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by bflesch 5d ago
> Why shouldn't I be allowed to let Google have that data if I find using Gmail to be beneficial to me? The main issue is that this is not a conscious decision that google asks you to make. They offer a free mail service and then tu
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by bflesch 5d ago
Funny how Apple has reached the crapware maturity level that Microsoft users are quite familiar with: After first boot, go through a long list of things to deactivate so that one can experience at least some feeling of agency and privacy wh
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by bflesch 5d ago
We should blame Google for this, and not Amazon. Google added this data from your email to your advertisement profile and used it to increase their own revenue.
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by bflesch 5d ago
Your chain of thoughts is dangerous, because once you realize that can you can cache website content locally, you might also want to share this cache with your friends so that traffic is reduced ;)
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by bflesch 5d ago
In 2026 these kind of articles must be a bait to receive the latest pegasus-style payload on your honeypot devices. No matter how many internals are being leaked about five eyes, it's important to realize that there is always someone w
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by bflesch 5d ago
I'm currently building something like this, basically converting every service to a standardized API that you can consume in a structured manner. Not focused on AI, but focused on normal users with special requirements on usability. Ba
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by bflesch 8d ago
Institutional investors are very slow to adapt, so I wouldn't take their continued investment as a positive signal. The sentiment shift is real, and a lot of goodwill has been spent. It's basically divide and conquer on a national
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by bflesch 9d ago
You have an amazing eye for details. Might be the "wine calculator" from the desktop.
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by bflesch 9d ago
It looks nice. How much vibecoding does it contain? Can we trust these claims?
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by bflesch 14d ago
Google is fleecing other megacorps.
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by bflesch 16d ago
Facebook/Google have a history of abusing hidden iOS APIs and exploiting weaknesses in the app isolation. It's plausible they found a way to read the output stream of the text-to-speech module from their apps, until Apple was forc
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by bflesch 16d ago
Imagine you work in a three letter agency and discover that a certain guy has a vital role in an issue you are investigating. You don't want to just bug his iPhone from now on, you want to know everything he said over the past two year
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by bflesch 18d ago
At its core it has striking similarities with a freeze response, which is overcome by increasing heart rate (e.g. stimulants, exercise, temperature shock). Big overlap with CPTSD symptoms as well.
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by bflesch 20d ago
You cannot change others, you can only change yourself
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by bflesch 20d ago
reminds me of the stories about dogs who can smell cancer - might be worth to do some checkups
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by bflesch 21d ago
Is there even a US-based testosterone supply chain? Or was the idea to inject all their service members with a product from overseas that could have supply problems or subtle strategic "impurities"?
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by bflesch 22d ago
After recent US shenanigans why would you spend effort to migrate to yet another Five Eyes controlled service, especially if they do the full "privacy from Germany" circus. What kind of security threat does a migration to such a s
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by bflesch 22d ago
Some of them are located in Virginia, don't worry they'll be funded forever.
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by bflesch 22d ago
This has been happening since many months.
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by bflesch 23d ago
That's quite a reach. More likely someone merged and deployed their vibe-coded PR and is now figuring out how to bring the service back up. If there's a lot of demand for rollercoaster rides, the rollercoaster will not stop operat
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by bflesch 23d ago
During each forced workflow interruption I look for alternatives. No matter if I can't use the product due to a server outage or due to their weird quota limitations. This can't be good for retention numbers. Old-school VCs would&
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by bflesch 29d ago
I can only see the color visualization and the hex view. Maybe I can't see the curve due to lack of WebGL?
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by bflesch 29d ago
It looks neat but I have no idea how the clustering works or why uniform colors are assigned to large areas, e.g. the color blue in the pdf example.
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by bflesch 1mo ago
Rookie mistake - it seems like they didn't follow manufacturers' guidance when installing the 10x engineers. One needs to clearly define which metric should be 10x'd before powering them up.
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by bflesch 1mo ago
There are many more..
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by bflesch 1mo ago
Other comments tied this report into the cute and nerdy NSA/PRISM scheme of things. That's too easy. If CIA is involved, it's a topic that's actually important for global nobility. CIA scope includes things like Hollywoo
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by bflesch 1mo ago
It's not like CIA has some mastermind strategy, it is also a preferred career for old money nepo kids who gain quasi-global legal immunity from these government roles. CIA job is much better than being a honorary consul for some shitho
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by bflesch 1mo ago
People talk a lot about metadata collection but not about DNA collection. It is imperative for any intelligence service to know if any politically exposed person has a child, especially if it spawns from an affair. Logically, we have to ass
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by bflesch 1mo ago
I'm just thinking that someone who has 100k LinkedIn followers might be happy about any type of engagement, including nerdy rage bait.
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by bflesch 1mo ago
It's quite painful to resolve cognitive dissonance, so I understand the downvotes for your comment. People are clever enough to reach high level corporate roles, but at the same time they're are too weak to emotionally process the

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