Varun

@mkvarun.com

he/him/his Machine learning. Computational Neuroscience. Healthcare. Engineer. Explorer. We need a better internet: No tracking, ad-free, privacy centered. Actively looking for opportunities in computational neuroscience! Website: www.mkvarun.com

End-to-end encrypted AI assistant, built by Moxie Marlinspike, Founder of @signal.org Hoping this is as revolutionary as the E2EE algorithm developed at Signal and gets integrated by other AI chat platforms. Works pretty good so far! Confer blog: confer.to/blog/ Confer AI: confer.to

A snapshot from confer.to landing page that contrasts the features of Confer with the fine print of other AI models.

With Confer:
1. A frontier open model
2. Image understanding
3. Web search with sources
4. Tool use
5. MCP
6. Memory you control
7. ChatGPT import
8. Folders

The usual fine print (of other models)
We may review your conversations.
Your chats may train our models. 
We may share your conversations with partners
Employees can access your content
A subpeona can reach your conversations
We can still read chats you've deleted
We value your privacy

All of the product, none of the fine print - because we can't read your data.
Encrypted on your device, and it stays that way at every step. Open source, so anyone can check.
Shows links to its blog page for: 1. Encryption 2. Private inference

Stop retyping your personal info everywhere. Save time, stay organized, and protect your data with Identities in Proton Pass. Fill forms out in seconds, while keeping everything secure and in one place.

A General ID Identity entry for John Proton who has a Swiss phone number and an email address that starts "john.proton"

We also want to emphasize that Signal Support will *never* initiate contact via in-app messages, SMS, or social media to ask for your verification code or PIN. If anyone asks for any Signal related code, it is a scam. We make this clear when users receive their SMS code during initial signup. 5/7

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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The most important part of every plan is planning on your plan not going according to plan. ~ The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel

It takes about 66 days on average for a behavior to become a habit. Its all about frequency and consistency of repetition for a habit to become automatic and effortless.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

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Okay I’ve heard this is where you come to make friends germs…uh germ friends. - A friendly germ.

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