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MLX beats GGUF on a Mac, just
Gemma 4 31B: 12.6 tokens a second against 11.7 on our M4 Pro.
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LM Studio’s MLX engine reads prompts twice as fast
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B took in 20,000 tokens in 30 seconds on MLX and 75 on llama.cpp.
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ArtCraft phones home before you sign in
Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity load first. The source has no switch to turn them off.
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Claude Code on a local model mostly describes its tools
Pointed at local hardware it works; 74 percent of the 29,424 tokens it sends before starting are tool definitions.
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Two models fit in 48 GB; the speed does not
Both loaded in 26.78 GB of RAM, and generating together dropped each one to about 9 tokens a second.
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A 64K context costs 4.4 GB your model manager hides
Measured on a 48 GB Mac: 80 KB of RAM per token, and LM Studio reports 18.85 GB whether you load 8K or 64K.
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Your prompt benchmark is timing the cache
An M4 Pro reads prompts at 65 tokens a second; repeat the prompt and the cache reports 13,763, which is 182 times too fast.
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A 4-bit Nemotron is 12 percent 16-bit
NVIDIA's 22.46 GB Lightning GGUF holds 2.67 GB of BF16: the MTP head, which four publishers ship four ways.
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Your 4-bit vision model sees in 16-bit
An mmproj GGUF holds the whole vision encoder; four publishers ship it unquantised, and the one that compresses stops at 8.
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Hugging Face’s telemetry function is never called
An opt-out variable, a send function nothing uses, and the real trail: a user-agent header naming your Python and torch.
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The smallest Kimi K3 is 589 GB
Every shard summed: the smallest complete build is 589.5 GB, the family runs to 769, and two builds disagree by 58.
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LM Studio does not track you, but it routes every search
What the app sends, read from the wire.
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Ollama’s MLX engine has no 32 GB rule
The requirement is not in the source. Routing is by model format, and the only Darwin memory constant is 512 MiB.
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A GGUF filename does not say what is inside
Eight builds of one model audited: a file called UD-Q4_K_XL holds no Q4_K, and none had the silent experts people warn about.
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How AI tools hide their trackers
A covert tracker in Claude Code, telemetry in others, and how to catch both.
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Graphify opened 358 sockets, all to LM Studio
We watched every connection over two passes: none left the desk, and the code graph cost zero tokens.
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OpenCode or OpenJarvis: which agent phones home?
We captured what each sends. One has a working off switch; the other, the agent we use daily, has none we could find.
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