Running WordPress Locally with WP-CLI

• Quick reference for setting up a local WordPress instance and importing a database dump using WP-CLI.

• Create a Site in Local

  • Click + → name your site → “Preferred” setup → set credentials → Create Site

  • Local provisions WordPress automatically

• Import a Database Dump

  • Right-click the site → Open Site Shell

  • Reset the database first (fresh installs already have tables):

    • wp db reset --yes
      

  • Then import:

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1. Whenever possible, use open models. If not possible, appropriate the capabilities of the proprietary model by training your model with it.

• Fine-tuned open models match or exceed GPT-4¹

• LoRA and RAG enable corpus-grounded, domain-adapted analysis²

• Distillation via synthetic data legitimately transfers proprietary capabilities³

• Smaller models sometimes outperform their teacher model⁴

• Proprietary models in research require explicit justification⁵

2. Whenever possible, use your own, sustainable infrastructure.

• Local hosting preserves data, technological, and infrastructural sovereignty⁶

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Here’s a list of software I use in my research, and a brief description of how and why.

Zotero¹ for reference and literature note management

• There’s a lot to say about Zotero – and having trained its use for students, librarians and researchers for more than ten years, I have said a lot about it, but simply put, nothing else comes even close:

  • It’s open source, so nobody will keep your notes hostage[note: The importance for open source for tools like this cannot be underestimated. See Digital Enclosures.]

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Also known as: vendor lock-in.

But also, on a historical scale, the closing of commons and frontiers in the digital domain.

There is another conjuncture or momentum of enclosures happening right now (in 2026), which Anil Dash describes well in his post titled ‘Endgame for the open web’.

This page discusses the organization of this #digital garden and the associated partially public knowledge database

A study of 6 OpenClaw agents and a group of humans who tried to trick them: https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/ – I think it’s a great indication of how far into unknown terrain we are at the moment when it comes to LLM security. #LLMagent #LLMsecurity

https://codeberg.org/tarleb/querverweis

• crossreferences for markdown documents

https://github.com/pandoc-ext/info

• collection of misc lua filters

https://github.com/topics/pandoc-filter

• github search for pandoc filters

https://github.com/jez/pandoc-sidenote

• Tufte-style sidenotes, to be used together with https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ or https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-css-theme

Joustavat hihansuut: https://mezzacraft.com/crochet-a-stretchy-rib-cuff/ #virkkaus #fi