nanobuilds

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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
The data comes straight from Google's Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com). Google shows you the interest categories and brands they've assigned to your profile. I automated scraping that page daily for each account during the experi
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
The work machine differences are interesting. Google uses OS, browser language, and the language of content you consume as profiling signals, not just searches. If your work browsing is mostly English-language sites, Google may be slotting
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
Three fresh Google accounts on different US residential proxies. Two browsed with specific personas (fisherman, fitness). The third did nothing for five days. Google was more aggressive than I expected. 17 new ad interests from a single ses
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I ran a 5-day experiment to see how fast Google reshapes your ad profile(nanobuilds.substack.com)
13 points by nanobuilds 6mo ago|6 comments
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
Three fresh Google accounts on different US residential proxies. Two browsed with specific personas (fisherman, fitness). The third did nothing for five days. Google was more aggressive than I expected. 17 new ad interests from a single ses
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I ran a 5-day experiment to see how fast Google reshapes your ad profile(nanobuilds.substack.com)
2 points by nanobuilds 6mo ago|1 comments
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
It's interesting how terminal apps are increasing in popularity after decades of desktop and web apps. I wonder if it's the talk to the chat AI that's making people more used to asking a prompt screen or if it's the simp
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
Was expecting a higher jump for plumbers. Cashiers were already suffering with the self-checkouts for years.
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
AI tools are great but ultimately it's about taste and intent (and fun for games) that will hopefully lead to quality floating to the top.
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
The experience of the internet would be so much more interesting if the search engines unearthed rare blogs or writing from small creators and bloggers that thought things through or shared original ideas. It did seem we had that for a whil
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
Your human context also needs compacting at some point. After hours of working with an LLM, your prompts tend to become less detailed, you tend to trust the LLM more, and it's easier to go down a solution that is not necessarily the be
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
One can hope that vibecoded apps will eventually be vibe-maintained with agents trained specifically for the kind of novel and weird bugs ai-coding tends to bring up. These tools will hopefully also get better at identifying security risks
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
The mobile is much than TV because of the enforcement loop and algorithm turning that attention into scams, ai generated slop, and harmful content that is more and more difficult to identify. With tv I suppose you can change the channel, wi
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by nanobuilds 6mo ago
If you're upset about this bill: - Call your MP (find yours at ourcommons.ca). - Back organisations that fight back (OpenMedia and CCLA have killed surveillance bills in the past - Submit written opposition. The Cannabis Act angle is
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
This is interesting and the world models predicting the next frame is huge. I'm also wondering on how this would be applicable to neurological proceesses, thoughts etc. If thoughts become quantifiable and measurable enough would simila
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Okay so not a weekend project.
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
You might not see this for a while, but that sounds nice! Do you use tools to download everything you need for offline viewing or just notes?
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
The long term goal might indeed be unrecognizable designs. Perhaps augmented reality contact lens. It will take a long time but people tend to slowly get used to giving more and more of their privacy away. Mojo Vision made a prototype of th
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
wonder if small amorphous silicon photovoltaic cells glued around the kindle would provide enough power to not charge every 5 days
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Nice project. This makes me think I should make my plants vibe code games or tools to optimize their well being! Maybe bio-electrical fluctuations --> vibe coded humdifying tools and games
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Yea it's not easy to build a Stripe competitor although we need some.
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
I'm sure those savings will be passed down to passengers!
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Same. Some good music too.
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
in case someone else is looking for this.. openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex is working okay for now but eventually i'd like to switch to a self hosted one somewhere.
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
It can always forward you things to your real email for you to action them. So as a layer doing the boring work of sorting things, researching, and keeping track of changes, but execution, public actions, real-life stuff can still be confir
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Remove the job.. but have one super skilled coordinator managing and teaching agents the last 10% (or doing the 10% of the job)
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Good tips! thx and good luck with the project!
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
The spirit and goal is respectable. How we get there, convincing people to join a new web and making it easy and attractive to replace 30 year old infra is something else.
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
I'm wondering if there are technical solutions to counter this extreme surveillance. I know there are some articles of clothing that kind of mess with some cameras but there must be some other technical ways to mess with the data or ma
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by nanobuilds 7mo ago
Imagine if regular TV with age warnings in the beginning of programs made you fax your ID to the channel headquarters before you could watch PG13+ or whatever movie. This is obviously a privacy nightmare and a suboptimal solution. A good so

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