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Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows by declan_roberts on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:50AM (#49934883)
That's the compromise: Deepseek gets our data and the CCP gets our data. You get very cheap tokens. BUYER BEWARE!
Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows by wren6991 on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:00PM (#49935022)
Yeah, I am actually ok with this. I'm selective about what goes into it, and the training goes into better open-weight models. From what I've seen the DSH desktop telemetry is actually telemetry (like VS Code), not uploading all your files.

Might have been unclear from what I posted originally, but the `session-log-deepseek` is attaching session transcripts to DeepSeek API inference requests, so it's just a full version of what already needs to go in the messages array, with compaction expanded etc.

If you run `dsh web` against a local model then nothing goes to DeepSeek by default (except the web_search tool uses their API, but there has to be a backend somewhere). I think that's commendable. The regression on the desktop app is disappointing.

Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows by miroljub on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:26PM (#49935382)
You work for Anthropic?

Why do you suppose everyone would rather share data with Mosad and CIA than with CCP?

In China, my data is safe. Safe from you, safe from the CIA, safe from Mosad.

Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows by cheonic4040 on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:20PM (#49936062)
> That's the compromise: Deepseek gets our data and the CCP gets our data. You get very cheap tokens. BUYER BEWARE!

Anthropic also shares your personal data with the US government.

At least DeepSeek provides 95% of the performance for 10% of the cost.

Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows by dualvariable on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:49PM (#49937106)
CCP really doesn't care about policing what I do or think and doesn't have the reach to enforce anything. I can think of a lot of topics that I'd never ask a US-based chatbot that works with the US government, that I'd be fine with the CCP reading instead.