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Posted by twapi 1 day ago

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs(darkbloom.dev)
468 points | 233 commentspage 4
miki123211 19 hours ago|
> Operators cannot observe inference data.

Is there some actual cryptography behind this, or just fundamentally-breakable DRM and vibes?

utkarsh_apoorva 22 hours ago||
Like the concept. This is not a business - should be an open source GitHub repo maybe.

They lost me with just one microcopy - “start earning”. Huge red signal.

Hamuko 22 hours ago|
But why would I donate my Mac Studio's idle time if I couldn't "start earning"?
WatchDog 21 hours ago||
I installed two models, but it just always reports:

    Available models (2):
    CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 (4.6 GB)
    flux_2_klein_9b_q8p.ckpt (20.2 GB)
    ...
    Advertising 0 model(s) (only loaded models)

Also the benchmark just doesn't work.

Interesting idea, but needs some work.

czk 11 hours ago||
the MDM profile requirement is suspect though I get why they are doing it. but it doesn't inspire confidence to see that their profile is unsigned and still using the default micromdn scep challenge...
amdivia 22 hours ago||
Until we have breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption compute, I won't trust such privacy claims
podviaznikov 15 hours ago||
I've tried to install it on my mac, but not sure what macOS version it should support.

on 15.1 it failed to serve models.

updated to latest 15.5 and it fails to run binary.

Schiendelman 14 hours ago|
I think macOS has jumped to 26, right?
drob518 18 hours ago||
Seems like an interesting way for those people that purchased a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw to pay off the hardware, since mostly it’s now idle.
gndp 22 hours ago||
They are almost claiming FHE, isn't it just a matter of creating the right tool to get the generated tokens from RAM before it gets encrypted for transfer. How is it fundamentally different than chutes?
v9v 20 hours ago|
They could consider registering as a provider on something like OpenRouter if they aren't getting enough inference requests on their own site.
smooth968 13 hours ago|
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