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aver4geredditoron AI for developers and Google Workspace

> I dislike Google having all my data

Now Microsoft has all of your data, is it actually any better?

> I dislike one company having control over web.

Edge is also based on Chromium, developed and controlled by Google

> Edge on Android allows me to block ads.

You could try Brave (also Chromium-based) or Firefox (Gecko-based) with uBlock Origin, both will block ads and tracking

aver4geredditoron AI for developers and Google Workspace

Also see https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/announcing-palm-ap...

> Earlier today, we announced the PaLM API, a new developer offering that makes it easy and safe to experiment with Google’s large language models. Alongside the API, we’re releasing MakerSuite, a tool that lets developers start prototyping quickly and easily. We’ll be making these tools available to select developers through a Private Preview, and stay tuned for our waitlist soon.

aver4geredditoron Ask HN: What Happened to Search on Android?

The Google app obviously only searches Google, to search everything on your phone you have to search from the app launcher. There are even preferences of what to search, including contacts

aver4geredditoron Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35007978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026902

aver4geredditoron How secure is merely discarding (TRIMing) all of a SSD's blocks?

Also see:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_ce...

https://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pd...

Edit: see section 3.2.2 in the PDF (and the corresponding table 2):

> In most cases, overwriting the entire disk twice was sufficient to sanitize the disk, regardless of the previous state of the drive. There were three exceptions: about 1% (1 GB) of the data remained on Drive A after twenty passes

This is about normal overwriting, however. The fastest random overwriting program on Linux I know of is `shred`

aver4geredditoron Show HN: ChatGPT and Document Parser = Ghost

Could you please add a more detailed policy to your site? For example, who can see, use or access the uploaded documents in any other way and whether the documents are used to gather some data, analyze or sell it?

aver4geredditoron Show HN: ChatGPT and Document Parser = Ghost

I didn't do any extensive testing but seems to be really useful. However, where can we see the privacy policy? People are probably going to upload some important and confidential documents so it's good to know how this data is being handled. The only thing I see is an asterisk after the 24 hour notice Also, the bot answer window may have 5 pages even if 1 page is enough for the answer, this may confise your users since they may think there's something else on other pages

aver4geredditoron Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

MIT license

aver4geredditoron Show HN: Power-Performance Curves for CPUs

Very cool, thanks for posting

aver4geredditoron Mozilla harshly criticizes Google's Play Store privacy labels in new study

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org

Also all apps there are open source, I see this as an absolute win!