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Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Post by redindian75 »

WhatsName wrote: post #2

I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?

i hold a good 2 letter Chat domain: hi.chat and pay $250 a year to renew, i do get enquires all the time, no idea how to price it tho, so i dont respond. Anyone have any ideas how to go about evaluating it?

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Post by progval »

evbogue wrote: post #39
progval wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can create chatrooms dynamically so no one but the user will see them.

That's wise, but how will the user protect against the host in those protos?

Protect against the host doing what?

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Post by HiPHInch »

dakinitribe wrote: post #45

This is beautiful, thank you. Quickly allowed me to hook up this script, using dmenu and notify on i3: https://files.catbox.moe/vbhtg0.jpg And then trigger it with Mod+l for super quick answers as I'm working! Priceless <3

ported to macos using raycast

```

#!/bin/bash

# Required parameters: # @raycast.schemaVersion 1 # @raycast.title Ask LLM # @raycast.mode fullOutput

# Optional parameters: # @raycast.icon # @raycast.argument1 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "Your question" }

# Documentation: # @raycast.author Your Name # @raycast.authorURL https://github.com/you

QUERY="$1" [ -z "$QUERY" ] && exit 0

FULL_QUERY="Answer in as little words as possible, concisely, for an intelligent person: $QUERY"

# URL encode (pure bash) encode_query() { local query="$1" local encoded="" local c for (( i=0; iENCODED_QUERY=$(encode_query "$FULL_QUERY")

# Get response RESPONSE=$(curl -s "https://ch.at/?q=$ENCODED_QUERY")

# Output to Raycast echo "$RESPONSE"

# --- Optional: also pop up a big dialog --- osascript -e 'display dialog "'"$RESPONSE"'" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "LLM Answer"'

```

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Post by gloxkiqcza »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #40
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #29

Author here, was a bit surprised to see this here. I thought there needed to be a good zero-JS LLM site for computer people, and we thought it would be fun to add various other protocols. The short domain hack of "ch.at" was exciting because it felt like the natural domain for such a service. It has not been expensive to operate so far. If it ever changes we can think about rate limiting it. We used GPT4o because it…

One interesting thing I forgot to mention: the server streams HTML back to the client and almost all browsers since the beginning will render as it streams. However, we don't parse markdown on the server and convert to HTML. Rather, we just prompt the model to emit HTML directly.

> However, we don't parse markdown on the server and convert to HTML. Rather, we just prompt the model to emit HTML directly.

Considering the target audience it probably doesn’t matter but it sounds like this could lead to pretty heavy prompt injections, user intended or not. Have you considered that and are there any safeguards?

The domain is great by the way. Congrats on getting it!

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