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I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools, the Results Are Terrifying (toolbox-kit.com)
speedyapoc 15 minutes ago [-]
Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.

Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.

ramoz 28 minutes ago [-]
just implemented e2e encryption for plan, annotation, and diff sharing of coding agents (share with your colleagues, etc), modeled after https://privatebin.info/

https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator/pull/203

beart 13 minutes ago [-]
I love regex101.com, so really happy to see it breaks the mold here.
gmuslera 28 minutes ago [-]
Using canary URLs in these and other sites may be interesting too.
OsrsNeedsf2P 15 minutes ago [-]
Decent article. Painful to read the LLM output.
bmenrigh 30 minutes ago [-]
Can we stop it with "and the results are terrifying", "and you won't believe what I found", "the <x> situation is insane", etc.? The over-hyping of low quality, low effort content is making it hard to find actually interesting or informative things.
SunshineTheCat 15 minutes ago [-]
Yea I was thinking the same thing.

When you reach for the most exaggerated, over-the-top word possible when describing something relatively mundane, what will you use when you talk about something that actually is "terrifying?"

thfuran 51 seconds ago [-]
“The most terrifying thing you’ve ever heard”. That one’s even repeatable as long as your subjects are monotonically scary.
cheschire 19 minutes ago [-]
Find a better and more accessible solution than clickbait.

Please, do it.

arcfour 18 minutes ago [-]
"Privacy concerns found in audit of popular dev tools" (or something along those lines) would work without feeling sensationalized.
bmenrigh 9 minutes ago [-]
"better", "more accessible"? What the hell are you talking about? Clickbait doesn't make anything better or more accessible.

Instead, it makes it impossible to pre-select for interesting information. Instead of telling you what something is about, it tells you how you should feel about it. That's not improving accessibility.

iberator 39 minutes ago [-]
That's why real programmers are those who can work offline without the Internet. (just the repositories)

:)

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