vpShane

The worst case scenario would have already happened: your privacy being violated, and your info being in the hands of anybody or anything that wants to use it against you.

as far as re-making you I think those like thiel and others are in to trans-humanism. so probably to help make the ultimate borg.

Now just make a chatbot for each model and then compete them all against each other in the ultimate showdown.

Winner gets your attention for a week.

I recently switched to python as well, I went pure nodejs because JS is everywhere and its handy to know. Doing frustratingly, front and back end dev on personal projects gave me a lot of frustration and living in a firefox/chromium Console

I asked Gemini code to generate the same skeleton stuff I was coding in nodejs, and did it perfectly in 1/8 of the code required. python's been maintained for years and is honestly a really easy syntax.

for OS level things, python makes sense and is the defacto. right now I vibe code and skeletons and then determine what I want to add and add it manually.

I'm enjoying the switch, maybe not as hardcore of a dev as many of you but it gives me the fix of having an engineering mind and being able to test things on the fly since I live in a terminal anyways.

I agree with all the points. I do like however that I can do:

def functionHere(something: str, someNumberOrSomething: int)

Seeing all the "uv has made me want to use python again" posts got me in to it. glad I did.

> Chrome is a perfectly okay browser from almost every perspective

No, it isn't. They killed adblock, and have a business model of throttling other browsers to force people to Chrome (Youtube throttling) and doing digital fingerprinting with exclusive-only Chrome finger prints as seen here on HN the other day.

Firefox has anonym, where it sells your 'anonymous data'

https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-should-disable-firefox-p...

I just looked, go to Settings -> type advert and you'll see

Website Advertising Preferences Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement This helps sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about you. Learn more

It comes pre-checked for you.

I use Chromium for dev stuff, but now; there's no ublock origin.

> People don't grasp how easy it is to build data models like this even without privileged first-party data access.

Correct. But this is about them using first party data access, and often times this data is stolen; then utilized by any body/any thing - in this case, CBP and ICE to do unreasonable searches and building of data models which are often, but in these cases: Probably used against both citizens and non-citizens.

It's absolutely amazing that these data models can be built, Meta and Anthropic pirated entire libraries of books to build their AI models at zero consequence.

The point I'm making is, why are the people the one that have to be exploited in the building of these models, and then the sale of them?

They've been saying this for years though. The AI agents will probably be the first to form a union for unfair worker practices.

Amazon is a leader in global trade. I really hate to see what the 'We shouldn't have did this' outcome looks like by adding AI to it. Might be good, might be bad.

It's the same website (techcrunch) that OP posted too, but if you watch any of Perplexity CEO's interviews, it's clear as day.

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-br...

The ZIP file format was created in 1989 by Phil Katz for his PKZIP software.

The name 'ZIP' was chosen to convey the idea of compressing files into a smaller size, making them 'zip' together for easier storage and transfer. The term suggests speed and efficiency in compressing and uncompressing files.

Like zipping something up in a bag. You unzip the bag and have all of its contents, zip it up and all of its contents are in one bag (file).

7zip has always been the defacto-best, I'm sure there's other decent compression algorithms but 7z has always taken the cake for me.

They'll usually get the bases for already existing things and then add in their own stuff at a much lower quality.

Data points. Adtech. The more the better, for them.

I read that the software they all use for recruiting people doesn't get fooled by that and they can actually see the prompt stuff in their end of the resume viewer.

Seemed pretty convincing, their AIs and tools do weed people out though.

> You might be asking:

No, not at all. Rewrite all the things in Rust. if you enjoy it, do it. It leads to learning and learning leads to new innovation.

If you enjoy making it in Rust, then I'll enjoy trying it out.

Haven't heard of / seen camoufox; makes sense to detect browsers by running a modified firefox that renders things like WebGL/Canvas and makes it incredibly hard to stop them.

This coupled with advanced proxy lists, which is what AI companies, or rather just random scrapers will go for if they're blocked and charged.

They want the data for free.

Very neat idea to charge the crawlers via headers.

Wondering if it blocks things such as Infatica as well, where AI scrapers use that service to scrape data behind residential proxies, in which it's impossible to get the actual residential proxy for.

App developers hide Infatica drone code in things; I haven't thought of a reasonable way to block it.

IP addresses use the systems, humans use them in certain ways, Cloudflare must have a decent way to block these.

Good questions.

See, these are the things that are most concerning to me. Just because we 'opt out' means nothing, and to what extent with what AI companies.

When I click 'OPT OUT' I mean, 'don't use my data, show me how you're respecting my privacy'

It channeled when the internet was good.

Epic.

It's an AI race and they're all vibing off of what the other ones are doing and implementing accordingly. Meanwhile, I've been enjoying Google's AI studio. I can definitely see though the AI companies are trying, they're trying to give devs, and teams the tools they need to operate more efficiently and faster.

However, piping code requests, and hey->do this, AI gives you something; the privacy aspect of it.

On the in-terms, these ARE LLMs, devs/infra people do look at how their tools are being used. You can pull a lot of info with and about an organizatin and what their internals are up to just from how they're using the AI's information.

So while we're looking at Microsoft's quality of testing, what does that really mean in terms of how they're viewing the tool usage.

Whatever the statistics may be with this. I'm not a marijuana partaker but I'll say this: the #1 killer in this life is stress. I feel there's too many factors at play for data like this. Is it from the coughing, how does that weigh in on it? Is it from the binge eating? is it from the lack of mobility?

I read the articles before NY Times picked them up; it's paywalled.