Mastodawn

Google Chrome is silently installing a local LLM on your computer that is 4 gigabytes in size. It's done without consent, it's not visible in the settings, and removing it will reinstall it later.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Chriztian Steinmeier May 5

Richard the Brave 🇨🇦May 4

@Kilian Another great Polypane update! If someone’s reading this who’s on the fence considering Polypane (and maybe the idea of another subscription…), fwiw I’m coming up to my first year or so with it, and I’m very happy to renew. And I’m sure I’m only using a small percent of what it could do! While it’s not an app I pull out every day, when I do it _easily_ earns its keep. I’ve tried all the alternatives and nothing comes close for me. 🫡 #webdev #app #indiedev

Chriztian Steinmeier May 5

Sam Stephenson May 4

I have updated my web site with a fresh bio and a note on how you can work with me: https://sls.name

Sam Stephenson

Open-source software author and veteran web and Unix programmer

Chriztian Steinmeier May 5

Kilian Valkhof May 4

Polypane 29 is here! 🥳

It comes with my take on a network panel, a snippet store, a custom selector outline, the best way to test pseudo states ever, passkey support on macOS, WhatsApp previews, grid/flex overlay visualizations and, like, 10 more things.

https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-29-new-network-panel-snippet-store-and-chromium-148/

Polypane 29: New network panel, snippet store and Chromium 148

Polypane 29 introduces an updated panel UI, a new network panel for inspecting requests, a new snippet store for discovering and installing snippets, and a…

Polypane

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 30

Dan Cederholm Apr 29

Our typefaces like being around each other. Get them individually or our entire catalog (and other perks) by joining our Secret Club™!

https://simplebits.com/club/

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 29

Eric A. Meyer Apr 28

At the point where the song “Almost At Fifty Percent” transitions from one motif to another, it is almost at seventy percent of its runtime.

This irks me in a way I cannot quite articulate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919EON4IEQk

Portal 2 OST Volume 2 - Almost At Fifty Percent

YouTube

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 22

Scott Jehl Apr 22

Looking into this one next and just left a comment with design plans/decisions as we look to nudge it along into potential reality. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10378#issuecomment-4297579999

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 21

Panic Apr 21

RE: https://social.panic.com/@panic/116438824004666028

icymi: nova 14 beta 1 is ready if you’re up for testing! our native mac ide is better than ever. 🙌

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 21

Matthias Ott Apr 20

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

That Privacy Guy!

Chriztian Steinmeier Apr 21

Amber Weinberg Apr 20

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If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

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