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bertmanon Show HN: Ungpt Chrome extension summarise articles using ChatGPT API

This comment is very much appreciated. There's been an onslaught of ChatGPT browser extensions with sizes of up to several MB and "optimized" (i.e. obfuscated) Javascript code that eventually do what could very well be a simple bookmarklet. So thanks for this!

Edit: also "as if you are Richard Feynman" is really funny.

bertmanon Password protect a static HTML page

No, this is strictly client-side, ie. encryption and decryption happen in the user's browser.

bertmanon Microsoft vs. Google: The Endgame

>Every device (heck, every software!) will need a state of the art LLM to interact with its users.

Hm, didn't they also say that about AR/VR?

bertmanon Gen Z Netiquettes

You should at least skim it, it's funny :)

bertmanon I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer

>When I see somebody showing off their good sides, I instinctively start looking for the bad.

Fair enough, no reason to denounce him as "crypto bro", though, because you know full well what it insinuates.

Also:

>Google-money [...] surveillance capitalism

The email domain from your profile points to 180.136.102.34.bc.googleusercontent.com ...

Just saying, you know.

bertmanon How to make YouTube less distracting

Or, alternatively, https://piped.video

bertmanon LLM discourse needs more nuance

I couldn't resist and tried it:

Prompt: Write a small python program in the style of Donald Trump.

chatGPT: I'm sorry, but it wouldn't be appropriate to write a program in the style of a political figure, especially if the language and tone used may be considered offensive or disrespectful. Additionally, OpenAI's policy prohibits the creation of content that is harmful, abusive, or hateful. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

bertmanon BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature

I find it a bit curious that their "large" (ie. based on GPT2 XL) model only outperforms their standard model by less than 3% on PubMedQA.

bertmanon Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

Quanta article about the paper, discussion from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439701

bertmanon Chrome extension: How Fugu is the web

>Project Fugu is an effort to close gaps in the web's capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.

https://www.chromium.org/teams/web-capabilities-fugu/

bertmanon Google Chrome could get a powerful extension and privacy upgrade

tl;dr: They're a/b testing a toggle that lets you en/disable all installed extensions on a per-site basis.

bertmanon Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking

Which will never happen for DNS-only blockers like pi-hole.

See e.g. here: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#known-limitations

bertmanon Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

Looks like the "best" quality setting is hardcoded currently:

https://github.com/Owez/yark/blob/676074ee3d9e379d15e52ffe2e...

It would be nice to expose this setting via config file and/or the cli.

bertmanon A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher

bertmanon What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

Yep, I agree, valid criticism. There are things like git-crypt, pass-tomb etc, but those can get messy real fast.

However, git repo != GitHub. Putting the repo on a home server in the LAN has served me well over the years

bertmanon What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

Oh, I'm sure Vaultwarden is much more resource-friendly, but even then:

a user's password list is arguably the most important thing on the device.

And I'm not sure you need a "web interface" to something that in the end is nothing more than an encrypted text file, which is why I always recommend pass[0] or using the browser's built-in pw manager for people that don't know ssh and git.

[0] passwordstore.org

bertmanon What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

I always found running 12 containers for hosting a password repository a bit overkill.

https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

bertmanon It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

Self-hosted Miniflux, dead-easy, just works.

https://miniflux.app/

bertmanon Chrome adds “early stable” release milestone

"How can me make these dumb users beta testers without telling them?"

bertmanon Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web

Sounds like Mailvelope.

https://mailvelope.com/en/

bertmanon Show HN: Chrome extension to summarize blogs and articles using ChatGPT

It's right there in the code.

https://github.com/clmnin/summarize.site/blob/0e4da39fa4355a...

POST request with access token from the browser's cache after the user has logged in with their OpenAI account.

bertmanon Chrome Extension That Integrates ChatGPT (Unofficial) into Google Search

Yesterday's discussion of a similar extension:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33853773

bertmanon Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

>to improve Twitter for our customers, partners, and the people who use it across the world

The order of the list says everything you need to know.

bertmanon WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale

>To prevent personal data leaks, regular users should adopt common data security practices. This includes using a high-quality VPN and getting a reliable antivirus program. And since the shopping holidays are close, you can already find great market-leading NordVPN Black Friday and TotalAV deals.

What a disgusting site... Adding this blurb to a "news" article with "security measures" that do absolutely nothing against phone number scraping just to get those affilliate clicks...

bertmanon Show HN: Firefox Addon to Filter NSFW Content

Looking at the code, it looks like they're using TensorFlow to rate images, videos etc. [0], specifically the SQRX family of models [1].

[0]: https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr/blob/79a1a882...

[1]: https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/model/blob/master/sqrxr_...

bertmanon Find Verified Journalists on Mastodon

I clicked randomly on one of the "latest additions" (https://www.presscheck.org/journalists/lauren-wolfe) and ...

Well, the linked mastodon profile (https://mastodon.world/LaurenWolfe) doesn't even exist.

bertmanon Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger on crypto in 2018

>crypto

>ponzi schemers

Literally the same.

bertmanon Is this the end of crypto?

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." -Betteridge's law

(Although in this case I wish the answer would be yes)

bertmanon Big Data Is Dead

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

bertmanon Show HN: I created a Chrome extension for secure screen sharing

On your website, you say "Also, we NEVER record any of your personal data". Could you explain this piece of code from your extension then? :

   else if (request.type === "removeTab") {
            chrome.tabs.get(
                parseInt(request.tabId),
                function(tab) {
                    if (chrome.runtime.id === PROD_EXTENSION_ID) {
                        registerAnalytics(database, {
                            type: "registerAnalyticsEvent",
                            analyticsType: "closed_tab",
                            meta: {
                                url: tab.url
                            }
                        })
                    }
                }

I hope I'm wrong but this looks like the URL of each tab that a user closes or "hides" before a meeting is sent to your analytics database.