Bobby Brown

Sure, this is good. If you're still using some Chrome thing in 2026, idk what to tell you. But you can do even better: you can use Librewolf, a high-integrity Firefox fork that takes your privacy more seriously, and add the NoScript extension. Disable wiping history/cookies on quit if you like.

Tab Session Manager is a godsend when I'm hundreds of tabs deep into research. Dark Reader works perfectly on 95+% of sites. Keep in mind every extension has security implications, so make those decisions wisely.

Sure, this is good. If you're still using some Chrome thing in 2026, idk what to tell you. But you can do even better: you can use Librewolf, a high-integrity Firefox fork that takes your privacy more seriously, and add the NoScript extension. Disable wiping history/cookies on quit if you like.

The effect on the industry is awful and I don't want any of these people to lose their livelihood or their projects. This is, however, a moment for the wider community to step up and take the reins of their own future away from monopolists. Stop thinking like a consumer and control your space.

I've thought for years that it's time for people to let old IP give way to new ideas to grow a community-controlled space. But that's not the whole story. You can take IP away from weakened ownership as well.

As somebody doing my own experimentation and finding the rabbit hole goes DEEP, let me tell you it is becoming alarmingly easy to run your own AI agent on your own hardware at a pace that vastly outstrips the typical user's capacity to do so safely; no idea what lurks in the tools or even the model.

Never mind the propensity for a relatively well-behaved agent to make horrendous mistakes; this is becoming trivial enough to serve as part of a deliberate malware payload. Even experienced technicians need to undertake a zero-trust supply-chain-auditing mindset to approach these tools. Beware.

As somebody doing my own experimentation and finding the rabbit hole goes DEEP, let me tell you it is becoming alarmingly easy to run your own AI agent on your own hardware at a pace that vastly outstrips the typical user's capacity to do so safely; no idea what lurks in the tools or even the model.

Sufficiently isolating such tools of questionable provenance -- in fact, why would you even trust major vendors in 2026 not to hand you spyware ? -- to use them on a machine inside your private network that would otherwise have access to expose or damage your assets is a significant undertaking.

As somebody doing my own experimentation and finding the rabbit hole goes DEEP, let me tell you it is becoming alarmingly easy to run your own AI agent on your own hardware at a pace that vastly outstrips the typical user's capacity to do so safely; no idea what lurks in the tools or even the model.

if you ever think i'm an excessively smiley motherfucker, good, it's on purpose. i accepted long ago i have a vicious resting bitch face and i'm what you might call a communicator

If you're not using an AI agent, this changes nothing for you. It's an API that allows you to use something like Siri to control it. Apple made iOS apps controllable by Siri nearly a decade ago. If you have security concerns I have bad news for you about running executables on a PC.

Want one real, easy step you can take to control your privacy better immediately? Use a reputable privacy browser like Librewolf (You can enable history / cookies if you want and understand it), add NoScript, and prefer the browser over native apps as much as you can. A browser is a tight sandbox.

If you're not using an AI agent, this changes nothing for you. It's an API that allows you to use something like Siri to control it. Apple made iOS apps controllable by Siri nearly a decade ago. If you have security concerns I have bad news for you about running executables on a PC.

Some of my motherboards have features that can only be controlled by software that can't possibly justify their existence as juggernauts that have to be eating my RAM and making network traffic at all times. I try to use Logitech et. al. who let me save profiles to hardware instead of running Razer.

If you're not using an AI agent, this changes nothing for you. It's an API that allows you to use something like Siri to control it. Apple made iOS apps controllable by Siri nearly a decade ago. If you have security concerns I have bad news for you about running executables on a PC.

Do you use the Discord native app for Windows? You know it's reading your process list at all times, right? Only Store apps are sandboxed with privacy controls. Did you gut Copilot and telemetry the moment you bought/configured your system? Don't tell me you use social media apps on your phone.