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Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it. Really wish there was an alternative that: 1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server. 2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on each page.

Looking at StarRocks site (https://www.starrocks.io/), they compare against Clickhouse, Druid and Trino. Don't even compare against Spark/Databricks! Guess Spark is just not competitive.

Merchant of record can be really big - the biggest issue today is price. 5% + 50c doesn't make sense if you are selling $5 per month subscriptions.

Reduce the price to Stripe pricing + 1%, and this will be the default for everyone!

Planning to add this as an option into my extension SuperFocus https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/superfocus-ultimate...

It currently lets you hide all the distracting elements in YouTube - one of the methods the author references. YouTube is my #1 time suck. From personal experience, this alone makes a lot of difference.

https://www.photopea.com/ is a good free alternative to Photoshop. It is a 90100 product - 90% of the features 100% free.

You can enable HTTP/3 with one click in Cloudflare. Just enabled it after reading this for Dictanote.

I am the developer of Voice In (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-in-speech-to...), a Chrome extension with 300k+ users. Every month, I have 2-3 folks reach out asking for one of two things:

1) Something something Bing. Here is one from two days ago - https://imgur.com/a/KOwLRIC

2) They want anonymized web browsing data.

Google just yesterday sent out an email cracking down on this. From the email:

To better protect users' browsing experience, the Quality Guideline changes clarify that an extension's purpose is to provide complimentary functionality for the browsing experience and should not seek to hijack a user's browsing or search experience. This update aims to ensure that users have full control over their browsing sessions, without any unwarranted interruptions or manipulations. By enforcing this policy, we strive to foster a safer and more enjoyable environment for all Chrome users, where their trust and satisfaction remain our top priorities. Together, we can create a web ecosystem that respects users' autonomy and offers seamless browsing experiences that truly enhance their lives.

The team at Neeva was A+. It is quite commendable that they managed to build a real search engine (unlike DuckDuckGo which is a shim on Bing) that was comparable to Google with such a small team.

Neeva aimed to solve the problem of ads clogging the entire search results page with an ad-free search experience. My opinion of Neeva was that it solved a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone who is annoyed with ads can install uBlock (or one of the other extensions) and hide them all.

I can relate to this. I created SuperFocus (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/superfocus-stop-sc...) with a similar idea. Dopamine loop is a big problem. I have tried site blockers / SuperFocus which is a feed blocker but there was something missing and have been looking for the magic solution. Just signed up for Clearspace and immediately felt this is it.

Planning to rewrite SuperFocus later this week to do the same on desktop as most of my time spent is on the desktop browser.

I really hope they develop a faster mypy. In my dev workflows, mypy takes most of the time. Linting is a small fraction of it.

If GPT-2 / nanoGPT needs this setup, just imagine what GPT3 / chatGPT needs!

Got too excited with this, created https://portablesecrets.com/

Extends OP's page to allow saving secrets for later use.

Curious why are you selling your lifetime plan on AppSumo instead of on the website? Doesn't AppSumo take a fat cut.

Just tested, you can still see this Ad if you search for gimp!

This is a manifest V2 extension. Unless someone converts it to V3, it will stop working end of this year.

I used to follow ASBMil on Twitter before Twitter banned it :/ I can't vouch for others but ASBMil was doing accurate reporting. Just searching for ASBMil on twitter will show many saying that Twitter is censoring accounts that do not repeat the accepted Western narrative.

The Youtube recommendation engine is amazing. It will constantly provide you with content to consume, giving you that dopamine rush. The downside of it is that you end up wasting countless hours of your life watching Youtube. This extension reduces the stimulus by hiding the non-essential dopamine-inducing elements.

Using this extension, you can configure Youtube to: * Hide Feed * Hide Comments * Hide Right Sidebar * Hide Related Videos * Hide Subscriptions Bar and more...

This extension uses a different approach compared to site-blocking extensions. The problem with site-blocking extensions is that they are binary in nature. You either block or unblock a site. Most mortals end up unblocking/blocking constantly leading to limited benefit. This extension is complementary and is intended to reduce time spent.

This almost sounds too good to be true. I checked the prices here vs GoodRx and it is significantly cheaper. For example, Metformin is $4.5 instead of $11.5. Mesalamine is $36 instead of $112

Trying to understand why large chains like Walmart/Costco doesn't do this already.

I run Dictanote (https://dictanote.co) and Voice In (https://dictanote.co/voicein/)

Dictanote is a note-taking app with built-in voice-to-text integration. Writers use it to write their books, students use it to take notes, etc. Dictanote automatically syncs your notes to the cloud and makes them available on all your devices.

Voice In is a chrome extension that lets you use dictation to type on any website in Chrome. Use it to type emails in Gmail, enter data into Teladoc, write blogs in WordPress, etc. Think of it like budget Dragon Dictation.

Currently makes about $7000/m net - somewhere between a full-time job and a hobby project. Figuring out how to grow it.

I started reading about M1/M2/M3 about a year ago, it is a fascinating topic. You are right about inflation being a function of money supply and velocity. Once you start to understand what is happening - it raises so many questions which are hard for a novice to answer like what happens if velocity increases? M1SL has always increased, can it be decreased? Incessant money printing is shafting the savers - should savers just have bought Bitcoin?

Wow. Out of curiosity just checked if the other cloud providers have it - both Azure and GCP have this feature already. Azure got it ~ Feb 2020, GCP Feb 20201.

Looking at this - it seems very similar to Verta.AI Both are doing data lineage/workflow management ~ git for data science workflows. Verta recently raised their series A and launched their platform too.

Well they can do all that with a 10% fee too. The author is contending that by adding those restrictions and a high 30% fee, Apple is acting like a monopoly - it's their way or the highway.

It increasingly seems like the Supreme Court of the US is becoming a political theatre because Congress can't get its act together. Supreme Court shouldn't legislate but it is forced to as lawmakers in Congress can't do their job.

Stock market doesn't seem to agree with this conclusion.

Wayfair just reported earnings. Their stock is now down 65% from its peak. They expect to grow revenues at 15% this year (before factoring in Coronavirus) and have -7% EBIT margin. The ecommerce space is tough !

The webkitSpeechRecognition object shows up on both browsers. When you start recognition, it acts like you are not connected to the network. Not connected to the network is a common error , so you cannot fingerprint it to Brave.

This specific API only works in Google Chrome unfortunately. So we need to stop people from trying in another browser and getting frustrated as to why its not working.

The webkitSpeechRecognition object shows up on both browsers. When you start recognition, it acts like you are not connected to the network. Not connected to the network is a common error , so you cannot fingerprint it to Brave.

The trigger for this was most likely the Brave/Vivaldi browsers. Brave used to 'Brave/X.y' at the end of user agent. Whatsapp didn't work with that useragent. Now Brave uses Google Chrome's useragent.

In my app Dictanote (https://dictanote.co) - which uses Chrome's speech-to-text API, I have no way to distinguish Brave/Vivaldi and user doesn't understand why its not working :/

When Honey was acquired, I wondered why it was valued at $4B when all it does is apply coupon codes. Now it is clear - it's the data.

Look at https://www.joinhoney.com/ - they make no effort to tell you that they track / store all your order data across websites !