“This blogger” is Simon Willison, who has been doing LLM benchmarks and other LLM-related things since before it was cool

Not a random substack grifter

Is there a master list of ships that support genocide, so that I don’t end up on one?

It definitely has specific blocks on what it will output.

And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked

Meshtastic requires bespoke hardware, it’ll always stay a marginal tool

This requires: an iPhone.

And someone will make a bridge from this to Meshtastic in a while anyway

This is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet

And LocalSend

Briar doesn’t have an iOS client an never will

This doesn’t have an android client 😀

LLMs are shit at current events

Perplexity is kinda ok, but it’s just a search engine with fancy AI speak on top

Wrong 70% doing what?

I’ve used LLMs as a Stack Overflow / MSDN replacement for over a year and if they fucked up 7/10 questions I’d stop.

Same with code, any free model can easily generate simple scripts and utilities with maybe 10% error rate, definitely not 70%

I want loitering munitions with face detection, all targeting Putin, his oligarchs and their families.

Your Instagram or TikTok?

Because mine is full of TikTok reposts and AI slop