I've been "joking" about this with my friends for a couple months now, and every day it becomes less and less of a joke--there are some very...interesting...things happening on the Twitter timeline these days.

You can pay, and also use deepseek-v4-flash. OpenRouter even lets you "block" or limit your usage to providers that don't train on data. Since the weights are open, other companies are already serving the model on non-DeepSeek owned hardware: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

> OpenRouter even lets you "block" or limit your usage to providers that don't train on data.

More than that, they have various zero data retention options and provide a convenient json list of them.

The fact OpenRouter strips https to reroute screams danger already.

What do you mean? Are you objecting that they communicate with the provider on your behalf? But how else would you design such a system?

Plumbing you straight through would require nonstandard certificate juggling and they wouldn't be able to implement their core service of providing a standardized API nor could they transparently route your request to the fastest / cheapest / whatever provider on the fly nor could they implement transparent fallback nor could they implement their policy of not billing you if the response from the provider is invalid.

Also the chosen provider could fingerprint your network stack if you communicated directly. The routing service is acting as a proxy and for most providers fully anonymizes requests (it does send a stable uid to some of them though).

Precisely this. That somehow is okay to put your trust into man in the middle. To your comment how you do it - yes it is difficult to do it right, but not impossible.

Good to know. I hadn't checks since early is DS4's launch when they were the only provide (I think maybe there was one other, but they also trained on your data). I see several private options now.

I haven’t checked with other third parties, but Crush got a warning https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/1783

IIRC this is almost exactly the use case for OpenRouter, down to provider fallback https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/best-practices/uptime-opti...

Every day, a new horror

Work closet /s

Congratulations to the app I used today that initially sent an SMS code, then offered it via WhatsApp.

I think some of it is organic, but it has been interesting to watch city park organizations build (or convert old tennis courts into) new pickleball facilities. It helps to have something that is both active and easy to start. You don't have to be particularly in shape at the beginning, gear needs are low, can be done year-round.

Group activities like this are great for finding your people. You will likely encounter another competitive, technically minded person and no one will be offended if you split into your own group/universe

I love getting ebooks from my library. I can even request new books within my system that aren't out yet, then when they're released and purchased by the library, they are automatically put on hold and added to my account.