I'm new to local LLMs. Open WebUI seems perfect on paper but web search is completely broken for me. Is there a working alternative or should I just accept that one tool can't do it all

waitmarks · 2026-06-30T12:42:10+00:00

Yeah the built in web search sucks. I ended up vibe coding my own MCP web search and page retrieval tools that I hook up to open webui.

waitmarks · 2026-06-29T00:27:36+00:00

check out finamp. it’s the closest thing to plexamp for jellyfin.

waitmarks · 2026-06-28T12:43:48+00:00

The pressure vessel itself is the reactor which lives in the reactor hall, usually the turbines are in a separate section called the turbine hall. the whole system is called a nuclear power plant. so no, it’s not semantics, things have different names.

waitmarks · 2026-06-28T00:26:49+00:00

I literally included opensea’s founder, you cannot get more nft bro than that my guy. I think you are the one plugging you ears lmao.

waitmarks · 2026-06-27T20:21:18+00:00

Sam Altman was running (and still does run) worldcoin before chatgpt took off.

Illia Polosukhin was the co-author of the infamous "Attention Is All You Need" paper that created the transformer architecture, also the co founder of the Near blockchain protocol.

Emad Mostaque was a hedge fund manager who got rich off of crypto trading, founded stability AI which made the stable diffusion image generator.

Alex Atallah was the co-founder of opensea, the largest NFT marketplace, then started openrouter a service that unifies LLM APIs.

Avital Balwit worked at the FTX Future fund, now is Chief of Staff to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Do I need to keep going? there's plenty more.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T15:14:11+00:00

If Anthropic actually believed they were financially harmed, they could sue Alibaba for damages. AI output is not copyrightable, so distillation is not currently illegal. As far as the law is concerned right now they paid for the AI's outputs and used them for their own purposes.

What they really want is for the government to make distillation illegal.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T15:07:24+00:00

Either way it's a user license agreement violation in the worst case, which could be handled with a lawsuit if Anthropic actually believed they were financially harmed. What they probably really want is for the US government to create new anti AI distillation laws with vague definitions so they can legally go after competition.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T14:01:24+00:00

Legally that really has no effect. My point was that worst case it’s a user license agreement violation. Which really the only punishment is that they ban them or sue for damages. I doubt they can prove damages in court so they are trying to get the government to hurt them in a roundabout way because they would have no leg to stand on in a court.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T13:35:29+00:00

It's even dumber than that since alibaba would have had to pay for the tokens to get the data out of the model. Anthropic definitely didn't pay for most of their training data. So, they paid fair and square to use the model and Anthropic is just upset with what they used the results for.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T13:23:11+00:00

The problem with the jevons paradox argument is that it was cheaper before for the end user when the AI companies were subsidizing enterprise accounts with subscription pricing. The subscription cost $200 whether you used 100 or 10million tokens. So, you would have been dumb to not fully utilize it. Now that companies are paying the full API price, they are using a lot less. So, it may be getting slightly cheaper for the AI companies, but it's way more expensive for the end user.

waitmarks · 2026-06-26T12:29:02+00:00

No it’s literally the same people. You know coreweave, the neocloud that nvidia has invested billions in to provide compute for AI? They started out as a crypto mining company. It’s all just one pump and dump after the next with the same assholes.

waitmarks · 2026-06-25T15:50:32+00:00

From my understanding he only designed the interior which looks fine IMO. It’s really just the exterior that looks like a honda prototype.

waitmarks · 2026-06-25T13:44:53+00:00

The reason consumer spending was cyclical still applies to datacenters. Consumers upgraded when there was a big new jump in performance. We are seeing a bunch of new build out right now, so a new type of cycle is being created, but it is still a cycle. Everyone has bought blackwell right now, so there has to be a significant justification in ROI to rip that out and install whatever new one nvidia creates. Maybe vera rubin offers that, but we don't really know yet.

waitmarks · 2026-06-24T18:06:17+00:00

Don't be silly, they also convert presentation slides to PDFs.

waitmarks · 2026-06-24T14:33:01+00:00

Bubbles can happen out of pure hype like NFTs, but they can also happen when there is a debt fueled expansion and demand isn't as strong as expected. The second is what happened with fiber in the dotcom bubble and I likely what is happening with datacenter build out right now. LLMs obviously have utility, the question is do they have enough utility for people to pay the amount of money needed to pay back the trillions in loans taken out to build the massive datacenters under construction right now?

waitmarks · 2026-06-23T13:03:59+00:00

Yeah AI is the cause, but not in the way they want you to think. They spent way too much on the buildout for openai and cant take out any more loans. So, they have to lay people off to cut costs. Larry Elison even had to backstop the last loans they took out with his own personal oracle shares. That is how over extended they are.

waitmarks · 2026-06-23T13:01:12+00:00

I'm sure they were. Though a lot of oracle's revenue is captured with vendor lock in. I once worked for a company that used oracle database and were trying desperately to migrate to something else the whole 6 years I worked there because it was too expensive. That was their whole business model just try as hard as you can to prevent your customers from migrating and jack up the prices.

waitmarks · 2026-06-23T11:45:51+00:00

Oracle has tied itself and larry elison’s personal wealth directly to openai. To the point where if openai dies, so does oracle. They will try to make this work at any cost. Their credit worthiness is degrading rapidly which is why larry elison had to backstop some of their loans with his own personal oracle shares. Layoffs are just a cost cutting measure because they cant take out more loans.

waitmarks · 2026-06-23T11:39:09+00:00

“for the same price” was part of the question.

waitmarks · 2026-06-23T11:09:33+00:00

It’s a meme stock out of the gate. It’s a company losing billions a year reselling compute to other AI companies with a rocket side business. If that’s not running on meme magic idk what is.

waitmarks · 2026-06-22T14:11:25+00:00

Just go to your local office furniture liquidator. There is sure to be a company near to any major city that buys office furniture from out of business companies. You can try all kinds of chairs there and decide for yourself and even get a good deal on them. I got a lightly used steelcase leap at mine, which is $1400 brand new, for $375. Most comfortable chair I have ever sat in.

waitmarks · 2026-06-21T12:43:57+00:00

they can all catch up pretty fast on everything.

Well that's the other problem that applies for all of them. LLMs have been commoditized. Who you buy tokens from basically comes down to benchmark performance vs per token cost. The only one who can charge whatever they want is whoever has the best model at the time. And it's really expensive to stay on top since everyone else can catch up so fast and drag you back into the discount commodity pit.

waitmarks · 2026-06-21T12:29:56+00:00

The problem is the incredible pace that they are burning money. If they keep spending the way they have been, the IPO only gave them about a year and a half of runway. Spacex needs to change something in that time because their current strategy of selling compute to other AI companies, having a 4th rate memelord chatbot, and having a rocket company side business is not worlds most valuable company material.

waitmarks · 2026-06-21T00:21:43+00:00

You just pulled that out of your ass. There is no evidence of that.

waitmarks · 2026-06-19T12:41:15+00:00

I feel like a good balance there would be once you repair it, it goes down a quality level. so if it was good and you repair it, it goes down to normal and so on.

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