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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • Telegram isn’t in trouble because they are a ““private”” messenger because 1) they aren’t and 2) they basically asked for it. They are hosting pirates, drug dealers and scammers and they refuse government requests for the data they have about the user. That is the issue: not complying with data requests. For example, signal, a truly secure messenger, will comply with data requests and will send the authorities everything they have about a user, which is really not that much to begin with. This whole Telegram story is absolutely unrelated to chat control



  • I simply think that until now (maybe they will start tomorrow), the PR and lawsuit risk of listening to people is too high, for the benefit they would get out of it. Much simpler metrics are enough for them to get a very good profile of the user. Voice data isn’t like in the test scenarios where the person will repeat 45x the word cat food, people talk about the weather and about gas prices which is pretty useless for creating an ad profile if you ask me. But the scary part is now with AI models and on device AI everything, local processing of the mic data into topics that then get sent to their servers is more concerning is not much more feasible.

    And for the lawsuits I am not sure they could write it off as a bug everywhere other than the us and Canada because there are actually normal laws in most other countries





  • Proton Pass or Bitwarden are both very good options. Here is my breakdown of their pros and cons:

    Pros of Proton Pass over bitwarden

    • Much better UI/UX (in terms of looks and ease to navigate)
    • The app is feels much faster than Bitwarden’s, maybe its not objectively, but it feels lightyears ahead in terms of speed
    • Possibility for separate email and username fields
    • more seamless integration with simplelogin aliases than what Bitwarden has
    • TOTP is available in the free version

    Cons of proton pass compared with bitwarden:

    • No “Identity” item type (vault item where you can store info about yourself like your SSN etc.)
    • No payment card autofill
    • Can only register the “generic” 6-digit type of TOTP (Steam guard TOTP didn’t work when I tried it)
    • No custom fields that auto-fill on the web page
    • less settings in general, for example, you can’t decide of the hashing algorithm of your account’s password, and you can’t tweak the hashing parameters
    • more expensive
    • less “Foss”: the server code is not published and there are no 3rd party servers like vaultwarden







  • Get one of those masks that also cover your nose, it will make going under water 10000x easier, you just have to worry about closing your mouth. The way I learned was by hanging on one side of the pool and using the wall to give myself some insertia, and then figure out the movements to keep going. Doing underwater backflips can also be fun. I don’t to to public pools because they disgust me, but when I am in a pool I like jumping in and finding out the biggest splash I can make with friends. Stupid but fun stuff