Whether it's Google Chrome, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave,... neither of them is ideal as their privacy settings are pretty limited and, if using Google Chrome, our friend Google loves seeing what you do while browsing the web.

Tor is slow, though, and may break some websites unfortunately, which is why LibreWolf remains the best option as it keeps a great user experience while offering a high privacy level.

Because of that, while there are countless great VPN providers out there, I will only recommend two VPN providers which are widely known in the privacy community for being fully transparent and trustworthy:

I think Google and Facebook are particulary bad when it comes to the data - we all heard about Cambridge Analytica and lately about Whatsapp scandal.

Google was effectively feeding it's photo AI algorithms for face detection and tagging for years now using user data obtained by giving up the service for free.

Now when these algorithms got so good and it's almost impossible to make them better and Google don't need users anymore they switched to make some money from the service.

It wasn’t that long ago that Intel was a disruptor; whereas the server space was originally dominated by integrated companies like Sun, with prices to match, the explosion in PC sales meant that Intel was rapidly improving performance even as it reduced price, particularly relative to performance.

The Intel Opportunity that I referenced above would have entailed a similar flip for Intel: whereas the company’s differentiation had long been based on its integration of chip design and manufacturing, mobile meant that x86 was, like Windows, permanently relegated to a minority of the overall computing market.

Meanwhile, over the last decade the modular-focused TSMC, fueled by the massive volumes that came from mobile and a willingness to work with — and thus share profits with — best of breed suppliers like ASML, surpassed Intel’s manufacturing capabilities.

In the open source world, trademarks are considered a great and positive way to protect product reputation.

So imagine our surprise when Amazon launched their service in 2015 based on Elasticsearch and called it Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

We have seen that this trademark issue drives confusion with users thinking Amazon Elasticsearch Service is actually a service provided jointly with Elastic, with our blessing and collaboration.

This is the loophole which Elastic exploited when they decided that Elasticsearch would no longer be open source, a loophole that they introduced with this very intention from the start.

When you read their announcement, don’t be gaslit by their deceptive language: Elastic is no longer open source, and this is a move against open source.

Elastic has spit in the face of every single one of 1,573 contributors, and everyone who gave Elastic their trust, loyalty, and patronage.

It's designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, built on plain text files for robustness.

In addition, other exports to Open Document, PDF, and plain text is offered through the Qt library, although with limitations to formatting.

The most important root folder is the Novel folder, which contains all of the files that makes up the finished novel.

And so in the year of our lord 2017 I had a Brilliant Startup Idea: use a structured database of clinical trials to provide simple, practical answers to common medical questions.

On July 2, 2018, GlacierMD powered the world's largest depression meta-analysis, using data from 846 trials, beating Cipriani's previous record of 522.

If I'd articulated at the beginning how I expected to extract value from GlacierMD, maybe I would've researched the economics of an ad-based model, or I would've validated that doctors were willing to pay, or hospitals, or insurance companies.

JustGetMyData is a website that helps users navigate sites like Facebook and Twitter so they can download a copy of their data and see what, exactly, our favorite websites know about us.

JustGetMyData is a fork of JustDeleteMe—a website that helps users navigate the often complicated process of scrubbing themselves from sites like Instagram.. Amazon makes it easy to return a defective product through a series of menus, but if you want to delete your account you’ll have to call someone, for example.

Retrieving a copy of your personal data can be a similarly complicated process, but JustGetMyData makes it a little easier.

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He said that while on paper Google Privacy Sandbox looked like a better solution than existed at present, “you’re then beholden to Google” and how it will work across browsers is yet to be determined.

A group calling themselves Marketers for an Open Web (MOW) has highlighted concerns that by denying news publishers access to the cookies they use to sell advertising, Google’s Privacy Sandbox could cut their revenues by around two-thirds.

That’s why Google introduced the Privacy Sandbox, an open initiative built in collaboration with the industry, to provide strong privacy for users while also supporting publishers.”

Tony Andrews of Blue Canoe Learning says that Blue Canoe was happy to port its extension to Safari, motivated by the ability to reach all of those Safari for Mac users who were previously unable to use it.

I was encouraged by Abrahamowicz’s interest in building a Safari extension, but my conversation with him also highlighted some of the barriers many extension developers may have: Limited time, lack of access to Apple hardware, unfamiliarity with Apple’s developer tools, Safari’s incompatibility with some existing extension-development tools, and the requirement to make some code changes in order to fit inside Apple’s security model.

The good news is, if an extension is an open-source project, it might only take a motivated fan to get it up and running on Safari.

But it is tedious to go over each of the various websites to find the relevant articles.

Google helps but I still need to filter out too much irrelevant articles.

Is there a specific website that let me search them?

The latest update today is focused on improving the visual quality and details of the default layer — especially for nature — in Google Maps.

This process was applied to all 220 countries and territories — over 100 million square kilometers of land, with Google touting Maps as having the “most comprehensive views of natural features on any major map app.”

Besides natural features, Google Maps will soon add “highly detailed street information that shows the accurate shape and width of a road to scale.”

This extension attempts to make Google Images look and feel like it did before they changed everything on August 6th, 2019.

This extension also re-adds the 'View Image' button that was removed at some point.

It also removes those 'related searches' divs that are scattered throughout the image results, a nuisance 'feature' introduced in mid 2019.

Free and Open Source Machine Translation API, entirely self-hosted.

Feel free to change the file to adapt it to your deployment needs, or use an extra file for your deployment configuration.

This work is largely possible thanks to Argos Translate, which powers the translation engine.

They include email providers like Substack, podcast platforms like Spotify (hello Joe Rogan), and nascent startups like Clubhouse.

“Clubhouse has introduced many new moderation features throughout the year, including enhancements to blocking, real-time reporting and investigation of rooms, shared block lists, and more, and will continue to build new tools to detect abuse and to empower moderators as Clubhouse grows.”

Spotify is a platform, open for anyone to upload to its service as long as they follow its loose guidelines, which ban content that is “offensive, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, threatening, obscene, or advocates or incites violence.” Employees viewed the money going to Rogan as an endorsement, however, and demanded more discretion.

During a recent audit, we discovered that some third-party Chromium based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google’s use.

This meant that a small fraction of users could sign into their Google Account and store their personal Chrome sync data, such as bookmarks, not just with Google Chrome, but also with some third-party Chromium based browsers.

We are limiting access to our private Chrome APIs starting on March 15, 2021.

I’ll explain what happened during our harrowing week in a moment; but first, let me share an update about Google’s Safe Browsing API:

• If you do manage to send an email with a blacklisted link, and that link is clicked, you’ll scare the bejesus out of them with the red screen of death.

By plugging various combinations of URL structures into the lookup tool, we noticed that the link above was flagged as dangerous, but if we made a simple change, changing the /c to /d, then the URL came back as safe, so we changed the structure of links to use /d instead of /c, like this:

In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department -- and what that means for the future of the internet.

This view downplays the fact that powerful corporations are part of the nexus of power around the state, and that they enjoy the ability to deploy its coercive power, just as the state often exerts its influence through the agency of powerful corporations.

Google CEO Larry Page, for example, has publicly conjured the image of Jurassic Park-like Google microstates where Google is exempt from national laws and can pursue progress unimpeded.

In the old days, when Google (or any poorly tuned AI that Google unleashed) decided it wanted to kill your business, it would usually resort to denying access to one of its multiple walled gardens, and that was that.

This blacklist "feature" is called Google Safe Browsing, and the image here depicts the subtle message your users will see if one of your domains happens to be flagged in the Safe Browsing database.

While our DevOps team was working in full emergency mode to get a new CDN set up and preparing to move customers over onto a new domain, I found that Google's documentation claims that GSB provides additional explanations about why a site has been flagged in the Google Search Console (GSC from now on) of the offending site.

GENRE performs retrieval generating the unique entity name conditioned on the input text using constrained beam search to only generate valid identifiers.

Generally, after importing and loading the model, you would generate predictions (in this example for Entity Disambiguation) with a simple call like:

We also release the BPE prefix tree (trie) from KILT Wikipedia titles (kilt_titles_trie.pkl) that is based on the 2019/08/01 Wikipedia dump, downloadable in its raw format here.

• Asymmetry of effort: Large tech companies have some of the smartest minds in the world single mindedly focused on maximizing user engagement

In technology, Google’s “Don't Be Evil" for years helped engineers think about the interests of their users and our society, even though it conflicted with maximizing profit and engagement.

And while it’s hard to discuss choices that impact the free will of a user, there are thoughtful ways to both provide user choice and act in the interests of your users.

And the media has an incentive to find those people and shove their excesses in your face.” (link); social media algorithms especially value these extreme events, as they help them maximize engagement

• Engagement is king: Reader interest and social media algorithms prize engaging content, rather than information that leads to good decisions for the audience (example: feverish coverage of Cecil the Lion, example why atrocities in Yemen are not well covered in the US press)

• Realize vivid stories are powerful for user engagement, while lots of drier data and stories that inform good decisions are less monetizable (example: Shooting of Australian in US - and media needs/pre-existing views of Australian readers)

An “exploit” or social engineering of our personal information sources — motivated parties influencing subreddits, conferences, meetups, blogs, journalists, professors, industry analysts — should be perceived similarly.

For all these reasons and more, my most thoughtful friends use their own networks to understand reality instead: college/graduate school friends from select universities, frank talks with portfolio CEOs (for investors), 'off the record' conversations with connections at the various platform providers, trenchant blogs from front line engineers.

Should popular engineering blogs such as Free Code Camp have a board of engineers who technically assess content and the background of writers?