Not gonna lie I have no clue why they charge +500 eur for a re-branded Google Pixel. Just cuz they installed GrapheneOS?

On a related note, does the US have some restrictions on antibiotics usage in farms? I’d imagine it’s way more lenient. I wonder how they compare to the biggest abusers in the EU like Cyprus.

Also:

If it is said that :

“Under EU rules, the use of antimicrobials in livestock for growth or yield purposes is not allowed, nor can animals be treated with antimicrobials reserved for human infections.”

and

“Antimicrobial medicinal products shall not be applied routinely nor used to compensate for poor hygiene, inadequate animal husbandry or lack of care or to compensate for poor farm management”

Yet Cyprus still does that ?

Cyprus also relies more on preventive and mass medication compared to countries with higher animal welfare standards.

This looks great ! Thanks for sharing.

what makes you say that about signal?

https://mas.to/@Techaltar/116579102714426735 apparently they will start shipping soon

Oh yeah, now that you mention it and I zoomed in … some letters are a a bit differently spaced. Might have something to do with the particular font that i’m using or font settings on linux?

old.reddit.com on mobile is a bit rough but otherwise yeah

At the end of the day a company must comply with the laws of where it’s based. Most controversies I remember reading about Proton were a bit overblown, probably because they’re so popular.

For example : https://www.old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1rm6659/comment/o8xxupo/

or : https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-mail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/18191/22

https://proton.me/legal/transparency

https://proton.me/mail/privacy-policy

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised

When you do accusations you better provide some credible sources, then maybe you won’t get downvoted.

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Hol up … 10 GB?

https://www.xprivo.com/search/

This has a lot of potential. So apparently they use their own + European Search Perspective indexes. The ESP was built by Ecosia and Qwant I believe. Will be testing out whether it’s any good. Most search engines use bing or google under the hood, having something independent and still being decent is not easy. Last I checked only Brave had something remotely usable and independent but even then it was not that good. Kagi uses their own but still rely heavily on bing / google.

First impressions the site itself is pretty polished, at least from the UI side of things.

Seems like they have a PRO and PLUS services. PRO is 8 eur a month and gives access to more expensive LLM models. So far they offer Qwen 3, Kimi 2.5, Mistral 3, GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 PRO. Not bad but from my understanding you can only do 100 queries for that 8 eur.

Seems like the open source models are also hosted on EU. Would be great if they could include more, smaller models, such as Gemma 4, GPT 20B…

Will also be looking into their privacy claims and whether it’s not just “trust me bro”. I saw someone mention they were also planning on making the search open source or something ?

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rq52ka/comment/o9ppycu/ , but havent delivered.

I have to say though looking really good.

https://www.xprivo.com/search/ This is the search engine. Kinda weird decision to put the AI chat in the homepage and the actual search engine inside /search.

Chrome chromium and any chromium based browser has the passwords as plaintext in dumps problem

I think it was only Edge

In 10 years you will say the same thing about today :)

https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/

Interesting it’s the first time I hear about it, just read a summary of how it works. Is it used anywhere that you know of?

Also, who can be the exchange in practice? Banks?

Yep, will be waiting for published third party security audit results and compliance reports. About open-source he said :

Correct! It’s not open source and at least for the foreseeable future, I’m planning on keeping it closed. Like JG mentioned, because of internal audit requirements that I’ll be going through in Visa and MC over the next few months, I need to ease that pain as much as possible. They treat open source finance products with increased scrutiny.

I think so, at least at launch. https://walt.is/availability

Probably