unglueclass23

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[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, now that you mention it and I zoomed in ... some letters are a a bit differently spaced. Might have something to do with the particular font that i'm using or font settings on linux?

 

A reminder to leave a negative review for the apps that force you to use google play services or completely don't work on custom android ROM's.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart_id This was the app. A lot of banks use it here in Lithuania for logging in, confirming transactions.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

old.reddit.com on mobile is a bit rough but otherwise yeah

 

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.

Not a fan of Lex Fridman but I think some people might find the interview interesting.

 

TLDW:

  • Don't trust random USB ports or cables – Public ports can steal your data (juice jacking), and malicious cables like the OMG cable look identical to normal ones but contain a hidden computer that can remotely attack your device.

  • Your car shares more than you'd expect – When you plug your phone into a vehicle, it can pull contacts, messages, and other data, which may then get shared with manufacturers, third-party services, and data brokers.

  • Built-in protections are easy to screw up – Running outdated software makes attacks more likely. Plus, you might accidentally tap "trust" on a prompt, or be too lazy to switch back from "data" to "charge only" mode, leaving you vulnerable.

  • USB data blockers physically sever the data pins – They only pass power, completely blocking any data connection at the hardware level so nothing can flow in or out. Cheap and simple.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At the end of the day a company must comply with the laws of where it's based. Most controversies I remember reading about Proton were a bit overblown, probably because they're so popular.

For example : https://www.old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1rm6659/comment/o8xxupo/

or : https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-mail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/18191/22

https://proton.me/legal/transparency

https://proton.me/mail/privacy-policy

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised

When you do accusations you better provide some credible sources, then maybe you won't get downvoted.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your browser accepts cookies. Websites can write small files to your device that persist after you leave — files that identify you when you return, that follow you across sites, that remember what you looked at, what you almost bought, and how long you hesitated. We have not written one. Your browser would let this page write up to 10 GB to your device — a private room, ours alone, like the one given to every site you visit.

Hol up ... 10 GB?

 

"Assembled and tested in Poland" Costed 5 eur for 64 GB

They apparently also make RAM.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This has a lot of potential. So apparently they use their own + European Search Perspective indexes. The ESP was built by Ecosia and Qwant I believe. Will be testing out whether it's any good. Most search engines use bing or google under the hood, having something independent and still being decent is not easy. Last I checked only Brave had something remotely usable and independent but even then it was not that good. Kagi uses their own but still rely heavily on bing / google.

First impressions the site itself is pretty polished, at least from the UI side of things.

Seems like they have a PRO and PLUS services. PRO is 8 eur a month and gives access to more expensive LLM models. So far they offer Qwen 3, Kimi 2.5, Mistral 3, GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 PRO. Not bad but from my understanding you can only do 100 queries for that 8 eur.

Seems like the open source models are also hosted on EU. Would be great if they could include more, smaller models, such as Gemma 4, GPT 20B...

Will also be looking into their privacy claims and whether it's not just "trust me bro". I saw someone mention they were also planning on making the search open source or something ?

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rq52ka/comment/o9ppycu/ , but havent delivered.

I have to say though looking really good.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://www.xprivo.com/search/ This is the search engine. Kinda weird decision to put the AI chat in the homepage and the actual search engine inside /search.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Chrome chromium and any chromium based browser has the passwords as plaintext in dumps problem

I think it was only Edge

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In 10 years you will say the same thing about today :)

 

I can relate to the original meaning of this old term that means to be good citizen of the internet. Wikipedia says a “netizen” is someone who actively contributes to the development of the internet, not for personal gain or profit, but to make the internet a better place.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Interesting it's the first time I hear about it, just read a summary of how it works. Is it used anywhere that you know of?

Also, who can be the exchange in practice? Banks?

 

Found it interesting, something worth keeping an eye on. Hasn’t released yet, planned date end of 2026.

Based in Copenhagen, I think.

The founder did answer some questions on reddit (user ColeFromWalt)

 

Found it interesting, something worth keeping an eye on. Hasn't released yet, planned date end of 2026.

The founder did answer some questions on reddit (user ColeFromWalt)

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