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damaru2··on AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
Entire conversations via exposed permalinks. For Grok: trackers receiving the conversation URL could access the full chat because the link lacked access controls.

Screenshots of conversations. TikTok received screenshots of Grok chats during sharing, exposing the actual visible conversation content.

Conversation-derived content tied to persistent identifiers, including prompts and automatically generated chat titles revealing sensitive facts. "Salary 85k NYC: mortgage 280–350k".

damaru2··on Show HN: Zoable game. Solve it cheaply
My solution

Cost: sun + 310 Intuition factor: 3

This is what I did to solve it https://file.garden/alesKi_qEy4aAMHP/zoable-en-practice-2026...

damaru2··on I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
Let's take a second to remember that Pavel Durov is the CEO of a messaging company that doesn't end-to-end encrypt chats by default and does not provide a way to end-to-end encrypt group chats
damaru2··on I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
Let's take a second to remember that Pavel Durov is the CEO of a messaging company that doesn't end-to-end encrypt chats by default, and does not even offer a way to have end-to-end encrypted groups.
damaru2··on [dead]
When AI conferences reject a large fraction of papers, many of those submissions just come back in the next cycle. Lower acceptance rate implies a larger pool build-up and a percentage of it becomes about the same number of accepted papers as with larger acceptance rates.

See this interactive model + math https://damaru2.github.io/general/queueing_to_publish_in_AI_...

Also, an informal summary here: https://x.com/spokutta/status/1967995421386793033