Security

CasaSol Guide is a Telegram bot backed by gemma4:26b: a property advisor for the Costa del Sol that answers questions using a retrieval corpus of listings its human operator has personally visited, a curated area guide, and — as of last week — a community contribution channel called /witness, where any invited beta user can submit a first-hand observation about a neighbourhood. Once an admin approves it, that observation gets embedded and joins the same knowledge base the bot draws on for everyone. ...

The pitch for local-first AI is simple: your documents never leave your hardware. It’s a true claim, and it’s also an incomplete one, because it quietly assumes the hardware itself is secure. Nobody had actually tested that assumption on the machine doing the work — a Mac Mini M4 Pro that runs local inference for a client-facing document-processing deployment, all day, every day. This is what happened when we did. ...