this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
318 points (94.7% liked)
Technology
87216 readers
4097 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Ironically that's a perfect use case for a local, open-sourced, non-corporate, offline, firewalled and possibly air-gapped agent; to more easily explore, document and understand what's in those 500 million files.
However, I would agree unless you've really got to know what's in there the setup alone makes it almost certainly not worth it.
You mean LLM, not agent?
Or are you using agent to mean "instance of specific LLM model hosted on X"? Your description is also a bit weird offline + firewall (firewall against what? Local hosting environment?)
An "agent" meaning an "instance of some specific LLM model with a fancy wrapper, tool use, and instruction set that recursively calls itself and/or other agents in order to accomplish a given task". Absolutely don't trust anything hosted on X!
Mostly just trying to convey a sense of caution/paranoia with extra layers of daemon bindings. Probably should've added "sandboxed" in there too.