vmoore

I find 'IDEs' a bit cluttered. For web development I use Sublime[0], a browser with Live Reload[1] and that's it. The browser's devtools are also handy.

[0] https://www.sublimetext.com/

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-reload/

I swing between my comfort zone, and growth mindset. Sometimes projects just become maintenance mode for a while, other times I expand my knowledge, try new things, learn from mistakes. You have to have a beginner's mind, and be willing to look pathetic on your first try and leave ego at the door. Become vulnerable.

I've milked this to death:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

> for the Linux Desktop

Caveat: This is a Flatpak and not all Linux distros ship with Flatpak. But I'll give it a whirl in my Fedora virtual machine. I've seen many flavors of this type of tool floating about, most of them leveraging Tesseract[0], and I've tried a few of them. It fails badly on grainy / noisy images or where the text is warped or skewed in some way. It will not solve CAPTCHAs for you!

[0] https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Home.html

Other metadata like DNS, device fingerprints, SNI-leakage[0], timestamps, connection history, etc

You can encrypt DNS with DoH if you want, but the DoH provider still sees its you. You can take it a step further with Oblivious DNS over HTTPS if you really want to conceal DNS activity[1]. Note: this technology is rather new and experimental.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

[1] https://research.cloudflare.com/projects/network-privacy/odn...

> to protect The Netherlands against Russian and Chinese hackers

So it's a noble cause then? Or does it have privacy implications for innocent netizens? I thought these exchanges would have been tapped in some form way before this announcement?

Set SSH to use a different port if you're paranoid[0]

[0] https://linuxiac.com/ssh-to-port-other-than-22/

> so is this why valuation of Snapchat is that high

Snapchat was supposed to be the WhatsApp / Insta / Facebook killer, but its value is lower than all those platforms. It's still rather niche. In terms of privacy it's still a nightmare and looks like it won't be fixed soon because it's easy to monitor and the authorities like that.

Perplexity markets itself as a 'Google Killer'. We'll see about that.