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The data comes straight from Google's Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com). Google shows you the interest categories and brands they've assigned to your profile. I automated scraping …

The work machine differences are interesting. Google uses OS, browser language, and the language of content you consume as profiling signals, not just searches. If your work browsi…

Three fresh Google accounts on different US residential proxies. Two browsed with specific personas (fisherman, fitness). The third did nothing for five days. Google was more aggre…

Three fresh Google accounts on different US residential proxies. Two browsed with specific personas (fisherman, fitness). The third did nothing for five days. Google was more aggre…

It's interesting how terminal apps are increasing in popularity after decades of desktop and web apps. I wonder if it's the talk to the chat AI that's making people more used to as…

Was expecting a higher jump for plumbers. Cashiers were already suffering with the self-checkouts for years.

AI tools are great but ultimately it's about taste and intent (and fun for games) that will hopefully lead to quality floating to the top.

The experience of the internet would be so much more interesting if the search engines unearthed rare blogs or writing from small creators and bloggers that thought things through …

Your human context also needs compacting at some point. After hours of working with an LLM, your prompts tend to become less detailed, you tend to trust the LLM more, and it's easi…

One can hope that vibecoded apps will eventually be vibe-maintained with agents trained specifically for the kind of novel and weird bugs ai-coding tends to bring up. These tools w…

The mobile is much than TV because of the enforcement loop and algorithm turning that attention into scams, ai generated slop, and harmful content that is more and more difficult t…

If you're upset about this bill: - Call your MP (find yours at ourcommons.ca). - Back organisations that fight back (OpenMedia and CCLA have killed surveillance bills in the past -…

This is interesting and the world models predicting the next frame is huge. I'm also wondering on how this would be applicable to neurological proceesses, thoughts etc. If thoughts…

Okay so not a weekend project.

You might not see this for a while, but that sounds nice! Do you use tools to download everything you need for offline viewing or just notes?

The long term goal might indeed be unrecognizable designs. Perhaps augmented reality contact lens. It will take a long time but people tend to slowly get used to giving more and mo…

wonder if small amorphous silicon photovoltaic cells glued around the kindle would provide enough power to not charge every 5 days

Nice project. This makes me think I should make my plants vibe code games or tools to optimize their well being! Maybe bio-electrical fluctuations --> vibe coded humdifying tools a…

Yea it's not easy to build a Stripe competitor although we need some.

I'm sure those savings will be passed down to passengers!

Same. Some good music too.

in case someone else is looking for this.. openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex is working okay for now but eventually i'd like to switch to a self hosted one somewhere.

It can always forward you things to your real email for you to action them. So as a layer doing the boring work of sorting things, researching, and keeping track of changes, but ex…