Home Assistant users are building smarter homes than Google and Amazon ever will
…No matter how well the devices connect into that ecosystem, they still have to play by the rules set by Amazon and Google, and be at the whimsy of how their voice…
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This is where Unbound DNS comes in. Unbound is a "local, validating, and recursive" DNS resolver, meaning it uses a built-in list of root nameservers that first solve the domains for the root hints (such as .net or .com) which then respond with a top-level domain that can then determine which authoritative servers are handling the specific domain you're looking for, and only after that does it ask that authoritative name server for the IP associated with that domain. This recursive approach abstracts your DNS queries so that your requests don't all go through a single server and log your inter
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This open-source app does what Google Keep refuses to — and it's free
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1w agoVoice assistants are getting worse at simple tasks, and nobody's talking about why
…It's easiest to see why when you look at Google. Google Assistant is no more — it's been ousted by Google Gemini. Yes, generative AI is now in charge of your…
Discord's voice and video calls just got much more secure, but it's still leaving text messages exposed
…It's a big privacy win for voice/video, but text chat — Discord’s main medium — remains unencrypted. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a big selling point for a messaging app…
Firefox's free built-in VPN gets a feature it should have had since day one
…Sure, connecting to a node in your own country is fine for privacy and guarantees the best speeds possible, but sometimes you want a website to believe you're visiting from somewhere…
I stopped trusting cloud AI with my personal files, and switched to this local setup instead
…It's still Google infrastructure though, so the same caveats apply - meaning, your data is on their remote servers and may be subject to internal policies, backups, legal holds, or something else…
I tested Claude Code against 3 open-source alternatives, and one came surprisingly close
…04 / 8 Tools Google's 'Project Astra' and experimental coding tools fall under which broader Google DeepMind initiative often associated with AI-assisted development? A Google Bard Studio B Google Gemini ecosystem…
While everyone hypes Antigravity, I switched to Zed and found something better
…Zed See at Zed Google Antigravity See at Google Antigravity One is open-source and fast, and well, one is from Google Zed feels like a finely tuned racecar compared to Antigravity…
7 lessons I learned after switching from Google Drive to a home NAS
…You get fine control over your files, backups, and privacy, but you also have to put in extra effort. Months after switching from Google Drive to a NAS, here is what I…
Gemini's Gmail integration sounds helpful until you realize what it can actually see
…Related Google's controversial AI changes are the reason why Gemini isn't worth recommending anymore Saying this hurts a little, but I think it needs to be said Your privacy is…
5 open-source developer tools that are better than their well-funded competitors
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