You Can't VPN Out of On-Device Scanning
A practical look at moving to GrapheneOS: what it prevents, and what it can't.
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REALITY and XTLS-Vision
Building a Proxy Server That Pretends to Be Someone Else
How I Bought a Locked Google Demo Unit (and Unlocked It)
What is Google's Denali Companion App?
Backing Up TrueNAS SCALE to a Secondary TrueNAS Using ZFS Replication
ZFS replication as a native backup strategy
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead 27/08
So we're putting increasingly autonomous agents into environments where we monitor the systems, but not the agents themselves? If an agent can find its own paths to an objective that we didn't anticipate, having a human in the loop means pretty much nothing.
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Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over 26/08
Frankly, not surprised. A huge chunk of email hosting is based on reputation, not the computing stack. Google, Microsoft and others make their own decisions about whether to accept your mail.
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Nvidia faces growth test as Rubin debut meets AI financing scrutiny 25/08
Selling the shovels isn't enough? Nvidia started financing the gold rush.