Ai has made me a better bug hunter. I point an LLM at an application I like to use and give it a prompt like please scan this codebase URL for bugs.

If it comes back with any, I then try to confirm them for myself to make sure it’s not hallucinating any, and if that bug actually does exist, then I can report it.

I found one critical vulnerability and several high severity issues in an app that I enjoy using and reported them to the developer and got them fixed.

It’s kind of amazing. I do most of this stuff in my day-to-day life without even thinking about it.

I still buy digital media, but only if it’s in a format that I can download and keep locally, such as when I buy albums these days, I make sure to buy the MP3 versions so that I can download them to my machine and keep them.

Anything that’s accessed through some sort of app and won’t allow me to download it is an immediate no.

What is reddit? I thought it died in like 2023. I know I haven’t used it since they killed the third-party apps for it.

I am using my password manager, which is keepass.

I have tried adding pass keys to it, and have had mixed success. On some websites, it seems to work fine, and then on others, it seems to break miserably, and made me return back to a password.

I like the idea of passkeys, because then you don’t have a shared secret between you and the website, and you get a different key for every single website using public-private key cryptography. That’s fantastic, but the implementation still needs some work.

Harder to find content, but otherwise alright. I was honestly a little bit surprised at how many channels I did find that I follow on YouTube were already on Odysee or Rumble. Though I used to watch two channels about the US cellular networks such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon that are not on any of the other platforms. So I just lost that content.

I started routing all of my system traffic through Tor recently, which made YouTube nearly impossible to watch. So, my watching time on YouTube has dropped, and I have started watching more Rumble, Odysee, and PeerTube.

Even if they have you powered on, the fact that it’s in the before-first unlock state means that the file-based encryption still holds and it cannot be unlocked with biometrics.

Just budget for a cheap ass phone for when you cross the border and don’t take your actual device with you. Or if you do take it with you when you cross, make sure that it is off during the entire transit.

Hopefully in the future they will offer the ability to pay with Monero.

Laughs in Tor VPN

Yeah, that is possible. That’s the risk you take, though, by wanting to be so private with a system that’s not meant for privacy.

If you want true privacy you control, go create yourself an .onion domain.

Check out incognet.io. You can buy a domain and pay for it with Monero.

And you do not have to give information about yourself. You are identified as incognit user, and then the company’s street address.

With that said, you don’t actually own the domain because it is in their name with their street address, so it’s mainly a for-benefit of type arrangement where the company actually owns it, and then they allow you to use it. As I said, you can pay with Monero, and the only thing you have to give them is an email address and a password, and they accept alias email addresses.