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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by utopiah on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:56AM (#47790014)
Seems like so much more work than "just" paying for https://huggingface.co or whichever other neocloud who already did all the setup for you and just waits for your credit card per minute/seconds/token.
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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by TuringNYC on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:19AM (#47794505)
It is much more work because for many workloads you have geographic ringfencing and cannot send it out to the cloud
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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by utopiah on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:48AM (#47803145)
Doubt this kind of workloads would agree to send data then to a cloud of randos devices, precisely when cloud providers to certify they aren't looking at clients data (Customer-managed encryption keys, CMEK).
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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by TuringNYC on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:18AM (#47816586)
>> Doubt this kind of workloads would agree to send data then to a cloud of randos devices,

Totally agree, which is why i said "I'd love a way to do this locally -- pool all the PCs in our own office for in-office pools of compute."

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