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PewDiePie’s AI ambitions have finally become a reality after months of documenting his journey into building his own free AI platform.

As revealed in a video titled “MY trillion $Dollar Project is finally OUT!”, PewDiePie has officially launched Odysseus, a free self-hosted AI workspace designed to give users an alternative to popular platforms like ChatGPT and Claude.

Over the last year, the YouTuber has been diving deep into AI development, building custom systems to run open source models on his own hardware, and aiming to create a tool that offered the same convenience as mainstream AI platforms without relying on cloud services or handing data over to major tech companies. Well, now that project has finally arrived. PewDiePie launches free self-hosted AI workspace Odysseus

According to the official description, “Odysseus is a self-hosted interface for talking to language models – chat, autonomous agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Local-first, privacy-first, and no telemetry. Just you and your models.”

The interface is essentially designed as an all-in-one AI workspace where users can connect local models or external APIs, run autonomous AI agents, perform deep research tasks, compare multiple model outputs side by side, and manage documents directly inside the platform.

In the launch video, PewDiePie showcases the interface’s various features, demonstrating how it can handle research tasks, manage conversations, and operate as a private AI assistant without relying entirely on third-party services.

Despite all that, a major focus of the platform is privacy. Odysseus is marketed as a local-first experience, meaning users can keep their conversations, files, and personal data on hardware they control rather than sending everything to external servers.

The project is also completely open source and free to use. On the website, PewDiePie describes it as having “No sales team, no demo request, no Trojan horse,” while encouraging users to download, modify, and host it themselves.

That philosophy was summed up during the launch with one of the project’s most direct messages aimed at major AI companies: “The war on big tech has just begun.”

I know there’s great love for Oblivion (I never played it when it was new), and of course Skyrim is the gold standard for new fans (I played the shit out of that and it was my first entry into the elder scrolls back when it came out 14 years ago…) but I really feel like this shadow drop of a half assed remake is just priming everyone to lower their expectations for the likely dumpster fire that is The Elder Scrolls VI.

I know its old hat nonsense of a complaint but whatever Bethesda used to be it stopped being that 20 years ago and we’re all just stuck thinking they’ll put out some new masterpiece when in reality all the talent they had back in the day has likely left for other jobs and they are now just a shitty company among countless other shitty companies putting profit over anything else and stifling anyone who might actually have good ideas on how to make good games (how unsurprising).

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I have never met a bigger group of morons in my life than in this thread, congratulations for eliminating my faith in the intellect of humanity.

Xkcd #3227 by Randall Munroe, under Creative Commons- CC BY-NC 2.5.

cross-posted from: https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/soulism/p/51754/multiverse-has-defederated-fedinsfw-app-for-hosting-child-pornography

Hello MULTIVERSE users and off-site visitors alike. We have recently defederated fedinsfw.app due to ongoing child pornography concerns which the fedinsfw admin team are aware of, and do not intend to address. Before I explain the key issue, I'd like to define a few terms:

• In Australia, Child Pornography Material is legally defined by the Criminal Code Act 1995, section 473.1 as:

(a) material that depicts a person, or a representation of a person, who is, or appears to be, under 18 years of age and who [...] is engaged in, or appears to be engaged in, a sexual pose [...]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive;

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(c) material that describes a person who is, or is implied to be, under 18 years of age and who [...] is engaged in, or is implied to be engaged in, a sexual pose [...]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive; or [...]

• Jailbait is a slang term for pornography depicting subjects who appear to be of age (adults), but are in fact underage (children; adolescents)

• Fauxbait is faux jailbait - pornography depicting adults who appear to be children who appear to be adults.

According to the legal definition of child pornography material here in Australia, fauxbait is child pornography material, because of the implication that the actors depicted represent underage persons. And frankly, we here at MULTIVERSE agree with the law here. Fauxbait is disgusting. Legally and in our opinion, pornography depicting adult women who appear as adults is completely fine. But if someone posts a picture of an adult woman and calls it "fauxbait", we are disgusted and the law is interested. Reality is not objective - the same legal picture of an adult person becomes illegal child pornography when it's posted with a particular framing.

fedinsfw.app hosts a community, !fauxbait@fedinsfw.app, which is for Fauxbait. I have contacted the admin of the site, @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app, both privately and in public, pointing out that the community breaks the site's rules 1 and 8. The admin disagrees. Although they dislike the community, they don't believe it breaks the rules, and do not wish to violate their impartiality by banning the community.

We here at MULTIVERSE have no such impartiality. The admin inaction on child pornography violates our Rule 3 on Restricted Violence, in that it's fucking nasty. It's degrading to the women being posted to call them fauxbait, it's dangerous towards the users to expose them to risks of committing sex crimes, and it has the potential to desensitise people to child porn, making them more likely to re-offend in worse ways. We are joining the growing movement of instances defederating fedinsfw.app, and we ask if your instance has not, that you speak to your admins and ask them to do the same.

Both auto-forwarding and auto-reply are paid features, which makes cancelling & switching much more difficult. Gmail is a breeze comparatively. I highly recommend against using their addresses (e.g. protonmail.com, proton.me, pm.me)

Email forwarding is available for everyone with a paid Proton Mail plan.

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Teddy (left), and Sampson (right)

I just pushed v22 of my project : a local AI companion for Radarr, that goes beyond generic genre or TMDb lists.

This isn't "yet another recommender". It's your personal taste explorer that actually gets the vibe you want in natural language and builds recommendations starting from your existing library.

Key highlights from a real recent run:

• Command: --mood "dystopian films like Idiocracy, Gattaca or In Time"
• Output: Metropolis (1927), V for Vendetta, Children of Men, Brazil (1985), Minority Report, Dark City, Equilibrium, Upgrade, The Road... → oppressive/surveillance/inequality/societal critique atmosphere, not just "dark sci-fi".

How it works :

• Starts by sampling random movies from your Radarr collection (or uses your mood/like/saga input).
• Asks a local Ollama LLM (e.g. mistral-small:22b) for 25 thematic suggestions based on atmosphere/vibe.
• Validates each via OMDb (IMDb rating, genres, plot, director, cast...).
• Scores intelligently: IMDb rating + genre match + director/actor bonus + plot embedding similarity (cosine on Ollama embeddings).
• Adds the top ones directly to Radarr (with confirmation: all / one-by-one / no).
• Persistent blacklist to avoid repeats.

Different modes :

• --mood "dark psychological thrillers with unreliable narrators" , any vibe you describe
• --like "Parasite" --mood "mind-bending class warfare" (or just --like "Whiplash")
• --saga (auto-detects incomplete sagas in your library and suggests missing entries) or --saga "Star Wars"
• --director "Kubrick" / --actor "De Niro" / --cast "Pacino De Niro" (movies where they co-star)
• --analyze → full library audit + gaps (e.g. "You're missing Kurosawa classics and French New Wave")
• --watchlist → import from Letterboxd/IMDb
• --auto → perfect for daily cron / Task Scheduler (wake up to 10 fresh additions)

Standout features:

• 100% local + privacy-first (Ollama + free OMDb API only)
• No cloud AI, no tracking
• colored console output, logs, stats, HTML/CSV exports
• Synopsis preview before adding
• Configurable quality profile, min IMDb, availability filters
• Works on Windows, Linux, Mac

GitHub (clean single-file Python script + detailed README):
https://github.com/nikodindon/radarr-movie-recommender

If you're tired of generic Discover lists, Netflix-style randomness, or manual hunting give it a spin. The vibe/mood mode + auto saga completion really change how you expand your collection.

Let me know what you think, any weird mood examples you'd like to test, or features you'd want added!