xabd

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I’m interested in privacy, open-source software, self-hosting, and tools that give users more control over their technology.

I maintain DigitalEscapeTools, a directory and community focused on discovering privacy-friendly and open-source alternatives.

xabdon GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

The token cost difference is pretty interesting. I wonder how much of that is the harness itself versus how aggressively each one loops, plans, and calls tools. A proper apples-to-apples test would be really useful here.

xabdon France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers

680k taxpayers is a pretty significant number. I wonder what kind of data was actually exposed and whether the affected people are being notified individually.