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do you understand what just happened to your computer..
Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..
It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.
And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.
Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.
At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.
The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.
Check your disk right now:
π %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags β disable Optimization Guide On Device Model β restart Chrome β delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
Look guys, it's actually really straightforward, a bunch of people staked their ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield, except they didn't want their capital to be locked up, so they actually staked with a liquid staking protocol called Lido who provided them a liquid staking receipt token called stETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer, except they didn't want to lock up their capital, so they actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided them with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called Aave so that they could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero that was hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry
@realsigridjin Iβve noticed that how well a model performs really depends on how many people are using it. Since the latest updates to subscription plans and token caps, the 'lag' or throttling seems to have disappeared, and Iβm finding it much easier to use the advanced models.
> use Claude every day
> think I'm pretty good at this
> watch two Anthropic engineers for 16 minutes
> Barry and Mahesh explain Skills from scratch
> first 5 minutes
> wait. Skills are just folders?
> folders that remember your workflow?
> your domain? your expertise?
> pause. rewind. watch again.
> think about every prompt I rewrote from zero
> every context I explained 100 times
> every session that forgot everything
> it didn't have to be like this
> 16 minutes. everything changes.
> skill issue discovered