For all the people complaining this isn’t self hosted, it’s open source - it’s a relatively minor tweak to replace the AI calls to point to a local model server. Everything else runs locally via wrangler. It’s less than 20 minutes of work by hand, less than a minute to ask AI to do this.
It’s a weird complaint for people who supposedly like hacker culture.
Eh, it's the phrasing that's off-putting. Things that can be self hosted usually emphasize that first and top most, with a paid option being mentioned 2nd.
This is like saying you're self-hosting a game server because it's not hosted on the developers' server, but on the server of some other random third party you're paying to run it. No, self-hosting means you run it on hardware you own. Cloudflare is no stranger to redefining completely established terms for marketing reasons (see 'Cloudflare OS'), how about we stop buying it every time?
It’s a weird complaint for people who supposedly like hacker culture.
It’s self hosted as in not by an ai provider. This is obvious.
Sure it’s set up to run on some infrastructure but just tweak it if you want to and stop complaining.
Why add a false feature claim if the true features are cool enough?
So like, running bitwarden on a VPS counts as self-hosting even if the VPS isn't physically in your home.
And installing postgres or redis on the VPS counts as self-hosting as opposed to paying for a dedicated database.
So does installing your own web server. Running your own ACME client for certificates. Etc.
It doesn't require hardware you own, the idea of self-hosting includes software you control.
Are we now adding all possible features to the description just because they can be added by hand or LLM?
And since when is hacker culture about false advertising