It's a clever strategic move: grab the market of cheap low end models within the product range. It's lower friction to switch a model than a provider.

No, as long as they follow the requirements, especially the data privacy agreements. What would you? Price?

Output quality immediately comes to mind, of course.

Models are converging, but they converge in bands, and frontier is frontier. I would not like to have any workflows in any area of my business where output is generated by an assortment of models from different providers. For trivial, mundane tasks that might be fine, but it certainly doesn't apply across the board.

Not caring about providers doesn't mean not caring about models.

How do you know they're following requirements ? At least a quick search about the company providing the service would be useful

Well there is an established legal system that i rely on. I don't have to check every provider, that is the value i get from this router service.

The issue is that the legal system is retroactive, and information that is made public cannot be retracted. If a random company gets your sensitive data and disseminates it to the world, then sure, they will face legal repercussions, but the damage would have already been done to you.

US Data Privacy is not sufficient.

For what? Does the EU not want to spy on its citizens? That strikes me as... unlikely.

Why not host in east asia? Or southeast asia? Or south america? Or africa? Then you avoid both the government with incentive to spy on you (assuming you live in the EU) and american companies.

EU member *countries" certainly do, but that's true of all countries that have the ability.

If anything the EU puts limits on what EU member countries and companies can do. By hosting in one of the EU countries you have stronger legal guarantees on data privacy than in any other area. A possible exception is Switzerland (not a EU member), which historically has had even stronger privacy laws, though these have been weakened recently IIRC.

> Does the EU not want to spy on its citizens?

You do not seem to understand what the EU is. It is not a country, it does not have a police or anything like the NSA.

No they don't want to spy. They want to protect their citizens data, that is why we have GDPR. The other areas you mention do not provide this legal certainty and have different approaches to data privacy.

Looks interesting, how would you use skills with that? Would I need to migrate them into prompts? Which I think is not the same.

E.g. how to use official, vendor provided skills with zerostack? https://github.com/elestio/elestio-skill

Technically, a skill is equivalent to adding

'"The skill description": if this applies, read /path/to/skill/definition.md'

To your agents.md

At least currently skills don't let you set the model (to my knowledge), so that's not a distinction either here (it would be with agent definitions)

I'm still looking for something like paint.net on MacOS, any recommendations?

Pixelmator - 1000%. Native MacOS - quick to load and very intuitive layer-based paint interface. It's a one-time purchase for $50 but they used to run sales.

They were bought by Apple recently but still sell it. I moved to it when I migrated away from Photoshop. It doesn't have some of the fancier stuff like puppet mesh warp, but for an all-around editor I'd argue its unrivaled in the Mac space.

https://www.apple.com/pixelmator-pro

EDIT: Krita is also great (and free) but it feels more geared towards digital painting.

Pinta is the closest I've found, though I've gotten pretty familiar with paint.net and there's small differences that make me feel slower using Pinta.

I'm glad to see entrants in this space!

I liked Krita a little more than Pinta as a replacement, but for the same reasons it feels slow.

It's really a shame the Paint.net author is so devoted to being Windows only.

Very actively developing this project, so hopefully it'll become a suitable replacement relatively soon. Please open GitHub issues or PRs if you have specific requests, happy to help.

Please list them, especially the ones with managed services..

Hetzner, OVH and Upcloud. All of them have object storage, managed Redis,Postgres and K8S.

Most of the time the missing things are homegrown SaaS offerings of big 3 and identity services. You will not find equivalent IAM or BigQuery in indie clouds.

Hetzner has k8s? I only see VMs and block storage.

Scaleway as well

Please list them, especially the ones with managed services.

Here is a script to convert your exported omnivore into an importable wallabag format: https://gist.github.com/Phlogi/f96a5ca0d65d5264df1fe636a8aac...

Why do I need sqlmesh if i use dbt/snowflake?

You don’t need to. dbt/sqlmesh are competitive. I just like the model of sqlmesh over dbt but dbt is much more dominant.

just what they did with V6.