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Speaking of phones, I guess Jolla is trying to get back in to the phone business. I suppose technically they never left because of the SailfishOS and the related community phones, but it's been a while since they had a "real" commercial phone in the market.

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The Jolla Phone Makes Its Debut At MWC 2026

Mobile World Congress 2026 is underway, and the new Jolla Phone made its premiere at the European tech show.
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Quite curious about it.
If the camera is good and the phone has lengthy support, I could be into it.

RE: Motorola, I actually liked my previous Motorola phone quite a bit but the camera was a bit eh, well I guess more like their post processing of pictures was a bit eh.
And it only got like 1 full Android version update and maybe 3 years or security updates, which sucks. I think they've improved on that now, but I think they still only offer lengthy support for the most expensive phones.
But other than that I really liked the phone, it was as close to vanilla android as you can get these days with a few somewhat unique features too. Karate chop motion would turn on the torch! Coolest feature ever.
 
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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app
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Using AI vibe coding to make your personal webpage, online CV or an application only you use is one thing.

Using it in an enterprise product with millions of users is another entirely.
 
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
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It's a shame, but in their defence they are governed by Swiss law. If they say no, they get shut down.

How do you have an email provider not at the mercy of any state or government? It's impossible. They have to be accountable to someone.

I think the lesson here is if you have an anonymous Proton account and you want it to stay that way, you don't pay for it with a credit card. Proton take crypto, and will also take an envelope of money off you if you post it to them.
 
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It's a shame, but in their defence they are governed by Swiss law. If they say no, they get shut down.

How do you have an email provider not at the mercy of any state or government? It's impossible. They have to be accountable to someone.

I think the lesson here is if you have an anonymous Proton account and you want it to stay that way, you don't pay for it with a credit card. Proton take crypto, and will also take an envelope of money off you if you post it to them.
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The sad truth is that if the government wants your ass there's no way of stopping them.
 
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The sad truth is that if the government wants your ass there's no way of stopping them.
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I think there's a cost of them getting your ass.

So you need to have that fine balance of:

1) Not pissing them off too much.

2) Being obscure and anonymous enough that it's not worth the effort of them chasing you.

If you get the balance between 1 or 2 wrong, they will get you.
 
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Regarding Proton situation, I think all mail providers needs to provide stuff if required by law, I follow tutamail on mastodon and they do the whole typical fediverse spiel where they constantly be shitting on others and saying how great they are with privacy, for then to say they ONLY provide email accounts to governments 25% of all requests. Doesn't sound very encrypted and private to me.
 
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Regarding Proton situation, I think all mail providers needs to provide stuff if required by law, I follow tutamail on mastodon and they do the whole typical fediverse spiel where they constantly be shitting on others and saying how great they are with privacy, for then to say they ONLY provide email accounts to governments 25% of all requests. Doesn't sound very encrypted and private to me.
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There will be bits in the chain that can be more or less private.

If you store your passwords or 2FAs on Apple or Google or whatever, the feds can get them to hand that information over. It may be encrypted, but if they have your password (from a leak, for example) your whole stack is compromised.

As I said, in this case the person they caught was foolish enough to tie themselves to the account through a credit card. You can’t pay for something using a mainstream payment method and expect to keep anonymity.

And at the end of the day, there’s nothing to suggest the user’s email or data stored on the account has been breached, just that their identity was revealed through their payment method.

I still reckon Proton and Tuta are better than most other alternatives, but they’re only as secure as you are not sloppy.
 
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Using AI vibe coding to make your personal webpage, online CV or an application only you use is one thing.

Using it in an enterprise product with millions of users is another entirely.
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So I was thinking about this and decided I'd try and vibe code something.

I designed (and got Kagi Assistant using Claude to code) a notepad and calculator combo app I've called Figur. I haven't decided if I'm going to publish it yet. I may do if I can get around to it. Though I imagine the code in the backend is very embarrassing.

It runs in docker and lets me make documents (called 'sheets') that consist of calculations, variables and Markdown.

When a 'line' is added you can pick between text or calculation. If you choose text, you get one line to write Markdown. If you choose Calculation you get a table with three columns: VARIABLE | VALUE | CALCULATION.

The VARIABLE is the name of the calculation, the VALUE is the equation and the CALCULATION is the final figure that's stored in the variable.

You can pull the value from variables and use them to do further calculations (e.g. VAR1 + VAR2)

It can do regular numbers, decimals and currency (£ only for now, but if I do ever publish it I'll think of a way to include more).

Then I can use Markdown text and headings to break up the calculations and annotate it.

A helpful syntax guide on the right is there if you can't remember what the right markdown or number operators are. You can close this if it's annoying you.

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It supports multiple sheets (the left menu lets me add and delete them).

It also works splendidly on mobile and can be used as a PWA.

And lastly, it saves each sheet on the server it's running on to a folder called /saves/ in JSON format, so if you host it on your server and hide it behind a reverse proxy or Cloudflare tunnel (complete with authentication on the front end) you can access it on any device, anywhere in the world and edit your sheets.

When I switch to Linux and Android it's going to replace Soulver, which admittedly is a far more complicated and accomplished app, but I severely underutilise it and this app basically covers all the things I used it for.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome, for what is basically an afternoon of writing up my needs, bug testing and iterating based on things I hadn't thought of when I first prompted the AI.
 
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