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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

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no, you are right. there is a lot of talk about the brave browser in this thread, a chromium based ad blocking browser by the brave company that gives you their own crypto in return for unobtrusive ads on the start page, which can then be used to donate to content creators on the internet (i think) or be cashed in. you and the op are talking about brave search, a search engine created by the same company

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Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

i love the idea, but everything i know tells me that replacing one cell in a series parallel array with a fresh one is a bad idea.

over it's life, a battery's capacity and internal resistance change, so it's not only important to match batteries in a pack by exact type, but also condition. otherwise, the cells won't charge / discharge evenly, leading to overdischarge / overcharge, or, if managed by the bms, drastically reduced performance (basically all cells are limited to the worst one's performance).

still, the concept is fantastic, so i hope they found a way to work around this issue!

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Bitwarden or Proton Pass

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i trust proton quite a lot, but the open source part seems to be only partially true. on their github, i can only find client side code (ie. browser extensions, mobile apps), not the server code, which bitwarden does publish