https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/

I dont have any experience with any of these but you may find some options by searching for web3 or dapp storage solutions. Example best of list.

web3/dapps are an attempt at making fully decentralized web applications using blockchain and other decentralized technologies. Since storing large volumes of data on a blockchain isnt the best idea, projects like IPFS and others on the first link I shared emerged to fill the gap.

strongly encouraged for me means my entire bonus is tied to skilling up with LLMs.

“cite-or-stop” with journaling, role definitions, subagents to control context windows, and shifting as much of the work as possible to deterministic scripts has yieled pretty high-quality results.

Expensive af though. Like the self-review skill I maintain before engineers put their code up for human review will find 30-40 things on average, where only a small handful are false positives, can burn 10% of a $20/mo plan’s utilization in a single run on a moderately sized PR. The default one my company setup in our source control usually finds 1-5 things and only 0-2 are of any value.

Pandas/Polars is all I need in a Jupyter notebook to replace Excel. Its not even a contest if you know some python for doing any real work.

I concede Excel has a lower bearer to entry for teams composed of mixed technical abilities.

Sounds like one hell of a dopamine hit. Like the self-induced pressure from procrasting injected with steroids, topped with a drizzle of adrenaline, and dusted with the strongest speed humanity has to offer.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

Chromium and their particular fork have much better exploit hardening via sandboxing.

My understanding is Firefox has better anti-fingerprinting and uBlock origin via manifest v2 support (or v2 features ported to v3).

The argument often used is malicious ads. Sandboxing and hardening largely mitigates ads that contain exploits, but it doesn’t protect against social engineering, crypto mining, tracking, etc.

So I guess it comes down to your threat model and desired experience.

I personally prefer the uBlock origin experience, but an ad free experience and escape from targeted advertising was my target opsec when venturing into privacy.

Stealth is pretty great for lurkers. Could use a little more polish for image subs (porn browsing), but its good enough.

Pebble Time 2.

Mostly sleep and step counting. Media controls on occasion. Just got it so not had a chance to customize it much yet.

Coming from, in order: Garmin Vivoactive 5, 4, 3, 2, Pebble Time, Pebble OG.

Preferred the healthstats on the Garmin out of the box. Great indicator if I’m getting sick based on its measurements or if I’m not being as active as I should be.

My experience is you have to close as many degrees of freedom as possible. Its tedious as hell for generating quality code.

Its great at debugging if you require it to manage its context window by delegating tasks to scoped subagents, generate evidence with references, and verify that evidence with a minimal reproducible example. Expensive… I’ve seen them run for a solid 30 minutes before responding back (not including the “thinking” log), but it usually finds the issue.

A similar technique can be used for code generation but again it burns tokens and takes awhile. Have it generate and verify isolated reference implementations for anything nontrivial. Much easier to review with the rest of your domain and layered on complexity stripped out. The “thinking” log is interesting to watch as it bangs it head against bad assumptions or documentation and needs to start digging into dependency source code to work it out.

Only then apply the implementation to your project from the reference implementation. Takes breaking down the tasks though to small enough units and closing those degrees of freedom.

Anecdote on degrees of freedom: This one didn’t require a reference implementation in particular. I was reviewing a PR (LLM assisted, I wasn’t the authoring dev) to add signature validation to OAuth tokens. It duplicated the entire header/token parsing logic. It needed that path closed with a pointer to where the existing logic was and explicit requirements to enhance it. Refactor was great upon reviewing and the PR size was reduced by more than half.

Same. 80/20 rule. Even reaching 80% of my privacy goals for 20% of the effort was a ton of work. Netting that last 20% for 4x the effort I already put it in just isn’t worth it.

what did you like more about rclone than Cryptomator?

I wanted to leave Dropbox and ran across it. I liked the number of supported backends under one tool. I use it to access things beyond Backblaze like gdrive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Proton Drive. Well documented config file format. I was able to manage the config with Nix due to this.

Is it suitable for sync, or is it more for backups

It works great for one way sync. Bisync I never got working well enough to trust it. Bisync is nice for 3-way merges (two devices modifying files on the same cloud drive). Dropbox, gdrive, OneDrive win here. I’ve learned to live without it.

I’m ideally looking for near-ish to real-time sync for contacts, notes, files, and pictures

On a computer the fuse mounted volumes are near live. Cahce locally in a VFS. Anything else you’d have to script probably. There is rclone-watch but can’t say I’ve tested it

With Round Sync you can browse with live refresh when you move between directories, but syncing would be on a schedule. Looks like a 15m interval is the fastest frequency.

Are there any frontends for Linux you’d recommend, or do you script out the functionality you’re looking to implement?

I mostly just mount on login with the VFS cache. Use my normal file browser. One command per mount. Its rare (practically never) that I need to work on something without internet, so I don’t deal with trying to script syncs. I tried in the early days of playing with it, but fuse mounts ended up meeting my needs.

No GUI that I use outside of my normal file browser. The only thing I need to use the CLI for is cleaning up soft deleted files and old versions (Backblaze specific thing).

It might not have the functionality you are looking for as far as app integrations, but my progression was Dropbox -> Cryptomator over Dropbox -> rclone over Backblaze B2.

You can nest a “crypt” remote (end-to-end encryption with your own private key) over tons of cloud providers. You can mount it like a drive in Linux.

Round Sync is an Android client that can schedule cronlike backups. Pretty much set it and forget it on my phone. I delete things on my phone when I need space and every couple years go cleanup what’s in B2.

Dropbox was better priced at max capacity when I used it ($120/yr for 2TB?). My Backblaze bill started at $1/mo and is like $4/mo now. Its been a couple years since I cleaned things out and could probably cut that in half.

Same. None of that self-hosted cloud storage is going to save you from data loss in the event of a fire or theft unless you plan for offsite.

I just use rclone with Backblaze B2, end-to-end encrypted with my own private key, and call it a day.

I have a mirrored BYOD setup for my media server but its all stuff I can download again. Its just an onsite cache with a little redundancy against a failed drive.

Totally. I never fully gave up the strappy goth look or loose fit / baggy pants during the hipster skinny jeans era. Its refined over the decades. Now that they seem to be coming back I’m getting so many complements about how I’m schooling the younger kids on pulling it off well. I’m in my 40s reference. Screw chasing fashion. Own what you like and rock it.

Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn’t say you could starve.

passkeys for most is just fairy dust and magic.

I suspect this is why Microsoft is forcing users into it. Not that I agree with or am defending that decision.

I can’t stand being forced into magic link email logins which are designed to also deal with phishing. Takes longer to login compared to Passwords+TOTP or Passkeys and email isn’t exactly private for the majority.

They aren’t magic. Its the same cryptographic signature primitive seen in applications like PGP or blockchains/cryptocurrencies.

I agree to most users they feel magical and are more difficult to reason about. You still “have” a private key stored on the device, but its invisible to the user, so it’s not something you “know”.

Awesome! With the recent direction BitWarden is going, I’ll be switching soon then to self-hosted.

Google allows for them to be used for 2FA.

You can use them for the password also which I didn’t know. You have to choose sign in another way to get the option.

Yeah I need to check out vaultwarden. Huge disappointment as its been a great product, but I’m not liking where the recent website changes are heading.