/tech/ - Technology

Just use Kimi-K2.6 on OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention.

>>33403
Use deepseek with the claude CLI, China less likely to sell you out maybe

>>33430
This, or do it yourself

how technically complicated is it? you could probably use gemma or qwen locally if you have enough vram and ram

>>33403
Ideally you shouldn't use LLMs at all.

>>33464
why

>>33469
You'll learn a lot less and you have a lot less control over whatever you're trying to make. Think of watching and giving orders to another programmer instead of just doing it yourself.

If you just want occasional help just use chatgpt or whatever as a guest and ask about specific problems instead of having it do the whole thing for you. I myself am guilty of doing it when I'm not in the mood for reading man pages, though I try to avoid it as often as possible.

Why would you ankleweight yourself by using AI instead of coding manually? You're not doing it for a job, presumably. You're allowed to not use AI for personal projects.

If you are coding something that will get you banned off of a provider, you need to invest in a local GPU Cluster or something expensive. That costs lots of money. VRAM is the limit.

Suggestions:
Rust: Memory Safety
i18n: Translation
Screen Readers: Accessibility

>>33472
i hate ai but when you ask people this question it just sounds like youre asking them:
>why would you ankleweight yourself by using a keyboard, just write everything with a pencil
people will use whatever is most convenient and requires the least labor, even if makes them dumber

>>33518
It's more analogous to asking XQC to be your scribe instead of doing yourself or finding someone literate to be your scribe.

Like we already have codeless programming, it's called visual scripting. Literally just plop what you want the computer to do on the board and it does that.

>>33469
spiritual parasites

Proxies, it'll be expensive, and yeah, it's shady. You can find some on 4chan /aicg/ thread.

>>33403
there's this crazy new tech called using your brain instead of MITM'ing yourself with some proprietary statistical model that is probably selling your data to Palantir and human trafficker billionaires you should try it sometime

It turned out getting so much as an anonymous email is a nightmare. The so‑called “privacy” providers (ProtonMail, Tutanota) won’t let you create an account without providing identifying details. Their paid plans don’t accept XMR or any crypto, which is surprising.

I tried buying Gmail accounts from a site with “dark” in the name — all of them were banned immediately; maybe I’m doing something wrong. Same with Yahoo and others. ProtonMail eventually worked, but it wouldn’t let me register Claude until I bought another email account and used that to verify the first one, and only then used that first one to register Claude.

Ironically, that “darknet” shop had no .onion address, required JavaScript, and used Cloudflare or something. Another site where I bought a residential proxy blocks some Tor nodes. The Claude site wouldn’t let me download the executable without a proxy.

Many of these shady vendors don’t accept XMR for payment — absurd. If I’m buying a proxy for privacy, expecting me to pay by credit card is laughable. So far I’ve wasted about $50 on accounts that didn’t work. I was promised refunds sometimes, but other times I couldn’t get one because the sellers required a working email to process it.

Right now I’ve paid another dubious site for a Claude subscription and they say it’ll take 12 hours — I’m worried it’s a scam.

Staying anonymous is basically impossible; I’ve wasted ridiculous time and money. If I’d had an anonymous Claude subscription from the start, I could’ve let it handle all these dumpster sites for me.

And to anyone saying “you don’t need AI, use your brain”: that’s easy for people who’ve never built a real software project. They don’t understand how slow and tedious handling APIs, build systems, and all the small headaches is. By the time you finish at that pace vs the pace the world is moving at right now, it will become irrelevant anyway.

All in all the web is so hostile towards anonimity it's unbelievable, including most websites you'd expect to be privacy-first, including this one btw.

>>33546
>All in all the web is so hostile towards anonimity it's unbelievable, including most websites you'd expect to be privacy-first, including this one btw.
They just disabled the tor node again, lol. They should just switch this to a regular BB with usernames for everyone.

>>33403
>I need to pay with Monero or something like that.
Cake Wallet features NanoGPT and markets it as "No subscription, pay with crypto."
Never actually tried it, but it has to accept XMR payments since Cake Wallet is known for its excellent XMR support.
https://cake.nano-gpt.com

>I want to use Claude to make a FOSS project
As others already have stated, you should be coding your own projects using your own brain instead of automatizing the process using an LLM trained on other people's code. Don't let your reasoning to decay.

>a FOSS project
It would be meaningless for AI generated projects to be FOSS. If contribution is made by people and the maintainer is an AI, one of the greatest benefits of open source of collective development becomes meaningless.

>>33546

>It turned out getting so much as an anonymous email is a nightmare. The so‑called “privacy” providers (ProtonMail, Tutanota) won’t let you create an account without providing identifying details. Their paid plans don’t accept XMR or any crypto, which is surprising.
100% agree. They could try accepting XMR for payments, yet they don't.

>Ironically, that “darknet” shop had no .onion address, required JavaScript, and used Cloudflare or something.
It's dreadful how many *supposedly* privacy-respecting services use Cloudflare.

>And to anyone saying “you don’t need AI, use your brain”: that’s easy for people who’ve never built a real software project. They don’t understand how slow and tedious handling APIs, build systems, and all the small headaches is.
Yeah, that's one thing, but there are several approaches to mitigate this. And each one of them still requires a certain amount of dedication. But I guess that's the price to keep your mind sharp in the age of LLMs.
One thing I'd advise is to stick faithfully to minimal architecture design helps a lot. Like less endpoints, more modularization, etc. Avoiding feature creep and merging similar features into one in way that doesn't kill UX is the way.

>>33546
>The so‑called “privacy” providers (ProtonMail, Tutanota) won’t let you create an account without providing identifying details. Their paid plans don’t accept XMR or any crypto, which is surprising.
which is why i made 10 accounts between both of these before they required it. i knew what was coming. you really need to learn to do stuff yourself and not rely on LLMs because the result is inevitable. anthropic is literally asking for id before they let you use claude, requirements like there are just going to grow more pervasive

> that’s easy for people who’ve never built a real software project.
LLMs are barely a few years old, how do you think people here have been making a living. come on, man. what the fuck are you even talking about.

>>33531
at my job they're forcing everyone to use this slop because FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER means more gooder. what's funny is we're medium siezed so we're just getting ourselves hooked on a bunch of subscription services. these retard CEOs of mid level companies think they're smart for forcing their workers to adopt AI for everything but really they are just setting themselves up to be devoured later on. stupid fools.

>>33546
the web is hostile to anonymity because they went to blackmail you epstein style for your gooning habits or put you on a watchlist for your subversive politics. the very act of trying to get privacy is seen as a red flag now so they probably put extra eyes on you just for trying so hard.

>>33614
They now have an unlimited number of eyes on everybody thanks to AI. Extra infinity is still just infinity.

>>33614
>>33623
big brother is watching you

>>33403
Instead of going crazy trying to stay 100% invisible, here's what I'd do.

Create an outline for how the software will function. Determine what's needed and map it all out on paper. Then ask the models for help with each individual section, never revealing what it's actually supposed to do. Split the questions up, so maybe ask DeepSeek about specific networking questions, you could have ChatGPT help with filesharing, etc etc. Only use free accounts, you can still get good answers without paying anything. Don't use your primary email when signing up, create a throwaway. And just ask the questions from behind a proxy/VPN. Voila! You can now build the project.

Obviously it's gonna require a little more work on your end, and you're gonna have to do some bug testing to make sure all the components work nicely together. But it'll improve your coding skills, you won't be on your own you can ask any coding questions (without revealing why you need them), it'll probably provide proof of concepts in its outputs so you can use that as a base to build from. And no issues with your government.

Alternatively you can just ask a friend internationally to help you out by signing up for the account and paying for the tokens. Just send them the money and let them handle it. So long as it's not also a problem in their country, you should be fine!

Good luck dude, come back and post results whenever you get the project off the ground