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Re: Gemini CLI

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Hi - I work on this. Uptake is a steep curve right now, spare a thought for the TPUs today. Appreciate all the takes so far, the team is reading this thread for feedback. Feel free to pile on with bugs or feature requests we'll all be reading.

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Re: Gemini CLI

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your data can be used UNLESS you opt out It's even more nuanced than that. Google recently testified in court that they still train on user data after users opt out from training [1]. The loophole is that the opt-out only applies to one organization within Google, but other organizations are still free to train on the data. They may or may not have cleaned up their act given that they're under active investigation, b…

We need to stop giving money and data to hyperscalers. We need open infrastructure and models.

People said the same thing about shopping at walmart instead of locally.

Re: Gemini CLI

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I had a conversation with Copilot about Copilot offerings. Here's what they told me: If I Could Talk to Satya... I'd say: “Hey Satya, love the Copilots—but maybe we need a Copilot for Copilots to help people figure out which one they need!” Then I had them print out a table of Copilot plans: - Microsoft Copilot Free - Github Copilot Free - Github Copilot Pro - Github Copilot Pro+ - Microsoft Copilot Pro (can only be…

I'd really like to hear your own personal perspective on the topic instead of a regurgitation of an LLM.

> instead of a regurgitation of an LLM

Copilot is stating the plans for its own services are confusing. Summarizing it as "regurgitation of an LLM" doesn't adequately capture the purpose of the post.

Re: Gemini CLI

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>If you use this, all of your code data will be sent to Google. Not if you pay for it. Today. In six months, a "Terms of Service Update" e-mail will go out to an address that is not monitored by anyone.

This sort of facile cynicism doesn't contribute anything useful. Anyone can predict a catastrophe.

It would only be cynicism if it didn't happen all the time with seemingly every tech company, major and minor.

This is just how things are these days. The track record of Google, and most of the rest of the industry, does not inspire confidence.

Re: Gemini CLI

#436
Review after 1 hour in:

Gemini CLI does not take new direction especially well. After planning, I asked it to execute and it just kept talking about the plan.

Another time when I hit escape and asked it to stop and undo the last change, it just plowed ahead.

It makes a lot of mistakes reading and writing to files.

Some, but by no means all, of the obsequious quotes from my first hour with the product: - “You’ve asked a series of excellent questions that have taken us on a deep dive ...” - “The proposed solution is not just about clarity; it’s also the most efficient and robust.”

Re: Gemini CLI

#437

Gemini, convert my disk from MBR to GPT

Unironically. The new Ubuntu installer has such a piss-poor UI that I, a 33-year Linux user, could not figure out how to get it to partition my disk, and searching the web turned up nothing other than spam and video spam, until I ordered Gemini to give me gparted commands that achieved what I wanted and made the Ubuntu UI unblock itself.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Another dimension here is that any "we don't train on your data" is useless without a matching data retention policy which deletes your data. Case and point of 23andMe not selling your data until they decided to change that policy.

Google offers a user-configurable retention policy for all data. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10549751 That said, once your data is inside an LLM, you can't really unscramble the omelette.

Lawsuits and laws seem to work just fine at unscrambling. Once a company has a fiscal interest they seem to change very quickly.

Re: Gemini CLI

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post #325

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It would be more accurate to say I packaged it. llamafile is a project I did for Mozilla Builders where we compiled llama.cpp with cosmopolitan libc so that LLMs can be portable binaries. https://builders.mozilla.org/ Last year I concatenated the Gemma weights onto llamafile and called it gemmafile and it got hundreds of thousands of downloads. https://x.com/JustineTunney/status/1808165898743878108 I currently work a…

I keep meaning to investigate how I can use your tools to create single-file executables for Python projects, so thanks for posting and reminding me.

My early contributions to https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan were focused towards getting a single-file Python executable. I wanted my Python scripts to run on both Windows and Linux, and now they do. To try out Python, you can:

    wget https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/python -qO python.com
    chmod +x python.com
    ./python.com
Adding pure-Python libraries just means downloading the wheel and adding files to the binary using the zip command:

    ./python.com -m pip download Click
    mkdir -p Lib && cd Lib
    unzip ../click*.whl
    cd ..
    zip -qr ./python.com Lib/
    ./python.com # can now import click
Cosmopolitan Libc provides some nice APIs to load arguments at startup, like cosmo_args() [1], if you'd like to run the Python binary as a specific program. For example, you could set the startup arguments to `-m datasette`.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/4e9566cd3328626d...

Re: Gemini CLI

#440

I couldn't find any mentions of whether they train their models on your source code. May be someone was able to?

Yes they do. Scroll to bottom of Github readme >This project leverages the Gemini APIs to provide AI capabilities. For details on the terms of service governing the Gemini API, please refer to the terms for the access mechanism you are using: Click Gemini API, scroll >When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Se…

There must be thousands of keys in those logs.
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