I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.
Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.
They offer it as an option but default it to false! This is still a --footgun option but it’s the least unsafe version I’ve seen yet! Well done, Apfel authors.
the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)
parsing logfiles line by line, sure
parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are
Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.
trying to run openclaw with it in ultra token saving mode, did totally not work.
great for shell scripts though (my major use case now)
Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.
parsing logfiles line by line, sure
parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are
> $0 cost
No kidding.
Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624647