Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
01.02.2026 21:44
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Woke up to 50 emails this morning from cricket monitoring. Nice to see it picking up the cloud flare outages
18.11.2025 16:29
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A really indispensable list for combating spam sign ups is the disposable email blocklist:
github.com/disposable-e...
It's a bit tricky since you want to allow privacy and a lot of people want to sign up to test new tools without the email spam they get after. #buildinpublic #security
06.08.2025 15:39
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My East meets West Canadian Maple syrup old fashioned
04.08.2025 23:42
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Also if you use it make sure to use that Feedback button if you have any issues etc. It helps a lot!
04.08.2025 01:11
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Cricketmonitor is in a good enough place that it's time to start advertising -- Which I am NOT good at. If you want to try it out you can sign up for free at cricketmon.io
I have a bluesky promo for anyone who wants to try and of the paid plans: 67% off Indefinitely use BLUESKY67 . #buildinpublic
04.08.2025 01:09
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Looks great! just subscribed. Keep it up.
20.07.2025 14:33
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Server monitoring for cricketmon.io now includes the uptime, kernel version, os, CPU info etc. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
08.07.2025 02:32
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Sever monitoring for cricketmon.io is coming along well. Still a few bugs here and there, but overall I'm really happy with how well things are starting to look. You can see in the screenshots the mobile PWA and the base web app. The latest build adds a whole bunch more endpoints #buildinpublic
06.07.2025 17:37
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Always forget to put the #buildinpublic
03.07.2025 06:07
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On to one of my favourite parts. I've been experimenting with the addition of local collectors to fetch metrics. Still pretty rough, but I think it's coming along
The idea is you will be able to attach your VMS to a specific alerting template and then auto enroll based on few env vars.
03.07.2025 06:06
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Synthetic monitoring is finally finished. It will show the latest screenshot and latest error screenshot if one exists.
As well as capture some unique cases that regular http/s monitoring doesn't grab.
Now just a few annoying bugs and I think it'll be ready to release
#buildinpublic
01.07.2025 19:09
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Been working on my monitoring app. It's now finally starting to come together. Very happy with how things are starting to look.
SSL monitoring now alerts you to weak ciphers, expired certs and soon to expire certs.
#buildinpublic
29.06.2025 19:25
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Couch base has nice natural language search. As long as you have good indexes it should be fast enough.
12.06.2025 20:50
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QuΓͺte Search
Your privacy-focused journey through the web
Yeah, I mean there is no real technical limitation to what you're describing. It really just comes down to space and hardware. I have a pet project which is a search engine Quete.net this uses postgres, vector based search and custom code for the relevance score.
12.06.2025 20:47
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Think my #AI might need a bit more work...
#buildinpublic
07.06.2025 01:41
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Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and former federal cabinet minister, has died at age 76.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
04.06.2025 22:56
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Haha, Thanks. It gets better as more people click links etc.
And the results get better the more sites that get crawled.
The "Did you mean?" is a vector based search that tries to match by similarity to actual sites in the DB
05.06.2025 03:12
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I've added few new features to quete.net
1. You can now use define:<word> and it pulls from opensource dictionaries.
2. It now gives you the "did you mean?" text with results on searches without a value.
And it's way faster.
#indiewebdev #buildinpublic #WebApp #quete.net
04.06.2025 04:04
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The cralwer/indexer only ran an hour yesterday but you can see the spike in how much is available
25.05.2025 15:56
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Crawled and indexed sites over time.
Improved my crawler speed concurrency for quete.net moved the DB to new arm based servers and am now indexing more sites per minute than I did in a day when I started.
#webdev #buildinpublic
25.05.2025 15:53
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I've started working on my new search engine project.
It's a combination of various projects I've done over the years, including the original natural language search
Now all I need is more indexed sites. But starting with the important things:
#buildinpublic
24.05.2025 23:49
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SleepWell portfolio recedes to 23.75% allocated to the S&P500 or SPY and 76.25% in UUP or cash for the coming week. The recent volatility is stepping the model back.
#etfs, #finance, #investing, #signals, #trading
02.02.2025 16:57
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Hello World
25.01.2025 16:49
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