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  • GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking users again – and this time it’s personal

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  • I have them mostly for the disposable cards, although a lot of sites I noticed don't allow you to use them.

    Strangely enough the app still works perfectly for me since I installed it like a couple of months back without google play services (through Aurora store). But if they start blocking me maybe I will just delete my account and go elsewhere.

  • Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and ... agentic tasks.

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  • This looks promising ! I am currently paying 10$ / month for this other service that is basically a front-end for openrouter. Was searching to switch since :

    1. Don't like the founder and his braindead push for LLM's.
    2. Everything is hosted in the US.
    3. I have cut back on my LLM usage by a lot, to the point that I don't think I spend 10$ worth of tokens. GPT 20B , Gemma 4 27B and DeepSeek v4 flash end up being like 90% of my usage and I try to use them sparingly, keep answers, conversations short.

    I do wonder what to do about the frontend? My mentioned service has a pretty good web app with decent UI and it worked on mobile as well without much problems. I actually end up using LLM's quite often on mobile as I read a lot on it.

  • Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)

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  • Which search engine do you use for what?

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  • Well I think it's a balancing act. Ultimately, can you prove to me that something like DuckDuckGo or Kagi aren't ran secretly by NSA as a sort of honeypot? So it's the same with Uruky. They are a company and I doubt anyone can prove to you that they're not for example behind your back selling your data to some broker. You just have to feel their vibes and finally take their word for it.

    If you can't trust then stick with open source and self-host, that is the only way. Read the interview that I linked to, that got me to try them out.

  • Which search engine do you use for what?

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  • They don't do free trials and you can't "test out" the search without paying. The dev said it's because they're really small and don't want to collect more data than necessary to fight off abuse. So you do have to trust and pay that 5$ to try them out.

    But once you do it's a cakewalk to verify that theyre not just a bing frontend or whatever it is that you're worried.

    At the end of the day they're a company and you can't verify anything 100%. If you're this paranoid then maybe it's not for you.

  • Which search engine do you use for what?

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  • Because you can choose which index you want to use and then you can compare it against bing?

  • Anthropic was having FOMO with OpenAI getting all the attention so they let Claude out to play

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  • the article

  • Anthropic was having FOMO with OpenAI getting all the attention so they let Claude out to play

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  • Eye roll 🙄

  • Which search engine do you use for what?

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  • Check out Uruky Check my comment ^ for a writeup.

  • Which search engine do you use for what?

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  • Uruky I've been using them for a few months, this interview is what made me switch. It's a small team of 2 people (a guy and his wife), they have a handful of search indexes (EUSP, Linkup, Serper, Marginalia, Mojeek, PriEco, Mwmbl), and you can customize which of them you want to use.

    I use EUSP index and I have to say it's pretty good, it finds MOST things i'm looking for and when it doesn't, at the bottom of the page there's "Try with Linkup / Serper / Mojeek / Marginalia" so you can click around and see if the other indexes match something that your main one missed. And at the top there's "Try in Ecosia / Google / DuckduckGo" (I sometimes use DDG and Ecosia).

    In the settings there's lots of customization options for the UI.

    They've been clear they won't include AI at all in this search engine.

    You can pay with crypto, cash or card.

    They are EU-based (EU servers, EU storage, EU payment processing, EU search providers) (Mojeek is based in UK, but whatever).

    They have bangs and you can enable DDG / Kagi bangs.

    You can create your own web fallback engines (like they have ddg/ ecosia/ google) by default.

    You're not required to give out your personal details when registering, you literally only get an account number.

    5 eur / month.

    Yeah idk I just like it. It's minimal and does what I need, they've been adding new features and it feels good supporting big tech independent search indexes, services.

    A year or two back when I tried independent search indexes they were all pretty bad and I concluded you can't really avoid using Bing / Google indexes. But now? EUSP is veeery decent and in combination with the other, smaller ones they cover a lot of ground. I would say it's in the same tier as Bing, but slightly worse than Google. But for 90% of the searches ? It's good enough and you can always just use Ecosia when you need Google or Serper index (directly in Uruky).

    I see people mention Kagi.

    I used Kagi for 3 months when they gave me a free trial maybe a year back. It's a good product and probably the best search engine out there. However, it's also more expensive than Uruky (10$/ month) and more importantly they use Yandex as one of their search indexes.. They've also removed all mentions of this fact from their help pages. They also use brave index. You can't choose to not use them and in general they havent been very transparent about the whole thing (as to how much they use each index)

    By the way Ecosia relies on Google, not bing. They've switched quite a long time ago.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

    aboutsignal.com /news/signal-is-working-on-registration-without-a-phone-number/

  • Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

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  • It's not paywalled. They just require to log in. Overall 404media is pretty solid.

  • Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

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  • I don't use Claude, so I am not familiar with their UI, but back when I used another service I would find myself occasionally accidentally toggling some threads to "public" and making them sharable with a link. Even if this is unlikely, considering the huge userbase they have, it would still be a significant number of "leaked" threads.

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    Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

    www.404media.co /tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/

  • No ChatGPT for sexy time

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  • In fucked up places, people just live day to day and are in survival mode. I believe I have once read something that goes along the lines of “poorer demographics generally have tendency to make more children because they think that more children is the most sure way to secure their near future for when they get older”

    I think it's simpler than that. Nothing to do when you're poor and overworked so you just fuck. Oh, and less caring about the consequences.

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • Yeah it was funny to read :

    “Based on the limited nature of the customer information believed to be involved, we determined that individual notifications were not warranted under applicable privacy laws,” the Suno spokesperson added.

    But then (talking about the hacker):

    They said they also accessed Suno’s customer list, which included customers’ emails and/or phone numbers and Stripe payment details, depending on what they used to login. The hacker provided a sample of some of the customers, some of whom confirmed to 404 Media they had used their phone number to sign up for Suno and said they were never notified of a breach.

    I guess email address, phone and payment details don't matter enough to notify people.

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • Yeah.

    The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from.

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    Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

    www.404media.co /hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/
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    Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

    www.windowslatest.com /2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

  • Chat Control 1.0 HAS PASSED

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  • Chat Control 1.0 HAS PASSED

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  • One thing that I don't understand is:

    On July 7 there was a vote for this urgent vote to take place. 303 were against, 331 were for, (- 28 people) (so it passed)

    Today (July 9th) the actual vote for this law took part. 314 were against, 276 were for (+38) (yet still passed).

    Please tell me why MEP's voted for this urgent vote to take place and then later (on July 9th) voted against it ?? Were they misled or something?

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    Chat Control 1.0 HAS PASSED

    mastodon.social /@Tutanota/116889735116919744

  • Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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  • My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there's the annoying "log in with google account" popup at the top; it doesn't do anything if you don't click to log in. But Reddit doesn't ask. Just says: "Logging you in" and you can click cancel if you're fast enough.

    They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.

    Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app

    And now they're also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.

  • A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards & The Find Command

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  • What's the difference between single vs double quotes?

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    A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards & The Find Command

    blog.robertelder.org /find-command-wildcard-globbing/
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    Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones

    reclaimthenet.org /starmer-calls-for-spyware-on-all-phones
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    UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse

    reclaimthenet.org /uk-wants-message-scanning-on-phones
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    South Korean Online Communities Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools

    discuss.privacyguides.net /t/south-korean-online-communities-will-need-to-scan-every-images-with-ai-censorship-tools/38341
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    Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse
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    Minnesota Law Requires Platforms to Monitor and Age-Estimate All Users

    reclaimthenet.org /minnesota-social-media-age-surveillance-law
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    Texas Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification

    reclaimthenet.org /texas-sues-discord-seeks-mandatory-age-verification
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    Telegram’s MTProto protocol leaks persistent identifiers enabling user tracking

    cyberinsider.com /telegrams-mtproto-protocol-leaks-persistent-identifiers-enabling-user-tracking/
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    ChatGPT maker OpenAI sued for sharing chatbot queries with Meta, Google

    cybernews.com /ai-news/openai-chatgpt-class-action-lawsuit-facebook-meta/
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    wrote a snarky comment got a snarky response :)

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman

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    Use THIS When You Plug In

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.

    www.thatprivacyguy.com /blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/