I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

I tested local AI on my M1 Mac, expecting magic - and got a reality check instead

At random, I chose glm-4.7-flash, from the Chinese AI startup Z.ai. Weighing in at 30 billion "parameters," or neural weights, GLM-4.7-flash would be a "small" large language model by today's ...
Hosted on MSN

Rocky View County cited for failing to enforce fire hydrant bylaw, safety codes

Concerns over working fire hydrants were first raised in a small Springbank subdivision last year and have now spread to the entire county. As the CBC’s Bryan Labby reports, Alberta’s Safety Codes ...
IEEE

Matching Street View Images for the Classification of Urban Land Use From Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: Street view (SV) images provide valuable supplementary data for characterizing the functional attributes of land use types, improving urban land use classification based on ...
Duluth News Tribune

Local View: USDA's strategy to curb avian influenza is for the birds

As Americans across the country enjoyed the holidays this year, they encountered higher grocery prices, including for turkey. Food price inflation is one culprit. However, there’s another significant ...
Star Tribune

Are federal immigration agents held to same use-of-force rules as local police?

After an ICE agent fired shots during an arrest in St. Paul, experts explain how federal and local use-of-force rules compare. Federal immigration agents are governed by many of the same ...
IEEE

Seq-BEV: Semantic Bird-Eye-View Map Generation in Full View Using Sequential Images for Autonomous Driving

Abstract: Semantic Bird-Eye-View (BEV) map is a straightforward data representation for environment perception. It can be used for downstream tasks, such as motion planning and trajectory prediction.