alt Hacker News> We like simplicity and aim to keep the codebase as small and as simple as possible
Spawning the cli to server routing everything to http it complicates it instead of keeping it simple. This is pure telemetry or in plain english Spying on users. Rip LLama.cpp.
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gabucino • yesterday at 2:46 PM
>Spawning the cli to server
holy fucking shit I just checked and they really did this LOL (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/17824)
good thing i'm never touching that repo ever again, or only to steal implementations
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They were already doing that by making the build process phone home to Huggingface and also download huge swathes of indecipherable JavaScript (3 of those have been backdoored a month ago and only version pinning saved downstream).