Odin Halvorson

While cloud-based GPUs offer flexibility and convenience, they may not always be better from an environmental or privacy standpoint....

AI wearables promise perfection, but come with ethical and privacy concerns....

Qwen 2.5, Falcon 3 -- the best open-source AI models you can run on your PC....

One company aims to reduce the global tech market by $100 billion, and I think they can do it....

Odin's first newsletter in a while, with lots of updates and thoughts for the year ahead....

The assassination of the CEO of HealthUnited shocked the world. Then the world applauded....

Proton now provides a private AI tool, a cloud Drive, online documents (a la Google Docs), a calendar, a VPN, and a password manager....

The victims of men like Brian Thompson live with fear every day. The only difference is: our society collectively gives exactly zero f***s about the ordinary person struggling to pay their medical bills....

QR codes are awesome, but they're also one of the fastest-rising points of attack for stealing your data....

The Tiangong robot's greatest potential is in its ability to supercharge a grassroots movement of robotics design and use... all without corporations getting in the way....

The addict knows not what he does, nor why he rages when confronted: so same is the user of the Internet....

Remember the magic of video stores? You can still rent movies—and have them shipped to your door. Help a local store keep that magic alive!...

Knowledge is awareness, understanding, or skill from experience or education, while information is facts or details; knowledge is knowing, and information is what you can (or can't) know....

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tools should empower, not restrict. Embrace flexibility and avoid prescriptive systems that stifle individuality and creativity....

July has been a totally wild time, personally and in the world. Let's peel things back a bit, shall we?...