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My use of Reddit also drastically reduced after Apollo stopped working (I didn’t follow the instructions that many others have been to sideload the app, configure with an API token…

> The attack seems to work by spanning various instructions that if run through macOS’s Terminal utility could steal stored credentials from Chromium-based browsers along with data…

I’ve used Wire in the past and liked that it uses email addresses for registration (as pointed out in this article). Wire also had multi-device message sync long before Signal did.…

> But when readers realised that Meta was trying to suppress it, the book became a global phenomenon. To date we’ve sold almost 200,000 copies. The number of copies sold seems quit…

> HTML entities are often decoded automatically by server-side libraries, which means that even the most basic harvesters can get your email addresses without any special effort. T…

The promise is that it informs you quickly about flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. In my limited experience, it didn’t work satisfactorily for a flight delay of…

In a way, this is like saying that one trusts total strangers in some random large tech company and total strangers in government agencies to read and/or manipulate conversations t…

> “My Location Ledger” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-location-ledger/id675780680 ... How can anyone trust such an application that declares in the App Store listing as “Data Not…

Do you have any recommended links for such a setup? I don’t connect my TV to the network and use it with an Apple TV. But I’m interested to know more on this.

> Is there any smart TV that I can actually just use a TV how I want? I’ve heard that large computer monitors and TVs intended to be used as displays can be used without connecting…

But the Nvidia Shield has (or had?) ads from Google, right? I recall there was news coverage and some uproar when this happened a few years ago.

This is quite surprising to me, since I thought the percentage would be a lot lesser. But I don’t really know what the Firefox team does with crash reports and in making Firefox al…

> Try to beat this: https://fingerprint.com I don’t know, but it seems like it’s overselling its capabilities. I tried with Firefox Focus and it said I’m using incognito (private m…

When I use Windows, Everything is one of the first tools I install. I also disable Windows search and indexing. I use this with Keypirinha [1], which is a launcher (kinda like Quic…

It doesn’t explicitly state anything about the email contents in the privacy policy page. People generally trust their email providers to not snoop in their emails. I wonder why an…

If you have a Pro or Pro Max model of iPhone from the last several years, it has a LiDAR that allows the pre-installed Measure app to measure lengths/heights, etc., using the camer…

> You can search "!w Gabriel Weinberg" and it will open the Wikipedia article because of the leading exclamation mark and w Just for anyone else who isn’t aware, the bang commands …

I love that duck.ai provides a more private way to use different smaller and medium (?) scale LLMs. I don’t like the duck.ai interface much (choosing a different LLM is not easy on…

A couple of quick observations and comments after skimming through this (some of these are mentioned or hinted at in the RFC). With HTTPS used almost everywhere, using this QUERY m…

I read through this. I don't think Proton Mail is a good replacement for Signal (it's worse because Proton does log and share IP addresses of users with a court order). One thing I…

Never on iOS or any other Apple platform. Signal is designed not to be able to backup to iCloud either. The only option iOS users have had over the last few years is to do a device…

> Wherever you can host something like WordPress, you can host Campfire I’m going to be pedantic here, but this statement is not true. I host a website on a provider that allows Wo…

I feel what this article says based on some recent (non-catastrophic) experiences. I think I’m probably an above average user when it comes to Excel skills. I love spreadsheets. Bu…

Authenticate where? How does the authentication prove that the intended recipient is the one who has clicked on the link and should be able to view? What happens if the email is fo…

Last I checked, Proton Mail does not support standard email client protocols. So you’re stuck with its apps and a browser interface or with buying a paid subscription and using a b…