-usb-drive-it-only-knows-what-i-put-on-it/

MakeUseOf: I built a private LLM on my home PC using a USB drive — it only knows what I put on it

MakeUseOf: I built a private LLM on my home PC using a USB drive — it only knows what I put on it. “Building your own private, offline AI starts by downloading software that runs open-source …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

MachineFabric 10h ago

The Transmute menu shows you destinations, not apps.
Add a cartridge tomorrow and yesterday's files unlock new destinations on their own.
Same Finder. Same right-click. New verb.
#localai
#LocalAIRevolution
#localAImodels
https://machinefabric.com

MachineFabric — Right-click. Transmute.

A native macOS app that turns the files you have into the things you need — locally, with your own models, no account required.

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Clawbox 20h ago

@Epic_Null Totally fair — and that is exactly the problem shadow AI creates: it bypasses those review gates entirely. Policies work when people follow them. The org question is: what happens when they do not? Sanctioned, audited local hardware (Security + IT can inspect it) beats uncontrolled cloud API keys used on personal devices. #LocalAI #Security

Matt @ Cicero 🇨🇦1d ago

Sophia NLU Home Assistant out of beta!

Fluidity of a LLM without the compute. 180MB RAM, millisecond latency, multiple intents, 11 personalities, no internet, never calls home.

Support on device, low compute NLU solutions - https://nlu.to/ha/

Your help will go towards more advanced NLU solutions to drop our dependence on big tech, and further the Cicero manifesto: https://cicero.sh/r/manifesto

Need affiliates, partners, general contacts. If you like what you see, e-mail [email protected]. Sky is the limit.

#HomeAssistant #NLP #NLU #Rust #Privacy #SelfHosted #SmartHome #MachineLearning #LocaLAI #AI

Sophia: Home Assistant Edition - Sophia NLU

Sophia NLU – High-performance, self-hosted, privacy-first natural language understanding engine built in Rust.

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]2d ago

Gnoppix Linux 26.6 wants AI to run locally, not in the cloud

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/gnoppix-ai-linux-26-6-release/

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]2d ago

Acer says this tiny AI workstation can run 200 billion parameter models locally

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/acer-local-ai-pc/

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]2d ago

Silicon Motion says AI PCs need a new kind of SSD controller

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/silicon-motion-ai-pc-ssd-controller/

Clawbox 1d ago

Shadow AI is already in your org.

Personal Ollama setups, phone assistants, browser AI plugins. Employees run them because the tools are useful and fast. You can’t ban your way out of it.

The real question: if local models are inevitable, who owns the hardware and the logs?

#LocalAI #SelfHosted #Privacy #AI #Homelab

LBHuston 2d ago

It is the scattered trail of personal information, business context, preferences, partial insights ... distributed across a growing set of local and semi-local tools.

Read the full article: When the AI Moves Into the House
▸ https://lttr.ai/ArokY

#ai #AiGovernance #LocalAi

LBHuston 2d ago

The employee may still have a personal model on a laptop, a browser plugin, a phone assistant, a local workflow in Obsidian, an automation chain in n8n, and a portable drive full of models and embeddings.